Afl 2010

[writeoff]

Anyone keen to go to the Showdown this Sunday? Game kicks off at 4:10pm.

Prices are for adults are $38.85 undercover; $35.85 from 50m arc, along the wing to other 50m arc; or $26.50 behind the goals.

Prices for concession are $29.15 undercover; $27.65 50m arc to 50m arc; $20.35 behind the goals.

These games are generally tight and the Power won the round 6 game this year. I wouldn't be surprised if the Power turned their fortunes around and squashed the Crows' finals aspirations.

Let me know if you want to go as I'd like to book tickets either tonight or tomorrow at the latest.

[Tangles]

I would love to - however I cant fit in the seat aisles!!! not enough space for my long gogogadget legs, makes it extremely uncomfortable.

by half time Im in a world of hurt. Just isnt worth it for me tbqh.

[Damo_R34]

you know i might just come. Ill let you know Dave

[SLED]

These games are generally tight and the Power won the round 6 game this year. I wouldn't be surprised if the Power turned their fortunes around and squashed the Crows' finals aspirations.

yeah right Dave

[TALBO]

I'll be there David, a mate got the tickets today.

[writeoff]

yeah right Dave

History has shown that ladder positions and previous form count for very little in Showdowns and quite often the favourite loses. Overall the Power lead 15-13.

Since the 'Ultimate Showdown' semi-final in 2005 the results have gone:

2006 Rd 06: Crows

2006 Rd 21: Power

2007 Rd 03: Crows

2007 Rd 18: Crows

2008 Rd 03: Crows

2008 Rd 16: Power

2009 Rd 06: Power

2009 Rd 17: Crows

2010 Rd 06: Power

2010 Rd 17: Power

[Tangles]

so, WB sacked Jason Akermanis

what a failure of a club (my opinion).... there goes this years premership opportunity

it's guys like Aker who make footy clubs like they want to be - ie successful, talked about, feared, hated, loved....- WB knew this 4 yrs ago and know this now, so what has changed?

[Damo_R34]

they thought he would pull his head in after Brisbane sacked him, now they have learnt that the guy will never learn! I dont mind Aker, and hes a good player, but if he would just stop trying to be so controversial, hed be so much more popular.

"However, it's also the case that over the last 18 months, Jason has been involved in a number of incidents in which matters confidential to the inner sanctum of our football department and players have been the subject of inappropriate disclosure on their behalf outside the club."

- David Smorgan, WB President

Sounds like hes been warned before.

[niksta]

ahhhh, how sweet it feels to beat the crows. Even though it was frustraiting at times at how shit port played, I was just glad they won. That is it!!!

[SLED]

I feel sorry for Aker but he's his own worst enemy..........I don't ever recall a player having ever been sacked from 2 clubs.

The guy unfortunately doesn't understand all the "C" words: club culture, comradery, conduct & code......if he was an outlaw biker, he'd be dead man walking.

Aker refuses to look past his nose at the wider picture but would rather argue tit for tat about little issues cause he knows he'd win the little arguements rather than see that 1 player is never bigger than the club.

Sam Newman took his side cause he felt obliged after dropping his name in when he shouldn't have and managed to suck in the whole audience with his eloquent speech......Gary Lyon was the only one there that was credible by offering his views from the perspective of an ex champion player, Captain, and true club man.

Aker needs to wake up cause the world doesn't revolve around him even if he was in the top 10 best players in the AFL........which he's not by a long shot.

I've heard the arguement that if he was in the top 10 best players in the AFL, that they wouldn't have sacked him........maybe not, but they'd be barely putting up with him. Sure he had a big say in the 3 Lion's flags but that was almost a decade ago, now he's extra baggage with more of a liability than an asset to the club.

[SLED]

so far this game's delivered everything I thought it would.....this is def a preview of the September game to come

[SLED]

scoreboard flattered Cats........they got smashed

I reckon Pies have played their grand final 6 wks too early though....might be a different story in Sept

[Boof]

Played well today hey Pete Best we've looked since we got Nick back stopped looking for him everytime we went forward which is a big plus for us! Hopefully we can build going into sept now

[alr33x]

i think pies have peaked too soon, but time will tell. saints have been written off by alot of people silly move in my opinion and geelong well they rested players last night and did a decent job..

[SLED]

Footy??!

Meh.......I'm so over it

[Dohmar]

Footy??!

Meh.......I'm so over it

yer i see the magpies are needing to raise another $250k or something around that ballpark to remain in the SANFL - wtf are they doing over there with all the money, buying all the crystal meth from ben cousins ex dealer?

-D

[Tangles]

big congrats to 'Cuz' for his amazing footy career @ west coast & richmond

my favourite player this decade 00-10 (last decade was shaun rehn)

[Krishy]

yeah just saw he retired.....he was an awesome player regardless of his off field antics.....

[SLED]

Hmm, no more Bocky and nothing in return for him...........if I was Crow supporter I'd feel really ripped off just like West Coast will at the end of the year when they get the wooden spoon but no 1st round or extra picks.

Struggling clubs are gonna really hate the 2 new teams!

[TALBO]

Looks as though your guys might be losing one there too. The concessions imo are too much for these new teams, AFL are seriously fking the game up.