The positives thread

[beatnik]

If you blokes can beat Port at AO this week then the AFL world will begin to believe.

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I think we passed

 

[Jivlain]

Squiggle loves us again...kind of. Has us losing the grand final to Sydney

1 point better than last year, so Project 2028 is well on track

 

[MSB ROYS]

Just quietly, this feels like the 2001 season but the Swans are Essendon.

 

[Darren Downunder]

Just quietly, this feels like the 2001 season but the Swans are Essendon.

Except, I like Sydney. They were driven out of Melbourne too and suffer the vic bias system just like us. If we can’t win, I’d be happy to cheer the swans home. (Even though they’re pissweak. )

But Essendon! Essendon are evil. Don’t be fooled by the fact that they have been losing for a decade or so, there is no one more feral than Essendon supporters.

 

[Mr Ripper]

The camera shots of the boys celebrating goals and the cutaways to the bench showed a very happy and united group. Think we can put the golf trip stories to bed now.

 

[KissKiss]

Neale sneaking into the top 10 in the coaches votes again. Just a pleasure watching such a consistent gun the last several years

 

[Nathan Barley]

Since the bye we’ve kicked 4 or more goals in 10 out of 12 quarters. The other 2 we still kicked 3.

 

[Dalions]

Since the bye we’ve kicked 4 or more goals in 10 out of 12 quarters. The other 2 we still kicked 3.

Our ball movement is so hard to defend when we move the ball quickly and with precision.
That was my biggest beef with the Hawks game at Marvel. Every time we got the ball everything just stopped.
No one prepared to run ahead of the ball and we resorted to the ball down the line, time after time.

 

[M Malice]

 

[Hanley]

Amazing from Hippy, not impossible he moves well into the top 5 of that list, or even as high as 2nd with a few more good years.

Pretty sure though that Lynch's number should be higher, I'm sure I remember Browny saying that the official club stats don't count some of his goals for Fitzroy when the Bears already existed (before he moved).

 

[buttermuffs]

Amazing from Hippy, not impossible he moves well into the top 5 of that list, or even as high as 2nd with a few more good years.

Pretty sure though that Lynch's number should be higher, I'm sure I remember Browny saying that the official club stats don't count some of his goals for Fitzroy when the Bears already existed (before he moved).

He’s 26, reasonably has another 200+ goals within him easily.

 

[dlanod]

Amazing from Hippy, not impossible he moves well into the top 5 of that list, or even as high as 2nd with a few more good years.

Pretty sure though that Lynch's number should be higher, I'm sure I remember Browny saying that the official club stats don't count some of his goals for Fitzroy when the Bears already existed (before he moved).

Yep, Lynch has 633 in total across Fitzroy/Bears/Lions.

 

[martinson]

Yep, Lynch has 633 in total across Fitzroy/Bears/Lions.

Which is quite incredible seeing he made his name as a full back and then an on baller at Fitzroy and then was debilitated for around 5 years with chronic fatigue.

 

[M Malice]

Which is quite incredible seeing he made his name as a full back and then an on baller at Fitzroy and then was debilitated for around 5 years with chronic fatigue.

Average over the whole of his career was 2.1 goals per game, it would be nice to know his goals per game average while a designated key forward, if that sort of stat would even exist.... probably up there with some of the best.

I also noticed footywire has his playing height as 193cm, only 2 cm taller than Logan Morris.

 

[martinson]

Average over the whole of his career was 2.1 goals per game, it would be nice to know his goals per game average while a designated key forward, if that sort of stat would even exist.... probably up there with some of the best.

I also noticed footywire has his playing height as 193cm, only 2 cm taller than Logan Morris.

When Lynchy played full back for Fizroy he was very much a feared opponent. Some of his battles with Lockett were legendary contests at the time. So he had a lot on Logan physically.

 

[Grasshopper17]

Which is quite incredible seeing he made his name as a full back and then an on baller at Fitzroy and then was debilitated for around 5 years with chronic fatigue.

Lynch played on ball? What as a ruckman?

 

[Grasshopper17]

Average over the whole of his career was 2.1 goals per game, it would be nice to know his goals per game average while a designated key forward, if that sort of stat would even exist.... probably up there with some of the best.

I also noticed footywire has his playing height as 193cm, only 2 cm taller than Logan Morris.

These days they track stats on what %age of games players spend where (i.e. forward, back, wing, middle, ruck etc). But I think that is only in the last decade or so - made easier by 6-6-6 as well.

 

[martinson]

Lynch played on ball? What as a ruckman?

I remember Lynchy playing many games/periods of games on ball for Fitzroy in the early '90's. He didn't move to full time forward till 1993. Roosy still maintains he was acknowledged by the players as the best player in the game for a time at Fitzroy. Hence the unprecedented 10 year contract the Bears threw at him.

 

[Section 5]

An excellent article on Reville.
We know a little about his story, but this goes into a bit more detail.
Can see any pressure game is not going to have an effect on Reville.

Love and loss the driving forces behind Lion's long journey

There were many twists and turns on the road Bruce Reville travelled to an AFL career

www.afl.com.au

 

[buttermuffs]

An excellent article on Reville.
We know a little about his story, but this goes into a bit more detail.
Can see any pressure game is not going to have an effect on Reville.

Love and loss the driving forces behind Lion's long journey

There were many twists and turns on the road Bruce Reville travelled to an AFL career

www.afl.com.au

Academy scholarship helped him make his choice to play footy over rugby codes, finally! Too bad there’s only one scholarship, would feel like there should be more.

 

[martinson]

Academy scholarship helped him make his choice to play footy over rugby codes, finally! Too bad there’s only one scholarship, would feel like there should be more.

Bruce has really earnt whatever success comes his way.

He's only going to get better.

 

[lionsrules]

 

[M Malice]

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That could be a negative, King is a doofus.

 

[Dalions]

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He is catching up.
Been writing us off for months.

 

[ZoBlitz]

I really need to find that video montage of King writing off Geelong all year in 2011.