It was an exciting week. Let’s get right into it!
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The Ladder
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The Results
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The Highlights
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Next Round’s Schedule
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Footy Tipping Contest
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Notes and Comments
You will notice that all the games this week are in Adelaide. This is a special Round that the AFL created for this year called the “Gather Round” (sounds like gather around) where all teams play their games in one city. If it is successful, they may move this around to other Australian cities in future years.
BFC and Lemonjello’s GWS Giants are still undefeated and at the top of the ladder. Let’s see if they can keep up their hot start against the Suns.
Collingwood finally won their first game of the year in a tough environment in Brisbane. That bodes well for them to get their season back on track.
Thank you to all the DFOers that have become Founding Members of the Tasmania Devils! Details for the new team are here: Tasmania! If you want a founding membership, go here! I love that someone in Tasmania is looking at these memberships from random cities in North America and scratching their head wondering how this happened.
It’s a full round this week with no byes. If you haven’t become a member of a club or signed up for the Watch AFL app, you can still watch the games in the USA on either FS1 or FS2 and in Canada on TSN. Showtimes can be found here on the Australian Football Association of North America website.
Don’t forget to put the Footy Tips in! See you next week!
About a year ago, I submitted a job we did for some industry award, won it (because I’m a winner, unlike Zach Wilson) and I came here for some advice on getting a little trade organization mag identified and an ad placed. Fozz helped, for example, so the final product was surely quite inoffensive.
Anyways, it’s a biennial award so I’m starting my submissions for next April’s awards — looking like I’ll have two garages in for submission. Pretty sick!
Sorry — I’m just taking online traffic school and kind of bullshitting around for a couple hours….
You can imagine my chagrin a couple of days ago when I googled “Essendon Highlights” and the first video was a “Last Two Minutes” one which began with That’s My Bombers! clinging to a small lead.
But my dread was unfounded! They pulled it out!
THIS GUY u/I_Only_Have_One_Hand I CALL HIM THE ALTAR BOY CAUSE HE JUST GOT TOUCHED BY A CARDINAL
https://www.reddit.com/gallery/1btm0kq
Speaking of sports most of DFO doesn’t watch, I enjoyed this baseball content
https://www.instagram.com/p/C41-bF8sAGn/?igsh=MXh1cWllMjE5b2dzbA==
Curt Shilling deserves to walk on legos for the rest of his life
That seems cruel for the Legos.
I noticed this morning that the Dirt Stillers are 5-0, which is pretty kewl
I thought he was in the Hall! What reason are they giving for keeping him out?
Fyi this isn’t the first year they’re doing a gather round, but this is the first year they’ve created this abomination of a jersey to celebrate it
https://www.rebelsport.com.au/p/afl-gather-round-2024-mens-guernsey-M68621101.html
Da fuq is that?
The ugliest jersey you’ve ever seen. If it weren’t so expensive it would be a great punishment for last place in the tipping pool.
I can’t believe I spaced and forgot they did it last year!
That. Is a very busy… Freaking… Jersey.
Carlton. Dance. PARTY!