—coach—

Then gets blocked and freed against coz he ran into the back of the guy

[censored] that was a disgraceful effort of kicking inside 50 from us. Complexity in control and can’t get it any where near a forward

Woops spoke to soon

Seems like different rules when we tackle versus when they tackle. in any event, we’ve wasted opportunities this quarter and naturally they can’t miss

Agree, but I still enjoyed it all the same

And a 10 out of 10 for entertainment value

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smart causal I believe, but you made need better to access some of thee food and drink areas.

A family friend was an AFL umpire at the time and witnessed the Melb v Hawks games live. He told me categorically after we won that game (literally on the way home from the game) that we were out of legs and would get pumped by WC. Personally don't think it was mental, I just think a combination of high emotions from the previous few games and our helter skelter game plan at the time that we were super fatigued and subsequently got drilled that day.

Yeah I told a Pies following mate that he should enjoy it while it lasted (after 6 straight wins) as they would run out of steam when it counts.

That, or they never loaded because they never had expectations of finishing as high as they will. As such, they've played fresh but are starting to run out of legs.

Swimmers swim more than that in recovery weeks! Middle distance swimmers will will do around 50% of the year in the 55-60km per week range, hit some peaks in the 70km-80km range, and do 37km at taper leading into a major competition! Different intensities though. And walking is equivalent to low level aerobic swimming in terms of physiological response, so when an AFL player walks to the local cafe they are racking up low level aerobic volume, whereas a swimmer ha to do that in the water.

I can categorically say this is true, Olympic sports like swimming and cycling are miiiiiillles ahead of afl in terms of sport science because they are world sports not half a small country sport, they have multi year absolute peaks (they also have minor peaks multiple times throughout the 4 years), the margins between winning and 4th can hundredths of a second and in a sport like swimming you do 10-14 sessions (2hours plus per session) per week (if you don’t plan this extremely well you kill the athlete).

Just heard from a mate with a 60/40 record of being correct on these things, apparently Grundy met with Gawn and Goody recently and deal has been reached for Grundy to Demons next year with Dogga heading home.

Yeah we would have glued 6 mahogany cheese boards together in a row to write a sign like that

Great team win tonight, fantastic to see some of the key elements of what made us so successful last year return in triumphant fashion!

Weeeeeeeeeiiiiid!!!!

Surely with JVRs competitiveness both in the air and on the deck he is a logical replacement for Weid next week.

The Weid has had as many disposals as our medi sub, can somebody who’s there fill us in on what’s going on? Is he in good positions and the balls just not going to him or is he just lost?

looks like @binman 's prediction of JVR making a late appearance this season is gaining momentum with JVR emergency!

Yeah I was talking to a Collingwood supporting acquaintance who said we should throw everything at Jacko and let Brayshaw go. My reply was, yeah nah, if I have to choose, I choose Bryashaw thanks and take the draft picks for Jacko. I then said, interesting Pies are trying to offload a ruckman they threw everything at. And then walked away.

Dwight, can you please now announce Jacko has signed up too? Pretty please?

Anyone know how to listen to this after the event? I missed it live and would love to hear it

From a pure sports science point of view it would makes sense that our training loads would be higher this year than last for two reasons: - the same stimulus applied twice doesn’t have the same effect the second time around as the body will be starting from a higher base than when exposed the first time. As such the body is more efficient in coping with the stress and doesn’t adapt to the same degree. At the same time it can cope with more work because of said efficiency so… - applying a higher load is possible which would not have been achievable the first time round. It’s called progressive overload and used across all sports in some way shape or form so it would makes sense they have done more this year than last

Yep and Grundy is signed until 2027