The Monday Soapbox - Round 14, 2025

[GVGjr]

Now that round 14 is completed it's time to get on your Soapbox

The floor is yours.

[Happy Days]

West Coast in their current iteration should be banned from the last game on Sunday. It’s just too depressing a spectre to see as the last thing before work on Monday.

[Mantis]

West Coast in their current iteration should be banned from the last game on Sunday. It’s just too depressing a spectre to see as the last thing before work on Monday.

Is it their fault or your fault?

No one shouldn't be watching a game starting at 6pm on a Sunday unless it's their team in action.

[GVGjr]

West Coast in their current iteration should be banned from the last game on Sunday. It’s just too depressing a spectre to see as the last thing before work on Monday.

It's far from an even competition and there are always 2 or 3 teams just not worth watching.
I can't believe the Eagles are in the mess that they are. Rich clubs like this should only bottom out for a year or two.

[Axe Man]

Toby Greene is my most unlikeable player in the AFL but Steven May might just about have taken the mantle.

[Bulldog Joe]

Toby Greene is my most unlikeable player in the AFL but Steven May might just about have taken the mantle.

May certainly has form.

He was very fortunate not to have a free against when he jumped on the Port player who had just goaled.

Should not go unpunished for an act like that.

[Sedat]

AFEL fixture currently has Gold Coast having played 2 games less than many other teams. I get there was a washout in Round Zero but it is the AFEL's job to properly and quickly rearrange the fixture, and not shove the GC v Ess match in the pre-finals bye in some contrived and poorly disguised attempt to introduce a wildcard finals round by stealth.

Also, it is brain-dead to have a number of teams already playing each other twice (such as St Kilda v Dogs and West Cost v Carlton) when not everybody has played each other yet. I don't expect oodles of talent at City Hall, but they always manage to lower the bar.

[Axe Man]

North being allowed to sell a home game to Freo on their home ground. If that game was at Marvel they probably would have won.

North might not care about 1 less win for the season but handing Freo a win could cost another team a finals berth.

Teams can sell games if they wish and play in Darwin or Ballarat or Coober Pedy if they want, at least they are fairly neutral. They shouldn't be able to sell a game to the oppositions home state.