Round Seventeen...yep, the predictable unpredictability yet again.
Essendon 118-57 St. Kilda
And there we were thinking, whao St. Kilda are on the march. Well, not so. They were well and truly pummelled by this young Bombers side. And once again the country asks if the Saints will even make the finals. Check out the specky by Joe Daniher on Jake Carlisle. Déjà vu.
Geelong 88 – 85 Hawthorn
Classic! Unfortunately this game was not shown on normal TV so I had to listen to the wireless in the car and found myself roaring at the wireless especially in the last few minutes. Great stuff. Watch the last five minutes on the AFL website. Luke Hodge played his 300th. game. Some feat and this will be his last season. 4 premierships...not too tacky, I'd say. Still a dirty p***k though.
Port Adelaide 127 – 57 North Melbourne.
Yup, the Power keep powering on and the roos keep losing.
Collingwood 103 -88 Gold Coast
More a story about the fate of the teams' coaches than the teams, I feel. Well, Buckley survives another week. Enough to save his job? Hmmmm. As for Eades at Gold Coast...hmmmm indeed. A tight game in the wet and maybe the experience of the shite Melbourne weather swung this one in the Pies' favour.
Sydney 96 -83 Greater Western Sydney
The "battle of the bridge" ended with win no.9 out of 10 outings for the Swans. They're now safely in the top 8 and my early season suggestion of a Sydney v. Adelaide GF might just come to fruition. This game wasn't shown on normal TV either so I had to watch the highlights. If you do, you'll see a classic Buddy Franklin goal from an impossible angle and distance. Well, not impossible for the big man.
Adelaide 116-70 Melbourne
This game pretty much summed up the competition this year; there are two or three top teams then there are the chasers. Melbourne are a chasing team and on this performance they'll be chasing for a while. Adelaide were all over them at every stage and in every aspect. Not a great TV spectacle but I watched just to see how far behind Melbourne are. Well, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, but it's a long tunnel and it's a very faint light.
Richmond 112 – 81 Brisbane
Yep, nothing of note here.
Footscray 82 – 62 Carlton
I saw a wee bit of this game and while it was competitive, the dogs had just enough experience and guile to hold on. But, the Blues have the makings of a great team in their ranks.
Which brings me to this...(no drum roll...just deathly silence please)
Themmuns ...more than us – shite kicking...Us
How the fcuk some of our lads can justify that effort today defies me. They couldn't have kicked shite off a briar. Absolutely horrific. And the sad thing is of the 5.14 Freo kicked, ten of those behinds SHOULD have been goals. Making matters worse was the fact on three occasions the trash went upfield from a Freo behind and kicked a goal. Aaaaaaaagh. Fcukin hell I was livid. For only the second time ever since joining Freo as an attending member, I left the ground early in sheer disgust.
That's the finals gone for us this year. But on the positive front, there is some seriously good talent among the first and second year players.
Essendon 118-57 St. Kilda
And there we were thinking, whao St. Kilda are on the march. Well, not so. They were well and truly pummelled by this young Bombers side. And once again the country asks if the Saints will even make the finals. Check out the specky by Joe Daniher on Jake Carlisle. Déjà vu.
Geelong 88 – 85 Hawthorn
Classic! Unfortunately this game was not shown on normal TV so I had to listen to the wireless in the car and found myself roaring at the wireless especially in the last few minutes. Great stuff. Watch the last five minutes on the AFL website. Luke Hodge played his 300th. game. Some feat and this will be his last season. 4 premierships...not too tacky, I'd say. Still a dirty p***k though.
Port Adelaide 127 – 57 North Melbourne.
Yup, the Power keep powering on and the roos keep losing.
Collingwood 103 -88 Gold Coast
More a story about the fate of the teams' coaches than the teams, I feel. Well, Buckley survives another week. Enough to save his job? Hmmmm. As for Eades at Gold Coast...hmmmm indeed. A tight game in the wet and maybe the experience of the shite Melbourne weather swung this one in the Pies' favour.
Sydney 96 -83 Greater Western Sydney
The "battle of the bridge" ended with win no.9 out of 10 outings for the Swans. They're now safely in the top 8 and my early season suggestion of a Sydney v. Adelaide GF might just come to fruition. This game wasn't shown on normal TV either so I had to watch the highlights. If you do, you'll see a classic Buddy Franklin goal from an impossible angle and distance. Well, not impossible for the big man.
Adelaide 116-70 Melbourne
This game pretty much summed up the competition this year; there are two or three top teams then there are the chasers. Melbourne are a chasing team and on this performance they'll be chasing for a while. Adelaide were all over them at every stage and in every aspect. Not a great TV spectacle but I watched just to see how far behind Melbourne are. Well, there's a light at the end of the tunnel, but it's a long tunnel and it's a very faint light.
Richmond 112 – 81 Brisbane
Yep, nothing of note here.
Footscray 82 – 62 Carlton
I saw a wee bit of this game and while it was competitive, the dogs had just enough experience and guile to hold on. But, the Blues have the makings of a great team in their ranks.
Which brings me to this...(no drum roll...just deathly silence please)
Themmuns ...more than us – shite kicking...Us
How the fcuk some of our lads can justify that effort today defies me. They couldn't have kicked shite off a briar. Absolutely horrific. And the sad thing is of the 5.14 Freo kicked, ten of those behinds SHOULD have been goals. Making matters worse was the fact on three occasions the trash went upfield from a Freo behind and kicked a goal. Aaaaaaaagh. Fcukin hell I was livid. For only the second time ever since joining Freo as an attending member, I left the ground early in sheer disgust.
That's the finals gone for us this year. But on the positive front, there is some seriously good talent among the first and second year players.