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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 12, 2022 10:04:02 GMT -5
Man this thread has been quiet this season.. guess everyone that posts here team is not doing so well… oh, now I made myself sad.
Anyway some news … AFL CEO Gillon Mclachlan is stepping down from the role at the end of the 2022 season. Although he was apart of the “Boy’s Club”* .. he did lead the AFL during some tough times… no word on who will take over the role.
* this is in reference to a book I recommend called The Boys’ Club by Michael Warner.. which is about a history of shifty behaviour by those running the AFL.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2022 17:17:42 GMT -5
Hard to follow when the times are ghastly for me.
But I am interested in making authentic Aussie food, nonetheless cause you can't get a Chiko Roll in the States.
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 14, 2022 10:45:53 GMT -5
Hard to follow when the times are ghastly for me. But I am interested in making authentic Aussie food, nonetheless cause you can't get a Chiko Roll in the States. Necessity is the mother of invention, as they say… Or if you want another staple Australian footy food, there’s the meat pie…
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Apr 14, 2022 12:21:39 GMT -5
Man this thread has been quiet this season.. guess everyone that posts here team is not doing so well… oh, now I made myself sad. Speak for yourself, the Cronulla Sharks are 4-1 to start the NRL season.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 15, 2022 7:09:40 GMT -5
You know what I have witnessed several Hawthorn premierships in my lifetime.. I would like to witness more.. keep the decade streak going. But there is another thing I aching to see.. you see there is a player called Butler, who I believe plays for Richmond, and there is Sydney player with the surname Blakey.. And I’m a big Tony Martin the New Zealand comedian fan, so my next Grand Final is Blakey laying a tackle on Butler… and if you follow Tony Martin you’ll know what I mean
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 15, 2022 23:04:30 GMT -5
The AFL posted a video on their YouTube channel with every goal Buddy Franklin had kicked from his first to this thousandth
The video goes for 3 and half hours.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Apr 27, 2022 18:23:42 GMT -5
Some news on the possible future of visual broadcasting of the AFL: www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/streaming-companies-want-to-broadcast-afl-as-players-seek-huge-pay-rises-20220419-p5aeip.htmlStreaming of the AFL is one thing the league has not taken full of advantage of… right now if you want to stream the AFL in Australia .. you have to subscribe to “Kayo” which is just an web version of Fox Sports package from pay tv company Foxtel.. and it’s not great. Can be buggy at times, and they only broadcast in a quality as high as HD. They probably do it this way (along with Binge their non sport streaming service) to stop from cutting the cord to the cable/satellite service. I have watched live sports streaming in UHD on Prime, Apple TV+, Fite and YouTube so I know it’s possible. Having the AFL exclusively on Paramount (broadcast on channel 10, streamed on Paramount+) will be an incentive to get that streaming service.. but yeah another streaming thing to subscribe to. Well at the moment I think they about $10 a month .. a lot cheaper then what kayo are charging for.. Although if they do get the rights I’m guessing (if they don’t already) add a separate sports tier like what Stan do.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on May 11, 2022 18:16:26 GMT -5
Leon Cameron has resigned as head coach of the GWS Men’s team
In all he a pretty good job.. he took the Giants to their first finals appearance, and got the team to their first Grand Final.
Now the Clarkson speculation begins!
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 1, 2022 19:56:37 GMT -5
Couple of big retirement news to get thread out of the mothballs
Veteran Fremantle player David “No Undies” Mundy will retire at seasons end. Mundy has played over 350 games all for Freo, and in that time has resisted the urge to play for a Victorian club the he comes from. All Australian, former captain, Grand Finalist… and it’s a long shot but could still end his career as premiership player if the Dockers show some good form over the next few weeks.
Also West Coast forward Josh Kennedy will end his AFL playing career his weekend at the last Eagles home match for the season. Starting his career at Carlton, was traded to West Coast as apart of the Chris Judd trade. At West Coast he became their all time leading goal kicker, won two Coleman medals in the process, a three time all Australian, played in two Grand Finals and winning a premiership. Quite a career.. a certain HOFer for both club and league.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 14, 2022 20:59:43 GMT -5
Breaking News:
What tweet.. there was never a tweet here…
OK so apparently after the news the CEO of Essendon stepped down the media jumped the gun and reported that Ben Rutten had been sacked. But the club says Ruttles is still employed for now.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 15, 2022 22:52:38 GMT -5
In more non coaching news:
Alastair Clarkson has told GWS he does not want to move interstate, so he ruled out the Giants coaching vacancy
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 18, 2022 19:18:47 GMT -5
It has been decided
Alastair Clarkson after a season off will coach North Melbourne next season and beyond.. Yup North sent him a Kangaroo pouch full of monies and got their man who will hopefully for them lead the team from a basket case and back into a powerhouse they were decades earlier.
Meanwhile Essendon have hot themselves in the foot, with the failure to sign Clarkson.. the pressure is now on them to sort out what they are going do with their coaching box… keep Rutton or find someone else
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 19, 2022 6:18:42 GMT -5
Usually I would think a tweet like this would get me thinking the Steve Buscemi on 30 Rock fellow kids meme .. but this did make me laugh:
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 21, 2022 4:55:11 GMT -5
The final round of the AFL season has concluded and the top 8 and finals bound teams are: 1. Geelong Cats 2. Melbourne 3. Sydney Swans 4. Collingwood 5. Fremantle 6. Brisbane Lions 7. Richmond 8. Western Bulldogs First week of finals matches are TBA.. but as of now they will be.. Qualifying Finals (winning team goes to Prelim Final, loser gets another chance in the Semis): 1.Cats vs 4.Magpies (fairly certain this will be at The MCG on a Friday Night) 2.Demons vs. 3.Swabs (MCG on Thursday or Saturday Afternoon or Night Elimination Finals (winner goes to the Semis, loser is you guessed it… DELETED!) : 5. Freo vs 7.Bulldogs (Perth Stadium on Saturday Afternoon or Night, or Sunday Afternoon) 6. Lions vs 8. Bulldogs (Gabba on Saturday Night or Afternoon.. maybe Sunday) Crap… I don’t know with how the AFL schedule matches these days.. Edit: oh and Ben Rutten has been sacked as Essendon coach… for reals this time. OK here are the date and times (all local venue times) … man I was way off: twitter.com/afl/status/1561313261470920705?s=21&t=_pVIKiIaRVHL_VXVs8Iang
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 21, 2022 17:12:10 GMT -5
Been watch this channel on YouTube called Five Points Vids.. a humorous take on American sports. One thing he does is videos on Triggering Every Team’s Fanbase .. just a video where he brings the most painful on field memories for every team in a league.. in a fun teasing way.. nothing malicious. Since he’ll probably never do one for the AFL, I might do a post, once the post season is over on triggering every AFL fanbase. Sure there is plenty of material to cover every team.. except GWS cause they don’t even have a fanbase I don’t know much about NRL to do one for that.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Aug 22, 2022 5:56:54 GMT -5
And in some coaching news Adam Kingsley will coach GWS from next season..
The lemon skittle is the best skittle !
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 2, 2022 7:34:16 GMT -5
Man, I’m glad I held off the Triggering every AFL team fanbase thing till the end of the season…
The one I had in mind for Sydney was giving Lance Franklin that massive contract with no Premierships to show for it… and now there are two wins away from the cup.
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Post by RKTaker on Sept 3, 2022 18:21:10 GMT -5
I wish the AFL was easier to watch in America
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 3, 2022 18:32:21 GMT -5
I wish the AFL was easier to watch in America Recently it was announced that Channel 7 would be allowed to stream some live matches on their free streaming app “7plus”.. Don’t know when this takes effect, maybe next season. But if you have a VPN it might be a good way watch those matches from overseas for free-ish
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Post by EoE: Well There's Your Problem on Sept 4, 2022 2:41:06 GMT -5
In the meantime, we have the NRL finals locked in:
#1-Penrith v #4-Parramatta #2-Cronulla v #3-North Queensland #5-Melbourne v #8-Canberra #6-Sydney v #7-South Sydney
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