AFL 2017
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Never had a lot of love for Hawthorn, but two of the absolute best layers of the last 15 years are both retiring at the end of the year. Luke Hodge is probably my favourite player in the league, tough as fuck, composed, skillful, fit as a motherfucker, and has massive games on the biggest stage.
And the other guy that made Hawthorn tick was Sam Mitchell. Another who is fucking tough (with a dirty streak, like Hodge. Lets call it playing right on the edge), just an amazing ball user who sat behind the contest, and won clearance after clearance, and at times, even in GFs made the game look like it was in slow motion. Also there was this:
Best visual sledge ever. Hero.
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In the beginning , hawks were ridiculed for picking hodge with their pick 1, west coast picked up Judd with pick 2 and for a while he was the superstar of the competition,
The Hodge selection was justified in the end
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@booboo to this Collingwood team?
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@mariner4life 1 point better than none. We were 50 points down
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@antipodean said in AFL 2017:
So we'll take the draw ...
Lucky to get that too.
Hence happy to take the point
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@mariner4life 1 point better than none. We were 50 points down
@antipodean said in AFL 2017:
So we'll take the draw ...
Lucky to get that too.
Hence happy to take the point
Make that 2 points.
Weird point system really. Doesn't seem to be any scope for 3 points or one point, eg no BPs or golden point, so why 4 for a win and 2 for draw when 2 and 1 serve the same purpose?
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@mariner4life 1 point better than none. We were 50 points down
@antipodean said in AFL 2017:
So we'll take the draw ...
Lucky to get that too.
Hence happy to take the point
Make that 2 points.
Weird point system really. Doesn't seem to be any scope for 3 points or one point, eg no BPs or golden point, so why 4 for a win and 2 for draw when 2 and 1 serve the same purpose?
Then the comp would only be half as good. Very clever administrators.
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Tradition , just how they have always done it ,
Serves the same purpose in the end
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@Rembrandt said in AFL 2017:
So Richmond in my first year supporting them are following on the fine recent tradition of my other yellow (and yellowish) and black teams (Naki/Canes).
Anyone with actual knowledge on the AFL want to give me an idea of what their chances really are?
They haven't won a final in 300 years and are most famous for finding new ways to break their fans hearts.
In a normal season, their chance would be fuck all. But in this fucked up year, anything could happen.
I'm sort of leaning towards a Crows Swans GF
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@Rembrandt frankly don't care ... (although they're way way WAY further up the ladder than I'd have thunked) so as long as they lose in September and Crows win I'm happy.
Crows won though against Port and remain no.1 on the ladder so all is right with the world.
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@Rembrandt they're called Nineth-mond for a good reason...
TBH, they've rejigged their game-plan massively from last season - their top-6 players (Rance, Dusty, Cotchin, Riewoldt, Prestia and take your pick of Caddy or Houli) are genuine stars who if they fire will take them deep into finals. Typically though, if your bottom-6 players aren't much chop this is where they might get found out in this years finals. Personally, I see them bowing out the week before the Grand Final. But if they keep improving into 2018, pick up a couple of decent players in trade time, next year looks promising.
They could win it though if they make it to the big one and their top-6 fire. I think Grand Finalists more likely to come from Sydney, Geelong, Adelaide & GWS - all of whom have more recent finals experience and proven big-game players. -
@Rembrandt said in AFL 2017:
So Richmond in my first year supporting them are following on the fine recent tradition of my other yellow (and yellowish) and black teams (Naki/Canes).
Anyone with actual knowledge on the AFL want to give me an idea of what their chances really are?
Put your house on them.
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@Rembrandt they are a big club that tend to be whipping boys from the media because it sells papers, the exact opposite of other underachievers like Melb who tend to get their tyres pumped up because they are seen as a bit fragile , were the powerhouse club through the 60s - 70s , last won a flag 1980 , before spiralling into massive debt which has taken them up to the last few years to recover ,
Out of debt now , highest attendances, highest memberships, they are kicking goals off field and the football dept is benefiting, having a really good season when no one gave them much hope ,Currently Top 4 with one of the younger lists ,
Not premiership material , but are building Nicely .
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@kiwiinmelb Top three thank you very much.
