GO YOU CROWS!
You know what I find annoying? Plagiarism. As my good friend Aelius Donatus once said, "Perish those who said our good things before we did." I looked on the Oztips website tonight and Pavpaaaa just RIPS me off before I've even written a thing. "It was an amazing win by the crows, awe inspiring stuff to brush aside Richmond in the last quarter. A tough and dire encounter until then with both sides playing an amazingly high standard of football to keep to keep the scores so low for 3 quarters. But then, once the crows lost their best player to injury (who doesn't like a Stiffy?), they fought for his memory and rolled over the top of the mighty Richmond Football Club to the victorious cries of all the mothers in the crowd... "
Some people probably think he is being a touch facetious - but I am INSPIRED! He then went on to talk about 21,000 empty seats though and that gets my goat. The Paps get a cuppla wins up when they expected precisely ZERO from the year, and all of a sudden they start bleating. It's like the kiwi's and Australia. They all know they aren't really good enough, but every now and again they jag a victory and it's all so exciting. CROWDS?? The Paps cover up 80% of the stadium with black flags cos they know they'll never get more than 21,000 people to a game. Still, well may he chuckle, cos on the injury front, over in Papsmear land, the Power had some good news - Tredrea out for 10 - 12 weeks. Good news? Well where were the Paps when he went off in the second quarter? BEHIND. Where were they 2.5 quarters later? AHEAD. These are the kind of sums even a Pies supporter could calculate. Too old. Too slow. Move on. And when he did, the Bombers had no answers... all of a sudden they couldn't rely on Fletcher to cover some crappy 3rd stringer as per usual. No, he had to man up. Game over.
Fletch is the most OVER rated footballer in the game over the last decade. I know it's been said, but how does a full back get rated decent if they never play (a) full back and (b) on a decent player? Some other poor sausage has to take on Fev n Brown while Fletcher plays on some peasant and gets kudos for running off him occasionally, sticking that inspector gadget leg out to trip them if they look like getting away, and watching them leak more goals than the 20/20 summit had stupid ideas. That was 900 by the way. Matty Knights is still Coach of the Century though. Inspirational comment after the game... "sometimes you just have to mature as a team..." Ahhh thanks Matty - only sometimes. Excellent stuff. Actually I'm pissed off. Daaaaave "I'm a bombers supporter but they are rubbish and I don't tip them even in 50/50 games at home" Cassell told me the Bombers would lose, and I didn't believe him. But then again why would I? He reckons they'll lose every week. To be fair he is usually right.
In a ripper of a game, the Dees - sporting a lovely hue of pink - pushed the Doggies right to the limit on Friday night. It helped that the Dees were wearing the same colour as the umps. Big Bad Bloody Useless Barry Hall continues to do NOTHING on the field. Can't kick goals - total waste of time in my dream team - and can't kick heads. TOUGHEN UP BAZ!!! YOU ARE SHT! GO THE BIFF!! 7 people picked baz to lose the plot in round 8 against his old friends at the Swans, and I hope yer all right cos he is WASTING MY TIME with his girly approach to the game at the moment. Clearly without BAM BAM BAM in his head, he lacks PASSION for the game. The Dogs are deadset lucky to be in the 8 and if the Crows had won 3 more games they would be ahead of them by now. VERY lucky.
Speaking of lucky, those Beagles are lucky. Lucky they played the Hawks. Cos the Beagles are crap but the Hawks are crapper. As in Thomas. Actually, having just looked up crap in the dictionary, it appears that while it IS a synonym for Fletcher, it is also derived NOT from Thomas Crapper - the popular mythic origin of the word - but from the dutch crappen - to snap one off - and the french crappa - errr... poo. No idea why they needed two words to get crap when Fletch is enough.
Those Hawks though eh? I would hate to support a team that hadn't won a game in the last 6 weeks. You must be crappen crappa. I've always said that yer only as good as yer last game. But at least you have that sedate President Kennett. The only reason he took the role was cos he wanted to be President of SOMEthing.
One thing I hate to talk about at the moment is the rather handy form of the Pies.
Ablett turned on a master class against the Swans. He was unbelievable. They sought him here, they sought him there, they sought that bald bstard everywhere. Chappers wasn't too bad either. The Swans had no answers and their easy start to the season is over. Cos lets look at it - they played the Saints - who are currently getting PUMPED by the Blues. Dzzzt. They beat Brissy with no defence. Dzzzt. They beat the Beagles who have no defence, midfield or attack. Dzzzt. They beat North Melbourne who couldn't beat meat. Dzzzt. They beat Richmond who admittedly did push the Crows so maybe they are slightly credible but not back then I'm sure. Dzzzt. And in their only really worthy victory of the year, they beat the Crows, who were missing 43 players with injury at the time. On the other hand, the Cats are looking solid. Very.
Freo eh? Who woulda thunk it? Well, I picked em but i wouldn't have picked em to be equal top. Lovely stuff. And lets hope they don't get an injury to Sandilands, lest they drop like a Melbourne Storm to the bottom of the ladder.
The Ladder
Well I believe there were some 7's this week - not a bad effort given the Blues upset. And what it does do is put that dirty rotten Port supporter PavPaaaaa into the lead. He timed his rant well!
In the side comp we are down to 4 people, with Fava Beans picking the Hawks. Into Round 8 and it's $80 up for grabs... Lets get it out the way early and put it on the Dockers / Pies games... good luck with that one!
Round 8
It starts with a cracker. The Dockers n Pies. Wow. The Dockers are impressing and the Pies are solid as. No surprises that neither team has an injury list. These grapes are sour. They tasted a lot better when they were just distributed to Hawks supporters.
The Dogs host the Swans and Big Bad Barry will have to contend with the might of LRT. Bcubed will be masturbating all week thinking about this one but his load will be all for nothing cos the Swans are better than the Dogs at the moment - home or away.
While the Dees will beat the Eagles, the Crows will continue their amazing winning streak by rubbing the Roos face in it. They are now an unstoppable force. You know it.
The Lions have nothing at the moment. They peaked three weeks ago and they are on the way DOWN. The Cats will bury them. Then urinate on their graves. But the Tigers and Hawks... hmmm... Could this be the Tigers first win for the year? MadJacob? What say you? As you trek around South America to avoid your 7th loss in a row. The Tigers could be the loss you had to have.
Carlton are coming off an impressive win over the Saints but have shown they can't win two in a row. The Paps are coming off an unimpressive win over the Bombouts but have shown they can't win two in a row. Draw anyone?
And the Saints will beat the Bombers by 15 goals.
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