Chop’s Chopping Block: Round 21

Posted by Chopper on 23/8/10 • Categorised as Chopper Rants,General

Late withdrawal now has a double meaning! No longer is it just a poor excuse for contraception, but it is the thorn firmly stabbed in the thigh of many dream team coaches. How long until the coaches of the AFL switch on and realise that this poor excuse for a tactic , in a lame attempt to gain the upper hand is crippling the real coaches that make this beautiful game of ours so special. Fremantle Football Club sent the Fremantle reserves side down to play Hawthorn at Hawk Park, and they would not have beaten the red Auskick team that entertained everybody in the main break. BUT. At least they named that they were not going to play Pavlich and Sandilands, so that those coaches that needed to, could arrange some cover.

Essendon and that pitiful excuse of a coach whose name starts with K and rhymes with nights, on the other hand decide to play a really well disguised trick and deceive the AFL public by withdrawing Patty Ryder on game day. Sydney did the same with ROK and then Melbourne pull a swifty and don’t play Colin Sylvia (helped me win so i was ahppy about that one).

When is the AFL going to make a stand and say “no, we will not go quietly into the night, we will stand here and fight for the rights of these dream team coaches and fine the crap out of all the clubs that choose to withdraw players late!” Possibly slightly dramatic, but hopefully you get the picture….

So how were you burnt on the weekend by late withdrawals, and who is prepared to stand with me and offer another form of contraception to these AFL coaches…. I can see the banners now… “If it’s not on, it’s not on” because it certainly isn’t my friends, it certainly isn’t

392 Comments

sugnayeragam
August 23, 2010 • 7:11 pm

Just preventing any first post stupidity.
- sugnayeragam
  August 23, 2010 • 7:13 pm
  
  Resting Pav, not trusting Calvin and going Swan for Captain instead of Goddard, and especially Sylvia’s late withdrawal cost me, so I agree with Chop.
dt oholic
August 23, 2010 • 7:44 pm

BEST
CHOP
EVER
…not
it was f**king shit.
- Camoflage
  August 23, 2010 • 9:35 pm
  
  geez you are a legend! i wish i could be like you
  - LaHug
    August 23, 2010 • 11:59 pm
    
    +1
maanco
August 23, 2010 • 8:03 pm

i think that late withdrawals add a point of difficulty if they weren’t allowed to pull out there players what would be the point of emg.

I lost because 4 of my players were pulled out and i could only cover 2
flying high
August 23, 2010 • 8:23 pm

2 trades left and 100k…. 100k that will likely stay unused.. fmdt

could still work out ok, but its a long shot. need hayes, sandi and sylvia to return, waters and hodge to play. then i can do my planned trades of

shaw -> lake
malceski -> kelly

team has gone to shit in last few weeks but luckely have cover and still scoring 2350 and 2250 in last 2 weeks even with these outs.

props to shuey, warnock and tdl and hunt all covering
ThatGuy
August 24, 2010 • 9:54 am

must admit the late withdrawal helped me.

o’keefe going out gave me pods, where my opponent only had ellard. i still have TDL to cover pods this week so should be ok! ripped out a 2300+ to storm into the grannie!
nameless
August 24, 2010 • 5:14 pm

my opponent had ryder, ROK and sylvia and could only cover one. well, at least it help me win, as i was going in with 3 donuts myself
rcrm89
August 24, 2010 • 6:10 pm

Had ROK and Sylvia – Jack ’40s’ Watts covered for one, but had Dennis-Lane idle on the bench with 92 delicious points
Ronaldo
August 24, 2010 • 9:28 pm

My team is suffering an injury/suspension crisis this week,

Pods and Hunt suspended
Sheppard ang Gumbleton Injured.
Tarrant, Armstrong and Gysberts not playing because they’re SH*T!
And that ba*stard ROK unreliable.

May haev 5 up front this week, praying that no top 4 coach plays a springer on us and rests a star.

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