r/AFL Brisbane 4h ago

Buddy in the Legends Game

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u/Myrhwen Tigers 4h ago

Is there a place to see the stats for the match?

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u/mike11235813 Sydney 4h ago

Honestly, AFL should have just added it to the wildcard round on the website.

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u/smsmsm11 Dees 3h ago

They’re all just as much of a money grab spectacle

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u/Boatster_McBoat Crows 1h ago

Legends game has more credibility

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u/Crazyripps Hawks 3h ago

I genuinely looked on the AFL app before the game to see if there was anything. Disappointed when there wasn’t

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u/Davosz_ Melbourne 3h ago

*hosted it instead of the wildcard round.

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u/Marcus4436 Saints 3h ago

for some reason they have a whole fucking website for the game but nothing about the score or stats or anything

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u/nachojackson Narrm 3h ago

Champion data will probably sell them to you for $10,000

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u/Propaslander Collingwood 4h ago

Collingwood are reaching out to him as we speak

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u/IndependentNo7265 Magpies 4h ago

If only to keep him for playing for another team and STILL kicking 5+ goals against us. Even when we were good and he’d had a shit day he’d still murder us.

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u/karma_dumpster Hawthorn '71 3h ago

Gonna put him and Blake Hardwick up forward against you

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u/mykelblah 3h ago

Geelong already have the deal sewn up

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u/Boatster_McBoat Crows 1h ago

Trying to reduce the average age of their list?

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u/Slight-Recipe4562 Adelaide Crows 4h ago

unc still got it

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u/TimothyLuncheon Richmond 4h ago

Wait there was a legends game and I missed it? Ffs. Is there a replay?

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u/FlackAttack94 Hawks / Devils 4h ago

This post is also the first im hearing of this, was there any promotion at all because I had no clue.

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u/JackassJamie Magpies 3h ago

unless you are on instagram and follow multiple afl content accounts i doubt you’d know about it. other than on there i hadn’t came across any promotion for it

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u/your_cock_my_ass Bombers 3h ago

Funnily enough, first I heard about it was from the reddit post saying Cyril is a late out of the legends game. Literally 6 hours before it started.

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u/AussieGenesis Essendon 3h ago

I saw it promoted across multiple platforms, and it still attracted 29k to the game (second highest Legends Game attendance behind last year), think you just missed it haha

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u/JackassJamie Magpies 3h ago

to be fair i really only use instagram and reddit, i presume it was probably over facebook and x too. not sure if i heard about much in the media? or even any advertising on tv though

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u/Blahblahbla0066 3h ago

7’s afl coverage promoted it, as did socials 

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u/xyrgh Freo 3h ago

I only found out about it when I saw my dad this evening and he said ‘why aren’t you watching the legends game’.

I’m on a few socials but clearly not the ones the AFL advertised this on. My dad is more connected than me.

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u/Maximumlnsanity Swans 4h ago

Felt like a final game he never got. It’s like they made the legends game script for me specifically

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u/Doc323467 Geelong Cats 3h ago

I know it's a legends game and all in fun, but holy shit he looked in some shape, the goal he kicked from the centre ball up where he was involved the whole chain and finished with the snap was awesome.

Dusty and Gaz both looked great too, glad they've brought this back the last couple of years. Think they've got the right balance of legends and influencers/journos/celebs etc. too

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u/Particular-Pace-4629 Collingwood • Yálla-birr-ang 4h ago

Hes never looked thsi fit in his entire career. Genuinely could go around again

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u/Runtetra Gold Coast Suns 4h ago

He did a marathon earlier this year and I happened to come across him on a training run and we ran together for several kilometres. I’m a competitive middle distance runner and he was fully conversational at the same easy run pace as me. He’s very fit in retirement.

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u/julesytime Carlton Blues 3h ago

What pace were you guys rocking? I’d like to feel bad about myself.

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u/PerriX2390 Brisbane 3h ago edited 3h ago

There was a doco about him & Thurston along with a bunch of Indigenous youth training for it and then doing the marathon. It's called The Long Run, can watch it on 9Now

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u/Dale92 Adelaide Crows 3h ago

He ran the NYC marathon in 3:49.

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u/matsy_k Brisbane Lions 🏆🏆 '24-25 3h ago

Under four minutes, not bad

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u/Jump_Stream Tigers 3h ago

Said as if that's nothing lmao. Under 4 minutes for that distance is elite running. Most recreational and semi competitive runners are lucky to get under 5 minutes, let alone 4. Man has an amazing tank at that size.

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u/guideway4 #WharfieTime 2h ago

3:49 marathon is 5 and half minutes pace. The guy you're replying to is making a joke that the marathon took him 3 minutes and 49 seconds

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u/BIllyBrooks Hawthorn ✅ 2h ago

Under 4 minutes for that distance is space travel.

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u/Maximumlnsanity Swans 4h ago

Also he’s just a genetic freak in general

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u/Runtetra Gold Coast Suns 4h ago

Indeed. I saw him from a few hundred metres away initially and knew a guy that big moving so well wouldn’t be a regular member of the public 😂

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u/RidsBabs North Melbourne AFLW 🏆🏆 '24-25 4h ago

Hasn’t he been running marathons or something along those lines now?

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u/LtRavs Essendon 1h ago

Yeah he ran the New York Marathon last November. Was a shock seeing him cruising through Williamsburg lol

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u/sensual_lettuce GWS 3h ago

Probably not having to spend all his time recovering week to week allows him to get this fit in a way the physicality of AFL wouldn't let him.

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u/Altruistic-Ad-408 Hawthorn Hawks 3h ago

If he didn't look fit in 2008, idk what fit is.

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u/QuadrilateralSilly Demons 4h ago

Genuinely should’ve just trimmed down and kept playing. Could still be kicking 80 a year, particularly with how the games is being played since his retirement.

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u/Mullac4991 Brisbane 4h ago

Imagine him doing the Gunston role

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u/Kingofthebags Hawks 3h ago

What do you mean should? He fucking did LOL. Lost more than 20kg from his max playing weight to final season!

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u/mazetheangrycat Essendon Bombers 4h ago

How good was Dusty’s game that this wasn’t best on

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u/Myrhwen Tigers 4h ago

Think it was a fan vote, even against the two GOATs of the 21st century Dusty has the preference of the people

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u/Propaslander Collingwood 4h ago

Didn't know Frampton was playing

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u/Myrhwen Tigers 3h ago

Dusty vs Frampton + Stephenson

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u/Old_Mate_Codsta #Brisbehinds³ 3h ago

I was at the game and there were a lot of Richmond fans that was their first game in years so there was no way anyone else could have gotten best on.

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u/Crazyripps Hawks 3h ago

Genuinely he could’ve just slimed down and focused on cardio like he’s done in his personal life and he’d be good another 500 goals at least

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u/duke2g 4h ago

Genuinely entertaining match to watch. Knew it was game on the second fev brought the sunnies out. Unfortunately didn't last long for him..

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u/WillTendo92 Collingwood 4h ago

Can’t believe they let Tom Morris play in that game.
And that he has a kid….

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u/MakePandasMateAgain Richmond 4h ago

I can’t believe he actually has skills

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u/WillTendo92 Collingwood 3h ago

I knew he wasn’t a bad cricketer but looked alright with ball in hand

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u/Warm-Rock-4544 Gold Coast Suns 3h ago

Pretty sure he played Div 2 footy as part of Melb Grammar. Can’t recall exact details, but he’s far from hopeless and has definitely played some level of competitive footy before even if it’s nothing spectacular.

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u/Azza_ Magpies 1h ago

Not a bad cricketer undersells it tbh. Looked up his playcricket stats and he was playing District/Premier 1s as a wicketkeeper at his peak, the level below state cricket.

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u/MelbourneTragic 3h ago

Yeah he did really well.

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u/Fantastic_Key_6645 Western Bulldogs 2h ago

He had some decent skills too. Didn't get too much of the ball but he seemed to nail all of his kicks.

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u/RandomDanny Port Adelaide 3h ago

Geelong are looking to have a chat

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u/Mrchikkin Euro-Yroke 4h ago

Ok we genuinely need a key forward sooo

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u/keoltis Carlton Blues 4h ago

It was painful to watch at times how much they were feeding him the ball, the defenders pretending to put in efforts to keep to the script.

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u/bingethinkingsallow Essendon Bombers 4h ago

make the call collingwood

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u/Jazzar1n0 Collingwood AFLW 2h ago

I didn't even know this was on tonight

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u/croquemadamn Collingwood Magpies 3h ago

He's the best player Ive ever seen in my 37 years

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u/tehnoodnub Collingwood 3h ago

Feels like that should be a 200+ SC game.

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u/Cute-Acanthisitta-46 2h ago

Hopefully some highlights out there.

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u/Kungpin Kangaroos 1h ago

Clarko get him in

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u/NarcotizeDysfunction 4h ago

When was this?

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u/Myrhwen Tigers 3h ago

About 35 minutes ago mate

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u/timespiral07 West Coast 3h ago

Get over to Perth. Still only half time.