Round 3 - other games

[Disco]

Damn you beat me to it

Snap

 

[zippadeee]

Zzzzzzzzz

 

[TigerForce]

 

[Disco]

You watch how quickly the commentators change their tune if today’s results (blowouts) become more of the norm.

 

[tigersnake]

Interesting isn't it, there have always been close games and blowouts, the close games this year the commentaotrs have crapped on about how great the new rules are and Hocking is a genius, but, strangely when theres a blowout, they don't say much about it.

 

[tigersnake]

You watch how quickly the commentators change their tune if today’s results (blowouts) become more of the norm.

Beat me to it!

 

[zippadeee]

'Port are the best running team', BT 2 weeks ago.
'Port have the best smalls in the comp', Dunstall 2 weeks ago.
'Port are the best kicks in the comp' Cornes last week.

This is after beating North and Essendon

 

[zippadeee]

That's the worse version of the eagles theme song ive heard.

 

[eddazol]

How bad is the eagles theme song.

 

[TigerForce]

How bad is the eagles theme song.

Bad. Flying Ryan's mark was a Jezza-type.

 

[eddazol]

Bad. Flying Ryan's mark was a Jezza-type.

He is a good player.

 

[zippadeee]

He is a good player.

5 picks after Higgins

 

[mrposhman]

Eagles at 90 uncontested marks to 3 quarter time.

Swans had 117 for the full game.

Is this really what we want to watch?????????????????

Eagles ended with 120 uncontested marks, with the swans have 117.

Boring keepings off footy, can claim to be great but scoring is not even really up on what was scored last year LTRTR will have the full stats I'm sure.

 

[leon]

I just want to know why there is an incessant need to keep changing rules on an annual basis.
Its a professional competition not a *smile* high school sports novelty event!

Well said. So the only difference is that, perhaps unlike other professional competitions, the AFL want to interfere with its professional competition and manufacture outcomes to meet its perceived aims, not allow the results to be determined by the clubs and teams autonomously on their field of play alone?

 

[22nd Man]

Port, at our level, copping a shellacking too. As Dimma once said, sh!t happens.

Next week iT will happen two weeks in a row for one team.

 

[22nd Man]

Hocking and McLachlan are itching to bring in the shot clock, you know it.

Say it ain't so..... But I can see how it is on the path they are striding down.

 

[DavidSSS]

I just want to know why there is an incessant need to keep changing rules on an annual basis.
Its a professional competition not a *smile* high school sports novelty event!

Not only that but it is the oldest football code in the world with the first rules devised in 1858 whereas Association Football laid down their first rules in the early 1870s.

I think it is time fans started calling this out as AFLX because it is moving that way.

DS

 

[jb03]

I'd say a dollop of reactive appeasing of broadcasters desire for more goals/ ads, a slug of wrong-headed desire for non-stop, free flowing footy, (if its all like that, its gets boring!), and a pinch of wanting less hits so mums will let their kids play and players won't sue for health impacts of concussion down the track.

I have said this before but it is middle men trying to return the game to some long forgotten utopia that didn't actually exist in the first place.

 

[leon]

Oscar Allen is turning into a very impressive player. Tough smart and talented.

Sure is ... and we could have taken him instead of Higgins. Would have been a ready-made JR8 replacement and/or ruck back-up for Nank. Wondered at the time why we needed another SF.

 

[zippadeee]

Sure is ... and we could have taken him instead of Higgins. Would have been a ready-made JR8 replacement and/or ruck back-up for Nank. Wondered at the time why we needed another SF.

Higgins was a disaster 1st rounder.
Liam Ryan, Allen and there were several others we could've taken