BookMan Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Pies will be in the finals hands down! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Welcome to our forum. Good to see a Collingwood supporter join this forum. Will Collingwood be in the top 8 next year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 Pies will be in the finals hands down! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Welcome to our forum. Good to see a Collingwood supporter join this forum. take it easy guys, he is not in yet. Collingwood supporters are a little like soi dogs. Let them smell the back of your hand 1st and if they lick it, take a step back. If they follow and you can pat their head then they are in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 Pies will be in the finals hands down! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Welcome to our forum. Good to see a Collingwood supporter join this forum. Will Collingwood be in the top 8 next year? Big call my tip is the Gold Coast will sneak in. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrantSmith Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 Chooka, you're not the only one that thinks the suns will make the 8 next year... I think they're a red hot chance, might have even mentioned it in the previous thread - too lazy to search it to confirm though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifeon Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 But remember, a dog is a mans best friend 5555, and if you didn't have a collingwood supporter on here, imagine how boring it would be. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lifeon Posted December 12, 2013 Share Posted December 12, 2013 As for the suns making the final/s, your dreaming, not for another few years yet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will27 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Shirvington gives Swans a pre-season pace injection THE SYDNEY Swans received an injection of pace at training this week, with former Australian 100m record-holder Matt Shirvington taking charge of some pre-season sprinting drills. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-12-12/swans-get-pace-injection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will27 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Chooka, you're not the only one that thinks the suns will make the 8 next year... I think they're a red hot chance, might have even mentioned it in the previous thread - too lazy to search it to confirm though... I think GC are a sneaky chance as well. I think Hawth, Freo, Syd and Geelong will make the top 4 again and after that there will be 7 or 8 sides fighting for the next 4 spots. Make that 3 spots, The WCE have 1 spot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Chooka, you're not the only one that thinks the suns will make the 8 next year... I think they're a red hot chance, might have even mentioned it in the previous thread - too lazy to search it to confirm though... I think GC are a sneaky chance as well. I think Hawth, Freo, Syd and Geelong will make the top 4 again and after that there will be 7 or 8 sides fighting for the next 4 spots. Make that 3 spots, The WCE have 1 spot Not sure about Geelong being top 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will27 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 Chooka, you're not the only one that thinks the suns will make the 8 next year... I think they're a red hot chance, might have even mentioned it in the previous thread - too lazy to search it to confirm though... I think GC are a sneaky chance as well. I think Hawth, Freo, Syd and Geelong will make the top 4 again and after that there will be 7 or 8 sides fighting for the next 4 spots. Make that 3 spots, The WCE have 1 spot Not sure about Geelong being top 4. I was entirely sure at first, but then I couldn't really see anyone taking their spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 13, 2013 Author Share Posted December 13, 2013 Chooka, you're not the only one that thinks the suns will make the 8 next year... I think they're a red hot chance, might have even mentioned it in the previous thread - too lazy to search it to confirm though... I think GC are a sneaky chance as well. I think Hawth, Freo, Syd and Geelong will make the top 4 again and after that there will be 7 or 8 sides fighting for the next 4 spots. Make that 3 spots, The WCE have 1 spot Not sure about Geelong being top 4. I was entirely sure at first, but then I couldn't really see anyone taking their spot. Saints 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will27 Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 I said top 4 chooka, not bottom 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 James Hird and his legal team, consisting of a QC threatened to take Andrew D and the AFL to court over Hirds payments and put Andrew on the stand. Tanai Hird basically calls Andrew a liar now the AFL have relented and allowed Hird to be paid out in full if it is done before the end of the year. I think Andrew was shitting his pants about being put in the box and having to publically tell the truth and be found out as a little lying weasel. Pay impasse broken: James Hird to be paid early The dispute between the AFL and Essendon over coach James Hird’s pay has been resolved, with Essendon to pay the suspended coach's 2014 contract in full before the end of this year. In discussions on Friday, the Bombers and the league resolved that the ‘‘implied terms’’ of their settlement deed were that Hird could not be paid by the club for a period of 12 months. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/pay-impasse-broken-james-hird-to-be-paid-early-20131213-2zcpv.html#ixzz2nP1hMrAH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Chooka, you're not the only one that thinks the suns will make the 8 next year... I think they're a red hot chance, might have even mentioned it in the previous thread - too lazy to search it to confirm though... I think GC are a sneaky chance as well. I think Hawth, Freo, Syd and Geelong will make the top 4 again and after that there will be 7 or 8 sides fighting for the next 4 spots. Make that 3 spots, The WCE have 1 spot Speaking of the GC. They are losing their high profile, high performing signing back to League. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/with-karmichael-hunt-set-to-make-his-nrl-return-we-take-a-look-back-at-where-it-all-began/story-fni3gv5x-1226783219109 Id sill see them just outside the top 8. Maybe a couple of big upsets. Can't remember how there draw looks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrantSmith Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Speaking of the GC. They are losing their high profile, high performing signing back to League. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/with-karmichael-hunt-set-to-make-his-nrl-return-we-take-a-look-back-at-where-it-all-began/story-fni3gv5x-1226783219109 Id sill see them just outside the top 8. Maybe a couple of big upsets. Can't remember how there draw looks Hahaha at first I thought Ablett was jumping codes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kooweerup Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Speaking of the GC. They are losing their high profile, high performing signing back to League. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/with-karmichael-hunt-set-to-make-his-nrl-return-we-take-a-look-back-at-where-it-all-began/story-fni3gv5x-1226783219109 Id sill see them just outside the top 8. Maybe a couple of big upsets. Can't remember how there draw looks Hahaha at first I thought Ablett was jumping codes... Rugby players. Hunt did give it a go tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Speaking of the GC. They are losing their high profile, high performing signing back to League. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/with-karmichael-hunt-set-to-make-his-nrl-return-we-take-a-look-back-at-where-it-all-began/story-fni3gv5x-1226783219109 Id sill see them just outside the top 8. Maybe a couple of big upsets. Can't remember how there draw looks Hahaha at first I thought Ablett was jumping codes... Rugby players. Hunt did give it a go tho. He was a heap better than Israel Folau was for GWS. All the fuss about what Buddy gets at the Swans and look what they paid Folau at GWS to learn how to play AFL. I'd give him a D+ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 14, 2013 Author Share Posted December 14, 2013 Speaking of the GC. They are losing their high profile, high performing signing back to League. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/with-karmichael-hunt-set-to-make-his-nrl-return-we-take-a-look-back-at-where-it-all-began/story-fni3gv5x-1226783219109 Id sill see them just outside the top 8. Maybe a couple of big upsets. Can't remember how there draw looks Hahaha at first I thought Ablett was jumping codes... Rugby players. Hunt did give it a go tho. He was a heap better than Israel Folau was for GWS. All the fuss about what Buddy gets at the Swans and look what they paid Folau at GWS to learn how to play AFL. I'd give him a D+ Hunt was miles better than Folau and he actually saw his contract out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will27 Posted December 14, 2013 Share Posted December 14, 2013 Speaking of the GC. They are losing their high profile, high performing signing back to League. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/with-karmichael-hunt-set-to-make-his-nrl-return-we-take-a-look-back-at-where-it-all-began/story-fni3gv5x-1226783219109 Id sill see them just outside the top 8. Maybe a couple of big upsets. Can't remember how there draw looks Hahaha at first I thought Ablett was jumping codes... Rugby players. Hunt did give it a go tho. He was a heap better than Israel Folau was for GWS. All the fuss about what Buddy gets at the Swans and look what they paid Folau at GWS to learn how to play AFL. I'd give him a D+ Yep, what a flop that was. I saw him interviewed a few weeks ago. He sounds like a lovely fella. What an athlete he is. Representing Oz at ARL and then dominated in his first year in union for Australia. I guess we still have to say he played AFL as well 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 I saw him interviewed a few weeks ago. He sounds like a lovely fella. What an athlete he is. Representing Oz at ARL and then dominated in his first year in union for Australia. I guess we still have to say he played AFL as well Champion athlete, but couldn't make the transition to AFL. probably would have been a gun full forward if he grew up with the game. Still, he got the AFL soooooo much publicity out in the Western Suburbs of Sydney. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 I saw him interviewed a few weeks ago. He sounds like a lovely fella. What an athlete he is. Representing Oz at ARL and then dominated in his first year in union for Australia. I guess we still have to say he played AFL as well Champion athlete, but couldn't make the transition to AFL. probably would have been a gun full forward if he grew up with the game. Still, he got the AFL soooooo much publicity out in the Western Suburbs of Sydney. no disputing his athletic ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will27 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 AFL crackdown on 'duckers' under new rules The AFL Commission approved a raft of changes on Tuesday for season 2014 after hearing recommendations from the AFL Laws Committee. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-12-17/crackdown-on-duckers These changes applied to: - Head clashes involving bumps. - Players leading with their head to initiate contact. - Forceful contact below the knees. - The use of strength in marking contests. - Reducing the number of runners from two to one. - Automatic penalty for being in the protected area. - Use of the interchange. Boys, I really like the "strength in marking" contests. Too often we see the stronger guy getting penalized. A good result for Buddy methinks. Players leading with their melons is another good one also. Not sure about giving the umps discretion over the "restricted area", it will put a lot of pressure on them. I thought maybe just a 20 metre penalty. What do you think fella's? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 (edited) AFL crackdown on 'duckers' under new rules The AFL Commission approved a raft of changes on Tuesday for season 2014 after hearing recommendations from the AFL Laws Committee. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-12-17/crackdown-on-duckers These changes applied to: - Head clashes involving bumps. - Players leading with their head to initiate contact. - Forceful contact below the knees. - The use of strength in marking contests. - Reducing the number of runners from two to one. - Automatic penalty for being in the protected area. - Use of the interchange. Boys, I really like the "strength in marking" contests. Too often we see the stronger guy getting penalized. A good result for Buddy methinks. Players leading with their melons is another good one also. Not sure about giving the umps discretion over the "restricted area", it will put a lot of pressure on them. I thought maybe just a 20 metre penalty. What do you think fella's? The use of strength in marking contests??? <deleted> isn't it the strength of opponents that makes it a contest? It's not soccer, it's a contact sport so stop watering the game down Edited December 18, 2013 by chooka 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will27 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 AFL crackdown on 'duckers' under new rules The AFL Commission approved a raft of changes on Tuesday for season 2014 after hearing recommendations from the AFL Laws Committee. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-12-17/crackdown-on-duckers These changes applied to: - Head clashes involving bumps. - Players leading with their head to initiate contact. - Forceful contact below the knees. - The use of strength in marking contests. - Reducing the number of runners from two to one. - Automatic penalty for being in the protected area. - Use of the interchange. Boys, I really like the "strength in marking" contests. Too often we see the stronger guy getting penalized. A good result for Buddy methinks. Players leading with their melons is another good one also. Not sure about giving the umps discretion over the "restricted area", it will put a lot of pressure on them. I thought maybe just a 20 metre penalty. What do you think fella's? The use of strength in marking contests??? <deleted> isn't it the strength of opponents that makes it a contest? It's not soccer, it's a contact sport so stop watering the game down That's what they're trying to do chooka. Give the stronger player more leeway whereas before they were giving free kicks away just because they were stronger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 AFL crackdown on 'duckers' under new rules The AFL Commission approved a raft of changes on Tuesday for season 2014 after hearing recommendations from the AFL Laws Committee. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-12-17/crackdown-on-duckers These changes applied to: - Head clashes involving bumps. - Players leading with their head to initiate contact. - Forceful contact below the knees. - The use of strength in marking contests. - Reducing the number of runners from two to one. - Automatic penalty for being in the protected area. - Use of the interchange. B Overall I like them, be interesting to see interpretations throughout the year. - Players leading with their head to initiate contact. Good rule. Will stop any further milking of penalties...or limit it at least - The use of strength in marking contests. Great to see. Marking up forward is what we all like to see and it is good that there is scope bding given to rewarding strong marks. From the wording of the rule, it will allow a large scope of leeway for teh umpires....(unduly meaning free kicks only paid against a player who "unduly pushes, bumps, blocks or holds…" in a marking contest.) - - Automatic penalty for being in the protected area. Not sure about this one...could change a game or two. One issue this year was no enforcement of players coming into the protected area at the side to stop the kicker from running around. Enforcement of that would have been enough. Automatic penalty is a bit much - 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 18, 2013 Author Share Posted December 18, 2013 AFL crackdown on 'duckers' under new rules The AFL Commission approved a raft of changes on Tuesday for season 2014 after hearing recommendations from the AFL Laws Committee. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-12-17/crackdown-on-duckers These changes applied to: - Head clashes involving bumps. - Players leading with their head to initiate contact. - Forceful contact below the knees. - The use of strength in marking contests. - Reducing the number of runners from two to one. - Automatic penalty for being in the protected area. - Use of the interchange. Boys, I really like the "strength in marking" contests. Too often we see the stronger guy getting penalized. A good result for Buddy methinks. Players leading with their melons is another good one also. Not sure about giving the umps discretion over the "restricted area", it will put a lot of pressure on them. I thought maybe just a 20 metre penalty. What do you think fella's? The use of strength in marking contests??? <deleted> isn't it the strength of opponents that makes it a contest? It's not soccer, it's a contact sport so stop watering the game down That's what they're trying to do chooka. Give the stronger player more leeway whereas before they were giving free kicks away just because they were stronger. Fair enough, it sounded like if you were a bigger person you had to stand back an let the little weaker guy mark it. You know mum standing on the sideline getting pissed off because little jonnie was going to mark then big bruce took it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 Anything has to be better than the old one. Could this be Freo's new song? http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-news-blog/could-this-be-freos-new-song/20131219-2zmwy.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookMan Posted December 21, 2013 Share Posted December 21, 2013 Anything has to be better than the old one. Could this be Freo's new song? http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-news-blog/could-this-be-freos-new-song/20131219-2zmwy.html Catchy jingle. Sooooooo much better than their current team song. Perhaps Ron19 has an opinion on it? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chooka Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 Jolly, Gilbee round out St Kilda coaching appointments DARREN Jolly has joined St Kilda, two months after speculation that he would fill the ruck role vacated by Ben McEvoy's trade to Hawthorn.However the retired former Magpie, Demon and Swan will be coaching rather than playing alongside the Saints' young ruckmen, after accepting a part-time position under new head coach Alan Richardson.St Kilda finalised its coaching appointments for the 2014 season on Saturday, with former Western Bulldog Lindsay Gilbee becoming the club's development coach and Simon McPhee appointed manager of the player academy. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-12-21/a-jolly-saint-at-last Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xangsamhua Posted December 23, 2013 Share Posted December 23, 2013 Collingwoods membership count is quite misleading IMO. For example, they have 3 game membership packages, memberships for babies under one, memberships for people who can't or don't go to the footy etc etc. 20 000 of those memberships are for people outside of Victoria also. It would be interesting to see how many memberships are for general admission and for reserved seating. I know a lot of clubs have packages for juniors etc, but counting 3 gamers as members is a bit rich IMO. Brisbane have 3-game memberships, too. I've got one for the afternoon games at the Gabba (don't like night games). They even have pet memberships, too. I don't think they count them in the total though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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