On 14/12/2016 at 8:36 PM, joboss said:

Alex !  Turn on your phone,, accept that collect call from Havana.

 

Potential forward pocket.

 

 

 

 

I couldnt find any with boobs like that....the one time i thought i struck gold they turned out to be padded....

No idea how to cancel so i sent.....

Breaking news for Dec 21 2016.....

 

The Age has added Chris Judge former WCE and Blue and now a budding fashion designer with the make over king who was once king of the football ground in Wayne Carey who not so long ago was running amuck smacking women about who looks out of place on the telly with the grin waiting his turn to say something on the game in hand....and of course Dee's marquee player Dasiy Pearce, a house hold name in the West because I've never heard of her, certainly does not look like a model in fact looks like one of the boys pictured with Judge and Carey....

 

Scott Pendlebury and wife Ales are expecting there first baby, mmm id like to make babies with Alex too....

 

This may be old news Shane Yarrn hangs up the footy boots at 27 and just 6 games into an illustrious career at the Dockers...taken as a 4th round pick in 2015 once again highlights the recruiting talent at said club. Several assault charges hang over the young mans head, the retirement maybe in fact due to the expected jail time the fella will be facing in the future....

 

Bryce Gibbs clears up misinformation on his sudden request for a trade back to SA....after reading this article the only piece of new news is that he spoke to the club a clear 7 days prior to trade week asking for a ticket home, the Blues did it there way and in a follow up article on the same subject Gibbs is happy to be a Blue and expecting to stay a one club player....meanwhile he says its incorrect that his partner had driven the attempted push for home....we spoke about it all year long...apparently new baby was behind it all......family friends etc back home...yes the baby was the problem.....

 

It was the year of the underdogs, Bulldogs took the cup here in Oz, Leicester City took it in the premier league a million to one at season start to a lesser extent the Broncos took it in the US.....Best games of the season....so the Age says...

 

10...Saints 93 d Cats 90 round 14, cats on a roll 10 wins of 13 played Saints shoot them down

 

9 .....Cats 85 d Hawks 83 qualifying final big recruiting cats beat harden finals campaigners

 

8.....Hawks 93 d Bulldogs 90 round 3, dogs back from a 32 point deficit showed the grit that eventually took them to a flag win...

 

7... WCE 97 d GWS 96, round 21, home ground gaints away squirrels were the Eagles all year long and so it proved once again.

 

6....North 136 d Dee's 131 @ blundstone round 3,  the wobbly knees of North were exposed in this game, Dee's unlucky not to snatch it still the Roos were going to be on a roll for a few games more before the wheels fell off...

 

5...Tigers 101 d Sydney 100 MCG round 8....Tigers were still being expected to be the team of last season how the Swans lost this i dont know...5 un answered goals at the start of the 4th had Books throwing a fit in the living room of his detached duplex in a posh suburb on the Gold Coast....

 

4...Crows 113 d Swans 103 Ad oval round 4, 11 lead changes first loss to the Swans only round 4 Books forgave them after all they did go on to play in there GF...

 

3...Hawks 112 d Crows 109 MCG round 5, an improved Crows go down to the Hawks a harden campaign team this was the 3rd game in a row they won by 3 points...

 

2...Bulldogs 89 d Swans 67 MCG GF....yes it was a good game 5 lead changes, i thought the Swans had in the bag mid 2cd quarter.....Boyd came of age and justified the million $ a season he was on in this game..

 

1...Bulldogs 89 d GWS 83 prelim final @ spotless......please note it was an away ground the doggies won at.................me personally i though the best game of the season was the elimination final between WCE and the Bulldogs, in WA the dogs not expected to advance pretty much savaged the Eagles and just went on with it from there...

35 minutes ago, AlexRRR said:

It was the year of the underdogs, Bulldogs took the cup here in Oz, Leicester City took it in the premier league a million to one at season start to a lesser extent the Broncos took it in the US.....Best games of the season....so the Age says...

 

7... WCE 97 d GWS 96, round 21, home ground gaints away squirrels were the Eagles all year long and so it proved once again.  So it proves once again. We won this one, away!

 

 

 

37 minutes ago, AlexRRR said:

Breaking news for Dec 21 2016.....

 

The Age has added Chris Judge former WCE and Blue and now a budding fashion designer with the make over king who was once king of the football ground in Wayne Carey who not so long ago was running amuck smacking women about who looks out of place on the telly with the grin waiting his turn to say something on the game in hand....and of course Dee's marquee player Dasiy Pearce, a house hold name in the West because I've never heard of her, certainly does not look like a model in fact looks like one of the boys pictured with Judge and Carey....

 

Scott Pendlebury and wife Ales are expecting there first baby, mmm id like to make babies with Alex too....

 

 

Scott Pendlebury and wife Ales are expecting there first baby, mmm  id like to make babies with Alex too....   That's what Mrs Pendlebury said as well

Nice post Alex. It was a good season and the prelim a cracker. They do produce the best footy strangely.  That north demon game was something from the nineties though scoring 40 + goals. I thought Pagan was coaching the Roos again.

 

The AFL site have done a similar article with the top fifty moments. Ranging overview, not chronologically structured. 

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-12-18/greatest-season-of-all-top-50-countdown-3021

 

This photo will piss people off, and I don't mean too. But it does fit that category of year in review from my pov.

 

 

Sheedy leading the crowd from Federation square to MCG, round three.

 

Edited December 21, 20169 yr by optad

29 minutes ago, AlexRRR said:

 

......Gibbs is happy to be a Blue and expecting to stay a one club player....meanwhile he says its incorrect that his partner had driven the attempted push for home....we spoke about it all year long...apparently new baby was behind it all.....

 

 

Carlton was justifiably concerned that Gibbs would have racked up enough games with Adelaide that his young lad Charlie could have been lost under the father - son rule years down the track.

 

Oh, another thing, Alex.   Don't feel at all concerned about re-posting photos of that lovely Latina lass.

 

That babe is a much better first up page picture than those horrible jumpers. 

OOOPS!!!!!!

 

1 hour ago, Will27 said:

 

 

Gee WILL....i took it as it was written off the god dam paper...they get it wrong and i do have a life to lead.....cant go checking everything you know old fella....

The REAL bit on the side Alex got in Cuba

 

Ahhh Cuba was such a big hit for you guys i will display some talent for you from the Garden of Eden....

 

Pic 2...i have a selfie off myself in front of that fort......its on my line atvar....

 

Girl 3 is Books Gold Cost style....dontmind a bit of dark myself.....

 

and girl 1....well i was breathless there just about every day...

Edited December 21, 20169 yr by AlexRRR

6 minutes ago, AlexRRR said:

 

 

and girl 1....well i was breathless there just about every day...

 

 

 

Could be a sign of age and lack of fitness Alex.

I'll get Chimps to send u a message... he has done elite training for all the good clubs

It is rumored that Gibbs wanted a return to The City of Churches because of an inappropriate bond he shares with Robbie Gray.

 

Compromising photos are doing the rounds on social media.

 

 

 

 

Fremantle, Collingwood & Richmond Provide United Coaches front

 

 

 

Three of the expected top 12 sides for 2017 held a rare combined club press conference.

 

 

 

Getting on the front foot pre season in an attempt to avoid early coaching speculation were Collingwood’s Eddie McGuire, Richmond’s Peggy O’Neal and Fremantle’s Ross Lyon

 

 

 

Peggy was quick to throw her support behind Damien Hardwick.

 

She spoke in certain terms about the strength of character and player management Damien provided the club. Despite the mooted move of Dusty from the midfield to up forward having raised some eyebrows, Peggy was hailing this as a success story already. She expected the Tigers to finish top 6, and even if they didn’t, it wouldn’t be Damien’s fault.
“Damien has the boards full support. We have been very very unlucky the last few years. If we had won more games we would have finished higher and in the top 8. Damien knows we will be very very upset with him if we don’t make finals this year and the board will even consider a reduced contract extension unless performances rise.”

 

 

 

Eddie Mcguire spoke for half an hour before getting to the topic at hand. After demanding that interstate clubs have their academies removed and that penalties should be re-imposed on Sydney for their continual finals success, he was adamant Collingwood would finish top 4 this year, or likely win the GF.

 

“This is Collingwood’s sixth year of team rebuilding and Nathan has my full support.  We don’t foresee any lack of success this year but if there is, it will be because of injuries and our rebuilding."

 

 

 

Ross Lyons spoke on behalf of the Fremantle Football club.

 

“Speaking on behalf of the Footy Club and Fremantle board, with the seal of approval from the club CEO, I am pleased to announce I have been offered a role as Coach for Life. We have recruited well in the off season and have rid the team of dead weight slackers who were holding us back. I expect the team to work harder for me every week and give beyond their best. The media will speculate about this and that but they don’t know the footy club.”

 

 

 

Asked about being the most successful coach to have never won a Premiership, Lyon added: “Coaching is not about premierships, it is about building men and building team structures for the future of the Club.

 

 

 

Source: Chimpy News Services

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 21, 20169 yr by BookMan

Thx to CNS for that story. 

 

Coach for life dropped some pearlers there. Might have been tempted to ask him, hypothetically of course, if their was another team he might like to 'renovate' and coach to liberate.

That's the hard part with long term coaches,take North as an example.

Scott has been there a long time and unless given another 5 years for success,he could simply walk away at the end saying they didn't give me enough time.

Demon Lumumba retires on medical advice

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-12-21/demon-heritier-lumumba-retires-on-medical-advice

 

 

14 minutes ago, farmerjo said:

That's the hard part with long term coaches,take North as an example.

Scott has been there a long time and unless given another 5 years for success,he could simply walk away at the end saying they didn't give me enough time.

Where do you think Norf will finish this year?

 

I can't see them making the 8.

9 minutes ago, Will27 said:

Where do you think Norf will finish this year?

 

I can't see them making the 8.

15th Will

If really lucky 8th but more like 15th.

1 minute ago, farmerjo said:

15th Will

If really lucky 8th but more like 15th.

I thought it would've been good for the club to part ways with Scott.

12 minutes ago, Will27 said:

I thought it would've been good for the club to part ways with Scott.

 

Cant help but think they should have gone with youth a few years back and they would be in a better position now...They seem to have had the potential talent around the place

About time!!

 

I've been saying this rule was stupid for a while...finally some sense!

 

 

Third man up' gets the chop in radical rule change

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-12-21/third-man-up-gets-the-chop-in-radical-rule-change

In a surprise move, the AFL notified clubs on Wednesday that next season only nominated ruckmen will be able to compete at a contest for a throw-in or ball-up.

Other players will therefore no longer be permitted to contest a ruck contest as 'third man up'.

A stricter interpretation of deliberate rushed behinds will also be introduced and the interpretation of where a player draws high contact will be simplified. 

However, theto ban 'third man up' decision is sure to spark debate, with coaches split as to whether a rule was necessary when consulted on the proposed change at the annual AFL laws summit on the day of the NAB AFL Draft. 

The AFL Commission approved the contentious recommendation from the League's football department that came after widespread consultation with a range of relevant stakeholders.

The AFL is understood to have been concerned that if it continued to allow players the ability to go 'third man up' the role of the ruckman would be under threat.

AFL football operations manager Mark Evans said it was important a change was made to protect one of the game's unique features.

"Eliminating the 'third man up' at ruck contests will support the recruitment of tall players and ensure our game continues to be played at the elite level by players of various sizes and differing abilities," Evans said

 

 

Hmm. Better for the integrity of the game to bring back pure rucking but might have made a difference to some clubs approach to the draft. 

 

Very happy to hear they are finally going stop rewarding the Selwood knee dip in a tackle for the for a high contact free. That one sux. Has become endemic adn and a blight. Play tall pls.

13 hours ago, optad said:

Hmm. Better for the integrity of the game to bring back pure rucking but might have made a difference to some clubs approach to the draft. 

 

Very happy to hear they are finally going stop rewarding the Selwood knee dip in a tackle for the for a high contact free. That one sux. Has become endemic adn and a blight. Play tall pls.

 

Your new to this forum kid....lot of debate about rule changes seems the brothers  here are now so accustomed to the AFL meddling every year the game hardly looks like it once was...im an advocate in leaving it alone and letting the coaches develop it.

 

You as an Essendon man would well recall Sheedy giving up professional fouls to curb the quick footed Blues back in the very early 80's hence the introducton of the 50 meter penalty, from that point in time it took the defensive edge out of the game, if you watch NFL its pleasing to see at times a team will give up yardage or foul for a defensive reason as the do in the round ball game..

 

As a foot note the round ball game has had next to no rule changes in more than 100 years...please consider AFL.

Sad day at Dee land as Hertie hangs them up, left the wobblies under a cloud leaves the Dee's in  similar manner, 25 games played a fair first season but loose as poo when you have dirrea in a struggling team an attacking backman we dint really need until 2017....

 

The Age's top 10 Footy people od 2016

 

1 .....Luke Beverage,  premiership coach sure has done amazing things in only 2 seasons

lets give some credit to the back room boys shall we as well as the board that run the club.

He played at the Dee's Saints and the Dogs, was just a footballer wide bodied like the Magna car bit of a hack who couldnt play several good games in a row...was a tryer though lacked pace and skill often on the ground not sure if he was burrowing in or had fallen over this is the type of guy that makes a good coach...

 

2 ....Jarrod Roughead, these polls we now learn are filler....of course a class act and cancer sufferer hope its all behind him, of course he's back he's been playing professional footy since he was a teen what else could he be doing as he quickly approaches 30?

 

4...Patrick Dangerfield, home at last, imagine if he had been drafted by the Cats in the first place...

 

5...Moana Hope, Pies women's footy team, heavy tattooed found her home....100 goal haul for the St Kilda Sharks this year, played in exhibition games for the Western Bulldogs devoted most of her life looking after pop a cancer sufferer and an ill mum and disable sister...im getting tears in my eyes....

 

It is silly season you know....

 

6 ...Jobe "my dog ate the medal" Watson, had a year off gave his medal back..well the award..went off to New York to learn how to make an expresso so whats the big deal Age?

 

7...Garry "i will have an affair with your ex" Lyon, once revered Dee captain likes to pick up crumbs of crumpet lost all credibility with me when he was on the panel that selected Mark Needle as coach of the hapless Dee's, back on the teller next year...lock up your mums, and the radio on SEN who i never listen too.

 

8....Eddie "foot in the mouth" McGuire, manages to stay supremo at 4&20 how we dont know after 1 to manny gaffles ranks number 8 as footy personal of the year....my question is what did everyone below him do wrong?

 

9...Eddie Betts, yep I'm surprised too, well 75 goals for the year helped, ahh was all about the banana incident....nice to accept the apology....fair dinkum if some one threw a banana at me i dout i be all over the front page of the Age let alone an apology behind closed doors....

 

9... again because i forgot number 3...hehe...Nathan "eddies love child" Buckley,  comes in at number nine because the poor guy has been under the blow torch all season long, the love affair with Bucks died early last year, the media has devoted at least the Victorian hard wood forest of trees in print media on one Mr N Buckley, doubt there has been so much written about such an ordinary coaching career....pretty much cleared out all the guys he played with brought in a host of GWS players up until this seasons the most of any club, says its all over red rover if the Pies dont make the finals....WILL be picked up as an assistant coach heading west ( as will need to leave Toorak and Victoria or his house will get burned down).....were all the hacks seem to be heading of late......

 

10...Johnny "never seen any drugs @ WCE" Worsfold, the ideal man with mucho experience to coach the Victorian druggies team of choice the Bombers, had to keep a straight face and talk it up all season long fielding a collection of hacks and cracks, did a remarkalbe good job of beating an over confident Dee's early in the season to everyones surprise...needs to buy a pair of bi focal glasses to keep his eye on this lot....with the injection of 10 or so banned players and a couple of low draft pics Johnny should be knocking on heavens door, players should be fresh and hungry the question asked are they as good as we thought 2 years later? 

Edited December 21, 20169 yr by AlexRRR

Have a Cuban Xmas guys...

 

ps...there were plenty of white girls tooo

Edited December 21, 20169 yr by AlexRRR

I dislike constant changes prone to the AFL too Alex, nonetheless the knee bending to elicit a high tackle is a blight on the game. Eliminating that occurrence is a good thing. Soliciting penalties in this manner is essentially unfair on the integrity of the tackler when everyone respects the normative high tackle rule. It forces a double think by the tackler when it should just be a physical reaction to the ball carrier. The true cry of ‘ball’ as it is sung around the ground elevates that action, not the insipid out clause devised by the ball carrier to force an arm onto his shoulders. Insipid is an apt description of that player’s option.

 

Calling that a professional foul and should remain, is a point of departure on topic Alex. I would prefer things to a lot of things to revert to a point in time, but they cannot and this is a kind of fix to an ugly problem and a good thing. The other items on that list perhaps could fall into your, ‘leave alone’ category and would be fine by me.

 

AFL is dynamic and less structured than the round ball and changes are less surprising however not going there. And sure, this is your space. Alternate views can be toxic in the offseason when its more about bums and tits. Not that I mind, although some were a little heavy for my liking, it’s all theatre. A bit like the photo above of Sheedy leading Essendon to the MCG for their first win against …. Melbourne.

 

 

Edited December 21, 20169 yr by optad

1 hour ago, optad said:

I dislike constant changes prone to the AFL too Alex, nonetheless the knee bending to elicit a high tackle is a blight on the game. Eliminating that occurrence is a good thing. Soliciting penalties in this manner is essentially unfair on the integrity of the tackler when everyone respects the normative high tackle rule. It forces a double think by the tackler when it should just be a physical reaction to the ball carrier. The true cry of ‘ball’ as it is sung around the ground elevates that action, not the insipid out clause devised by the ball carrier to force an arm onto his shoulders. Insipid is an apt description of that player’s option.

 

Calling that a professional foul and should remain, is a point of departure on topic Alex. I would prefer things to a lot of things to revert to a point in time, but they cannot and this is a kind of fix to an ugly problem and a good thing. The other items on that list perhaps could fall into your, ‘leave alone’ category and would be fine by me.

 

AFL is dynamic and less structured than the round ball and changes are less surprising however not going there. And sure, this is your space. Alternate views can be toxic in the offseason when its more about bums and tits. Not that I mind, although some were a little heavy for my liking, it’s all theatre. A bit like the photo above of Sheedy leading Essendon to the MCG for their first win against …. Melbourne.

 

 

 

There will always be "something" so let the coaches get rid of it....in the past 10 years its been unprecedient the amount of meddling by the AFL, and its fair to say fix one issue and 2 more arise due in part to that first fix....ive been singing the same tune since they brought in the 50 meter penalty, i saw nothing worng with giving up a 15 meter penalty to stop the run of the Blues back then, the coaches would have had come up with a way around that I'm dam sure,  another stupid law was the line across the centre during the ruck contest, come on it takes 2 to entangle them selves at the bounce, 3 going up in the ruck, if my maths is correct that leaves one free  player....Run run till you cant run more....more injuries....the latest? more of the same, it comes it goes and dies a natural death if left alone its called evolving ..means the game evolves somethings work today then it dont work next season and so it goes on.....so does life...you know that ordinary one we have? 

 

3 hours ago, AlexRRR said:

 

Your new to this forum kid....lot of debate about rule changes seems the brothers  here are now so accustomed to the AFL meddling every year the game hardly looks like it once was...im an advocate in leaving it alone and letting the coaches develop it.

 

You as an Essendon man would well recall Sheedy giving up professional fouls to curb the quick footed Blues back in the very early 80's hence the introducton of the 50 meter penalty, from that point in time it took the defensive edge out of the game, if you watch NFL its pleasing to see at times a team will give up yardage or foul for a defensive reason as the do in the round ball game..

 

As a foot note the round ball game has had next to no rule changes in more than 100 years...please consider AFL.

 

You are comparing Trucks with bicycles here.

 

Defensively they are different solar systems.

 

Soccer can play defensively because they are protecting a small netted frame

NFL and Rugby games have a line that has to be crossed and can be defended.

AFL, a score can be done from outside 50 metres...

Defensive tactics of professional fouls surely detract form teh games? Time wasting tactics used as defensive measures, guided by coaches, don't favour the attacking team and reward poor play.

Coaches in any professional sport will try and bend and manipulate the rules to gain an advantage.
Bending the knees
Deliberate out of bounds
Rushed behinds
 

Rules are introduced and coaches look at ways to take advantage of the rules..

Australian Rules footy is an far  more complicated game than soccer, having 30% more on field players, larger grounds, different point scoring opportunities, more options of ball disposal and tackles and etcetera

As to your point that Soccer has not changed rules , that is simply not true.  

The Boffins at Soccer also realised the importance of attack over defence and introduced these huge rules changes:

 

Hence a series of amendments, often referred to as for the 'Good of the Game', which were designed to help promote attacking football. They began with the offside law in 1990. The advantage was now given to the attacking team. If the attacker was in line with the penultimate defender, he was now onside. In the same year, the 'professional foul' - denying an opponent a clear goal-scoring opportunity - became a sending-off offence.

 

Back-pass rule changed 
Despite these changes, tactics during the 1990 FIFA World Cup™ suggested something more needed to be done. The IFAB responded in 1992 by banning goalkeepers from handling deliberate back-passes. Although the new rule was greeted with scepticism by some at first, in the fullness of time it would become widely appreciated.

 

The game's Law-makers then struck another blow against cynicism in 1998 when the fierce tackle from behind became a red-card offence. With a new century approaching, the commitment to forward-thinking football could not have been clearer.