A.F.L. Thread II

[Jono]

West Coast vs. Melborne already started Clapo, so that tip won't count unfortunately.

 

[superkingdave]

Jacob Surjan dropped...bit early to start tanking port

If Thomas doesn't have a good game saturday then ***** ******

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

By the way, looking at the Bulldogs outs... it's fair to say that can't beat Collingwood. Was going to be tough even with their full team. But without Hudson, Higgins and Hall it's going to near impossible.

Higgins the only real loss IMO. Hall was never going to kick goals against the Pies, and Hudson has been in ordinary touch this year and I back an in form Minson to be good enough against a Jolly-less Pies outfit.

We'll still get smashed, though.

 

[vic_orthdox]

and why did they bother with bruce, hale i can understand but what on earth does bruce offer

Theory is to let Bruce play the quarterback role that Hodge has, so that they can always play Hodge in the midfield and rotate him up forward.

Bruce's kicking is pretty poor for that role though.

Benchy, didn't Watson circa 2006-07 have a reputation as being an ordinary kick? I'm fairly certain of it, particularly when kicking for goal.

Agh, thought I multi-quoted Benchy's reply too, but oh well. He has had that reputation, but as Benchy said it was a bit of a confidence thing. Even at school he'd end up having more handpasses than kicks, he'd just take a tackle on and release someone else.

Yeah could easily follow in Ling's footsteps. Ling in the early-to-mid 2000s was a proper in the guts midfielder. As Geelong developed better players for such a role, he adapted into being one of the game's leading taggers. Cross could do that, or something similar to what Kane Cornes does at his peak.

Ling never really played that much as an out-and-out on-baller. He was recruited as a forward, and then built up such a ridiculous tank that they started using him as a tagger. Remember Bucks wiping blood on him? That was only about a season or two into his career.

Hehe, and his first kick at goal which missed everything - from within the goalsquare.

 

[Jono]

I remember him being a full forward prior to playing AFL, but in 2004 and 2005 he got a fair bit of the ball. Was he tagging in those years?

 

[howardj]

Daniel Kerr is back!

Gun

 

[Jono]

Showing good signs, but he's so far off what he was from 2005-2007. He was unbelievably brilliant in those 3 years. Whether it was a coincidence or not that he struggled when Cousins and Judd left the Eagles is up for debate. But his nasty injuries haven't helped.

Still young, so hopefully he can come somewhere close to what he was from 2005-2007.

Oh and boy could the guy poll in the Brownlow. 2nd, 3rd and 2nd. Incredible.

 

[vic_orthdox]

I remember him being a full forward prior to playing AFL, but in 2004 and 2005 he got a fair bit of the ball. Was he tagging in those years?

Yeah, his massive tank meant that he ended up getting decent stats the whole way through, as we were known as a "promising team" (2002 - 2005) he was tagging. He was one of the first to set the standard of taking your man the other way, after the likes of Libba, Franchini and co. happy to limit their guy to as little disposals as possible, and end up with less than 10 himself. Kane Cornes, Stenglein, etc. followed after him in that respect.

 

[alternative]

Sydney vs. Carlton
North Melbourne vs. Port Adelaide
Richmond vs. Brisbane Lions
Adelaide vs. St Kilda
Essendon vs. Gold Coast
Collingwood vs. Western Bulldogs

 

[morgieb]

Sydney vs. Carlton
North Melbourne vs. Port Adelaide
Richmond vs. Brisbane Lions
Adelaide vs. St Kilda
Essendon vs. Gold Coast
Collingwood vs. Western Bulldogs

 

[superkingdave]

Sydney vs. Carlton
North Melbourne vs. Port Adelaide
Richmondvs. Brisbane Lions
Adelaide vs. St Kilda
Essendon vs. Gold Coast
Collingwood vs. Western Bulldogs

 

[superkingdave]

**** Sydney, get some proper weather

 

[Spikey]

**** off fev. fix yourself up not go to that stupid show.

 

[Burgey]

Judd. So, so good. That work on the boundary line there was sublime. WAC.

 

[Burgey]

Any other teams want to swap Paul Bevan for a bucket of KFC?

Useless ****. Get dirty.

 

[Spikey]

Judd. So, so good. That work on the boundary line there was sublime. WAC.

awful stuff from ROK. He's been dreadful.

Nice to see Carlton not relying on the umps to win tonight, instead the interchange people. Good for them

 

[Burgey]

Swans pissed it away with inaccuracy in the second tbf. Should have put them away then. Mumford continues to look the goods for us.

 

[Spikey]

Could have told the coach at half time that ROK on Judd and Goodes up forward wasn't working. Happy with Mumford's 131 but he should have gone for goal at the end

ROK on the other hand...he wasn't even trying to tag Judd like Gibbs on Goodes. He was trying to hurt Judd on defence too and he didn't do it. Very poor match.

 

[Jono]

Judd is a ****ing legend. 15 clearances, unbelievable!

 

[Burgey]

Could have told the coach at half time that ROK on Judd and Goodes up forward wasn't working. Happy with Mumford's 131 but he should have gone for goal at the end

ROK on the other hand...he wasn't even trying to tag Judd like Gibbs on Goodes. He was trying to hurt Judd on defence too and he didn't do it. Very poor match.

Yeah, no good from ROK at all. Jack was keeping Judd quiet til he got hurt, but he was always going to have a say. Such a player.