One of the best games of footy I've seen.

Nah Roger ain't Neon, just his muse.

Vaas is concerned that Chinese operatives drugged our players at half time (lacing the water bottles) in revenge for cancelling the China game.

The rumour is that he and Stonecold plan to visit the Chinese Embassy soon and mete out some punishment.

The kid is a gun.

The Fireman wrote: ↑Mon 23 Mar 2020 2:30pm They got a wiff of something...maybe some Hoochy Cooch ?

That's what they actually played like for the last quarter and a half. Very chilled and nonchalant, as North threw the kitchen sink at us.

If they found out at half time, it may very well have had a psychological impact. Sure they started the third well, but when the challenge came, they just had nothing and stopped.

I'm wondering if the players found out during the game that the AFL were about to cancel or postpone the season. Sure, Battle should've played ahead of Kent, but that had nothing to do with the loss, no excuse, we had them on toast up until midway through the third. The game should have been over by...

The most frustrating thing was that our first half was superb.

Great that we focussed on skill development over the summer and it is greatly improved. However, it appears that was at the detriment of fitness. We ran out of legs halfway through the third!

A really poor result, given that we should've iced the game early in the third.

What about Stonecold?

desertsaint wrote: ↑Sun 22 Mar 2020 10:26am crikey. just a couple of weeks ago most on here were crowing about our prospects this season.
now we're pessimistic about north!
lose to the likes of them and we're treading water.

Round 1 games are always banana skin games.

50/50

Good to see you back Flux, what's Vaas Montenegro up to these days? I've heard different reports.

Some say he's on the ground in Wutan. Whilst some say he is taking Greta Thunberg on a sailing trip. Around Cape Horn.

ScoMo to announce a 4 week lockdown tomorrow. Take it to the bank. Interesting time frame that 4 weeks. Because that's all we can afford before we must go back to normal, whatever the consequences of that. Good news is that the virus is been successfully treated with a common (and cheap) anti-malar...

It is a different game with 16 minute quarters. The usual ebb and flow of the game is different and reduced. If you get on top early, you will usually win.

Nothing to do with money. It’s to reduce the load on players as it is likely they will need to play more matches in any period. This might be 4 day breaks or 3 matches in 10 days. Ah, makes sense. I would've thought it better to extend the benches and maintain the normal length of games, given ther...

What's with the shortened games? Is there a point I'm missing?

chook23 wrote: ↑Fri 20 Mar 2020 7:54pm Posted this in the Morwell game thread


Battle have a poor pre season?

Has he gotten ahead of himself?

Swingman training has him out of sorts?

Thoughts.....

Attitude???

I thought he had a good preseason, better than Kent for certain. Must be team balance.

axcellence wrote: ↑Fri 20 Mar 2020 8:51pm These rules don’t apply if you are tackling or bumping though!

You know... Coronavirus makes an exception for those cases!

The Wutan virus respects those that are hard at the contest.

Body of a note sent to the cohort, after an item on the 7 P.M. ABC Noos (the subject chosen here, is the same as that on the note to the cohort); "Watching ABC Noos, after a coupla regular Bar K clients departed. SPORTS!! Report. The AwFuL have issued a new/revised ‘social distancing policy’ t...

Kent ahead of Battle, jeez! Well, no matter the Coach, there will always be the selection head scratchers.

Its a shocker. Given that they're going ahead behind closed doors, the call on the 17 game AFL season and cutting the AFLW short is knee jerk and premature.

With The Virus we've all lost track of the immense challenge facing the selectors. Its going to be interesting to see. We won't get the final 22 until tomorrow.

The measures put in now need to be sustainable for up to 6 months, shutting everything down for 2 or 4 weeks isn’t going to achieve anything (Chief Medical Officer Prof Brendan Murphy covered all this this morning). The footy is a write off, that’s fine. But we can’t have schools close and business...

The measures put in now need to be sustainable for up to 6 months, shutting everything down for 2 or 4 weeks isn’t going to achieve anything (Chief Medical Officer Prof Brendan Murphy covered all this this morning). The footy is a write off, that’s fine. But we can’t have schools close and business...