AFL 2025
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why do the AFL keep giving this dogshit club primetime games every week? They've won twice since the middle of last year, against the two worst teams in the AFL. Fuck them off to the twilight sunday fixture already.
OK, i was a little harsh on Collingwood, their experienced champs are still really fucking good, and they have a couple of ridiculously damaging young talents. Pendlebury was too smart for Carlton last night, played the conditions perfectly.
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Contest looked good until the toothless brigade woke up in the third quarter.
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funniest comment i have seen so far:
Is Michael Voss going to lose his job?
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The AFL season is far more interesting when one of the big supporter clubs is under pressure like Carlton are now. All the experts dissect and over analyse. Commentators and journos try to out hot take each other. The drama is hilarious, but opposition fans who love to hate said big club, just eat it up and the machine feeds itself (hence why there are so many AFL shows on the TV it’s not even funny).
@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2025:
The AFL season is far more interesting when one of the big supporter clubs is under pressure like Carlton are now. All the experts dissect and over analyse. Commentators and journos try to out hot take each other. The drama is hilarious, but opposition fans who love to hate said big club, just eat it up and the machine feeds itself (hence why there are so many AFL shows on the TV it’s not even funny).
dont feel it for Carlton as theyve always been pretty average for my time watching....have enjoyed see richmond being shit after wining 3 of 4 grand finals not long ago
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2025:
The AFL season is far more interesting when one of the big supporter clubs is under pressure like Carlton are now. All the experts dissect and over analyse. Commentators and journos try to out hot take each other. The drama is hilarious, but opposition fans who love to hate said big club, just eat it up and the machine feeds itself (hence why there are so many AFL shows on the TV it’s not even funny).
dont feel it for Carlton as theyve always been pretty average for my time watching....have enjoyed see richmond being shit after wining 3 of 4 grand finals not long ago
@Kiwiwomble said in AFL 2025:
@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2025:
The AFL season is far more interesting when one of the big supporter clubs is under pressure like Carlton are now. All the experts dissect and over analyse. Commentators and journos try to out hot take each other. The drama is hilarious, but opposition fans who love to hate said big club, just eat it up and the machine feeds itself (hence why there are so many AFL shows on the TV it’s not even funny).
dont feel it for Carlton as theyve always been pretty average for my time watching....have enjoyed see richmond being shit after wining 3 of 4 grand finals not long ago
That’s why it’s even better with Carlton because their fans in large part think they are good because of their history. Thousands spend their hard earned on memberships year after year so financially they do alright and they get the crowds (hence the prime time slots), but they are rubbish.
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thats the dream for a successful comp....people love their club enough to buy memberships...regardless of the results
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thats the dream for a successful comp....people love their club enough to buy memberships...regardless of the results
@Kiwiwomble said in AFL 2025:
thats the dream for a successful comp....people love their club enough to buy memberships...regardless of the results
Of all the sports in Aussie, the AFL tribalism is without peer.
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@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2025:
The AFL season is far more interesting when one of the big supporter clubs is under pressure like Carlton are now. All the experts dissect and over analyse. Commentators and journos try to out hot take each other. The drama is hilarious, but opposition fans who love to hate said big club, just eat it up and the machine feeds itself (hence why there are so many AFL shows on the TV it’s not even funny).
dont feel it for Carlton as theyve always been pretty average for my time watching....have enjoyed see richmond being shit after wining 3 of 4 grand finals not long ago
@Kiwiwomble said in AFL 2025:
@ACT-Crusader said in AFL 2025:
The AFL season is far more interesting when one of the big supporter clubs is under pressure like Carlton are now. All the experts dissect and over analyse. Commentators and journos try to out hot take each other. The drama is hilarious, but opposition fans who love to hate said big club, just eat it up and the machine feeds itself (hence why there are so many AFL shows on the TV it’s not even funny).
dont feel it for Carlton as theyve always been pretty average for my time watching....have enjoyed see richmond being shit after wining 3 of 4 grand finals not long ago
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Gold Coast sre flying.
Lions are 4-0 coming off a flag and not playing well. We're morals
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Week 4: Qld own this comp
Carlton in a shambles, Collingwood going okay
Geelong get an expected win towelling up the shocking Melbourne
Gold Coast!! 3 from 3. Crows robbed by the umpires, but even a reversed result is big for the Suns. Both teams are flying.
Brisbane play 3 decent quarters and switch off. Not clicking yet, which is a good thing.
Sydney get things back on track, and maybe we were premature looking for signs of life at North.
GWS smack West Coast
Do managed coaching transitions ever work? Port stink, St Kilda going okay.
Freo held off the Dogs. -
was only north but was good to have a bit of a blow out
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It definitely looks like Carlton and Melbourne are set up to win the last war
@mariner4life said in AFL 2025:
It definitely looks like Carlton and Melbourne are set up to win the last war
I think I'd still rather be Carlton than Melbourne. Here's the (strained) case for optimism as a Blues fan.
We've been in every game against decent teams. Dees have been pumped by GC at home, then by Geelong. Next five games are West Coast, North, Geelong, Adelaide, St Kilda.
Fingers crossed but we're maybe 4-5 or 3-6 and at least set up for a run at the eight. There's no volatile Petracca/Oliver types in the camp (though about a dozen who are mentally fragile).
Things are obviously bleak but I'm not putting the pen through them yet as far as finals are concerned. They sure ain't winning the comp though.
They need to start playing 2025 football but it feels like a long way to go.
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the age profile of your best players is better than Melbourne's as well.
Voss needs to find outside run, far more spread, and their disposal is fucking awful. You can't just pick bull midfielders, smash contests and bomb it forward this year.
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That plan might maybe sometimes work if you have two key forwards at the top of their game (as it did in the first half of last season). At the moment they have one on mental health leave and one still clearly unfit.
Ultimately you'd still rather be Melbourne because they won a flag and that lasts forever. But I said it before the season and I will say it again, that team has got blow up written all over it.
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Only our 4th win in our last 20 outings in Adelaide. Hopefully sets us up for another big game there this weekend.
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Gather Round
As per anything done in the AFL sphere, absolutely hated by fans in Victoria and WA, mainly because:
All Victorian fans hate anything that doesn't have them as the centrepiece, because for most of these salty fluffybunnies its still the VFL + add ons.
For fans from WA, this is just another example that the AFL hates them.Everyone else thinks its great, and Adelaide will be heaving for the one and only time this year.
Some good games too
Crows v Cats to open should be really good.
Swans v Collingwood will be tight as hell.
Saints v GWS will tell as an awful lot about both teams
The same for the Doggies and the LionsAnd then there are Carlton absolutely desperate for a win, any win, taking on West Coast.
Melbourne are in the same boat, but unlike the Blues, they have to play an actual AFL team.And then there is Port v Hawthorn, where the AFL have done all the marketing based around an interaction the thought so heinous they fined Ken $20k last year.
