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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

WHY DO WE KEEP [censored] KICKING IT STRAIGHT TO THEM WHEN WE GO INSIDE 50!!!!!!!

Jeeezus fritch!

Bit harsh Bedford 69kg v Touhy 91kg not sure he will win any body on body contest if he stays on him. Let’s see how he goes for the rest of the game?

Seems like they’ve be preparing to try break tackles at every opportunity for this game, may need to adjust that plan!

The thing with the cats is they sure can kick well. One stuff up and it will be kick mark kick mark kick mark all the way inside 50

Browns got his sticky hands on tonight! Long may it continue!

Moggs Creek

If BB had the service from the umpires similar to Aaron Naughton he’d have another 10 goals for the season and we’d be saying he’s played his role. As it is Aaron is miles better at playing for frees that Ben, as are most of Bevos Logie Winning Brigade, perhaps we need to spend a little time on our acting skills leading up to finals?

I’ve seen some seriously bad umpiring performances but this is totally next level bad!

How [censored] good is it having another small forward goal sneak!! Bedford stays in next week for sure

When my daughter saw that it was trac kicking that she went OH NO!!!

2G 4B 6G 6B 2G 6B need to get a couple here to snuff the game

Loving Bedford kicking out in front of picket!

Love watching May smash into opposition forwards!

If we weren’t winning I would be going off my nut at the non calls from the ump