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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Season
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Quote from: kruddler – on
In case people missed it.

Kangaroos dominated the Hawks last night.

Hawks were kept to 0.3 for the entire game.
Kangas managed 5.12.

Hand them the cup now?
Not that I dont think they will win it, but what were we saying after geelong destroyed Brisbane in the finals and neale broke down?  3 weeks is a long time in footy. 

The longer they keep winning the closer they are to a shock loss.

The Cats didn't' keep the Lions goalless though.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Season
In case people missed it.

Kangaroos dominated the Hawks last night.

Hawks were kept to 0.3 for the entire game.
Kangas managed 5.12.

Hand them the cup now?
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Season
Quote from: crashlander – on
Grace Egan told to move on from Richmond after their poor year. Do we bother to be interested? I still feel betrayed by her wanting out, to be honest.
Richmond also delisted Lauren Brazzale and Lulu Beatty, who used to play for us.

And at Sydney, Beck Privatelli has retired. She was certainly a better player once she left us.
There was an article about Grace Egan recently. She had 3 stints in hospital and lost something ridiculous like 20kg. Busted her butt to get back but her body wasnt ready and got soft tissue injuries. Then worked her back from that into some half decent form.

Was harsh to cut her.

I was gutted when she wanted out.
Still, she made her decision and we've moved on.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Melbourne Cup
Never laid a bet on the cup and dont intend to start. Havent watched the race for as long as i can remember, Pagan was probably coach at the time.

I don't bet on basically anything, but horses would be way down the list.
Cards and games of chance are easier to calculate the odds and generally are immune to cheating.
Horses have too many human variables and each of them can influence the outcome to benefit themselves.
Pass
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Elimination Final 2025 Carlton vs West Coast
Quote from: LP – on
The AFL have sort of exposed the folly of the small / short AFLW competition with a number of clubs playing each other in consecutive weeks, it's time for the AFL to get serious about managing the AFLW and not just leave the competition in free fall.

There is 32 teams in the nfl, they have the same issue from time to time.
Our had literally nothing to do with the amount of teams, nor the size of the season.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Season
Quote from: Thryleon – on
Quote from: kruddler – on


Who has the most tennis singles grand slam wins?
Most people will tell you it's djokovic with 24.
However margaret court also had 24.
Did that not count because its a different competition?
You can do similar with golf etc





what's the world record for the 100 metres dash?

Do women's have a seperate world record?

You can say what you have said, and its correct, but im sure that we wouldnt cross code those streaks if other sports yielded a team with this record.

It actually loses credibility to attempt to do so.

All i'm saying is facts are facts.
You can give it as much, or as little, credibility as you want as that is your right.

I do a bit of trivia nights and they like throwing a 'curveball' sports question in there from time to time.

Its usually something like...
Which Australian tennis player had the highest singles ranking in the world during the year.....XXXX

On numerous occassions, the answer is a woman - eg Sam Stosur.

Nobody is suggesting Sam Stosur is better than any male tennis players over the same time, but facts are facts.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Season
Based on how the last round has gone so far, we are locked in to 5th spot, which is as good as we could hope for.

Adelaide play Fremantle today.....whoever wins goes 7th and knocks the Eagles down to 8th.
We will then play Eagles (again) in week 1 of the finals.....this time at home.
(If crows/freo draw, we play Freo at home)

If/when we win in week 1, we play the loser of 1vs4
Assuming Brisbane (4th) will beat Collingwood (15th) it will mean Kangaroos play Hawthorn in week 1 of finals.
This will mean we will almost certainly play Hawks in Week 2 of the finals....at Hawthorn.

If we manage to win that, we will end up playing, most likely, against Melbourne or Brisbane in week 3 (Hopefully Melbourne beat Brisbane in Week 1, meaning most likely play Melbourne in week 3)

Then it would be GF where we'd meet the all conquering Kangaroos and hopefully end their legacy for fairytale season.


Short version, 5th means we avoid Kangas and potentially don't leave Melbourne for finals.

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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Season
Quote from: Lods – on
I'm not going to argue this one.
Folks will have their own opinion as to the legitimacy of the claim.
From my point of view I find it a bit bizarre comparing records over two completely different competitions.

Who has the most tennis singles grand slam wins?
Most people will tell you it's djokovic with 24.
However margaret court also had 24.
Did that not count because its a different competition?
You can do similar with golf etc




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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW 2025 Season
Quote from: Lods – on
AFLW is not AFL.
Records shouldn't cross over.

One competition has been running for over 120 years.
A fledgling competition in it's infancy will always throw up skewed results like this.
It's only just settled on its final make-up.
In effect, it's only just beginning.

It's a fine achievement, but is in no-way comparable to the efforts of a team like Geelong.
I understand the need to promote the women's game but let it be against it's own standard.
It'll actually be easier in respect of most records not to be compared.

A record is a record.

It doesn't overshadow what the cats of 70+ years ago did, it just highlights that what we are in right now is a very unique situation.