Things are pretty crazy this season. It’s getting close to the end of the season and it’s still super tight. Let’s see what happened.
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The Ladder
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The Results
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The Highlights
Please note that the AFL decided St. Kilda -West Coast was such a shit game that there were no highlights. Instead, you get the last two minutes of the Brisbane-Sydney game:
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Next Round’s Schedule
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Footy Tipping Contest
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Notes and Comments
Sydney versus Brisbane was definitely the game of the week. It felt like a Finals game. Last week, I said it will tell us a lot about what to expect in Finals. I think this year’s Finals are going to be the most exciting and close in quite a few years, maybe ever.
Geelong dropped a winnable game at home against Western and is down in the ladder though still in the Eight. I can’t really say they are any good although they’ve shown flashes.
Collingwood’s season has gone off the rails. This week’s loss to Hawthorn wasn’t just bad, it was embarrassing. It seems impossible to think this team is the defending champion.
Adelaide and St. Kilda keep winning and are within a miracle of making the Eight. Given how this season has gone, I wouldn’t rule it out. As for the rest, I think the eight Finals spots will be decided on the last day of the regular season. There is going to be some DRAMA!
Spammy has righted the ship, topping all tippers this week. The rest of us are hot on his heels and there is still time left in the season to catch him.
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!
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The Olympics!
Today is the first day of competition! On tap are men’s football/soccer and Rugby Sevens! Your schedule is below. All times are Best Coast Time and all coverage is through Peacock and various NBC networks in the US.
See you next week!
Fiji supporters at the 2018 World Cup in SF, which Fiji also won (although the US were first losers!)
THIS US RUGBY TEAM I CALL IT BUYING WATER AT THE AIRPORT BECAUSE THEY’RE GETTING VIOLATED BY FIJI
THIS US RUGBY TEAM I CALL THEM THE ROCKETS BECAUSE THEY SEEM TO HAVE BEEN AFFLICTED WITH THE FIJI FLU.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSMU_XdIiUk
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Wow, Fiji is kicking the absolute shit out of the USA at Rugby 7s.
Perhaps another round of atomic testing in the South Pacific is in order.
What do you think gave them super-strength to begin with?
Fiji is the best in the world at Sevens, the USA… Not so much. In fact, no other country has ever won a Olympic gold at the sport since it was only introduced in 2016 and Fiji won both that one and the 2020 one.
This France-URGay rugby game (match? thing?) is Gâteaux à la banane
-sigh-
Well, time for a monthly meeting with my supervisor.
/turns down TV
//puts on shirt
Mebbe try it with the shirt off and nipple clamps fully visible.
Leave Lowratio in the cage though.
“Oh, so you think I didn’t try hard enough with the Jenkins account?”
Why does your wife want you to put on a shirt?
This guy was way ahead of the curve on the baguette being named a “Treasure Of Humankind”, or whatever.
I just got a notification from my doctor’s office. I am a user now on AthenaHealth.
Athena – Goddess of the Patriarchy
What a cuck. Should be on Apollo smh.
Stupid Canadians can’t even cheat properly.
https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/40629677/canadian-soccer-coach-analyst-olympics-drone-use
Hey buddy, sourry, thought we could use drones eh?
Apparently not even Canuckistan’s first offense like this.
Cheating loonies!
They apoloUgized and it’s all friendly hunky-dory now, d’aww
Chaos in an Argentine soccer game!?!?
Argentine Olympic Soccer Federation official response: (artist’s conception)
16 minutes of extra time?
WTAF
Apparently the official felt that Morocco had been wasting time earlier in the game.
Short of taking naps on the pitch, however, I’m not sure how you get to 15 minutes. Add to that the tying-but-later-disallowed goal was scored in the 16th minutes of extra time.
But you combine FIFA with the Olympics and you’re gonna get shenanigans.
KENYA!!
AUSSIE, AUSSIE, AUSSIE!! OY, OY, OY!!!
(there doesn’t appear to be a lot of emphasis on defense in this tilt.
No time for defense!
So we play the host country in a couple hours?
USA USA USA (that’s the network it’s on)
If you’re thinking about Rugby Sevens, that already happened.
Nope, futbol.
Well, I’ll be… We play them twice today!
That Argentina-Morocco game was Cray Cray!
Rugby Sevens!
But do I really want to pay for Peacock?
It IS fun to watch Fiji kick butt, but I’m also gonna be out of the country for a few days so hmmm
U-S-A U-S-A U-S-A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyrNktD_PwA
The former dictator’s daughter of Uzbekistan approves of the soccer match thus far.
hey ChapGTP, make me an image of an elven princess in the Shire
“An eleven princess? I’m there!”
-M. Gaetz, misreading the comment, probably
What are “Things never overheard in the Vivid Videos interns exit interviews” ?
I’ll take Potent Potables for $1000, please.
Wrong, I am pretty sure at least a supervisor has written that on the evaluation form for the interns “exit” interview.