I'm sure Big Phil will do threads for each games but for the time being I'm interested to see how posters think the finals will pan out starting with what should be a good night at AO next Saturday.

It would be good if we could avoid negatives on this thread and just talk about the footy and the predictions.

Eagles by 1-12
Norwood 13-24.

How much do the Crows need to win by to make the 8

Karma, last seen visiting Div 7.

stampy wrote:all we need to do is to learn how to close matches out

The avoidance of calamitous collapses will also be beneficial. That was better last season

Footy Chick wrote:you'll all be very happy to know that Wes Legrande just won the c3 medal

Renamed the Malcolm Memorial Medal

the milky bar kid wrote:

wristwatcher wrote:div 6 forum offering plenty

Didn't realize it was still going

#nofarmersnoforum

Is there a straight sets forum???

#thatsforhashtagging

PNU will host the Div 7 game between Uni and Smiff only if you let Malcolm umpire. Now that would be entertaining

It was a great day at PNU and a thrilling contest. I only wish I could remember more of it

jo172 wrote:Have to say no one saw this coming in the prediction thread!

Not overly thrilled with the proposed Sunday game schedule

Div 2 women's football getting prime time in the main event. Please .

Let's put the C4 GF on at 2pm and Div 1 at 10.15am

Blackwhite wrote:U18 Red GF to be played at 10am after playing at 3pm all year. What a joke. What's the logic behind this??

Keep me sober perhaps

Thankfully a much better Raw this week. Actually took me over an hour to watch this episode. 8)

Sad to hear of the passing of Sean o' Haire today as the wrestlers curse strikes again. Was lucky enough to meet Sean and have a drink with him in Sydney in the year 2000 when Nitro and Thunder WCW shows were touring. Fair to say he lived life to the extremes and he is not the only one who was there that night who has prematurely exited. R.I.P

woodublieve12 wrote:This Friday nights prelim will be Adam Goodes 350th career game...

Legend... Hopefully we can get the win

Overrated

Whats with all the rumours I'm hearing about 19 on the field for PAOC at the end of the game in the Div8R on Saturday???

Wasn't there, so not accusing anyone, just interested in hearing what happened...


Quite simply there was not. I am pretty sure that comment was withdrawn. Having watched the video it wasn't as dramatic as it initially sounded. From all reports the better team and better blokes won on the day.

woodublieve12 wrote:

wristwatcher wrote:

woodublieve12 wrote:This Friday nights prelim will be Adam Goodes 350th career game...

Legend... Hopefully we can get the win

Overrated

Rightio mate

Cant believe that took half an hour

An to think in September 2012 he was a bees dick away from going to Hope Valley. In the end it was his work with the juniors and a comment from one of the juniors that kept him at PNU and the rest is history. 2 years later we are back in the top flight playing for back to back flags on the weekend. Great coach and great bloke 8)

Wont get 25,000.


No South are out mate, there will be a decent crowd now.

Port Power playing Saturday night won't help but I think there will be 40,000. Those of us that aren't sour are pretty excited about the game :)

Seems your supporters went missing on the weekend.

We outnumbered you......

40,000 ??? You keep believing it mate :lol:


Congrats on that....to use an old chest nut did you happen to look at the scoreboard :shock:

Time will tell I guess but I have been very accurate in the first 3 weeks. 40,000 and a great atmosphere as much as it will irritate many posters on SaFooty who are obsessed by theories of doom and gloom

I'm certain I have more idea than you. I will be there to see it first hand on Sunday whilst you are likely to be on your keyboard whinging about it.

Given the perfect weather expected, I think the crowd should have a 3 in front of it. Anything over 30k gets a pass imho. I know some on here are talking 40k so they can then jump online at 5pm Sunday and start screaming that they now have proof of diminishing interest because of the evil new structure of the comp, but given we have not had a crowd above 40k in 16 years this is unrealistic, as much as I would love to see it.


Mate if they get 40 plus and the Legs win an an epic battle with an after the siren barrel they will find plenty to bitch about despite apparently having no interest in it. Positive people will find the positives and negative people will do the opposite.

Positive people will find the positives and negative people will do the opposite.

So both sides of the have got their agendas? Thought it was just us malcontents stuck living in the 70s.

It is nice to see it finally acknowledged that you do the same, just for the forces of evil.


Not that your post makes all that much sense but I will try and reply,

If Being excited for a Port Norwood GF and hoping for a big crowd and good game means I'm supporting evil then call me Darth Vader if it makes you happy.

Big move requires a big signing. My top 10 candidates are

1. Steven Rowe
2. Robert Shaw
3. Laurence Angwin
4. Tony Armstrong (playing coach)
5. G. Cornes
6. Matt Connell
7. Jason Akermanis
8. Ben Dixon
9. Mark Cisco
10. Tony McGuiness

I was at AO today and those in the know are suggesting 35 plus. Should be a great a great day starting with the "Screaming Jets". Could it get any "Better".

Of course there were some spare spots at AO with 38k, there've been crowds of 52k plus at AFL games. My girlfriend and I went to the Port Freo game with a crowd in the high 30s and she thought it was similar to that before we knew the official number. Very good crowd, very good tv ratings, the SANFL will be more than happy and they should be.
Just looked more than 14,000 empty seats.
Half the Riverbank stand was empty and the top tiers of the other stands were sparcely populated also plenty of room to walk freely around the hill. I honestly thought around the 32k mark. Either way was a decent crowd but I would of expected similar if it was Norwood v South as I reckon 30,000 plus were supporting Norwood. Very small Port turn out


Nearly 39,000 and a great game. Definitely more Norwood supporters than Port but still a lot of Port people there. There was no spare seats in the bottom tear. It was a great day as i predicted and left the profits of doom without to much to whinge about.

Now I say this at 6am getting up for work not coming home from doing whatever it is kids do these days.

Dear Steven,

Your Article was awful, innacurate and inspirational.

Kind regards, PNU

Amazing day. Truly amazing and hats off to SHOC as they nearly had our number. Good club and tested us like no other

No Other? Who was the only club to defeat you this year????


Someone beat us in April but they couldn't get within 15 goals of the opposition when it mattered.

Dear John,

YOU were the one that questioned the SANFLs survival about three posts ago and the fact you need to resort to calling me an arsehole and a flog as well as your assumption that you know who I support once again proves you have no idea. Get some analytical ability and perhaps even entertain the idea that just because I have a different opinion doesn't mean I am 100 percent wrong.

woodublieve12 wrote:

daysofourlives wrote:

Rik E Boy wrote:Selfish Goodes. Nothing more for him to achieve. His list of achievements is massive. Didn't put the club first. Bloods culture.

regards,

REB

Did you expect anything else from Goodes, the modern day Buckley

Another idiotic comment.

Settle down mate, no need to go apeshit

Yeah pretty much a B grade commentary team with the exception of Dangerous Danny Morrison one of my childhood idols. Love that guy

Went to the Lion. Food was sensational, service was brilliant and extremely visually stimulating. Only negative is it's not cheap as we payed $340 for 6 people. Steak is worth the $40 a serve as it is a fine piece of meat and 280g of succulent flavour.

I would have thought Rock and Seth would make sense to help elevate Rollins brand and would allow for him to have all the extra corporate heel elements working against him. Not sure he would be willing to do Mania match unless it was a true legend he was facing as in H3. Cena has been done and surely they won't have two part timers working the Mania main ruling Brock out. Bryan would be awesome but again I can't see the Rock working heel .

One match I could see is Rock v Taker and there has to be some chance of taker v Brock 2 so Taker could go out a winner.

Daring to dream I would love to see Bryan come back at Rumble to challenge Brock and Taker costing Lesnar the title and setting up a solid two month build up for their match.

Mania is 6 months away and there is a lot of different directions they could take but the dynamics of the card make up will be vastly better if it includes a lot of blokes who don't currently work full time ; Bryan, Punk, a fit Taker, H3 and Brock + Rocky.

Gee, we whinge when we don't promote youth or homegrown talent, so they take that option and then we whinge because they don't become overnight winners.
We're a harsh bunch :D :D :D

at least the redbacks have done us a favour and not teased us with some good results before falling away. just got down to it and sucked from the outset :D


Super post B Mac, I even read that out loud.

Onto the real stuff now anyway. That season should last longer than 3 days. :roll:

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- Birds who seem to think it's acceptable to walk across the road... They must have lost a couple of mates to horrible car incidents, but they insist on doing this... i've only hit the one bird in my time, but i see a little bird crossing a road and it frustrates me.... Flirting with danger. Maybe birds enjoy the thrill.


This. Especially ducks and those stupid devil pigeons with the red eyes.

FFS, you have wings....FLY!


Penguins have wings but you don't see those lazy bastards fly

That one person at work that you smile at, act sociable and maintain an appropriate level of professionalism towards whilst every fibre of my being wants to punch him in the dick.

Footy Chick wrote:New Henley coach announced as Kym Cobb I hear?

I met him last night. He was at South. You would suspect a few recruits to come with him. Still moves alright himself. Seems like a nice guy

Maccas a better bloke. Maccas wins. Discussion over. Sorry Millsy

Coach Bombay wrote:We should start an all star spud team like the Kenny Mcgregor footy one. Call it the Nathan adcock wannabes

At the moment they are called the Redbacks unfortunately

Had another 25 items on this weekend as we are home for 3 days renovating.

I had the ultimate "are you serious?" Gumtree Moment. I t went like this

Can I buy the jumper leads?
Me - yep $5
Will you deliver them in town
Me - yep I'm in town Wednesday for work
No indeed you to bring them now, I'm broken down
Me - nice talking to ya chief

We are fully f**ked now

Excellent. Wonder who will get the blame this time? No way can it be Australia got out played must be the pitch? The toss? Injuries? Bet ya bottom dollar there will be a reason.

And it simply won't be "We weren't good enough"


Both teams played on the same pitch. Pakis just too good and I found it humorous that all the experts on here who criticised their day one performance. They ground us down and layed the platform.

I still hold the faintest of hopes that we can grind out a draw but we would need to be 4 fa at lunch.

Bottom line is we have been schooled on sub continent cricket in this test. It's happened before and it will happen again.

Bowled out for 303, disgraceful.


Geez Jim, get a grip. It's a sub par performance and in hindsight one where we have straight out been outplayed. We will probably go on to lose this game by 100-200 runs. It happens and clearly you have been spoilt by Australia's success of the last 20 years.

Disgraceful would be if the Australian cricket team systematically injected themselves with performance enhancing drugs over an extended period and then if we had a muppet coach and he wouldn't take responsibility. That's disgraceful.

Not getting any sort of acknowledgement when letting someone into traffic. That really grinds my gears.

I hate getting acknowledgement - I don't need to be thanked for putting my foot on my brake for an extra few seconds.


You hate being thanked for being courteous or helpful. You Sir are a strange Cat.

Took a wrong turn and found a little gem on Hanson Road. About half way down in a corner shop, authentic little Asian grocer family business. Probably in the top 3 out of the dozen places I have tried.

Payneham to be a force in div 1 in 2015. Cant go anywhere without hearing positive news about the falcons

So PNU have picked up a North player, Stuart players possibly a few Norwood players and possibly a few centrals players.

And Leon Davis.

And Alan Didak.

And Shane Tuck


And Michael Hanlan

Booney wrote:If Berry is reverting to giving an old fashioned spray after the time he's had with the group, he's out of ideas and its time to go.

Not sure if it's ever been mentioned on SAFooty but indeed it may be time to sack Chuck and let him drive off into the sunset in his 100K Mercedes.

bennymacca wrote:

Jim05 wrote:Really hoping Cockatoo falls to us but have a feeling that North will nab him. Would be happy with two of Garlett, Leverde, Miller or Weller though

which one of those will you be naming captain?

haha I get it. That's actually worth some

5 days leave approved...GET AROUND ME!!!

5 days leave approved...GET AROUND ME!!! :D
your shout! :partyman:


Day 3 of the Test is my 40th. I can mark that one down as $250-$500 day. There will be a lot of shouting on that day.

I'm putting an alcohol ban on myself for day 1, well maybe just the first session, lets make that the first drinks break. perhaps ill try and at least enter the ground sober. ;)

Had our Xmas show at the Gallery on Waymouth yesterday. With everything being free it increases the chances of a good revue but the food was excellent. Superb steak, delightful prawn entree and by the time dessert rolled around I was on my 12th beer and couldn't afford the eating time. At a guess I'd say it would normally be pretty pricey.

Wristys session one analysis

Rogers playing for his career in the 2nd dig
Watson is a dead set dumb c@&$
Warner bats til stumps he will be 250 not out
This is a 500 pitch
Kohli needs to be fined for over rate
Australia will be close to 400 at stumps
Carey has that drunken sparkle in his eye at 12.30 :D

Rain at the cricket that lasts 90 seconds and the delay goes for > 30 minutes. Infuriating

heater31 wrote:Right I have had enough of the negativity regarding the performance of the Redbacks. Next one to post something negative do so at your own peril those lads are disappointed at their performance just as much as you all are......

You can't be serious can you. They made 4 **** 5!!!!!!

Don't drink wine, wear ties or top hats but like the eye piece and handle bars

Mitch Marsh wont play next test. Play Watto in his spot. Reckon he would be a decent number 6.
Need to find some new blood for the important number 3 slot
Needed that since Ponting retired.
Yep haven't been able to replace him with someone even as half as good as he was and I think sometimes we took him for granted and people are quick to forget how good he was, dominated the hardest spot to bat for a long period of time. In my lifetime we won't see another Ponting, we are obviously desperate for a decent number 3 for the future and if we can get a bloke thats as half as good as Ponting we'll be alright, need some blokes putting their hand up at state level, I reckon Ferguson can be the man, needs a truckload of runs behind him first.


If Ferguson was going to be the Australian number 3 he would already be in the team, would have that truck load of runs behind him already and wouldn't be a regular part of our Redback calamitous collapses. I doubt anyone from outside our borders would think he would be in the top 5 considerations as our test number 3. Don't think he would do any worse than Wato though and Shaun "Lovechild" Marsh hasn't done anything to earn the spot either.

He can't bat everywhere but I think Smudger would be the leading candidate to be a long term 3. Would allow Pup to bat at 4 or 5 if and when he gets the body right.