Opinion AFL 2025 Round 2 - Weekend Wrap & Liked, Learnt, Hated

[Mr Meow]

Quite amazing. Cats won just one quarter

No side that scores 2 goals in the second half of a grand final deserves to win a flag.

 

[EddieMurphy]

No side that scores 2 goals in the second half of a grand final deserves to win a flag.

But a side that scores a goal that isn't does?

 

[Mr Meow]

But a side that scores a goal that isn't does?

Geelong were the better, more clinical side when it counted. We could've had another 5 quarters and St Kilda wouldn't have scored another goal. Completely impotent in that decisive last quarter.

 

[nftaht]

Knew the Tigs would would be up and down this season. Game felt out of reach as Port had a point to prove. Hopefully better performance this weekend.

 

[Liam Boy]

Learnt - North are no longer a pushover and rightfully so given the leg up they have been given

Learn this: the only players who played this week that we got from any kind of FA compensation or Priority pick were Darcy Tucker and Dylan Stephens, the sub. And I guess Bailey Scott and Luke McDonald are father/sons if you want to go there.

 

[Leather Poisoning]

Liked:

• hawks another win after the opponent threw everything at us
• Seeing Adelaide put on a clinic
• Seeing West Coast give it a decent crack

Learnt:

• A lot of (maybe most?) people watch the umpiring rather than the game. i.e. can tell you the 5 things an umpire got wrong but can't name the best 3 players for the opposition.
• It's still too early for conclusions - we'll see some hot and cold performances from all teams for a little while

Hated:

• The media hype Harley up for a couple of years and then criticising him for not living up to the hype they created. Embarassing.
• Trade discussions in March. MARCH! There are 9 games a weekend and the trade period is 6 months away and these guys want to talk about trades.

 

[Crankyhawk]

That's a pretty big statement on the back of 1 win.

particularly in the case of the dogs who beat north just the previous week

 

[WilloTree]

Liked - Tyrell Dewar. Love a good break-out game from a young West Aussie.
Learned - My teachers were wrong about 15 meters being a set length.
Hated - I have come to the sad realisation that I have no idea what holding the ball is. No idea whatsoever.

 

[TheKanga]

Liked -

Norths win, amazing to not only win but win convincingly.
I believe our first 10 goal win since 2019!
We are in the top 8 for a percentage of 124% !!!

Saints bouncing back
Hawks game style exciting to watch

Learnt -

A lot of teams feeling each other out
Really hard to pick the cream of the crop yet.

Hated - Nada

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Jane Austen does Liked, Learnt, Hated:

Liked

Mr Darcy! Mr Samuel Darcy of the Footscray Football Club.

Though I fear ‘like’ will barely suffice in conveying my feelings for Mr Darcy. Who displays many qualities admirable in a gentleman, most notably an exquisite amalgamation of elevated stature, graceful mobility and enduring fortitude. He possesses a mature disposition and judgement, indeed a most uncanny judgment of ball in flight. Most endearingly Mr Darcy expresses great delight in the shared triumphs of his fellow gentlemen of the Footscray Club, dispensing with great heart caresses upon their crowns and backsides when a goal is kicked.

Hated

‘Hated’ is a word excessively potent for a lady to utter. Yet I confess to a mild disdain for the ungentlemanly conduct of Mr Harley Reid. Mr Reid who, upon attaining his majority found himself the object of considerable admiration, now imperils this esteemed stature amongst his peers. By allowing his attention on the match to wane and succumbing instead to the mocking utterances of the throng, notably on Sunday last in responding to a particular savage native to Brisbane Town. Mr Reid, I earnestly beseech you to DO BETTER! (Alas, here I find myself regrettably enmeshed in the coarseness of the modern vernacular - Forgive Me)

Learnt

“No Man’s Land”, I fear, is transforming into a most disquieting domain, thronged with ever more myriad factions. Originally a place of permanent abode for AFLW, a most considerable number of groups from the colony of Victoria are also making arrangements to take up residence there. These comprise gentlemen from the clubs of St Kilda, Essendon and now, if I may be so audacious to prophesy, Carlton and Melbourne. Shall it be the fate of all said parties to find themselves at length in that dismal realm, bereft of all purpose and direction?

Splendid!