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[Radar501]

1 hour ago, Will27 said:

I'm off to say a few prayers at the local temple.

No chance of your WC shoes being stolen from the front steps WILL.   Damned ugly.

 

[AlexRRR]

1 hour ago, BookmanBkk said:

On the subject of Hubs

One of the factors in choosing Brissie yesterday was Coach Simpsons comments mid week about mental health of the players and wanting to return home.  If he is making those statements publicly there must be some internal issues with the players missing family or suffering because of being away from normal environments.

 

Early days, but its looking like the Hub could cost West Coast  a high finish for the season, and if they lose two more up the hub way, cold be a finals position lost

The boys can function very well on end of seasons trips for 2 weeks to months.....no excuse, when your getting paid above average your a professional.......Now im not suggesting the Tim Kelly affair has rubbed noses the wrong way...but you never know.....

[AlexRRR]

Turn the lappie off today mr WILL.....everyone is gonna give you heeps.....

[BookmanBkk]

13 minutes ago, AlexRRR said:

The boys can function very well on end of seasons trips for 2 weeks to months.....no excuse, when your getting paid above average your a professional.......Now im not suggesting the Tim Kelly affair has rubbed noses the wrong way...but you never know.....

It is not a like-for-like comparison.

 

The AFL clubs no longer sanction end of season Club trips. Sure groups of players will go together somewhere but clubs don't like it. When you are going on holidays it is a far different mindset than being in lockdown where you have restrictions.

On a holiday you can have freedom to do whatever you want. When you are in a lockdown in a different state you're away from family your travel movements are monitored you have to adhere to strict distancing you are stuck with a group of people who you may not like to spend a lot of time with.

These days when a lot of players go on a trip at end of season they take their partners or family with them with other players families or outside of the game that go with mates not necessarily team members who they don't have anything in common with.

 

It's true they are professional footballers and when they enter the AFL system they sign up knowing they could end up any club but the point is all of these players have ended up at Perth or Fremantle or the South Australian clubs and now they're being told well we're going to move you for a month or 6 weeks away from your family restrict all your movements take you out of your normal zone in an unprecedented situation of course they are going to be at a disadvantage.

[BookmanBkk]

Ps.

Would there be an Eagles player who didnt want Tim Kelly playing for them?

The only feathers ruffles were at Geelong

[Thechook]

[AlexRRR]

5 hours ago, BookmanBkk said:

It is not a like-for-like comparison.

 

The AFL clubs no longer sanction end of season Club trips. Sure groups of players will go together somewhere but clubs don't like it. When you are going on holidays it is a far different mindset than being in lockdown where you have restrictions.

On a holiday you can have freedom to do whatever you want. When you are in a lockdown in a different state you're away from family your travel movements are monitored you have to adhere to strict distancing you are stuck with a group of people who you may not like to spend a lot of time with.

These days when a lot of players go on a trip at end of season they take their partners or family with them with other players families or outside of the game that go with mates not necessarily team members who they don't have anything in common with.

 

It's true they are professional footballers and when they enter the AFL system they sign up knowing they could end up any club but the point is all of these players have ended up at Perth or Fremantle or the South Australian clubs and now they're being told well we're going to move you for a month or 6 weeks away from your family restrict all your movements take you out of your normal zone in an unprecedented situation of course they are going to be at a disadvantage.

Come on now fella......they had the opportunity to take there immediate family with them.....and Timmy did one of the few......And the Gold Coast isnt holiday paradise in winter?

 

Well didnt the Dee's fall in a heep in Perth when they found out they were there with the Convid raging all around them? same same....bullocks  i say.....soft cocks thats what they are.....all of them.....Put them in the army and make men of them.....thats what they should do.....

 

And i guess you would apply that line of reasoning to the Crows too fella? 

Edited June 21, 2020 by AlexRRR

[BookmanBkk]

42 minutes ago, AlexRRR said:

Come on now fella......they had the opportunity to take there immediate family with them.....and Timmy did one of the few......And the Gold Coast isnt holiday paradise in winter?

 

Well didnt the Dee's fall in a heep in Perth when they found out they were there with the Convid raging all around them? same same....bullocks  i say.....soft cocks thats what they are.....all of them.....Put them in the army and make men of them.....thats what they should do.....

 

And i guess you would apply that line of reasoning to the Crows too fella? 

Crows only flew on a day ago and SA have different restrictions.

 

Gold coast game today was the best I've watched all year

 Not for the closeness of the game but the view into the future of what the gold coast team will be like. 

One of the best games I've seen the Gold Coast play.

They defended, attacked, harrassed and played with the confidence of a team on the rise

There will be a few hiccups this years but I'd expect them to win quite a few this year watching that

[ripstanley]

3 hours ago, BookmanBkk said:

Crows only flew on a day ago and SA have different restrictions.

 

Gold coast game today was the best I've watched all year

 Not for the closeness of the game but the view into the future of what the gold coast team will be like. 

One of the best games I've seen the Gold Coast play.

They defended, attacked, harrassed and played with the confidence of a team on the rise

There will be a few hiccups this years but I'd expect them to win quite a few this year watching that

I was very impressed by the GC. Their young ones are flying. Stewy Dew has finally got them playing to his style.

[AlexRRR]

Fantasy wrap up.....

 

 

RIPS SWANS

Ross P.

1st

 

1427

 

Live

 

1123

 

Wendy's Saints

Wendy M.

4th

 

 

farmerjo's flyers

Steven P.

6th

 

960

 

Live

 

1007

 

DikyDoks

Gary S.

5th

 

 

Delightful Dee's

Alex R.

3rd

 

1121

 

Live

 

1030

 

Chooka's Chiangmai Saints

Martin S.

2nd

 

 

Rip keeps on his merry way and top of the ladder.....

 

The champion stumbles again.....

 

And suprise suprise the CM Saints captain goes to sleep.....6 first team members out to Chooks 1 and i get out of jail.....

[ripstanley]

Fantasy are going to allocate the average after 3 round to the Melbourne and Essendon players. That means there round 3 score will be 0. After 2 rounds Gawn had an average of 99 but after 3 rounds only 66.

 

https://www.afl.com.au/news/455891/fantasy-what-the-postponed-game-means-for-your-team-s-score

[Will27]

Gangsters

 

The tipping website has put things on hold due to the postponement of the Essendon/Melbourne.

 

Regardless of that, Grannysapples and BM both picked 5 with grannyapples getting the Quality Street

for being closest to the margin.

 

Granny, BM and Scea head the table with 16.

 

That's if from the hub for another 4 days.

[BookmanBkk]

6 hours ago, Will27 said:

Gangsters

 

The tipping website has put things on hold due to the postponement of the Essendon/Melbourne.

 

Regardless of that, Grannysapples and BM both picked 5 with grannyapples getting the Quality Street

for being closest to the margin.

 

Granny, BM and Scea head the table with 16.

 

That's if from the hub for another 4 days.

Congrats to the young whippersnapper Grant!
Scea is proving hard to budge from pole position

[Radar501]

[BookmanBkk]

How you feeling about the Carlton boys this year after that win @Radar501?

[AlexRRR]

10 hours ago, ripstanley said:

Fantasy are going to allocate the average after 3 round to the Melbourne and Essendon players. That means there round 3 score will be 0. After 2 rounds Gawn had an average of 99 but after 3 rounds only 66.

 

https://www.afl.com.au/news/455891/fantasy-what-the-postponed-game-means-for-your-team-s-score

Thats strange because they will eventually play midweek too catch up....so then im guessing when they do that game wont be counted towards any score...would have been just better to suspend all Essendon and dee players from scoring this weekend.....so dropping there tally over threee rounds should make them cheaper to buy not that many Dee players are worth buying mind you....We missed a bullet yesterday thats for sure.....

[AlexRRR]

2 minutes ago, AlexRRR said:

Thats strange because they will eventually play midweek too catch up....so then im guessing when they do that game wont be counted towards any score...would have been just better to suspend all Essendon and dee players from scoring this weekend.....so dropping there tally over threee rounds should make them cheaper to buy not that many Dee players are worth buying mind you....We missed a bullet yesterday thats for sure.....

Ahhhh I just read the link......its all better now.....poor Chooka the margin of his loss is about to grow....

[AlexRRR]

Well Monday morning on the GC and Books has informed me its sunny there....17 right now....21 in Venice....and its night time there 3 am......its a bit cool in Buenos Aires too only 13 and around 11 pm there so them Eagles cant get a plane out of the country to hide, no stopping for a latte this morning guys.....Simo wont have them on the beach today....nope....there in the gym...to bulk on up....eating humble pie for lunch.....didnt mind that band when they rocked the Fillmore all them years ago...

 

It WILL get better there old WILL....your just not use to loosing.....you wanna come stay with me over a winter and see how I get through it....Its year in year out here...not much changes just the depth of the bashings....gees Im still reliving them nightmares at Arctic Park better known as Waverly Park back when big Carl was captain coach, record score kicked against us by then the Fitzroy Lions...took just over a full hour half on a freeway to get to the end of the earth which was Waverly in them days, imaging that long drive home? Not to mention Essendon belting us up in the 2000 grand final, Hawks did a good job in a GF on us in around 89 too I think....something like that..........we have this mechanism that the brain adapts to when you have way to much negative things going on in your life, its set to forget....or you become a raving lunatic...one or the other.....Them monks at your local temple have meditation classes....consider.....Anyway lot more important things going on in the world than football....well I tell myself that so I dont focus on it to much.....

[Will27]

Wonder if this will have any implications for our upcoming fixtures.

A hub in WA

 

Melbourne Storm to move home game due to COVID-19 spike

Melbourne Storm are moving their NRL Round 7 home game to New South Wales following a concerning spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Victoria. 

The Storm were due to play the Warriors at AAMI Park on Friday, June 26, but will relocate the game to Sydney. A venue is yet to be allocated and there are concerns that the club will have to make a more permanent move to avoid the risk of contamination in Melbourne.

[BookmanBkk]

1 hour ago, AlexRRR said:

Well Monday morning on the GC and Books has informed me its sunny there....17 right now....21 in Venice....and its night time there 3 am......its a bit cool in Buenos Aires too only 13 and around 11 pm there so them Eagles cant get a plane out of the country to hide, no stopping for a latte this morning guys.....Simo wont have them on the beach today....nope....there in the gym...to bulk on up....eating humble pie for lunch.....didnt mind that band when they rocked the Fillmore all them years ago...

 

It WILL get better there old WILL....your just not use to loosing.....you wanna come stay with me over a winter and see how I get through it....Its year in year out here...not much changes just the depth of the bashings....gees Im still reliving them nightmares at Arctic Park better known as Waverly Park back when big Carl was captain coach, record score kicked against us by then the Fitzroy Lions...took just over a full hour half on a freeway to get to the end of the earth which was Waverly in them days, imaging that long drive home? Not to mention Essendon belting us up in the 2000 grand final, Hawks did a good job in a GF on us in around 89 too I think....something like that..........we have this mechanism that the brain adapts to when you have way to much negative things going on in your life, its set to forget....or you become a raving lunatic...one or the other.....Them monks at your local temple have meditation classes....consider.....Anyway lot more important things going on in the world than football....well I tell myself that so I dont focus on it to much.....

Gold Coast looked terrific on the weekend
Not too late to change your team allegiance

[AlexRRR]

5 hours ago, Will27 said:

Wonder if this will have any implications for our upcoming fixtures.

A hub in WA

 

Melbourne Storm to move home game due to COVID-19 spike

Melbourne Storm are moving their NRL Round 7 home game to New South Wales following a concerning spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases in Victoria. 

The Storm were due to play the Warriors at AAMI Park on Friday, June 26, but will relocate the game to Sydney. A venue is yet to be allocated and there are concerns that the club will have to make a more permanent move to avoid the risk of contamination in Melbourne.

Winters can be brutal down here....so why not.......dont know about other states but there definitely is this idea by shoppers and socialisers its all over......Was out mid last week to the biggest shopping centre in Melbourne as i thought it would be you know like mostly empty....nope felt like a saturday....the local strip is around 85% back to capacity its bring your sheild with you when you go out now....

[BookmanBkk]

44 minutes ago, AlexRRR said:

Winters can be brutal down here....so why not.......dont know about other states but there definitely is this idea by shoppers and socialisers its all over......Was out mid last week to the biggest shopping centre in Melbourne as i thought it would be you know like mostly empty....nope felt like a saturday....the local strip is around 85% back to capacity its bring your sheild with you when you go out now....

Jeez Uncle I have been wearing shorts almost every day up here on the GC

[Will27]

2 minutes ago, BookmanBkk said:

Jeez Uncle I have been wearing shorts almost every day up here on the GC

That's just too much information thanks BM.

 

male hairy legs. skin

[Will27]

The hub's on baby!!

 

Perth Stadium given green light for huge numbers of fans to return over the next month

Perth Stadium can host a crowd of up to 30,000 when WA enters phase four of easing coronavirus restrictions this weekend.
That number will increase to 60,000 next month.

WA Premier Mark McGowan revealed the change, which will come into play after midnight on Friday night, will remove existing gathering limits as well as seating requirements at licensed venues.
Sporting stadiums will be allowed to reopen at 50 per cent capacity, which means Optus Stadium can hold up to 30,000 people.

“Phase four is another giant step for our state,” Mr McGowan said.

“We’re confident it’s the right step at the right time.”
But he said a decision on the border closure would be shelved for now, following a new rash of cases in Victoria.
“I won’t be pressured into making a rushed decision on our hard border,” he said.

[Will27]

Courtesy of Mr O'Reily

 

THE MONDAY KNEE JERK REACTION: AFL ROUND THREE

 

 

Richmond (39) v Hawthorn (71)

First up, the good news for Tigers fans, Richmond just blew past the 36-points they scored the week before. On their currently trajectory, that daunting 40-point barrier could fall as early as next week. Exciting times.

 

If only the Tigers could get their hands on two key forwards.

You could say Dusty being out was the difference, but that alone doesn’t explain the Tigers’ new aversion to tackling. For a team based on putting the maximum pressure on their opponent, this is a counterintuitive approach.

 

Last week, Hawthorn lowered their incredibly unflattering colours to Geelong, and it seemed a week of Clarkson being angry with them really paid off.

 

Especially in the first half, the Hawks looked fast and skilful, two words you couldn’t associate with them last week.

The return of Jaeger O'Meara certainly had a big impact, it was like a Ferrari engine had been dropped into a Corolla.

This result was an ominous sign that tipping this week was going to be a nightmare.

 

Friday

Western Bulldogs (57) v Greater Western Sydney (33)

 

Now this was fun.

The Giants came out to intimidate the Bulldogs, Marcus Bontempelli in particular, and like their game plan, it didn’t work.

 

It was an added embarrassment to the night, instigating a fight you then lose is always a bad look.

When I was at school, the local bully picked on a kid for months on the school bus. This kid silently took it. Occasionally some of us would tell the bully to knock it off, but he was one of those twelve-year-olds who looked like a 20-year-old, so he didn’t really listen.

One day the whole thing escalated. The bully swung a punch at this kid who was literally half his size. The kid dodged it and landed two jabs and then an upper cut. The bully went down hard. He was semi-conscious. It turned out the kid’s dad was a former amateur boxing champion and this kid had been in the ring since birth.

It was beautiful.

 

I learnt an important lesson that day, while a bully is half knocked out, you can steal his wallet and his discman with Live’s Throwing Copper in it.

Perhaps my favourite bit of this game was when the brawl broke out and the person in charge of the fake crowd noise really pushed the volume up to eleven.

 

The AFL have now fined fifteen players for this scuffle, meaning the AFL’s Christmas party is now fully funded, especially considering they can only have twenty people at it.

 

Saturday

North Melbourne (60) v Sydney (71)

I was thoroughly enjoying a day of football when during this match the news broke that Victorians are ruining it for everyone.

While every other state is getting back to normal, Victoria is racking up coronavirus cases like Tom Mitchell racks up possessions.

Typical of this latte sipping basket weaving state that they’re just letting people with Coronavirus wander around.

 

Even worse, as I flicked on the media conference announcing the reintroduction of restrictions in Victoria, news broke on Twitter of Conor McKenna testing positive and in the space of a few minutes I went from thoroughly enjoying a footy match to realising 2020 is never going to let up.

2020 is like the worst family member you have, destructive and never going away.

North Melbourne might want to change their mind on relocating to Tasmania to get out of this disease riddled state.

 

It certainly made the Premier Danial Andrews mocking of South Australia even more stupid than it was.  Why would you want to go to South Australia? So, you can go to a pub sometime in your life.

The Swans continued in this to show they play better away from home than at the SCG. We all do this a bit. How much nicer are your family when visiting others than at home?

As for North, what can we read into this performance? Nothing. This season will never make sense, because the world no longer makes sense.

To win the premiership this year, you need to be less Usain Bolt, more Steven Bradbury.

 

Collingwood (81) v St Kilda (37)

 

St Kilda went into this like I went into 2020. Full of hope and keen to leave the ghosts of last year behind. And yes, in this analogy, Collingwood are the coronavirus.

 

The Pies just dismantled the Saints in a brutal display. St Kilda kicked just one goal in the second half, adding to the trend of teams just going completely missing for large periods of the game.

If a team can figure out how to play four quarters this season, they’ll win the premiership easily.

Ratten said after the match that playing two ruckmen didn’t work, but against Brodie Grundy you could play eight ruckman and still struggle.

 

He should have just listed the things that did work to shorten his post-match media conference. He would have only had to list a couple of his players.

 

Jaidyn Stephenson’s return was a success, making me even more nervous that a Collingwood premiership, the ultimate embodiment of what an awful year 2020 has been, is still very much on the cards.

 

Brisbane (74) v West Coast (44)

No wonder the Eagles want to get away from the Gold Coast. It will be so much nicer when they can sleep in their own beds after a loss.

Considering the Lions were without Dayne Zorko and Stef Martin I don’t think a move home will fix everything.

 

The Eagles look far off their form of the last few years, and it would be understandable if given the state of things they’re lacking motivation.

 

I think of this season a bit like going on a date. Odds are it’s going to go badly and you aren’t going to get through the whole thing before someone calls it off.

Brisbane have an insane amount of young talent and suddenly, with the Suns also firing, Queensland suddenly isn’t the joke it once was in AFL circles.

 

Imagine an all Queensland Grand Final. You could even hold it at the Gabba because by the time the Grand Final occurs, Victoria will be like a scene from the movie I Am Legend.

 

Geelong (77) v Carlton (79)

I’m not sure what is worse, losing to Carlton or proving Alastair Clarkson right.

It’s losing to Carlton isn’t it?

Carlton fans watched this with a burst of happiness, descending into the ‘it’s going to happen again isn’t it? Why can’t we be happy? Why!!’ phase, only for them to surprise everyone and hold on.

Leading by 42 points, this should have been an easier victory, but this is the Blues, and they always make things harder for themselves.

 

What would have Carlton fans ecstatic was the performance of Eddie Betts who kept setting up scoring chances and laid a match winning tackle. Life is just better with Betts around, something the Crows are quickly earning.

 

As for Geelong, they suffered from the forgetting to play a few quarters that almost all teams are suffering from at the moment.

If there’s one thing this season is showing is that pre-season is important.

But Geelong have to be honest, losing to Carlton is never good, after all, they’re not that good.

Sunday

 

Gold Coast (82) v Adelaide (29)

It’s true that Hugh Greenwood is not going to be playing in the Crows next premiership side, no one currently alive is.

 

This was the second worst thing to ever happen to the Crows on the Gold Coast.

It was if Essendon said ‘Well, we've had the worst week’ and Adelaide responded, ‘watch this’.

We should at least congratulate the Crows on getting to 29 points, it didn’t feel like they played that well.

Adelaide are awful at the moment, and their strategy of losing all their good players and retaining the bad ones doesn’t seem to be working.

The Crows are ripe for a George Costanza strategy, do the complete opposite of what they’ve been doing.

 

Perhaps their best option in the short term would be to encourage their players to go get COVID. If they arranged a different one to get it each week, they could get out of this whole season, a best-case scenario at this stage.

 

As for the Suns, they looked amazing. They were hitting targets, applying pressure, scoring, all the things you used to not associate with them.

 

They weren’t just a bit better; they are light years ahead of where they were last year.

Their next step is to go from the current, ‘people like us because we were terrible and are now ok’, to ‘we hate you because we’re sick of you guys winning’, the phase every fan hopes their team achieves.

 

Fremantle (41) v Port Adelaide (70)

Starting at 8pm on a Sunday night isn’t ideal. That’s normally my bedtime, but I stayed up, powered by a rather reckless three cups of tea. I was buzzing.

 

I’m not sure this was worth staying up for, the Power were superior for all but a bit at the start and Fremantle approached the wet conditions like Victorians are approaching the pandemic, refusing to adjust their behaviour to the conditions.

 

Fremantle is 0-3 and they should thank the Crows for taking away the limelight this week. In fact, that should be the Dockers slogan for the year ‘We’re not the Crows.’

Port have set up their year perfectly, in that we still don’t know how they are going to blow a 3-0 start to just miss the finals. Every Power fan is confident they can ruin it from here.

But what if they don’t?  The normal rules no longer apply. I used to understand this league.

My tips used to be awful because I knew too much, now they’re awful because I know too little.

 

Who knows when?

Essendon v Melbourne

I partly want to get on my high horse and say Melbourne should get four points because Essendon had a player breach the COVID regulations and caused this game to be postponed, but then I remembered Melbourne had two players suspended last week for doing the same.

 

Sure, they didn’t test positive but that was just good luck, not something usually associated with the Demons. And in fairness to Essendon, despite the whole peptides affair, they haven’t really ruined an AFL season for everyone else since 2000.

 

The reality is that any system that relies on hundreds of blokes in their twenties to not socialise is a system set up to fail.

The only positive I took out of the whole weekend is despite new restrictions in Victoria, that you can only have five people over to your house, I can still have all my friends over.

[Will27]

One for Uncle Alex

 

Titus O'Reily

@TitusOReily

Jun 20

 

Sick of this year. Won’t even let me enjoy a Melbourne loss.

[BookmanBkk]

17 minutes ago, Will27 said:

One for Uncle Alex

 

Titus O'Reily

@TitusOReily

Jun 20

 

Sick of this year. Won’t even let me enjoy a Melbourne loss.

Uncle can't even enjoy a Melbourne win mate!

[BookmanBkk]

1 hour ago, Will27 said:

That's just too much information thanks BM.

 

male hairy legs. skin

I wear them on my head 

[ripstanley]

22 hours ago, AlexRRR said:

Fantasy wrap up.....

 

 

.

2nd

 

 

Rip keeps on his merry way and top of the ladder.....

 

The champion stumbles again.....

 

And suprise suprise the CM Saints captain goes to sleep.....6 first team members out to Chooks 1 and i get out of jail.....

i think you better check again. You are in the leader Alex.

[AlexRRR]

11 hours ago, ripstanley said:

i think you better check again. You are in the leader Alex.

 

Yes I did and its this morning....

 

RIPS SWANS

Ross P.

2nd

 

1481

 

Full time

 

1477

 

Wendy's Saints

Wendy M.

5th

 

 

farmerjo's flyers

Steven P.

3rd

 

1186

 

Full time

 

1072

 

DikyDoks

Gary S.

6th

 

 

Delightful Dee's

Alex R.

1st

 

1670

 

Full time

 

1077

 

Chooka's Chiangmai Saints

Martin S.

4th

 

 

 

 

 

And I move to the top of the ladder after they fixed up the postponed game....Chooks gets a good old belting.....RIP scrapes in (keep it up Rip, keeping any Wendy down is good for my moral...she did do my head in back in the days....) and Fj without event trying gets a win.....thats not a good sign..... 

1		Delightful Dee's Alex R.	2	8	125.98	2	0	0	3234	2567	W W
2		RIPS SWANS Ross P.	2	8	103.23	2	0	0	2939	2847	W W
3		farmerjo's flyers Steven P.	2	4	101.03	1	1	0	2556	2530	L W
4		Chooka's Chiangmai Saints Martin S.	2	4	81.70	1	1	0	2335	2858	W L
5		Wendy's Saints Wendy M.	2	0	97.44	0	2	0	2967	3045	L L
6		DikyDoks Gary S.	2	0	92.47	0	2	0	2260	2444	L L