—coach—

I don’t quite understand why when we had all the momentum and just needed to keep the foot on their throat for another few minutes with 12 mins to go did we start slowing everything down.

6 FOR KOZ!!!!!!!

BBB gets absolutely bashed in every marking contest with a simultaneous in the back, arm chop and fist in the back of the head, nothing from the umps. Naughton gets paid absolutely EVERY possible tiggy touchwood free, why such a discrepancy. Doesn’t BBB throw his arms out enough or something?

Why the frog don’t we ever have someone in the goal square when we kick it from 50???

Finally found a free down there after missing 3 obvious ones

Great mark Brown

Funny what happens when somebody kicks it to browns advantage

That’s how you kick to a forward on a lead.

He’s also playing a heap of time in in the middle of the ground edit: by middle I mean wings not on the ball

Bedford is already on, think you mean Dunstan

Yeah but right now they kick it better, he marks it. He played for a different team 4 years ago so don’t really care what he could do then.

Ben brown makes the best lead of the game, so let’s kick it waaaay over his head!

Yeah first one he never had possession so it’s a tap not a throw and the second one he had a closed fist so also not a throw

We have an uncanny ability to consistently kick it to the disadvantage of our forwards!

Jeeezus fritch continuing his form of burning teammates

Commentators talking about the lack of wind and how still the trees were, zooms in on said tree and there is clearly a nice breeze blowing through that tree 😂

Hey thanks for the Bump Viper! How long depends on the sport. In pure olympic sports (like athletics and swimming) with 4 year preparations, athletes aim to peak for the duration of their events (maximum 9 days in a sport like swimming) (or even more specifically for 1-3 days depending on event and when your heats/finals are.), either side of that they can be a fair way of the pace. But this is HIGHLY refined and reflects how hard it is to win Olympic gold in those events (world wide participation). A very small percentage off the pace and you wont make the finals. The standard of refinement in yearly team sports (competing weekly) and AFL (a one country sport) is miles lower and not designed for a one one event peak. Rather its designed to have the majority of your group in season best readiness for a block of around 4-5 weeks depending on what your final goal is. For example, for us, it would be to be hitting our straps before and throughout finals, whereas Collingwood will be in peak fitness now in a bid to make finals and then hold on as best they can (Kinda like us in 2018, when we just ran out of legs before the GF). Its worth noting that even if we are not at our peak, we can still be bloody good (as can other sides), lets say your absolute peak readiness achieved for one game achieves a score of 100, then the game either side might get a score of 98, the game either side of that a 96 etc, so its not all or nothing. It kinda tapers off either side of the peak but it's still a very high level of readiness. Right now I reckon we are around 80-85%, but thats just a guess. Only time will reveal if we nail the preparation or not. The club will have a list of metrics they are looking at internally and will have a very good idea if we are on track to peak at the correct time or not. Does that answer your question?

Bad kicking is bad footy. We’ve turned it over too many times tonight and will likely cost us the win

Personally think it’s been pretty good. Maybe I’m desensitized after last weeks rubbish!

Well this is getting interesting

Cats playing to the advantage of their postage stamp sized ground tonight and us butchering 80% of our forward forays. Look forward to seeing them on the G in finals.

Bedford isn’t injured so we cant

Mate the ball isn’t even hitting the pack, it’s hitting the one cats bloke standing by himself 20m away from the pack!

Absolutely beating ourselves tonight so far. Starting hitting targets and we win easily

It’s not the forward line, it’s the blokes kicking it to our forward line. 4 times the kick has gone inside 50 straight to a cats player 15m clear of any Melbourne player. Try kicking it to anyone in a red and blue jumper and at least it may get to ground