6 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

That’s really saying something… you have many, many, many disappointing occurrences from which to choose. 😉

Not sure what you are getting at here Ghosty!??

14 hours ago, picket fence said:

87 preliminary is right up there with the MOST disappionting occurances in my life!😵😵‍💫

“ it’s a goal, it’s a goal”

I had that game on vhs and would watch it after a big night out. I was somehow sure Eishold or Campbell would somehow kick the [censored] goal and win us the match, it never happened.

3 hours ago, D4Life said:

Thanks, punctuation has never been a strength! I haven’t found the spellchecker & grammar button in Demonland!!

If you measure Roos time comparing each season he coached to the preceding year, there was a substantial improvement each year!

If you look at sports team results around the world, any sport, teams have a better record at home, note I’m sure someone will come up with an anomaly!

Why:

• knowledge of the ground, stadium, wind etc!

• Higher team support, which typically leads to more favourable umpiring decisions.

• Routine, own bed, less travel etc!

Pies & Cats both have significant advantages as clubs:

• Cats 9 home games at own stadium and not greatly disadvantaged in 7 other games played across MCG/Marvel as they play at each often enough! Also home stadium 95% of home fans due to ticket restrictions!

• Still benefit from a virtual go home academy, Dangerfield and more as an example!

• Numerous others I’ve mentioned before, including ex Cats stacked in at the AFL!

• Pies get 16/17 games at least interstate games of any club year after year, how often do they play at Kardinia Park!

• Umpiring through crowd number bias!

• Tribunal through MRO, even if only subconscious bias! It’s a joke that he is allowed to judge Pies players!

There is more, but if you have any doubts about AFL trying to even the competition, Pies and Cats both benefit heavily from their treatment by the AFL!

Cats & Pies were broke late 90s both had millions in debt! 25 years later both profitable huge memberships, state if the art training facilities & get blockbusters, we are still trying to nail down a training base which will be another 3-5 yrs away

2 hours ago, picket fence said:

Not sure what you are getting at here Ghosty!??

Well it seems pretty much EVERYTHING about the MFC is a disappointing occurrence for you. With one exception… the almighty Jeffo.

11 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Well it seems pretty much EVERYTHING about the MFC is a disappointing occurrence for you. With one exception… the almighty Jeffo.

Once again Ghosty you have overstated events and underestimated my gravitas, not to mention insult my intelligence!

22 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Well it seems pretty much EVERYTHING about the MFC is a disappointing occurrence for you. With one exception… the almighty Jeffo.

I think it’s time we start calling him the almighty El Jefe

Edited 12 minutes ago12 min by Ted Lasso

3 hours ago, At the break of Gawn said:

He also said that Scott doesn't even speak to the players all that much during the week and leaves that up to the assistant coaches.

The only thing that's surprising about this as that we hear it so rarely, especially as it's not just specific to Scott/The Cats.

A while back on one of the footy shows, one of the experienced coaches they had on made a similar comment, that it's the assistants who spend the time with the players, not the head coach.