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18 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Phil “woke” Davis. Enough said. 

i'd reckon many more players worry about their performance or game day form.

guess that'd be the end of published game statistics. too distressing.

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    58 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

    i love how 'woke' has become a blanket term for anything 

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    I am not afraid to declare my weight at 90kgs down 3kgs in last 3 weeks.

    Aiming at playing weight of 85kgs tops.

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    1 hour ago, Demonstone said:

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     Hey, I WOKE up every day for the last 24,735 days, and apparently I’m not WOKE at all🤪but I feel like I’ve WOKE up and lived every one of those days. 

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    1 hour ago, Demonstone said:

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    Would actually be very funny if it weren’t for the “book for basic d*heads” bit. Lefties always have to take it that little bit too far. 

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    18 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    Would actually be very funny if it weren’t for the “book for basic d*heads” bit. Lefties always have to take it that little bit too far. 

    That’s the most important line. 

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    Of course, the whole thing of 'player x needs to put on a few kegs' is actually a bit of a red herring. With the caveat that clearly you don't want unseasoned light bodies being thrown into the constant impacts and wrestling of clearance work or rucking.

    Tom Hawkins was a huge beast at 18, but took just as long to develop into an effective forward as any other. Aaron Naughton was 194cm and 84kg and was taking contested marks from day dot.

    Jye Amiss is outright skinny but kicked 40 goals as Fremantle's only full-time forward in 2023, and clunked more contested marks than Steven May in that time.

    Looking at recent rising stars; Nick Daicos won it at 184cm and about 75kg weght, which was 5cm taller but 10kg lighter than Serong, while Harry Sheezel basically split the difference between the two.

    So, yep, unless we're talking about a kid who nobody has seen play and who is so lightly built it is immediately obvious anyway, I'm not sure there's a lot of value to having weight in the big ol' spreadsheet.

    Anyway, while it seems like a pretty trivial thing to feel a need to do away with at the professional level, I can see the argument for not publishing weights at the non-professional and junior levels because weight is a leverage point for all kinds of social [censored][censored]-ery that has nothing to do with the game and we can't expect every person participating in Australian football to set aside all other social considerations!

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    3 hours ago, Redleg said:

    I am not afraid to declare my weight at 90kgs down 3kgs in last 3 weeks.

    Aiming at playing weight of 85kgs tops.

    Good effort over the Christmas break.

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    On 13/01/2024 at 14:19, Ethan Tremblay said:

    I’m trans-skinny. 

    That’s good because trans fats are bad for you.  

    The AFL are again showing that they really don’t have their priorities right. No weight listed but still SFA regarding protecting the head - all ad hoc Angus’ assailant cleared vs Kozzie and JVR being suspended for trivial actions cases in point.  Nothing about level playing field regarding scheduling (aka ‘the draw’).  But no weights.

    Will the VRC etc stop listing jockey weight and stop declaring “correct weight”?  Maybe they will say “all clear” instead?

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