This week, we had some mild upsets plus some beatdowns. Let’s get to it!
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The AFL Ladder
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The AFL Round 7 Results
The AFL Round 7 Highlights
AFL Round 8 Schedule
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AFL Footy Tipping Contest Results
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Notes and Comments
Gold Coast was impressive in coming back to destroy Sydney. I watched the first quarter and they were not doing well. If they can be consistent, they will be difficult during finals.
Collingwood is pretty clearly the best team in the competition. They take on Geelong next week and I’m seeing a beatdowns in the making.
GWS made up for last week’s embarrassing 34 point display with a hefty 81 points. They still lost.
West Coast is still winless and I don’t see where it when a win is coming. Boy, the dropoff has been enormous! This team was consistently in finals just a few short years ago!
Next week, the marquee game is the Battle of Queensland with Brisbane hosting Gold Coast. If you can start up on Saturday night, this one will be worth watching!
Spammy has roared back into the lead with a great week of tipping. Sharkbait is tied on points and only in second because of the margin. Litre and BC Dick are only one point back. I’m thinking there should be a separate contest to see who wins the family championship. Perhaps a bet is in order?
If you are a member of an AFL club or you got a Watch AFL membership, you should be able to watch every AFL and AFLW game, including replays. Game times vary between Australian afternoon and evening, which actually makes it easier for us in North America to watch as the games can be seeing in the evenings on Pacific Time and early mornings on Eastern time.
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!
ESPN: “Alex Ovechkin, what a miracle that he can walk upright at the advanced age of 39 and is not crumbling into dust from the sheer effort of lacing up his skates!”
Jaromir Jagr: (53 years old and skating backwards while playing in
CzechoslavakiaThe Czech Republic in his 37th year of professional hockey). “Wow, pretty cool”Britt Reid: (horrifically injures a girl with a car)
John Elway: HOLD MY BEER NEIGH NEIGH NEIGH
Holy shit, what an awful story.
That we’ll never find out what really happened during because the cops didn’t respond immediately and more importantly because John Elway is both very white and very rich.
We, I mean they THEY get away with so much.
Yeah, Elway will get nothing but a slap on the hoof.
I mean, I’m not sure I’ve been in a golf cart more than once in my life where I was sober, so it’s not like I should be flinging too many stones.
If I ever cost my father $100,000 because I was being an idiot I would never go home and would instead just immediately join the French Foreign Legion.
I wouldn’t go home because my key would definitely not work, also I’d be murdered and no jury would convict him.
We’re at LAX on our way to London and it took every ounce of my strength to resist throwing up double birds at the video of Kristi Noem and shouting that she’s a dog murderer.
Have a posh time! (needless to say, I envy you except for seeing Kristi DogDeath)
Wishing you a jolly good voyage, old sport!
(& yeah, fuck that monster with a barrel cactus)
Thought our bunny people (Bunnymen, sans Echo?) would enjoy this article about Alex the Great:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/04/18/alex-the-great-therapy-rabbit/
(free, archived link: https://archive.ph/RtZpT )
BallsOfSteel right now (artist’s conception):
RELEASE THE 🔱🔱🔱!!! Crush the Halos!!
You always get there that late?
Damn traffic. Almost missed gate opening.
And the Halos take a 1-0 lead, which they will surely keep throughout!
Seattle’s pitcher blows. They’ll get a few more.
Dunno, he has “cock” in his name, usually a good sign.
It’s a purdy shot. Must get to Seattle sometime, find a grunge concert and a “Starbucks” whatever that is.
Even better when the sun’s out.
That’s a gorgeous shot.
Typical M’s crowd. We went to games in the Kingdome that were so empty you coukd hear people talking on the other side of the dome.
Such a shame. This is a great ballpark and the team is in first place.
And a beautiful day to catch a game. I don’t get it.
Probably has something to do with it being the middle of a work day.
Lots of people take Wednesday off to go to a ballgame. Tens of people.
Work. Lol.
I’m pretty sure they could have blown up the Kingdome during a Mariners game and not killed anyone.
Pinch hitter for Trout? WTF happened to him?
Possible injury. I’m the guy in the turban:
Bummer. Sucks for him.
[immediately calls I.C.E., inquires about potential bounties]
I’ve never been to El Salvador, and Rick Steves (I think he’s the pope) says traveling to new places broadens your horizons.
“Possible”
Hoping it’s just a Lamar-esque doody thing.
But it’s probably “severed patellar tendon and testicle”
For a guy that big and muscular a large percentage of his body seems to consist of Kleenex.
I’m betting hamstring strain trying to run out the hit in the 2nd. He was out so injury to insult.
So we are in Yakima WA and the wife has developed a very nasty cold, but the weather is wonderful, the Happy Times Marijuana dispensary is fantastic, never seen such a selection, and currently that Mama J’s sativa has calm, relaxed, and feeling alright.
https://youtu.be/FoAO0851FwA?si=u_iRZKRe1BKo7eTA
I hope she doesn’t have what I had, it SUCKED.
I am trying to stay healthy with massive clouds of smoke around me so the virus gets stoned and lose interest in me, they will want Funyons.
So…it looks like the Utah Hockey Team will become the Utah Mammoth (singular).
I hate it, but not as much as I hate the Kings choking away the series to Edmonton.
https://youtu.be/qCoUmMDiEhs?si=8OmJHaJxqnvicSMy
Fav song by them
https://youtu.be/_FA85RO89HA?si=ddQEzWcloOZ8F68N
Why only one, I thought the Mormons were into large families (herds)?
Lotta mammoth in Utah, you know.
Oh, Mormon. Sorry, I meant Mormon. Yeah, Mammoth is a dumb name.
They coulda gone with Mormons, or even MoreMons, or even Moronis.
But Mammoth (singular) is just stupids.
Stormin’ Mormons is right there.
They will ALWAYS be the Utah Soakers
And they are stealing the name from a lacrosse team, the Colorado Mammoth
That’s a quality logo.
Next year when I’m retired, I hope to have the time to check out AFL games so I can do your detailed work here justice. But until then all I can do is pay Balls his dues the only way I know how.
I’m kicking myself for not watching the Essendon-Collingwood game, which was on TV here, but not too hard because I probably would have watched them fall behind early and turned it off and gone to bed angry.
“Why go to bed angry when you could stay up and vacuum?”
-dismebodied voice at the RTD household