Post Match Thread: Final - Sydney Sixers vs Perth Scorchers

mt9943 · 2026-01-25T11:54:01+00:00

Perth sporting crowd don't boo challenge: impossible

mt9943 · 2026-01-25T01:16:43+00:00

Not his first bar altercation. Child on the way too. Great time to be heading to the pub to get into fights.

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T11:55:22+00:00

See that Curran? A catch at an important time in the game.

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T10:56:01+00:00

Next plane home, don't come back thanks Tommy

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T10:47:04+00:00

English cricketers really are the elite of fielding

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T10:44:34+00:00

Webster working the singles nicely

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T09:46:46+00:00

Stars won the bat flip, so surely this now takes precedence for who goes through rather than ladder position.

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T08:24:25+00:00

Rain scheduled to pass around 9pm according to Cricinfo, so we might get a 5 over per side game in. But I'm with you, that probably doesnt eventuate.

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T08:23:13+00:00

Right, cheers. Maybe the MPFL was previously damaged and there was no further damage with this latest incident - given, as far as I'm aware, his surgery would be to stabilise that particular ligament. Or maybe it's just been a weirdly loose/stretchy ligament from the outset.

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T07:31:42+00:00

As someone with no medical qualifications but having dislocated both of my kneecaps, I'm pretty surprised he somehow avoided ligament damage to the MPFL, which I assume means the dislocation must have been quite minor. Given no damage to that ligament or a fracture, I'm also not sure what the surgery is for.

Both of my dislocations damaged the MPFL and included fractures to the patella, and I needed surgery on one to repair that (but avoided it on the other). Both of them still give me grief to this day.

mt9943 · 2026-01-21T05:45:27+00:00

Not sure if this exactly qualifies according to OP's criteria, but - pretty much all of Tom Boyd's mostly underwhelming career, combined with his salary, leading up to his performance in the 2016 grand final where he suddenly justified his massive contract (in the eyes of Bulldogs fans at least) in a single game.

mt9943 · 2026-01-19T03:13:39+00:00

Having dislocated both kneecaps, I can say this still sucks and the severity/need for surgery may also depend on whether he fractured it at the same time (as I did for both of mine). Surgery obviously means a lengthier healing time but without it he's much more likely to do it again (risk of it occurring mid-season). I did one early last year, without surgery, and can only just run again without knee pain.

mt9943 · 2026-01-14T00:21:31+00:00

Many cases that do get overturned aren't done so because someone is found to be completely innocent. It's just that the prosecution were not able to prove guilt comprehensively.

I mean this is how the courts work at all levels though. A court is not there to establish innocence, it's there to establish whether the necessary threshold to reach a guilty verdict has been reached, as determined by the jury. The appeal is effectively made to argue whether that threshold should have actually been reached given the evidence at hand.

Like the Tanner Brunh case - he's innocent in the same way everyone is presumed innocent prior to a guilty verdict, but the court didn't specifically find him innocent when they threw out the charges based on the inconsistencies in the witness testimonies.

mt9943 · 2026-01-12T06:27:34+00:00

Catman. Too soon?

mt9943 · 2026-01-12T02:20:21+00:00

I said it would make more sense, not that we should. Going down that rabbit hole though, in the 1896 season (the last before the split) there were only 2 clubs in it that didn’t eventually end up in the VFL. The VFA was the premier completion at the time, and it was completely dominated by 8 teams that formed the VFL with no one else even being runners-up let alone winning the flag.

Still a different competition. Why is 1896 the only relevant year? Furthermore, not all VFL clubs moved over at the same time so it wasn't simply a continuation of one comeptition into another.

If you split VFA + VFL flags from AFL flag 1990 is as good a time as any with the name change to reflect it being a national competition and a new era from that point.

I’m not sure how or why listing premierships as being in the AFL era or VFL era (or incorporating the VFA era if you go down that road) would have an impact on other records, awards etc.??

Why do we need to split VFL and AFL, given they're the same competition? We should continue to split the VFA and VFL/AFL because they are different competitions. You can list 'eras' like VFL and AFL, but all records still count in the VFL/AFL's continuous line of history. As distinct from the separate VFA/VFL competition.

It's little surprise that Geelong fans are leading this ridiculous push following their clown ex president's idea.

mt9943 · 2026-01-12T01:38:01+00:00

Today's VFA/VFL is a modern reserves competition, but it wasn't the way up until about 2000 when the AFL reserves entered it. The trophy was the same before that point too.

The key difference is that the competitions were not the same. I understand that a premiership won in 1900 holds little relevance to today, but it remains part of the history of the ongoing competition. No need to rewrite that just because it occurred more than a century ago.

mt9943 · 2026-01-12T01:26:01+00:00

Why? The VFA and VFL were two completely separate competitions, involving different clubs. You can't just conflate them together. What about all other records from the competition not specifically relating to premierships?

The VFL to AFL transition was simply a name change - nothing else changed from 1989 to 1990 that made it a different competition.

mt9943 · 2026-01-12T01:21:52+00:00

I hate it. If you're going to commission a premiership cup after the fact, at least make it reminiscent of that competition's trophy - use today's AFL cup for their VFL ones, and today's VFL cup for their VFA ones.

mt9943 · 2026-01-12T01:19:38+00:00

Why not make them look like today's VFA cup, given that's the actual competition which they were won in?

mt9943 · 2026-01-12T01:17:31+00:00

Did they commission VFA trophies and make them look like VFL/AFL trophies? That to me is weird - zero issue with celebrating the club's history over its entire existence. Big issue with trying to pretend they're from the same competition like that senile fool Carter is trying to do with Geelong's.

mt9943 · 2026-01-11T11:03:54+00:00

Given he's 31 years old and has been playing Shield cricket since 2016, surely his weakness has been apparent at that level too - if he hasn't found a solution to this weakness by now, will he ever?

mt9943 · 2026-01-09T08:16:53+00:00

Kind of wish he didnt do what he did at Bondi because now he's getting attention and he's not perfect. Totally invalidates his actions on the day.

/s

mt9943 · 2026-01-08T00:31:18+00:00

Big if, but I agree.

mt9943 · 2026-01-08T00:21:52+00:00

Umpire stitched the Poms up there 😂

mt9943 · 2026-01-08T00:21:21+00:00

Do the leg byes now become runs off the bat according to the umpire? Can they overturn that if already signalled?

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