2012 AFL Thread III - Why Do We Even Bother With Our Stupid Teams? - Page 11

Axver · 07-20-2012, 06:27 AM

Also, this game has some really rubbish umpiring. At least it's been consistently rubbish?

bono_man2002 · 07-20-2012, 06:31 AM

So the media can have a reality check. Geelong will make the eight. I don't think they can win the flag, West Coast, Sydney an Collingwood seem to have the Cats measure. I think they would still worry Hawthorn in any sort of Final though.

Axver · 07-20-2012, 06:40 AM

And Essendon certainly fucking aren't premiership favourites.

I'll be happy if we can win in the first week of the finals at least, though given our really tough run to the end of the season, I'm pretty worried about where we'll end up when it's all said and done!

Slopsy · 07-20-2012, 06:52 AM

I hope that we can just...watch Geelong and play like them next week. You know, nice and fast and ACCURATE at handpassing and kicking to the correct team. It should not be that hard.

Axver · 07-20-2012, 06:55 AM

We're the more accurate team on the scoreboard for once ... it's just now we're inaccurate everywhere else on the field.

cobl04 · 07-20-2012, 07:10 AM

Can't believe this. This season has been so unpredictable. I tipped Essendon with a lot of confidence.

Axver · 07-20-2012, 07:16 AM

Danny, where's the time travel machine? This is clearly the Geelong of 2007/09/11, as opposed to the rubbish side of the last two weeks. I ask because I want to go back to 2000 and bring back a certain Essendon side.

cobl04 · 07-20-2012, 07:19 AM

Wish this fucking TV I bought for my room would pick up channels. Or Mum and Dad would stop watching some fucking dreary British setpiece drama on GO.

Slopsy · 07-20-2012, 07:25 AM

Wow. That was really, really bad. Let's not do that again!

That's the best I can do after so much wine.

Axver · 07-20-2012, 07:27 AM

Dear James Hird,

After not being able to watch a full Bombers game for ages, I was so excited for tonight. So looking forward to a contest.

Your charges have let me down. LET. ME. DOWN.

I expect due compensation.

Yours sincerely,
Ax

PS I will consider "due compensation" to be "winning the 2012 premiership" and/or a considerable cash sum.

Slopsy · 07-20-2012, 07:31 AM

Axver · 07-20-2012, 07:34 AM

I can see it now ...

Dustin Fletcher and James Hird 12.0 72
Rest of Essendon 10.7 67

Reggo · 07-20-2012, 09:59 PM

Why can't I barrack for more than one team? And I'm more disappointed that the Dons lost than happy that the Cats won.

intedomine · 07-20-2012, 09:59 PM

Sack Hird. A dud celebrity coach who has at least done the job of reviving interest from the many glory-hunting Essendumb fans. They haven't really gone anywhere. Just elevate Mark Thompson to head coach instead of persisting with the awkward current arrangement.

Shouldn't be losing to Geelong (or St Kilda) like that... And they didn't even have Christensen.

Collingwood vs Hawthorn and Adelaide vs West Coast. Both are massive in the context of the top 4. There are currently five top 4 teams, but 5 into 4 will just not go.

Axver · 07-20-2012, 10:10 PM

I'm trying to figure out why on earth you'd suggest something as kneejerk as sacking Hird when, in less than two years, he's taken the team from 14th and in a downward spiral to top six and full of potential. Can't credit Bomber Thomson alone when Hird's been the more hands-on part of the coaching team.

If any coach is riding his celebrity status and probably needs to go, it's Michael Voss, who never really recovered from the Fevola fiasco. Brissie need some new ideas.

Vlad n U 2 · 07-20-2012, 10:19 PM

Brisbane seem to be on an upward trajectory from what I've seen of them, despite their W/L record not being anything flash.

To call Hird a dud coach after a year and a half is awfully silly.

bono_212 · 07-20-2012, 10:21 PM

A week when I feel like I can have true confidence in my team...

...surely we will lose.

Axver · 07-20-2012, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vlad n U 2

Brisbane seem to be on an upward trajectory from what I've seen of them, despite their W/L record not being anything flash.

I've been saying Brisbane are better than their results indicate for ages ... their upward trajectory just doesn't seem to be properly realised, and it's making me suspect the problem is not the players, who seem to have the skills and the potential, but a need for new and rejuvenated ideas at the coaching level. Maybe Voss will prove me wrong and take the Lions to the top eight next year, but I'm not sure I see them being a force with him still at the helm.

They better win today, not just for Ashley's sake but so that I can move ahead of Charlotte in the tipping competition.

Vlad n U 2 · 07-20-2012, 10:33 PM

> looks on Sportlemon for stream of Crows/Eagles
> nothing
> whyyyyy

intedomine · 07-20-2012, 11:42 PM

Just echoing the Essendon fickleness that was directed at Knights, despite him still getting the side into the finals, and inheriting Sheedy's average rabble after the exodus of the guns of successful years gone by.

Hird is sacrosanct. An easy way for the board to avoid scrutiny in the short term is to hire a favourite son, puppeteered by an ex-Bomber who was a two time premiership coach.

A good side often needs a shit season before they come good. Why does Knights pay the price, while Worsfold doesn't?

07-20-2012, 06:27 AM	#201
Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,977 Local Time: 04:04 PM	Also, this game has some really rubbish umpiring. At least it's been consistently rubbish? __________________ __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

07-20-2012, 06:31 AM	#202
bono_man2002 Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: In the wrong band Posts: 28,504 Local Time: 05:04 PM	So the media can have a reality check. Geelong will make the eight. I don't think they can win the flag, West Coast, Sydney an Collingwood seem to have the Cats measure. I think they would still worry Hawthorn in any sort of Final though. __________________

07-20-2012, 06:40 AM	#203
Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,977 Local Time: 04:04 PM	And Essendon certainly fucking aren't premiership favourites. I'll be happy if we can win in the first week of the finals at least, though given our really tough run to the end of the season, I'm pretty worried about where we'll end up when it's all said and done! __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

07-20-2012, 06:52 AM	#204
Slopsy Everything happens so much Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In a drunken haze, Melbourne Posts: 15,454 Local Time: 05:04 PM	I hope that we can just...watch Geelong and play like them next week. You know, nice and fast and ACCURATE at handpassing and kicking to the correct team. It should not be that hard. __________________ *striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence*

07-20-2012, 06:55 AM	#205
Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,977 Local Time: 04:04 PM	We're the more accurate team on the scoreboard for once ... it's just now we're inaccurate everywhere else on the field. __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

07-20-2012, 07:10 AM	#206
cobl04 45:33 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: East Point to Shaolin Posts: 58,897 Local Time: 05:04 PM	Can't believe this. This season has been so unpredictable. I tipped Essendon with a lot of confidence.

07-20-2012, 07:16 AM	#207
Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,977 Local Time: 04:04 PM	Danny, where's the time travel machine? This is clearly the Geelong of 2007/09/11, as opposed to the rubbish side of the last two weeks. I ask because I want to go back to 2000 and bring back a certain Essendon side. __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

07-20-2012, 07:19 AM	#208
cobl04 45:33 Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: East Point to Shaolin Posts: 58,897 Local Time: 05:04 PM	Wish this fucking TV I bought for my room would pick up channels. Or Mum and Dad would stop watching some fucking dreary British setpiece drama on GO.

07-20-2012, 07:25 AM	#209
Slopsy Everything happens so much Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In a drunken haze, Melbourne Posts: 15,454 Local Time: 05:04 PM	Wow. That was really, really bad. Let's not do that again! That's the best I can do after so much wine. __________________ *striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence*

07-20-2012, 07:27 AM	#210
Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,977 Local Time: 04:04 PM	Dear James Hird, After not being able to watch a full Bombers game for ages, I was so excited for tonight. So looking forward to a contest. Your charges have let me down. LET. ME. DOWN. I expect due compensation. Yours sincerely, Ax PS I will consider "due compensation" to be "winning the 2012 premiership" and/or a considerable cash sum. __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

07-20-2012, 07:31 AM	#211
Slopsy Everything happens so much Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: In a drunken haze, Melbourne Posts: 15,454 Local Time: 05:04 PM	__________________ *striving for mediocrity in a world of excellence*

07-20-2012, 07:34 AM	#212
Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,977 Local Time: 04:04 PM	I can see it now ... Dustin Fletcher and James Hird 12.0 72 Rest of Essendon 10.7 67 __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

07-20-2012, 09:59 PM	#213
Reggo Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 26,992 Local Time: 11:04 PM	Why can't I barrack for more than one team? And I'm more disappointed that the Dons lost than happy that the Cats won.

07-20-2012, 09:59 PM	#214
intedomine Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Melbourne Posts: 8,108 Local Time: 04:04 PM	Sack Hird. A dud celebrity coach who has at least done the job of reviving interest from the many glory-hunting Essendumb fans. They haven't really gone anywhere. Just elevate Mark Thompson to head coach instead of persisting with the awkward current arrangement. Shouldn't be losing to Geelong (or St Kilda) like that... And they didn't even have Christensen. Collingwood vs Hawthorn and Adelaide vs West Coast. Both are massive in the context of the top 4. There are currently five top 4 teams, but 5 into 4 will just not go.

07-20-2012, 10:10 PM	#215
Axver Vocal parasite Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 1853 Posts: 152,977 Local Time: 04:04 PM	I'm trying to figure out why on earth you'd suggest something as kneejerk as sacking Hird when, in less than two years, he's taken the team from 14th and in a downward spiral to top six and full of potential. Can't credit Bomber Thomson alone when Hird's been the more hands-on part of the coaching team. If any coach is riding his celebrity status and probably needs to go, it's Michael Voss, who never really recovered from the Fevola fiasco. Brissie need some new ideas. __________________ "Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures \| Blog

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07-20-2012, 10:19 PM	#216
Vlad n U 2 Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 28,387 Local Time: 04:34 PM	Brisbane seem to be on an upward trajectory from what I've seen of them, despite their W/L record not being anything flash. To call Hird a dud coach after a year and a half is awfully silly.

07-20-2012, 10:21 PM	#217
bono_212 Blue Crack Distributor Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 83,918 Local Time: 10:04 PM	A week when I feel like I can have true confidence in my team... ...surely we will lose. __________________

07-20-2012, 10:33 PM	#219
Vlad n U 2 Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 28,387 Local Time: 04:34 PM	> looks on Sportlemon for stream of Crows/Eagles > nothing > whyyyyy

07-20-2012, 11:42 PM	#220
intedomine Rock n' Roll Doggie FOB Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Melbourne Posts: 8,108 Local Time: 04:04 PM	Just echoing the Essendon fickleness that was directed at Knights, despite him still getting the side into the finals, and inheriting Sheedy's average rabble after the exodus of the guns of successful years gone by. Hird is sacrosanct. An easy way for the board to avoid scrutiny in the short term is to hire a favourite son, puppeteered by an ex-Bomber who was a two time premiership coach. A good side often needs a shit season before they come good. Why does Knights pay the price, while Worsfold doesn't? __________________