AFL Game Day R21 2023

[Eastdog]

ROUND 21


Friday August 4

Western Bulldogs vs Richmond (Marvel Stadium), 7:50pm


Saturday August 5

Essendon vs West Coast Eagles (Marvel Stadium), 1:45pm

Adelaide Crows vs Gold Coast Suns (Adelaide Oval), 2:10pm

Hawthorn vs Collingwood (MCG), 4:35pm

Geelong Cats vs Port Adelaide (GMHBA Stadium), 7:25pm

GWS Giants vs Sydney Swans (GIANTS Stadium), 7:30pm


Sunday August 6

North Melbourne vs Melbourne (Blundstone Arena), 1:10pm

St Kilda vs Carlton (Marvel Stadium), 3:20pm

Fremantle vs Brisbane Lions (Optus Stadium), 4:40pm

[Eastdog]

Bump

[G-Mo77]

Oh please win this game West Coast!

[bulldogtragic]

Damn. That one point could’ve changed the entire draft. Maybe for us.

[josie]

Oh please win this game West Coast!

Bum.

[The bulldog tragician]

How disappointing.

There will still hopefully be massive implosions on Blitz. Is it too early for the Bombre faithful to call for Scott’s head on a platter?

[GVGjr]

I'm livid knowing that Essendon could have lost to West Coast but somehow won by a point.
Clowns.

[merantau]

West Coast missed some easy goals in the 3rd. Bomber Blitz in meltdown even though they won. Great to see.

[merantau]

Hawks v Pies is a very hectic game. Hope it continues like that right to the end.

[azabob]

Hawks v Pies is a very hectic game. Hope it continues like that right to the end.

It’s great viewing isn’t it?

High quality game.

[DOG GOD]

And showing next week in Launceston won’t be easy…

[azabob]

Luke Bruest is one of the most underrated footballers period.

[kruder]

Hawks inside mids excellent, the tackling and pressure as good as any this year.

[josie]

Wow. What a season. Agree next weeks gonna be tough.

Results tell me anyone who makes the eight in with a chance to win the big one, the top 4 teams all looking a bit shaky.

Mitchell’s looked like a good coach to me from day 1. Hawthorn on the rise.

C’mon dogs. Let’s hope Bevo weaves his magic for rest of our season with doubters like me to happy to have egg on their faces.

[jeemak]

And showing next week in Launceston won’t be easy…

But also pushes the odds in our favour in that it's unlikely Hawthorn will beat two top eight sides consecutively.

So hopefully the players are on notice and aren't thinking about the odds!

[jeemak]

Man Sedat Park is ridiculous. They showed the play from up high in the new stand along the pocket/ flank line and the wings aren't up to AFL footy. Rip the joint down FFS.

Good game going on though.

[azabob]

Man Sedat Park is ridiculous. They showed the play from up high in the new stand along the pocket/ flank line and the wings aren't up to AFL footy. Rip the joint down FFS.

Good game going on though.

Did Port cop another concussion?

[bulldogtragic]

11.0 from Sydney. Yeesh.

[jeemak]

It's looking more and more likely that this is going to be one of those years that if we make it the teams above us must have won more games and possibly had better percentage than us, and the teams below us must have won less games and possibly had worse percentage than us.

[bornadog]

Here comes Port

[bulldogtragic]

12.0 Sydney!

[bulldogtragic]

12.0 Sydney!

12.1

Shithouse goal kicking.

[angelopetraglia]

Two goals to Cats both from free kicks, getting everything in this last quarter.

[Grantysghost]

Man Sedat Park is ridiculous. They showed the play from up high in the new stand along the pocket/ flank line and the wings aren't up to AFL footy. Rip the joint down FFS.

Good game going on though.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-16/cody-and-sean-afl-analysis-how-much-do-ground-sizes-matter/101154950

Has a good table with all the sizes.

It's mega long.

[angelopetraglia]

Free kick count is 28-18 to Cats. Incredible bias in this game. Already enough bias with their weird home ground and they also get the men in yellow giving them everything.

[angelopetraglia]

Make that 29-18 free kick count

[angelopetraglia]

30-18

[angelopetraglia]

The Bulldogs got 10 free kicks last week. Geelong have got 31 tonight. It’s crazy.

[azabob]

Jason Horne Francis is a selfish entitled sook. Giving away that 50m penalty to Stewart was so dumb

[jeemak]

Apparently Green won the game single handedly last week. I'd love to have a job where I don't have to worry about detail when delivering work.

[G-Mo77]

Jason Horne Francis is a selfish entitled sook. Giving away that 50m penalty to Stewart was so dumb

Careful, I didn't think anyone was allowed to say anything bad about that guy.

[jeemak]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-16/cody-and-sean-afl-analysis-how-much-do-ground-sizes-matter/101154950

Has a good table with all the sizes.

It's mega long.

VFL Park was mega long and somewhere between its original and shortened versions is where AFL grounds should sit for the best standard of play.

I think when I did my year 12 CAT review of Matty Knights in 1997 it was 185 long and 160 wide. So much space, perfect for one on one contests in those days. Now players are quicker and taller, 190 long would be perfect.

Only drawback is you can't see shit.

[soupman]

Only drawback is you can't see shit.

Don't worry the camera's will be zoomed in close enough to see the freckles on the players as they run through traffic that just appears out of nowhere at the edge of the screen.

[jeemak]

Don't worry the camera's will be zoomed in close enough to see the freckles on the players as they run through traffic that just appears out of nowhere at the edge of the screen.

I'd be more worried about how I could get the sound and light intensity right to ensure all the fans had sufficient game day experience to have a fit and shattered teeth.

[hujsh]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-16/cody-and-sean-afl-analysis-how-much-do-ground-sizes-matter/101154950

Has a good table with all the sizes.

It's mega long.

WFT is this garbage? Why is one wing straight? That's not an oval. It's an oval that got misshaped from being left at the bottom of a school bag for too long

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a53e569a95c51add7234f977077e7af5?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=869&cropW=652&xPos=67&yPos=0&width=862&height=1149

[jeemak]

WFT is this garbage? Why is one wing straight? That's not an oval. It's an oval that got misshaped from being left at the bottom of a school bag for too long

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a53e569a95c51add7234f977077e7af5?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=869&cropW=652&xPos=67&yPos=0&width=862&height=1149

You obviously don't know anything about what makes this competition great.

Rule 1 - Blockbusters have to happen twice a year. Blocks can't be busted in a single hit.

Rule 2 - Equity in stadium drawn revenue can't exist. Teams drawing different per head revenue fosters competition in a captive environment.

Rule 3 - Every team that is Carlton, Geelong and Essendon should get more games at the MCG. It's unfair the MCG tenants have more experience there than they do.

[Grantysghost]

WFT is this garbage? Why is one wing straight? That's not an oval. It's an oval that got misshaped from being left at the bottom of a school bag for too long

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a53e569a95c51add7234f977077e7af5?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=869&cropW=652&xPos=67&yPos=0&width=862&height=1149

The left wing looks like it's been fattened up.

[Sedat]

WFT is this garbage? Why is one wing straight? That's not an oval. It's an oval that got misshaped from being left at the bottom of a school bag for too long

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a53e569a95c51add7234f977077e7af5?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=869&cropW=652&xPos=67&yPos=0&width=862&height=1149
$500m and 6 stages later and still a tinshed shithole toy ground with no wings

[EasternWest]

$500m and 6 stages later and still a tinshed shithole toy ground with no wings

I don't know how you can speak so poorly of your own stadium.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

WFT is this garbage? Why is one wing straight? That's not an oval. It's an oval that got misshaped from being left at the bottom of a school bag for too long

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a53e569a95c51add7234f977077e7af5?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=869&cropW=652&xPos=67&yPos=0&width=862&height=1149

That is appalling. How tf is that afl standard. A good example of something that isn't but is most definitely afel standard.

[The Adelaide Connection]

If this round has taught us nothing else, is that we need to draft or develop a tagger.

Nobody ever says “we need to draft in a tagger” but why not? If Daicos gets five against us, we win. If Callan Ward didn’t exist last week to stop Bont at Quarter time- we win.

[EasternWest]

If this round has taught us nothing else, is that we need to draft or develop a tagger.

Nobody ever says “we need to draft in a tagger” but why not? If Daicos gets five against us, we win. If Callan Ward didn’t exist last week to stop Bont at Quarter time- we win.

It might have taught us this, doesn't mean Beveridge is going to do it.

[bornadog]

WFT is this garbage? Why is one wing straight? That's not an oval. It's an oval that got misshaped from being left at the bottom of a school bag for too long

https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/a53e569a95c51add7234f977077e7af5?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=869&cropW=652&xPos=67&yPos=0&width=862&height=1149

WTF didn't they reshape the ground when they got all of those millions that Sedat campaigned for and have a proper oval.

[bornadog]

I hate Carlton

[Sedat]

Don't care who won out of Carlton and St Kilda today so long as the draw was out of the equation.

[Grantysghost]

Demons in second. YUK. Home finals so important.

[bornadog]

Demons in second. YUK. Home finals so important.

They have Carlton, Hawks and Swans at SCG

[Grantysghost]

They have Carlton, Hawks and Swans at SCG

Tough run.

[jeemak]

Are Collingwood going through a high load training block at the moment? They seem flat.

[Mantis]

Are Collingwood going through a high load training block at the moment? They seem flat.

Lacking speed & ball winning through the middle of the ground? it?s hard to be up every week, but all were owned in the centre square against Hawthorn and put their defence under pressure.

[BornInDroopSt'54]

Well the mighty have fallen.
All teams vulnerable.
Whoever is still up for the fierce contest for 4 qtrs in the last 3 rounds goes in with momementuum and it could be us.

[EasternWest]

Well the mighty have fallen.
All teams vulnerable.
Whoever is still up for the fierce contest for 4 qtrs in the last 3 rounds goes in with momementuum and it could be us.

Love it bids

[bulldogtragic]

Love it bids

I just saw a headline that said you and your kind are now Uber rich Victorians. So happy you are still slumming it with the rest of us on woof still. A true man of the common people. I salute you EW.

[EasternWest]

I just saw a headline that said you and your kind are now Uber rich Victorians. So happy you are still slumming it with the rest of us on woof still. A true man of the common people. I salute you EW.

Ha ha. I have a fair idea where you read that headline too.