10 minutes ago, BDA said:

i'm just glad there's life in the season. nothing worse than floundering at the foot of the ladder with nothing to look forward to except the draft and trade period

5 hours ago, VNightCityLegend said:

The lack of coverage surrounding the win on Sunday on the likes of SEN is laughable. Sentiment is, “Brisbane were horrible”… if someone astute like Josh Jenkins, who is typically right with his predictions and analysis wrote this game off can be proven so wrong surely tells us that the win up in Brisbane has a lot more merit to It than that?

Absolute joke that the [censored] Andy Maher and his radio show decided to lead off and focus on St Kilda and West Coast of all the [censored] clubs. They were more than happy to lay the boots in the first 5 rounds but fail to seriously backended the impressive win against serious opposition.

This win shouldn’t be underestimated and I hope we seriously put Sydney to the sword and prove to the rest of these inbred [censored] that this club is on the way back!

Do you think much of the Melbourne supporter demographic listens to SEN? God I hope not. You lead off with content that appeals to the masses. Further, you also lead off with content that promotes a problem and discussion and is emotionally evocative. 🫠

Digest the content you want, by getting off mainstream media.

Eg: The Mongrel Punt

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by Engorged Onion

17 hours ago, bing181 said:

I for one think the season is pretty well dead in terms of finals success. We're too far behind, have a shocking percentage, and while we're starting to show that we're on the right track, we're still going to lose matches. We also have a lot of young/er players, and their progress is never going to be linear.

On the other hand, for me what's important now is to a) bed-in the way we want to play and b) finish off the season strongly, whatever that looks like (caveat: no major injuries). If we can achieve both of those, the season will have upside and more importantly, will go a long way to setting us up for 2026.

Wrong. Look at the ladder.

Yes ONE WIN outside the eight and if we win 9/10 games our % will take care of itself.

While I think you are so premature to give up our chances of making Finals is that we have just stated to get back the traces of a respectable game plan and we were a vey even team on Sunday.

Plenty of time for Lever JVR Howes Kynan Brown and Jeffo to assist in gaining the consistency required to be a viable force.

Obviously serious injuries wouldn’t help but we are managing our resources ( our players) well so they can be at their best later when the whips are cracking.

There is also a number of unreliable teams on 4 and 5 wins now and it may take one of the Clubs currently on 6 wins to open 2 spots in the Top8.

All is open to any Club to sustain the winning habit and I think we may have started to believe in ourselves which is extremely important.

Go Dees ❤️💙

On 16/05/2025 at 06:18, picket fence said:

With another possible 3 gives us 6 for the season. Basket case stuff! Need a fresh approach starting with coach and ancilleries!

Pickett this hasn't aged well.

Early days though.

12 hours ago, Adam The God said:

As I said, our forwards alone had 21 shots on goal for a return of 10.11. It's not how we're structuring up that's the problem, it's our finishing. Which I've said multiple times now.

If we're gonna make a fist of this season We are going to have to be near 85-90% of our capacity playing wise.

somehow our conversion rate has got to lift big time.

We are generating shots on goal which is great, but it can all turn sour with our conversion.

We should be aiming for 55-60 percent every week, on Sunday it was at 48.3% Brisbane's was at 56.5%

Over the entire season our conversion average is 47.2% this part of our game must improve lads, Chocco what are we paying you for.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by YesitwasaWin4theAges

I take your point, and we are currently 18th - but I assume we will regress to the mean. I also popped in 2021's conversation rates 45% and last years for comparison.

Do what you want with the interpretation :) - Poach North Melbournes kicking coach??

17 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

If we're gonna make a fist of this season We are going to have to be near 85-90% of our capacity playing wise.

somehow our conversion rate has got to lift big time.

We are generating shots on goal which is great, but it can all turn sour with our conversion.

We should be aiming for 55-60 percent every week, on Sunday it was at 48.3% Brisbane's was at 56.5%

Must get better lads, Chocco what are we paying you for

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Engorged Onion

I got my figures from footywire, i presume these are from the AFL site?

apologies if they are slightly out.

Either way we have to improve this part of our game pronto.

6 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

I got my figures from footywire, i presume these are from the AFL site?

apologies if they are slightly out.

Either way we have to improve this part of our game pronto.

Oh, I wasn't having a crack at you, or disagreeing with the data - not in the slightest.

What I feel is a more accurate representation is the volume of shots on goal over the course of the seasons versus the accuracy. In looking at the data, cause I am home sick on the couch and refuse to watch daytime tv - the marrative that accuracy is important is frequently overstated. Of course though, I acknowledge it FEELS important and looks awful when it's a tight match.

I jumped on Wheelostats - but it doesn't really matter - the difference rom best to worst is typically only 10–14% over the past few seasons. This equates to roughly 1 to 1.4 additional goals per 10 scoring shots—an impact that is tiny, over the course of a 23 game season.

In contrast, the volume of shots a team generates has a far more significant effect on outcomes. Teams that consistently create more scoring opportunities are better positioned to win, even if their accuracy is slightly below average. Over time, the sheer number of chances tends to outweigh minor inefficiencies in execution.

The players and coaches do know this... this data is spoken about... its just the $hite statistical analysis that is put onto the publc, means we emotionally* interpret the data.

*not at all like SG, who is an emotionless robot...eh.

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by Engorged Onion