There are two teams eliminated and two teams that have earned a bye. Who are they? Let’s get to it!
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The AFL Finals Bracket
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The AFL Finals Week One Results
The AFL Round 24 Highlights
AFL Finals Week Two Schedule
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AFL Footy Tipping Contest Results
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Notes and Comments
There were two big surprises as the two home teams in the Elimination Finals got knocked the fuck out of the competition.
GWS was absolutely dominating the Hawks for the first part of the first period. However, they could not take advantage and score goals. Hawthorn had three opportunities and scored goals on each of them. That turned what should have been a GWS blowout into a game that Hawthorn took control of. GWS did fight back at the end but it was too little too late.
Speaking of late, the Gold Coast Suns were trailing by 6 with a couple of minutes to go in Perth. Somehow, they managed to tie the game and then got a free kick right around the 50 meter line with about 40 seconds to go. It was dead straight and looked to be worth 6 until the replay showed it was tipped at the mark. It was still worth one point and with only 9 seconds left, it proved to be the game winner.
Collingwood turned back the clock and looked like the Collingwood that started the season on a roll. They beat Adelaide in Adelaide and now get a bye into the Preliminary Final. The other bye goes to the Geelong Cats as they beat the Brisbane Lions convincingly at the MCG. Next week, Adelaide hosts Hawthorn while Brisbane hosts Gold Coast in the first ever Finals Q Clash!
The Tipping Pool is down to the last few games. There are five games left and Sharky has a 3 game lead. Remember that we go all the way until the Grand Final, so it’s not over yet!
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If you haven’t become a member of a club or signed up for the Watch AFL app, you can still watch the AFL and AFLW 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. But I do recommend that you join a club. It’s fun and they send you free shit.
See you next week!
And Grok thinks it’s fake lol
Yes, I absolutely want to get into a car driven by code written by the same people that brought us Grok.
“The conflagration your flesh is currently being consumed by is actually special effects, you are fine, this is fine.”
This is the funniest take I have seen.
Going conspiracy on Trump stuff is always the best take.
Looks like a crime emergency in Utah, SEND IN THE TROOPS
There is a fair amount of litter in Salt Lake City, and don’t get me started on Provo, just sayin’.
Honestly, I just try to drive as fast as I can get away with in Utah County without stopping. Just a dark-ass place.
(whistling while walking out the door with wood boards, nails, hammer and ladder to raise the DFO American flag higher than Peak)
I’m glad I chucked those cheap Chinese flags I bought during the election; I would be so damned tempted to get up on the roof right now.
/next chapter in This American Dystopia
President: “You bet I fired all those disobedient Leftist flaggots that refused my order!”
Fox News: “We reached out to Taylor Swift but she didn’t respond. The question remains, ‘Can she account for her whereabouts at the time of the shooting?'”
https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-tells-taylor-swift-submit-your-husband-and-have-ton-children
Most recent comments are cracking me up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9mJ82x_l-E
There was another school shooting in Colorado today, too.
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-2/
https://bsky.app/profile/jezebeldotcom.bsky.social/post/3lydo3vvpxc2i
i feel like this was a slight waste of a good power
Hopefully they’re just warming up.
Gotta start somewhere
Wait, just two days ago? Damn, those witches work fast. What’s their Venmo?
I saw it suggested that it’s a surprise that Ben Shapiro wasn’t targeted first, but that would have been a much tougher shot. Ben Shapiro is 5’6″, tops. Charlie Kirk was 6’5″ and had a face the size of a manhole cover.
And weirdly, apparently the old guy who was detained was nawt the shooter, and the shooter is still at large.
So we don’t know who (let alone why), but I guess we got the what, where, and when.
And apparently Fox News mentioned his name ON AIR with an implication that he’d committed the shooting, so unless he’s part of the cult they will probably be looking at a nice juicy defamation suit.
Be a darn shame if it was a parent who’d lost a child to a mass shooting and then had to listen to Kirk say that such losses were necessary to protect the Second Amendment. Pity, that.
Missed these guys.
(JR Voice) “Good God Almighty, that’s Rod and Todd’s music!”
Somebody proved Charlie Kirk wrong
The bullet(s) did, anyway.
His body, assassin’s choice
Thoughts Around Charlie Kirk.
I don’t want to generate any estrogen by having prayers.
Paging Masters Rod and Todd Flanders, attention, attention, paging Masters Rod and Todd Flanders…
Good riddance.
Trump just posted that Charlie Kirk has died.
So Kirk will live to be 65.
Should hired Wu Tang Protection Services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0IUR4gkPIE
In apropos of nothing, for some reason I can’t bet Nick Castellanos to hit a home run tonight. He must be hurt.
Go into the light, Charlie. Don’t mind the heat.
If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a ghoul who said that his God Given 2nd amendment rights were worth more dead kids every year I would feel sympathy for him.
But he was, so I don’t.
And I respect your right to voice your beliefs.
Herr Orange is going to deploy National Guard to college campuses.
We’re two decisions away from Kent State Party in 2025, baby!
I left you something in the comments on last night’s post, hater!
Chrissie Hynde is the headlining musical act!
Oh no someone shot Charlie Kirk
From what I saw someone fired “a” shot possibly “towards” ol’ Charlie, but he wasn’t hit.
I expect him to launch a massive fundraiser as a result.
I, on the other hand, expect to donate a large sum of money towards any organization that will work to improve the marksmanship of our nation’s malcontents, because frankly they need it.
Dunno, my sources* say he was shot in the neck and it doesn’t look good, but then I’m always kind of an optimist.
*randos on the interwebz
thoughts & prayers!!
How on point that updates are provided by his Chief Marketing Officer.
Gotta respect the grind, whatever else you think about him.
“Her, it sounds like from the name. Not sure why she was out of the kitchen though.” – H. Butker, event attendee
Oh shit, check this out. GRAPHIC.
https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/1965852843627393331
If that’s a neck wound, the tourniquet should be placed just above the exit hole.
Keep it tight for a good 35 minutes.
No, tighter.
Where’s Derek Chauvin when you need him?
Oh right
Almost worth resubscribing to Twatter. Almost.
Here’s a bluesky link: h ttps://bsky.app/profile/antizionistjew.bsky.social/post/3lyixqas3jc2z
They must have taken it down
I wonder if Space Karen will throw his opinions on censorship out the window and start taking down the video.
I don’t normally celebrate when Horatio gets something wrong…
I don’t regret the error all that much.
“I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights” – Charlie Kirk, 2023
his last question was about gun violence too lawl
Kinda wanna nominate this for KOTW.
The scary thing is you KNOW this is going to be used to justify some sort of escalation.
I’m sure the people rending garments over this were equally upset when those Minnesota lawmakers were shot a couple months ago.
And sure, escalate away. White people in Utah should fight each other (since they were the shooter and shootee)
Some asshole shot Trump on the ear a few months ago. We’re way past a tipping point.
USA! USA! USA!
“We can’t release the Epstein files now; after what happened to Charlie Kirk it’s simply not the right time.”
I don’t know who did it but he was here in Ohio at the time helping me move furniture.
[pulls up Rod and Todd’s number on cellphone, holds finger poised above the “call” button] – me, right now
if he dies sales of Big Head Todd and the Monsters will spike
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADw0Y8JGF-I
Time to send the National Guard into Utah!
‘Not Included:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/terms-and-conditions-for-occupying-your-flesh-prison
Worth noting that Freemantle came back from a 21-point fourth quarter deficit to take the lead, and then had their chazzwozzers knifey-spoonied away with less than ninety seconds remaining, breaking their criminal-descended supporters’ hearts right there in their own dingo room.
It makes yer Matilda’s waltz, don’t it? Poetry!
AFL has been awesome to follow this season. Definitely gonna get a pass for the Bulldogs since they were the home team that we supported when Sharkette and I went in August.
I’ve since added to the sports display in my office with items from the game:
Awesome!!
As a scarf collector I approve this message.
/Mrs. Cola does not