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Article in the HUN today gives the points differential for teams over the first 10 minutes of all games in 2010, and for 2008-2010.

We're -315 in all games since the start of 2008. Next worst is West Coast in the -90s. In 2010 we're -75.

For mine if we can get that -75 closer to 0 over the rest of the year we'll see more wins than losses. In wins this year we're +7 in the first 10 minutes.

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To be honest, I've no idea what is likely to make a side start well or poorly.

I think it may be that the kids need a bit of time to find their feet and get a feel for the team they are playing against.

Remembering a lot of these kids are playing against teams and players for the very first time and have little idea

of what to expect.

I'm guessing that makes a difference.

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"For mine if we can get that -75 closer to 0 over the rest of the year we'll see more wins than losses. In wins this year we're +7 in the first 10 minutes. "

Agree Titan.

Also, between the coll draw and bulldogs game, our combined loosing margin was 4 points. Our combined 1st quarter loss was -26 points, so you could argue 2 games lost in the first qtr.

Interestingly, in the other close one against the filth, we won the first qtr by 15 points...

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To be honest, I've no idea what is likely to make a side start well or poorly.

I think it may be that the kids need a bit of time to find their feet and get a feel for the team they are playing against.

Remembering a lot of these kids are playing against teams and players for the very first time and have little idea

of what to expect.

I'm guessing that makes a difference.

its a mental thing. Everyone can be physically ready to go out and play a game of footy, but its another thing to be mentally ready to go at the contest, to gut run, to push back and help team mates.

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its a mental thing. Everyone can be physically ready to go out and play a game of footy, but its another thing to be mentally ready to go at the contest, to gut run, to push back and help team mates.

And another thing again to have this readiness "collectively"

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I'd like to see an experiment done where players play a quick 11 on 11 for ten minutes in their warm-up, before going out to play the real game. I'd like to see what effects it has on how they start the game, end the quarter and end the game.

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