#AFL Round 8 Weekly Discussion Thread

[stevoswan]

Well, Hawks tonight. Good games this week (besides tonight)......Giants v Eagles, Power v Crows, maybe Roos v Tigers......maybe. Other games, pretty average.

Peoples opinions on the NicNat ban?

Personally, I'm glad he got a week. He attacked that Port player like he wanted to bury him into the turf, the same way he nearly decapitated Nick Smith V Swans earlier this season......and got a free kick! No malice.....my arse! I see Malthouse is having conniptions about it but he's in the media now isn't he? I can understand a bit of the outcry but I think the MRP got it right......it was an irresponsible tackle.

Have a great weekend! Go Swans!!

[707]

Correct decision, dangerous tackle with head damaging potential, made no attempt to not bury him.

The problem the VFL have is that they let Burton get away with knocking out Higgins. That looked a wrong call at the time, Burton could have tackled but chose to bump and therefore had to accept the consequences. This will be changed at the end of the year, you bump when you could have tackled, you pay the price regardless of accidental or not.

Driving tackles will be penalised from now on.

[Mel_C]

When I first saw it I thought no way should Nic Nat be suspended. But after seeing more replays I can understand why. He slightly lifted him off the ground before he rode him into the ground. I agree the Nick Smith tackle was also dangerous. Although I seem to remember Mumford getting away with similar tackles when he was playing with gws.

I think Heeney needs to be careful with his tackling. I remember last year he was penalised in 2 games for dangerous tackles.

[CureTheSane]

Shouldn't have been suspended for that

[stevoswan]

Shouldn't have been suspended for that

He thinks he can get away with anything 'cause he's NicNat and the footy world loves him.......when you try to bury a player into the turf, you're trying to hurt him. He was and got what he deserved.

[stevoswan]

Carlton on the verge of their first win. This season has unraveled for Essendon.....

Eagles beat Giants.....I tipped that. This season is unravelling for the Giants as well.

Potentially boring game on free TV tonight.....Go Lions!

[dejavoodoo44]

Looks like a Essendon are officially very mediocre this year. Shame.
Actually, the seem to fade out in games, so I'm not sure if they're really fit. Perhaps they need to adopt more creative methods at training? I wonder what Stephen Dank is doing these days?

[stevoswan]

Demons blowing out the percentage up north against Suns, sending us into a clear fifth on the ladder. Crowd at the 'Gabba today......6060. I kid you not.:rolleyes:

[Danzar]

Port v Crows was a cracker of a game


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[stevoswan]

Potentially boring game on free TV tonight.....Go Lions!

Apologies......Dockers v Saints. Go Saints!:tongue:

[YvonneH]

I hope the Lions win against the doggies. They are putting up a fight in the 1st quarter.

[stevoswan]

Just checking the ladder......Giants will most likely be out of the eight by rounds end. With Port's win over Adelaide, Giants are eighth now. If Geelong or North win tomorrow, or if Collingwood really thrash Geelong (unlikely), Giants could be tenth at worst, likely ninth. Ouch!!:rofl

[YvonneH]

I hope the Lions win against the doggies. They are putting up a fight in the 1st quarter.

Doesn't look good for the Lions. Behind by 24 points at 3/4 time

[Meg]

Doesn't look good for the Lions. Behind by 24 points at 3/4 time

Nor for the Saints.

[barry]

Gill and the AFL have killed AFL in qld.
If sun's loose lynch, they might as well cut there loses and shut up shop.

A cellar dweller team does the sport more harm than good. Gutting Brisbane to appease Eddie has undone all the growth of the 3 peat.

[Meg]

Freo ended up with a very comfortable 30 point win but Saints pushed them hard in 3rd quarter and beginning of 4th. But the player who probably cost Saints a chance to win was Membrey kicking 1 goal 5 from six very gettable shots.

[707]

Freo ended up with a very comfortable 30 point win but Saints pushed them hard in 3rd quarter and beginning of 4th. But the player who probably cost Saints a chance to win was Membrey kicking 1 goal 5 from six very gettable shots.Pffft, Membrey - poor man's Jordan Dawson!

Saints now looking like bottom 4 side, just not enough talent either exposed or coming up.

Brisbane whilst winless have been very competitive, there's hope building there and they've stopped the homesickness problem.

Gold Coast just didn't need a game like that after their promising start to the season. Agree that Lynch's decision will have a big bearing on this experiment. No home games for half a season couldn't have been worse timed for Stewie Dew.

GWS, couple of years back this was looking to be a juggernaught of a team. A couple of Prelim losses, the slow exodus of first rounders and a bad injury list has exposed their depth. Some of their recruiting of other teams cast offs has been bizarre, not sure about their coaching, too many downhill skiers albeit highly talented. What looked to be multiple flags for the taking may now fall short of any. Watch this space!

Essendon, has turned into a train wreck, when team mates argue so demonstrably on the field you know there's something wrong and it appears there's a lot wrong at Essendon. Lauded for their off season recruiting, it now appears they misread where they were as a team. Almost glad to see that Stringer looks a bust, Bullies players were glad to see the back of him apparently, Geelong dodged a bullet when The Package chose Essendon. Feel sorry for Saad who left a dysfunctional team to choose a dysfunctional team! A lot of over rated players in this team, bizarre decision to give Worsfold two more years when they should have sat tight, may continue to languish outside the eight for years to come.

Another interesting year but feel the next month will see a gap appear between the top eight and the also rans.

[Blood Fever]

Pffft, Membrey - poor man's Jordan Dawson!

Saints now looking like bottom 4 side, just not enough talent either exposed or coming up.

Brisbane whilst winless have been very competitive, there's hope building there and they've stopped the homesickness problem.

Gold Coast just didn't need a game like that after their promising start to the season. Agree that Lynch's decision will have a big bearing on this experiment. No home games for half a season couldn't have been worse timed for Stewie Dew.

GWS, couple of years back this was looking to be a juggernaught of a team. A couple of Prelim losses, the slow exodus of first rounders and a bad injury list has exposed their depth. Some of their recruiting of other teams cast offs has been bizarre, not sure about their coaching, too many downhill skiers albeit highly talented. What looked to be multiple flags for the taking may now fall short of any. Watch this space!

Essendon, has turned into a train wreck, when team mates argue so demonstrably on the field you know there's something wrong and it appears there's a lot wrong at Essendon. Lauded for their off season recruiting, it now appears they misread where they were as a team. Almost glad to see that Stringer looks a bust, Bullies players were glad to see the back of him apparently, Geelong dodged a bullet when The Package chose Essendon. Feel sorry for Saad who left a dysfunctional team to choose a dysfunctional team! A lot of over rated players in this team, bizarre decision to give Worsfold two more years when they should have sat tight, may continue to languish outside the eight for years to come.

Another interesting year but feel the next month will see a gap appear between the top eight and the also rans.

Membrey's strength used to be his incredible accuracy. Serious case of the yips.

[MattW]

Another interesting year but feel the next month will see a gap appear between the top eight and the also rans.

I think you're right about that. The two games today will tell us more about the credentials of Geelong, North and Collingwood - currently 9th-11th.

[Meg]

Miserable introduction to coaching at the Suns for two Sydney Swans alumni. Senior team coached by Stewie Dew lost to Melbourne by 69 points (21.20 to 11.11). And the Suns NEAFL team coached by Nick Malcescki lost to Brisbane by 92 points (12.24 to 0.4).

That NEAFL score line for the Suns is horrible: the Suns didn�t kick a single goal. And I�ve just read that the NEAFL team included 11 listed players.

The future for the AFL at Gold Coast is looking pretty grim. I fear the Shanghai match against Port could be another overseas embarrassment.

[MattW]

North still look pretty good. They run and link up well, decent talls at both ends.

[liz]

There have been some horribly soft frees paid to forwards this afternoon. At least one of those to Brown in the final quarter was a classic example of him launching himself forward as soon as he realised he couldn�t mark. It was hard to see any contact on him in the contest. And then an equally soft one to Ratugolea where the soft contact to him didn�t cause him to drop the mark.

[707]

There have been some horribly soft frees paid to forwards this afternoon. At least one of those to Brown in the final quarter was a classic example of him launching himself forward as soon as he realised he couldn�t mark. It was hard to see any contact on him in the contest. And then an equally soft one to Ratugolea where the soft contact to him didn�t cause him to drop the mark.It's correctly called "The Clarkson Effect". Brown got one or two of those against us as well. He reminds me of that diving cheat Matthew Lloyd.

One hopes (not with much hope though) that the umps look at these closely afterwards and stop falling for them because it's soccer like embarrassing.

[Hotpotato]

AFL are now appealing the Curnow bros exoneration .
Why didn�t they just ask Clarko what he thinks.

[Blood Fever]

AFL are now appealing the Curnow bros exoneration .
Why didn�t they just ask Clarko what he thinks.

Classic! Ridiculous situation McLachlan has got himself into. The master of optics and spin has really stuffed up this time.

[barry]

AFL are now appealing the Curnow bros exoneration .
Why didn�t they just ask Clarko what he thinks.

They probably did.

[chalbilto]

Common sense prevailed as Charlie Curnow only fined and brother Ed suspended for 1 week. Fair result.

[Mel_C]

The end outcome for the 3 umpire contact incidents was as I expected. I'm glad the AFL appealed especially after the Hawkins incident.

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