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Mid season draft coming up.

We need to do what Richmond in 2019, years we need to find a diamond in the rough and it has to be an inside mid or a genuine key forward/Ruck.

On 10/05/2024 at 12:51, Lefty said:

That’s 3 games in a row against the Blues that insufficient goal review technology has cost us the match. One day a team will lose a Grand Final as a result of Soviet era tech. 

I used to sit in and operate a fixed camera for the AFL match day vision (the behind the goals camera) from 14-16 and back then the goal review system (run by Hawkeye) would have an AFL employee or a VFL umpire sitting next to a Hawkeye tech (normally from england).

And back then they had absolutely no F’ing idea what they were doing or talking about.

The Hawkeye tech who as there just to play back footage and certain angles for the goal review op would often give his [censored] uneducated view of what he was seeing. It was laughable. I shutter at the tough of who is doing it atm.

Keep in mind, if it wasn’t a VFL umpire it was just someone from AFL operations who got paid sweet F all extra to do it. Thats the kind of quality we are dealing with here. That was only 10-8 years ago.

 

Great show as always guys.  Both entertaining and insightful.  Thank you! ❤️💙

On 10/05/2024 at 18:49, Binmans PA said:

Were our centre stoppage set ups too aggressive in the first quarter? Even when they started putting scores on us, we never really reverted to a defensive set up, and continued to go for the clean break away clearance.

Whats that? Our midfield got punished? Didn’t see that coming..


Great show.

Don't know if I'm fully on board the proud of performance train but fantastic insights as always.

I didn't think Carlton were horrible for the entire second half either, thought they were pretty much in control with the game on their terms right up until the last 8 mins of the game where maybe the 3 games in 13 days kicked in. Quite often they replied with goals quickly to ours after a lot of hard work and from memory they started at least 2 quarters with goals in the first 30 seconds.

Proud of the fightback but no doubt in my mind the better team won on the night.

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