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AFL Round 8

Postby Booney » Thu Apr 30, 2026 11:38 am

Thursday night :
Collingwood v Hawthorn - MCG

Friday night :
Western Bulldogs v Fremantle - Marvel
Adelaide v Port Adelaide - AO

Saturday :
Essendon v Brisbane Lions - Marvel
West Coast v Richmond - Optus
Geelong v North Melbourne - Cat Park
Cartlon v St Kilda - Marvel

Sunday :
Sydney v Melbourne - SCG
Gold Coast v GWS – GC
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby locky801 » Thu Apr 30, 2026 1:41 pm

Collingwood v Hawthorn No Pendles, no Collingwood
Western Bulldogs v Fremantle Lots of big ins for the Dogs
Port Vs Adelaide Crows dont tag, JHF and Butters to get 70 possessions between them
Essendon v Brisbane Lions Lions in a canter
West Coast v Richmond Huge game this one
Geelong v North Melbourne Geelong but an upset is on the cards
Carlton v St Kilda Carlton have to win one surely
Sydney v Melbourne Turmoil in Demon Territory
Gold Coast v GWS Gold Coast lose this they will not make the final 10
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby Booney » Thu Apr 30, 2026 2:19 pm

Dawson will miss tomorrow's Showdown, I can't help but feel empty when I read his name or hear him spoken of.

The moment Selwood embraced him last week still moves me.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby wenchbarwer » Thu Apr 30, 2026 3:04 pm

Booney wrote:Dawson will miss tomorrow's Showdown, I can't help but feel empty when I read his name or hear him spoken of.

The moment Selwood embraced him last week still moves me.


The hug he had when Tex gave him that goal, he almost didn't want to let go.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby DOC » Thu Apr 30, 2026 6:59 pm

Collingwood v Hawthorn - MCG

Friday night :
Western Bulldogs v Fremantle - Marvel
Adelaide v Port Adelaide - AO

Saturday :
Essendon v Brisbane Lions - Marvel
West Coast v Richmond - Optus
Geelong v North Melbourne - Cat Park
Cartlon v St Kilda - Marvel

Sunday :
Sydney v Melbourne - SCG
Gold Coast v GWS – GC
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Thu Apr 30, 2026 8:22 pm

Free Kick Pies
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby DOC » Thu Apr 30, 2026 8:30 pm

Would have sworn that was touched. Goal umpire only 5 metres away and highly paid, highly trained. He would know better.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby locky801 » Thu Apr 30, 2026 9:05 pm

mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Free Kick Pies


Have to agree but when you look at the free stats Hawthorn have had more 13/12

Can't see that being right

No one can whinge about the last free of the game, certainly there ;)
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby RB » Thu Apr 30, 2026 10:41 pm

28 scoring shots to 18.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby carey » Fri May 01, 2026 9:13 am

Bad kicking is bad football.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby mighty_tiger_79 » Fri May 01, 2026 9:17 am

locky801 wrote:
mighty_tiger_79 wrote:Free Kick Pies


Have to agree but when you look at the free stats Hawthorn have had more 13/12

Can't see that being right

No one can whinge about the last free of the game, certainly there ;)

At the time Pies had 10 and hawks 3.
Some of those were diabolical.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby PatowalongaPirate » Fri May 01, 2026 7:28 pm

My Double Friday Forecast -

* Murphy Reid is a jet.
* Bont a shining light
* Treacy bags 6.
* Freo roll on by 51pts.
* Attendance 21,775.

* Some hysterical posting incoming.
* Adelaide need to sort the Ruck.
* Georgiades bags 6.
* Crows floundering.
* Butters BOG.
* Port by 17pts.
* Attendance 51,681.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby locky801 » Fri May 01, 2026 7:37 pm

PatowalongaPirate wrote:My Double Friday Forecast -

* Murphy Reid is a jet.
* Bont a shining light
* Treacy bags 6.
* Freo roll on by 51pts.
* Attendance 21,775.

* Some hysterical posting incoming.
* Adelaide need to sort the Ruck.
* Georgiades bags 6. and probably just as many points
* Crows floundering. lose tonight they can kiss 2026 goodbye even for a top 10 spot and pressure will mount on Nicks
* Butters BOG. only if he can get the ball of JHF
* Port by 17pts. add another 40 points onto that
* Attendance 51,681.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby RB » Fri May 01, 2026 9:58 pm

It's odd that a Perth team are playing on Friday night in Melbourne (i.e. 5.30 p.m. first bounce WA time).

And then we also have the two games on Saturday at Docklands, and no games at the MCG after Thursday night.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby PatowalongaPirate » Fri May 01, 2026 10:01 pm

Pretty crap Showdown.

Dogs v Freo a ripper.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby Jim05 » Fri May 01, 2026 11:19 pm

Karma at the end free the umpires tried to win it for Port
Those umpires should be sacked on the spot
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby dedja » Fri May 01, 2026 11:22 pm

Crows still win after being repeatedly gang raped by the umps.
Dunno, I’m just an idiot.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby Pseudo » Fri May 01, 2026 11:28 pm

Jim05 wrote:Karma at the end free the umpires tried to win it for Port
Those umpires should be sacked on the spot

Watched about half of this for want of something better to do. Thought it was a very average game, marred by over-umpiring, and port blatantly got the rub of the green.

Aliir was clearly BOG; was giving the medal to the crow bloke simply a matter of picking one of the winners?

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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby dedja » Fri May 01, 2026 11:31 pm

Aliir squared was BoG by the proverbial mile.
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Re: AFL Round 8

Postby DOC » Sat May 02, 2026 1:21 am

Went to the game . An absolute shit first half. Game ruined by complete sub standard umpiring. The only person in the ground who thought that Soligo kicked a goal was that goal umpire. We need to get a players father at either end to improve things.

Again. The worst umpired professional sport in the world. Nothing comes close. The holding the man paid to Hornet possibly the worst decision in football. Hold my beer.In the back to take Mileras goal off him. Hang on, Rochelle’s throw that resulted in goal etc etc etc. Andrew Dillion getting booed a highlight

I thought Aliir was good, Crows made him look great by continuing to kick it to him. Berry had 19 tackles. Probably hard to go past.

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