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Paddy Dangerdive

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Yeah. He's well-beaten and gives up the ghost on the ball, but it's not really a dive. The first time I saw it I thought he was playing for a free, but its a really just a tired effort after great work by Broady.
I reckon you guys are kidding yourself calling this a non-flop. Broady is tough but assuming a slight glance of his forearm has buckled Danger is codswallop. He got it totally wrong and like others have said confused himself into some kind of instinctive flop sequence. Have another look at the arms outstretched as he pleads with the ump.
 
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JimJessTorp

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I reckon you guys are kidding yourself calling this a non-flop. Broady is tough but assuming a slight glance of his forearm has buckled Danger is codswallop. He got it totally wrong and like others have said confused himself into some kind of instinctive flop sequence. Have another look at the arms outstretched as he pleads with the ump.
Arms and eyes - All indicative of a stager. Good call, Meat-based-donga!
 
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jb03

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Don't agree at all.

I see him getting worked under the ball and trying to plant low and push back with his core to hold ground which is standard technique. Broad keeps working him under and makes him collapse with strength. Classic defensive body work, perfectly executed.

If Dangerfield wanted a free he'd have his arms going like a tyre shop mascot. He just gets overpowered and it's selling Broad short to say otherwise I think. It's like saying Dustin's fourth goal wasn't top class because Dangerfield flopped on the tackle.
Pretty sure you are watching a different incident to the rest of us.
 
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Legends of 2017

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I think the real point we’re overlooking here is what is the most amusing twist on his name?

While I like the simplicity of Stagerflog, or the impending warning of “Danger!....Fail!”, I quite enjoy the circusesque grandiosity of
Backflip Stagerflop

Thoughts?
I know it isn’t a twist on his name but he is a flogologist. He has a masters degree in flogology. In short, he is a flog
 
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Legends of 2017

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I thought I might update this while I remember.
Patrick Dangerfield- 269 games, 1 Grand Final, 0 premierships
Marlion Pickett- 20 games, 2 Grand Finals, 2 premierships
 
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KnightersRevenge

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Look where the ball was heading. Broad is having to stretch up. Good body work by Broad but dangerfield felt the contact and tried to manoeuvre Broad's arm over his shoulder by collapsing his knees.
Then he looked pleadingly to the ump
"Nothing in it" said the ump
It is hard wired into dangerfield

Have to agree, it may not be a "flop" but why does Danger's head fling backwards as Broad's arm trails? Because he is playing for a free.
 
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Mycotchinrules

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He's the AFL love child.
Gifted a position in the AA squad on the flanks and made captain. That in its self is a joke.
Let off by the tribunal. Don't want to taint his poster boy image.

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Apologies if already mentioned but I hadn't noticed in 4 previous viewings when Gil approaches this flog after the game and goes for a fist bump.

I'm certainly no mind reader, but his eyes appeared to be saying "Don't worry champ, that's a 6 week elbow, but we have some room in the afl rug to sweep that one under, head up son, we will beat these pricks next year when Jezza cameron arrives"
 
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Quickdraw

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Arms and eyes - All indicative of a stager. Good call, Meat-based-donga!
Little known action outside of the small hamlet.

The Moggs Creek Flop (MCF) is rarely attempted, with most instances occurring when a hamlet resident is under fierce physical pressure, or buffeted by the breeze of a passing opponent (or pigeon high above the play).

The MCF has at times been highly effective but is becoming increasingly labeled the act of a FLOG. :mad:
 
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Willo

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I reckon we have become obsessed with 'flopping'. That's a forward being outbodied by a defender for mine, credit belongs to Broad.

Calling it a flop is selling him short I think.

Not really, Broad outbodied and outplayed Dangerflop. So much so Dangerflop was out of the play.
Dangerflop knew he’d been beaten and tried to orchestrate the flop to draw a free
 
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tigertim

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Notta Danger is leaning back into Broady, feels contact then miraculously goes flailing forward.
 
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TOT70

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Karma is a cruel lover sometimes. Umps pay a free for Danger Island’s hit on Vlastuin, whistle blows, play stops, ball doesn’t spill to Ablett, injury doesn’t happen.

Kinda sad. Two players taken out.
 
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lamb22

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If you wanted to encapsulate the difference between dusty and danger. Tigers 22 points down, dusty dares the impossible and bends reality to his will. Cats 3 goals down danger concedes it is not within him to change circumstances and tries to co opt the umpires by flopping and staging. Moral is real champs never surrender.
 
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DavidSSS

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Either he was flopping or he can't keep his feet. He was clearly asking for a free while he was at it.

Neither is a good look.

When Richmond were crap I always remember watching them go to ground as their opponent stayed upright, it is critical to keep your feet otherwise you are out of the contest - at which point I suppose you might as well go for the free kick because you are out of the play.

DS
 
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Darth Tiger

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Little known action outside of the small hamlet.

The Moggs Creek Flop (MCF) is rarely attempted, with most instances occurring when a hamlet resident is under fierce physical pressure, or buffeted by the breeze of a passing opponent (or pigeon high above the play).

The MCF has at times been highly effective but is becoming increasingly labeled the act of a FLOG. :mad:
I now understand the action as a result of this definitive insight, and suggest the regional dialect has somehow morphed Flop into FLOG due to a distinct lack of oral hygiene and the local gene pool providing an exaggeration of the upper palate (commonly referred to a Cletusism).
 
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