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Is Nick Daicos going to be fined for staging, it was blatant?

No of course, not the golden boy.

 

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    4 hours ago, binman said:

    Fair enough EO.

    You're right, the way the swans (and dees and tigers) are playing is clearly a strategic and planned method - and as you suggest a fundamental element of her method is taking territory at all cost, though more by hand than foot. 

    An you're also right, it is really a twist on  the approach tigers perfected in their flag years. 

    Its worth noting though that Goody was experimenting in the 2023 preseason and first few games with really long handballs forward.

    A better way of describing is perhaps that it looks somewhat chaotic. 

    It's an interesting model becuase it is impossible to implement without hundreds hours of all team practice over the preseason, drilling it in, honing the handball skills (for example the increasingly used over the head and bounce handballs) and practicing positioning and structures.

    On the latter point, how often did the Swans handball blind but still find teammate? That sort of synergy can't be magicked up, so if clubs didn't put in the time in the preseason its going to be all but impossible to implment in season.

    From all the training reports, my observation at the two training sessions i've been too, and our three games it looks like we have done the work.

    The other interesitng thing is it is a model that might be exposed come finals becuase each handball creates a trurnover opposrtubity.

    But as i've noted i think there are now two seasons and two methods - home and and away and finals. 

    Come finals the game devolves into the sort of brutal rugby scrap we saw last year (whilst still retaining elements of the home and away season method)

    Controlled Chaos. 

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    Zane Duursma looks a player.

    north having a dip. their accuracy is keeping them close but i expect Giants to pull away in the second half.

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    43 minutes ago, picket fence said:

    I'm tipping swans to play of in the 2024 Grand Final!

    Hopefully they put in an improved performance this time around.

    Sydney are deplorable in grand finals under Horse.

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    19 minutes ago, Skuit said:

    When will Melbourne break these obscure embarassing records? 

    It is one record that should actually be marked with implicit honour in our history.

    Half our 1941 premiership team was at war by the time the 1942 season got underway.

    Melbourne was led on to the field by RAAF air ace Squadron Leader Keith "Bluey" Truscott, DFC and Bar. Truscott unfurled Melbourne's 1941 premiership flag and, very obviously lacking match condition, played an average game, kicking a single goal in his team's 79-point loss, which proved the last of his fifty career senior games.

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    1 hour ago, Skuit said:

    When will Melbourne break these obscure embarassing records? 

    That record from 1900 just shows you how far back our poor culture goes 

     

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    8 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    That record from 1900 just shows you how far back our poor culture goes 

     

    To be fair, the bathwater back then was likely rife with Tuberculosis and other nasties. 

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    4 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

    Hogan what would we be? We got May which bolstered our defence and AA premiership player was this a win for us?

    Yes

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    3 minutes ago, BDA said:

    Yes

    No we should have both of them the inability for our club after winning a flag and top 4 finishes not get a free agent or trade a fwd gun & still have F50 is just BS 

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    Ouch that poor nth player who just went down.

    On a random note why are nths coaching staff polo tops so dark. They look like geelongs

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    13 minutes ago, Demonsone said:

    No we should have both of them the inability for our club after winning a flag and top 4 finishes not get a free agent or trade a fwd gun & still have F50 is just BS 

    There’s no alternate universe where we have both, losing Hogan got us May which got us the flag. 

    It’s frustrating that we haven’t got a Tom Lynch to take us back to a flag like the tigers did, but who have we missed out on? Can’t buy if there’s nothing for sale. 

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