3 hours ago, ucanchoose said:

Does anybody know the crowd figure last night? Thursday rainy night and looked like 15k where there. I love Thursday nights on the tv but would hate to have to go to a game then

State Government is sure to offer a roof if not an adjoining roofed stadium. Geelong are special.

PS: Where did the phrase "lasso free" come from. You'd think we could avoid yet another Americanism (dictionary suggests it was originally South American)

Edited March 27Mar 27 by Diamond_Jim

26 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

The AFL should have forced Geelong to standardise their ground dimensions to be in line with other AFL approved playing surfaces when Kardinia park was redeveloped. Is currently the extreme outlier to every other AFL ground in the country with its enormous length, narrow width, ruler straight outer wing and deep tight pockets. This gives the home side an enormous unfair advantage. Geelongs winning percentage is 84% at home where a normal home ground should be nowhere near that extreme.

One of the quirks of our game JCB is that they will play games for premiership points on grounds of any old shape or size. Norwood Oval where they play at Gather Round is 5 metres thinner than Kardinia Park and is sausage shaped, like the Western Oval was back in the day. North Hobart Oval where the Tassie side played last week is 10 metres thinner than Kardinia Park and 20 metres shorter. The SCG is also a short ground. Way back in the 1980's Hawthorn played Essendon for 4 points at the old Gabba when it was pear shaped and still had a greyhound track around it. Even the ground that the Giants play on is pointy at one end.

7 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Where did the phrase "lasso free" come from.

From a Ted talk?

1 hour ago, sue said:

Totally different. If you toe poke it through for a goal it would be intentional. I'll ignore hair-splitting arguments about a rare accidental toe-poke through the goals.

The whole point of the lasso rule is to remove the difficulty of applying intention.

1 hour ago, mauriesy said:

The whole point of the lasso rule is to remove the difficulty of applying intention.

And the commentators are arguing about players intenionally knocking it out to avoid a free being paid against their team....

Go giants tonight

AFL website spruiking Clarkson's comment that he expects to see 'the Essendon of old' out there.

I can only assume he is referring to the Essendon of the 1930s (I never realised that awful decade had one saving grace), or possibly he means that James Hird and Tim Watson will be taking to the field.

4 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

— <- that there is a ChatGPT tell - please attribute writing sources 😁 xo, or at a minimum, replace with your own - , or even ... 😇

How would I know? Well... 😅

Ah — one of the great myths of our time. I can show you publications from 1911 that use en dash as a punctuation mark.

And since you asked:

Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5(4), 323–370.

(BTW, Baumeister et .al. use en dash punctuation marks in their 2001 article.)

Edited March 27Mar 27 by Queanbeyan Demon

2 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Ah — one of the great myths of our time. I can show you publications from 1911 that use en dash as a punctuation mark.

And since you asked:

Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5(4), 323–370.

(BTW, Baumeister et .al. use en dash punctuation marks in their 2001 article.)

I solemnly stand corrected ☺️ Great references 🙌🏼🤓

2 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Ah — one of the great myths of our time. I can show you publications from 1911 that use en dash as a punctuation mark.

And since you asked:

Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5(4), 323–370.

(BTW, Baumeister et .al. use en dash punctuation marks in their 2001 article.)

— is actually an em dash, which is twice the length of an en dash.

Also, stop psychoanalysing me!!!

Hope Jesse & Toby tear the pies backline apart

Really struggling to pick a weiner for tonight’s game

my heart says giants but Pies at home will probably get over the line either way the umps help

Nice banner gws

So, it's the orange army versus the agent orange army tonight I see.

4 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Ah — one of the great myths of our time. I can show you publications from 1911 that use en dash as a punctuation mark.

And since you asked:

Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5(4), 323–370.

(BTW, Baumeister et .al. use en dash punctuation marks in their 2001 article.)

Queanbeyan water has some funny fluoride in it!

gws are very blunt. all huff and puff so far

Giants going with the ‘go and make it up on the fly’ game plan, with fairly mixed results.

1 minute ago, BDA said:

gws are very blunt. all huff and puff so far

Did you see AK’s ‘spray’ video this week? I assume he’ll pull that out - It’s like it’s 1985 and super punitive as a motivational tool-‘that’ll work long term 😂 [censored]…

Edited March 27Mar 27 by Engorged Onion

I don't understand why a tenant club of the MCG would be playing at Docklands when the G is empty both tonight and all day tomorrow. Ours is the only game there all weekend.

Giants have got this

4 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

Ah — one of the great myths of our time. I can show you publications from 1911 that use en dash as a punctuation mark.

And since you asked:

Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Finkenauer, C., & Vohs, K. D. (2001). Bad is stronger than good. Review of General Psychology, 5(4), 323–370.

(BTW, Baumeister et .al. use en dash punctuation marks in their 2001 article.)

Nice comeback there although it looks more like an em dash to me…

… oh no, I’ve become a DLand wnker.

Edited March 27Mar 27 by DeeMee

Has there been a good game this season?

I am really struggling to watch a full game at the moment.

Stinker of a quarter

8 minutes ago, ANG13 said:

Has there been a good game this season?

I am really struggling to watch a full game at the moment.

I feel the same. It’s been building over many years but this year especially, watching neutral games I’m finding to be increasingly tedious. Too many technical/soft/diving free kicks has sapped what the spirit of what the game was IMO. Feels like I’m watching a semi-contact sport sometimes.