—coach—

Spargo is about the only player who can hit up a leading forward consistently, drop him at your peril

Hmmm let’s see: - high profile player - possible for the brownlow - plays for a team the AFL desperately want in finals Will get off for sure.

That’s two close games heavily influenced by the umps in seconds halves, I’m ducking sick of it

So they’re allowed to drop it inside our 50 it seems

Lost this in the first half with poor goal kicking and wasteful inside 50s

We literally never get paid those inside our 50 and they’ve had three right in front of theirs

Prior opportunity rule doesn’t count for us. [censored] joke

Wow that has to be the worst non call of the year!

Doesn’t help when the handball too him goes 10m in the air when he has 3 blokes standing around him ready to tackle

Why do we keep handballing high looping handballs to a bloke under pressure?

Man it would be nice if they fluffed a few

Jeez Spargo is a great user of the footy

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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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).