Round 8: the other games. The battle for the spoon.

[Mark26]

No goals in the first quarter of Hawks/Eagles.

Good to see the Wees and Poos lose again. Or is it mustard on turd?

[stevoswan]

Re: Dogs v Blues.....as much as I don't like Carlton, all I can say is Go Blues! Tight so far.....Dogs up by six at quarter time.

[stevoswan]

Good to see the Wees and Poos lose again. Or is it mustard on turd?

One more goal to the Eagles and we would have dropped to sixth......only 0.3% ahead of Eagles now. A Lions win will likely still drop us to sixth though.

[dejavoodoo44]

Good to see the Wees and Poos lose again. Or is it mustard on turd?

Definitely mustard on turd. And the last four places are currently Essendon, Collingwood, Hawthorn and North.

[Thunder Shaker]

Good to see the Wees and Poos lose again. Or is it mustard on turd?

When Hawthorn FC was founded in 1902, all the best colour combinations had already been taken. Hawthorn's colours are the inevitable result.

Re: Dogs v Blues.....as much as I don't like Carlton, all I can say is Go Blues! Tight so far.....Dogs up by six at quarter time.

It's late in the third and Carlton are up by over three goals. I hope Carlton win from here.

[dejavoodoo44]

When Hawthorn FC was founded in 1902, all the best colour combinations had already been taken. Hawthorn's colours are the inevitable result.

Curiously, very few football teams have brown in their colour scheme; no matter what the code. Cleveland Browns in the NFL. St Pauli, who used to be in the Bundesliga. Penrith used to in the NRL. There's probably more, but I can't think of any offhand.

While I don't think I have any brown in my wardrobe, is it really that bad? Then again, thinking of the brown and pink that Hawthorn wore a few years back, perhaps it is?

[stevoswan]

Dogs charging back into the contest....not really watching closely at all, I wonder if the umps are stamping their 'fairypup' foot on the game?

[Mark26]

Definitely mustard on turd. And the last four places are currently Essendon, Collingwood, Hawthorn and North.

How glorious is that bottom four? Now Adelaide just needs to leapfrog the Blues and that would be a fantastic bottom five.

[Nico]

I thought Carlton looked good until they ran out of legs. It won't be an easy game when we play them.

[i'm-uninformed2]

The look on Harry McKay’s face are the final siren was one of: what am I doing here with this bunch of no hopers?

For the sake of the argument, we had to give up 2x1st rounds and give him $800000 a year for five years.

Would you do it?

[dejavoodoo44]

How glorious is that bottom four? Now Adelaide just needs to leapfrog the Blues and that would be a fantastic bottom five.

Yes, go the Crows.
Although, sometimes I almost feel sorry for North fans, after their 16 losses in a row. But then I remember, that along with Hawthorn and West Coast fans, they were the worst offenders in the Goodes saga.

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The look on Harry McKay’s face are the final siren was one of: what am I doing here with this bunch of no hopers?

For the sake of the argument, we had to give up 2x1st rounds and give him $800000 a year for five years.

Would you do it?

Well, I'd be more tempted than I was for Daniher. But unless the Melbourne media spotlight starts to drive him crazy, I doubt if we'll be anywhere near the head of the queue.

[bloodspirit]

On club colours, why is green basically unseen in the AFL? Are there other Aussie rules teams that have some green? Am I imagining it or did Freo used to feature a snippet of green trim somewhere? It's not like green has unfortunate associations like with brown. And nor is it a less mainstream colour, like pink or purple or orange (two of which colours are used by late entrants to the AFL). Anyone know? Or have any theories?

[barry]

grass.

green players, on green grass = invisible

[Meg]

Round 8: the other games. The battle for the spoon.

On club colours, why is green basically unseen in the AFL? Are there other Aussie rules teams that have some green? Am I imagining it or did Freo used to feature a snippet of green trim somewhere? It's not like green has unfortunate associations like with brown. And nor is it a less mainstream colour, like pink or purple or orange (two of which colours are used by late entrants to the AFL). Anyone know? Or have any theories?

I have also pondered the lack of green, particularly given the number of teams sporting blue.

Woodville in the SANFL (Malcolm Blight’s home team) wore green and gold until their amalgamation with West Torrens in 1990. The club colours for the new Woodville-West Torrens then incorporated green into the blue and gold of West Torrens. I think their current jumper still carries these three colours.

I reckon the Bottle Green, Yellow and Red colour combination of the Tasmanian state colours look terrific. I always admire the colours worn by Tasmanian state cricketers. The addition of the red makes the otherwise ugly green and gold work (in my view). Something that our Olympic teams battle with (as shown by the wildly different greens they come up with).

I reckon when/if we get a Tasmanian AFL team that’s the colour combination we will see.

[bloodspirit]

Thanks for your response, Meg. I reckon green and white is another perfectly viable combo. In other codes green gets used: in NRL the Raiders wear green, in rugby Randwick has long worn green. Ireland wear green in many sports.

I think your tip for the Tassie team is astute.