AFL Beat 2024 – Round 18

Things seem to be back to normal. Sort of. Oh, and the West Coast Eagles finally fired their coach. Let’s see what happened.

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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

Sydney is back in the win column but it was against North Melbourne, so what can you really deduce from that? Next week’s game in Brisbane will tell us a lot about what to expect in Finals.

Geelong is now solidly in third after dispatching the inconsistent Collingwood Magpies. The Pies are now all the way down to 12th in the ladder and no one knows if they’re any good.

Hawthorn at 13th is only a game out of the Eight, so anything can happen. The only thing we know for sure is that North Melbourne, West Coast, and Richmond suck. Adelaide and St. Kilda may make a run, but it’s likely too late for them.

Spammy continues leading the Footy Tipping competition but again the pack is catching up. BC Dick and I had good weeks and we’re inching closer with plenty of time left in the season.

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!

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Senor Weaselo

Evening thread’s up.

fleshwound_NPG

(four hours ago)

BREAKING: Biden says he will consider dropping out of the race if a ‘medical condition’ was diagnosed by doctors

….guess what.

Redshirt
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I miss the days when COVID was killing a right-wing radio host every two weeks or so.

scotchnaut

Monday Republicans: “Covid? Just a Democrat invention.”

Tuesday Republicans: “The vaccine is a joke!”

Wednesday Republicans: “Biden has Covid-HE GONNA DIE!”

Redshirt
Doktor Zymm

I need a 6-8 hour nap

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

A negative-two hour nap? How does that work? Does it require methamphetamine?

scotchnaut

If anyone is traveling thru Wawa and looking for something to do, my driver blew out his knee (he says, pfffft!) and we’ve gotta get stuff off the truck.

wawa.jpg
Game Time Decision

I’ll be there in about 11 hours to help. Just need to finish work.

scotchnaut

When you get there, could you poke the him with a stick? I have to send some info to the Health and Safety Committee.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Can we talk about the latest version of “is it a catch”? Now in the AFL it’s “is it a dangerous tackle?” Two tackles earned players 3 game suspensions (each) for moves that most people believe were not intended to cause harm but their bans upheld upon appeal to the tribunal:

https://youtu.be/Il4sMgNoatU?si=ncp0z_klZ3qrO182

Now I’m just an unfrozen caveman american, but even the Richmond Tigers fans (on reddit) seem gobsmacked that Bedford got three games for running down Taranto while a player punching another player gets one.

Game Time Decision

wonder how many games for punching another player that then gets a concussion?

WCS

James Harrison will be fined.

Game Time Decision

and Janay Rice apologizes for her role in the incident

BrettFavresColonoscopy

One Richmond fan was like “maybe they thought it was the other Toby and that’s why it’s a three game ban.”

The league announced today they’re “adding dangerous tackles” to the agenda for the big club CEO meeting:
https://x.com/cleary_mitch/status/1813534441324835129

blaxabbath

Dude my neighbors cut down two huge pine trees in their front yard while I was gone. Wife said it took a day per tree. So this is Day 3 they’re out starting on these big fucking stumps. The one is popped way up so that seems to help them but, best I can tell, that’s just gonna be some blade-heavy laborious work.

At they didn’t even start until 7am!

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.”

-Guy Trump is Way Better Than to People Who Are Not in a Cult

2Pack

There are slide saw machines that chew up huge stumps in 20 minutes. They just took down about a dozen huge trees along the road on my way to work. Took a day of cutting and a half day of stump reduction. It’s now very sunny and odd along that stretch.

blaxabbath

Yeah they got the rest of the crew. It’s a mess out there. Super neat.

Brick Meathook

Dynamite. The classic solution to everything.

Brick Meathook

This is just a PostImage test image for that dang .avif format they now use:

https://i.postimg.cc/Hs8Cj3VK/temp-Imageibt-Xg8.avif

Brick Meathook

and it doesn’t work

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Aside from Sydney, there’s an insane amount of parity.

litre_cola

By God the Saints suck this year. You watch WCE beat em this week.

Sharkbait

I need to start watching AFL

Game Time Decision

i tell myself after every one of these this, and then life and my memory of a goldfish kick in, and i’m in the same place the following week.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Set a reminder in slack

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Reminders don’t sound like something a service called “slack” would do well.