AFL Season 2018

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 04 Mar 2007 06:21 pm

Top work Freo. 12 years in the competition and you still have no idea how to approach a derby and (more importantly) the following week

Peppermint Lounge · Post by **Peppermint Lounge** » 04 Mar 2007 07:04 pm

lol Ambrose are you actually trying to negate Freo's NAB Cup thrashing of the Eagles through a subsequent nine point loss to the Kangas in Melbourne? At least they had a game to lose.

And are you even aware that you're using the pre season comp to score points against Freo after you've spent the past few posts dismissing its relevance due to shithouse performances from the Eagles? Your one-eyed barracking knows no limits.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 04 Mar 2007 07:10 pm

Peppermint Lounge wrote:And are you even aware that you're using the pre season comp to score points against Freo after you've spent the past few posts dismissing its relevance due to shithouse performances from the Eagles?

Of course. As if I'm going to let little things like a consistent argument stand in my way when it come to football (and the Eagles and Dockers in particular).

Surely this isn't news to you?

Darwi · Post by **Darwi** » 04 Mar 2007 07:38 pm

Ambrose Burnside wrote:Surely the Tasmanian Hawks is as inevitable as the Gold Coast Kangaroos?

My dear Ambrose... please stick to talking shit about your beloved Eagles. Fishing just isn't your game.

westical · Post by **westical** » 04 Mar 2007 07:57 pm

Peppermint Lounge wrote:And are you even aware that you're using the pre season comp to score points against Freo after you've spent the past few posts dismissing its relevance due to shithouse performances from the Eagles? Your one-eyed barracking knows no limits.

You should have a chat to Candy.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 04 Mar 2007 07:58 pm

Darwi wrote:
Ambrose Burnside wrote:Surely the Tasmanian Hawks is as inevitable as the Gold Coast Kangaroos?
My dear Ambrose... please stick to talking shit about your beloved Eagles. Fishing just isn't your game.

Please Explain?

Darwi · Post by **Darwi** » 05 Mar 2007 08:19 am

Ambrose... my scoffing was in relation to just what is your rationale behind the jibe of the 'Tasmanian Hawks'?

Just because we play some home games there?

We play in Tasmania for;
a) the National branding / membership boost / sponsorship.
b) to gain some sort of home ground advantage.
c) because playing interstate sides at the MCG is a money loss.
d) the $3M a year the Tassie Government pays us to do it.

But we don't NEED to do it... the Hawks are probably the third best Club financially in Victoria;

- We have had ten consecutive years of end of year profits.
- Our membership has been stable around 30K, despite poor on-field scores.
- We have close to $6M in the bank.
- Our training facilities (brand new mulit-million dollar complex at Waverley) are second to none - not even the Eagles'.

And besides... Tasmania isn't capable of supporting a team on it's own anyway. The Interstate sides are swimming with around 500-700K per head of population per team... while the Victorian sides are tripping over themselves at around 400K per head. Tassie has about 490K people all up... spread over a wide geographical area... so it's a no show really.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 05 Mar 2007 09:45 am

OK. As for my rationale, from where I stand (on the other side of the country, basking in premiership success

) all I can see is the AFL pushing clubs like St Kilda and Hawthorn to play home games in Tasmania, just like the Kangaroos and Canberra/Gold Coast. It seems to me that a permanent move is the next logical step.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 05 Mar 2007 08:57 pm

Given the choice, I'd rather have a couple of players that run away from booze buses and throw taxi antennas around in between winning premierships instead of players that eye gouge the opposition.

Fremantle. The AFL's biggest thugs. I guarantee that by the end of round 15 they will be the AFL's most hated team

Texas · Post by **Texas** » 06 Mar 2007 08:07 am

And their two biggest offseason pickups will only make things worse. I love Solly, but he is undiciplined and at times frankly stupid (And I was saying this on Bomber forums BEFORE he got traded, and we got Basher and The Jett in return, HEH!) and as for Taz, well, he nearly destroyed the fabric of teh Pies with his off-field shennannigans. They will fit in well at the Anchors- did I mention that I loathe Jeff Farmer?

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 06 Mar 2007 10:00 am

Texas wrote:did I mention that I loathe Jeff Farmer?

You wouldn't be human if you'd said otherwise

I just wish he'd grow his mullet back so I can hate him even more than I do now

Texas · Post by **Texas** » 06 Mar 2007 10:01 am

PMSL... fuckin' anchor!

Texas · Post by **Texas** » 06 Mar 2007 10:33 am

On that note...who do you hate the most in the AFL?
I hate - Jeff Farmer. Wanker. Just a toss, and a washed-up one at that;
The Scott Brothers - Thugs pretending to be AFL players.
Nigel Lappin - Greasy turdburgler.
Cam Moony - makes Fev look like a brain surgeon, and
Brodie Holland - shit player who scraggs his way to a paycheck. And quite possibly the most arrogant and dumbest person I have ever met

edit - Brett Montgomery - his comments to Rama were one of the lowest acts I have ever heard of.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 06 Mar 2007 10:50 am

Adelaide: Lleyton Hewitt
Brisbane: -
Carlton: Brendan Fevola
Collingwood: Eddie McGuire
Essendon: Kevin Sheedy
Fremantle: Jeff Farmer
Geelong: The Big Hairy Cat
Hawthorn: Shane Crawford and Buddy Franklin ("Get up Buddy. Get up Buddy Franklin"

)
Kangaroos: Jess Sinclair
Melbourne: Jeff Farmer
Port Adelaide: Warren Tredrea's "hair"
Richmond: Matthew Richardson
St Kilda: Stephen Milne
Sydney: Michael O'Loughlin
West Coast: Chad Fletcher
Western Bulldogs: Tony Liberatore

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 07 Mar 2007 04:50 pm

I suppose I'll do my favourite players too:

West Coast: Everyone except Chad Fletcher.

That is all.

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 07 Mar 2007 04:56 pm

I'll play

Essendon: Damien Fletcher.

Tall gangly cheating filthy fucker of a player..

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 07 Mar 2007 05:07 pm

General Chaos wrote:I'll play

Essendon: Damien Fletcher.

Tall gangly cheating filthy fucker of a player..

Dustin?

jahooley · Post by **jahooley** » 07 Mar 2007 05:07 pm

Fraiser Gehrig. Big, brutish ugly motherfucker. THE most impractical player in the game. Can kick goals, but can't move very fast.

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 07 Mar 2007 06:15 pm

Ambrose Burnside wrote:
General Chaos wrote:I'll play

Essendon: Damien Fletcher.

Tall gangly cheating filthy fucker of a player..
Dustin?

yep that's the one. Rusty off season form for Chaos.

SythBlade · Post by **SythBlade** » 08 Mar 2007 03:41 am

jahooley wrote:Fraiser Gehrig. Big, brutish ugly motherfucker. THE most impractical player in the game. Can kick goals, but can't move very fast.

moves pretty gracefully!

jahooley · Post by **jahooley** » 08 Mar 2007 10:24 am

Yep. The music says it all.

Peppermint Lounge · Post by **Peppermint Lounge** » 10 Mar 2007 01:17 pm

Gherig is a massively strong player. Not sure if he's still has the league's best bench press?

Dustin Fletcher is a champion full back with a few blemishes. Considering how long he's played there he's allowed a few of those. He's absolutely not a malicious player. The positive impact he's had there far outweighs the negatives. And I don't say that because I'm an Essendon man, I've made similar observations of players from other teams as well.

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 10 Mar 2007 01:25 pm

Fletcher has consistently done some very dodgy shit in most games I've seen him play in these days.

A favourite of mine is his illegal use of those stupid gangly legs to kick or trip a player who has already beaten him.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 10 Mar 2007 03:18 pm

I love Adelaide so much. I hope we play them during the finals again.

Froggy · Post by **Froggy** » 10 Mar 2007 03:53 pm

Fucking NAB cup is a disgrace, bring on the real football and get rid of those fucked up new rules, they are ruining the game.

I think Bucks might out bench press frasier gehrig this year.