2014 AFL - Round 8 Discussion

[Eastdog]

Round 8 Fixture

Date Home vs Away Venue AEST Local TV

Fri 9 May Sydney Swans v Hawthorn ANZ Stadium 7:50pm 7:50pm Seven

Sat 10 May Port Adelaide v Fremantle Dockers Adelaide Oval 1:40pm 1:10pm Foxtel

Sat 10 May Brisbane Lions v Essendon Gabba 4:40pm 4:40pm Foxtel

Sat 10 May Melbourne v Western Bulldogs MCG 7:40pm 7:40pm Seven

Sun 11 May West Coast Eagles v GWS Giants Patersons Stadium 4:40pm 2:40pm Foxtel

Mon 12 May St Kilda v Carlton Etihad Stadium 7:20pm 7:20pm Foxtel

Byes: Adelaide, Collingwood, Geelong, Gold Coast Suns, North Melbourne, Richmond

[Remi Moses]

Why on earth is there a game on Monday night?
Not school holidays, so no kids at the game. Then there's a game in Adelaide next Thursday!
Please AFL Friday to Sunday

[Remi Moses]

Caught the second half
Kennedy Parker and Hanneberry prominent .
Buddy 's kicked 2 7 Tippett 4 goals, and the result flattered Hawthorn.
Interesting looking at Hawthorns list, with 7 players 30 or over this season.
This would be their final fling at a flag you'd think, but they've achieved their objective of bringing pieces into the jigsaw premiership puzzle. Critical mass in key injuries with Hodge pulling out and Rioli doing his hammy.

[chef]

Lake being out is a huge loss too.

[bornadog]

Lake being out is a huge loss too.

Good.

[Go_Dogs]

Watched quite a bit of the game last night, it was a high intensity game.

Sydney clearly the better side (noting the Hawks had some key outs) but just couldn't finish in front early in the piece.

I wonder how the tribunal will assess the Roughead bump? For mine, it's the exact bump we want to outlaw and I wouldn't be surprised if he missed a few weeks (notwithstanding it'll likely be deemed low impact).

[Greystache]

Josh Kennedy has 9 goals against GWS with 10mins to go. Tommy Williams will be crossing his fingers he can get to 10 to erase 2011's memories for him.

[chef]

Got his 10.

[Remi Moses]

Got 11.
Another Dagger in the heart of Caaaarlton.
The manufactured afl love child is being rogered.

[Maddog37]

Weagles are the best front runners in the business.

[Remi Moses]

Stkilda Carlton 26,000
Nail coffin on Monday night football.
God even Riewoldt gets less frees now.( although he got his obligatory charity after an earlier whine)
Ho hum affair, and the biggest shock I got is when Mick said Daisy was doing a great job trapping the ball in the Forward 50!
Fair Dinkum 700 large for a bloke who can trap the ball in the forward 50!

[Bulldog4life]

Stkilda Carlton 26,000
Nail coffin on Monday night football.
God even Riewoldt gets less frees now.( although he got his obligatory charity after an earlier whine)
Ho hum affair, and the biggest shock I got is when Mick said Daisy was doing a great job trapping the ball in the Forward 50!
Fair Dinkum 700 large for a bloke who can trap the ball in the forward 50!

Agree Remi. Even though they are different types of players I would take Crameri every day of the week over Thomas value wise. Thomas's best footy seems to be well behind him.

[boydogs]

Stkilda Carlton 26,000
Nail coffin on Monday night football.

It's about the TV audience not the attendance at the ground

[1eyedog]

It's about the TV audience not the attendance at the ground

Exactly, moving as many games to prime time to capture the larger tv audience. Screw the day games they provide bugger all ratings.

[LostDoggy]

God even Riewoldt gets less frees now.( although he got his obligatory charity after an earlier whine)


It's hard to tell when he's been knocked unconscious in a contest or retarded. His arms flail exactly the same way.

[1eyedog]

It's hard to tell when he's been knocked unconscious in a contest or retarded. His arms flail exactly the same way.

Yes one of the best stagers in the AFL. Thank whoever that the Director has asked the field umps to be more impartial with this so that no one questions their love in with Saint Nick.

[Remi Moses]

It's about the TV audience not the attendance at the ground

if a stadium looks half empty and there's public backlash, they'll kybosch Monday nights.

[KT31]

if a stadium looks half empty and there's public backlash, they'll kybosch Monday nights.

or give them to us.