Opinion AFL 2024 Finals Week 3 - Weekend Wrap & Liked, Learnt, Hated PRELIMINARY FINALS EDITION

[Handsuper47]

only thing I disliked was the commentary, and oh Port not showing up was lame

 

[Hawksboy72]

Liked: Brisbane Winning.

Learnt: (Always known) speed of ball movement will trouble any team..once the game opened up and the lions went quickly with the ball the cats were exposed defencely. Move the ball quick and don't let Geelong set up behind the ball and their vulnerable.

Hated: Swans/Port preliminary lacked intensity Port weren't simply at the races and had obviously used everything they had mentally to beat Hawthorn the previous week. They played 3 finals and were about 20 goals in the negative.

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[jakson68]

I learnt that the northern academies give an unfair advantage and should be stopped immediately .
Only joking, relax, just having a bit of fun.
Great effort by all four teams.
Brisbane are the complete team and have all lines covered.
Sydney are very damaging and have class to burn.
Geelong did well, when you think of the deficiencies in their midfield.
Port keep surprising. Ken does so well to keep that team up, with the very poor list they have.
For a team to drop away so dramatically after their top 4 or 5 players, it annoys me how consistent they are.

Should be a great GF and well done to both teams.

 

[peetoo]

I learnt that the northern academies give an unfair advantage and should be stopped immediately .
Only joking, relax, just having a bit of fun.
Great effort by all four teams.
Brisbane are the complete team and have all lines covered.
Sydney are very damaging and have class to burn.
Geelong did well, when you think of the deficiencies in their midfield.
Port keep surprising. Ken does so well to keep that team up, with the very poor list they have.
For a team to drop away so dramatically after their top 4 or 5 players, it annoys me how consistent they are.

Should be a great GF and well done to both teams.

Ports top 4 or 5 aren’t the class of the top teams 4 or 5. But they are still young like the Hawks

 

[jakson68]

Ports top 4 or 5 aren’t the class of the top teams 4 or 5. But they are still young like the Hawks

That is what makes what Ken has achieved with that list so impressive.
Getting that list into the top 8 is an achievement, getting them into the top 4, is a masterstroke.

 

[PhatBoy]

Loved Sook Scott pulling out the "gastro" excuse after another prelim loss lmao.

When did he do this

He gave a 14 minute press conference.

Holmes’ illness was reported BEFORE the game as he trained separately from his teammates. With 20 seconds remaining in his presser, a reporter mentioned this and the staffers with COVID and asked if it impacted the rest of the group. He said ‘max had a bit of gastro. You saw the masks.’ Then stood up and left. Oh yes he really went to town on that excuse. He spent so much of the presser focusing on it: especially when they spoke at length about Holmes himself earlier in the conference. He was obviously dying to get that out there

 

[Pistol Night]

When did he do this

He gave a 14 minute press conference.

Holmes’ illness was reported BEFORE the game as he trained separately from his teammates. With 20 seconds remaining in his presser, a reporter mentioned this and the staffers with COVID and asked if it impacted the rest of the group. He said ‘max had a bit of gastro. You saw the masks.’ Then stood up and left. Oh yes he really went to town on that excuse. He spent so much of the presser focusing on it: especially when they spoke at length about Holmes himself earlier in the conference. He was obviously dying to get that out there

Sometimes "excuses" like illness and injury are actually reasons

 

[Toump Ass]

With 20 seconds remaining in his presser, a reporter mentioned this and the staffers with COVID and asked if it impacted the rest of the group. He said ‘max had a bit of gastro. You saw the masks.’ Then stood up and left.

Almost as subtle as: "there were reasons why we lost but I won't say what they are, because you will find out later"

 

[Pistol Night]

Almost as subtle as: "there were reasons why we lost but I won't say what they are, because you will find out later"

If Holmes was wearing a mask to stop his gastro it would been a high quality product

 

[PhatBoy]

Almost as subtle as: "there were reasons why we lost but I won't say what they are, because you will find out later"

Subtle? He answered the question:
‘We know a player was sick and some staff were sick, what was the issue.’

‘Yes, that player had this illness - a minor one. The player I mentioned earlier who was dominating the game for a while - I actually used the word dominating, so clearly that illness he had during the week, is why we lost. Oh, and some of our guys had masks on.’

No, he went all out on the excuse front.

 

[PhatBoy]

Liked/learned: Oscar McInerney

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Oscar Mcinerney

Age

30

Ht

204cm

Wt

110kg

Pos.

Ruck

Career

Season

Last 5

D

8.1

2star

K

4.1

2star

HB

3.9

3star

CL

1.4

4star

HO

14.3

5star

D

6.9

1star

K

4.1

2star

HB

2.7

2star

CL

1.9

4star

HO

16.4

5star

D

7.6

2star

K

4.0

2star

HB

3.6

3star

CL

0.4

3star

HO

11.2

5star

. Being one tough hombre.

That was awesome. He looked like his injury was making him physically ill. To come back on was stupendous

 

[PCORF]

I liked everything.

Loved Brisbane's effort. They had some misses and disappointments during the season, started 0-4, went on a huge winning run and lost the top 4 spot but the semi and preliminary finals the belief was always there. They deserve to win it this year and I hope they do.

It's going to be a great Grand Final in front of 100,026, yes a bigger crowd this year!

 

[PCORF]

only thing I disliked was the commentary, and oh Port not showing up was lame

They showed up but were too battered and bruised.

 

[JPetro83]

Liked: The teams that got through.. which means GF day will be co chilled as i dont hate either of the teams
Loved: Port failing in another prelim. port going out like this keeps my interest in footy as i get no joy from my own club anymore.
Learnt: Not much... nothing in footy surprises me anymore
Hated: The big O's injury