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Mazer Rackham

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  1. He SHOULD be selfish. He should watch de Goey's game and see how a talented player turns half chances into goals. Tracc has the talent, he should not have to worry about game plans, defensive pressure, etc. Just go out, see ball, get ball, wreak havoc. That's what freaks do, but he's not allowed to celebrate his freakdom. He's being turned into a second rate robot.
  2. 1. They're Collingwood and we're not 2. the AFL has lost control of all aspects of the game (except ejecting supporters for doing what they've done for 100+ years).
  3. Viney's hard as nails, etc etc, but his only remaining football attribute is to grab the pill, run headlong into 2 or 3 oppo, take them to ground while pretending the ball is pinned to him, and force a ball up. Turning our possession into a 50-50. (Hint Jack: it's supposed to work the other way round.)
  4. H.R. Pufnstuf, Kling, Klang, Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork.
  5. "Nathan, you're retiring after round 23. This season's gone, so we're giving you an honourable exit. Ten more games as a giant lap of honour. You've earned it. Please don't [censored] it up. Now ... anyone seen Jack today? ..."
  6. We are elite at drowning though
  7. It's clear we just need to attack the ball even harder.
  8. The whole f****** comp knows this. Every coach at every club ... even the players! ... know this. Except at one club.
  9. Wet weather will be right up his alley. He's elite at drowning. To kick 4 goals he would need 40 shots on goal.
  10. Interesting when you consider all the foul language routinely uttered every week at every match, in front of kids, that goes unremarked and unpunished. Josef Stalin lives on in the character of Gil McLachlan
  11. AFL in 2019. Where the AFL arrest and punish fans rather than address the terrible umpiring standards. Where 20-year-old Docklands stadium wins the Brownlow for Best Stadium.
  12. "Marvel is known for epic storytelling". No kidding. Just read the blurb! A "marvel" of soulless corporate-speak. I'll keep this as a handy guide for next time I want to parody corporate-speak. All the key cliches together in one document, for my convenience. Thank you Marvel (the obvious author). Can't you just see all the Marvel reps, crawling all over the world into every board room and club, like IOC reps, mingling bribes and threats to get their old moth eaten stadium over the line? Or, equally likely, "TheStadiumBusiness Awards 2019" is actually a thing owned by Marvel. Little Goffy please report to your nearest Marvel-sponsored sports and entertainment facility for your compulsory re-education programme so that you may correctly recognise leadership, innovation, and achievement in the delivery, operation, and management of sports and entertainment facilities globally.
  13. We saw it work against the Hawks earlier this year. They looked like surgically picking us apart at first. Looked like a long day at the office. But our attack on the ball gradually put them off and their skills dropped. With the game reduced to a mad scramble, we were better at scrambling, and more mad. The Giants (a couple of weeks ago), being a better side than the Hawks, were able to maintain their skill and had the game won by half time. But it is tiring. Malthouse when at Collingwood had them playing that way, and while effective in long stretches, it also had them down for long stretches. The players were semi-permanently exhausted. (It was only when Eddie boned him to make way for Nathan that Malthouse pulled his socks up, got a real ruckman, got Jason Ball, improved his method, and finally got them their flag.) But let's say we're going to continue with the mad scramble. (Because we are.) It doesn't explain why we commit footballing sins like ... - Get the ball, handpass to a player 3m away in more or less the same position, same space around him, same time to dispose. it achieves nothing but buys time for the opposition. - Kick a short kick to a player who ends up taking his kick from the same spot as the bloke who just kicked it to him. - Get the ball with a player free downfield ... stop, look around for other options ... nothing on ... what about the bloke who was free? Manned up now. Oh [censored], I'm being manned up now! Oh well ... kick it to him anyway. - Get the ball, a teammate runs past screaming for it. Hmm ... I'm free but he looks like he's about to run into a wall of oppo ... give it to him anyway. - Why our kicks, long or short, always seem to be high ones and hang in the air for ever, bringing joy and hope to defenders everywhere. We seem to have honed our ability at kicking to someone who should have plenty of time but ends up under the hammer or even outmarked due to these widow-makers. Our first two decent forays inside 50 against GWS happened to be from low hard kicks to someone on the lead. and that was about the last we saw of that for the day. (Last quarter doesn't count.) I noticed last night both Cats and Tiges were kicking low and hard. We work and battle so hard for every goal. It kills as a spectator to see every opposition team waltz the ball down their end for easy goals ... the kind we rarely seem to get any more. It must kill the players too. The Giants beat us on only 3 cylinders. Against the Crows we worked our guts out, right out of the game. Our crooked kicking and their straight kicking told the story. It would be nice for us to pull in wins on an off day rather than need everything working at 100%. With our game "plan", to win a flag, we would need a dream run like the Dogs'. It's not impossible ... it happened just 3 years ago ... but would much prefer to see a more structured approach. Imagine skill by hand and foot, playing to a system, combined with a ferocious attack on the ball. (One out of three ain't bad.) Unfortunately with Goodwin in charge, we'll have to imagine it.
  14. I see. So we should attack the ball with even more ferocity!
  15. The umps are blind. So many kicks going 8, 9, 10 metres being paid as marks. Then Hawkins is about to run over the mark and give away 50 but Geelong's Infringement Prevention Coach (aka the umpire) tells him to "Hold, Tom!!!" Since when is it the umps' job to coach the players?
  16. On D'land forums Posters bait one another Moderators spring
  17. Where's the revenue from grassroots football? The economic rationalists at AFL house can't see the value in it.
  18. I agree with this, and expect the same reaction as you get when telling soccer fans that it's not "football", it's "association football". ("soccer" being an abbreviation of "association".)
  19. Gil himself calls it "AFL" football. He doesn't care. In our latest episode of continual shark jumping, the AFL has chosen to ignore grass roots footy again, preferring to chase new logos that no-one is crying out for. Coming hard on the heels of actually spending time at the commission discussing whether to recognise ancient VFA flags as VFL/AFL flags (an initiative got up by the Geelong president which will handily award the Cats another 6 flags, not that that would influence his thinkinh). Meanwhile umpiring standards are as low as anyone can remember, and the match review process is a travesty. Gil doesn't care.
  20. They have a bloke who's not even on the board as far as I know, who likes to pull strings behind the scenes, and is treated as if he is on the board, or a kind of shadow CEO. All power, no responsibility.
  21. Hardie looks like Malthouse roughed him up in the car park as they arrived
  22. So the Suns were the sacrificial lambs last year. This year, the Saints based on their 2018 performance. Which hapless losers will be in the firing line for a home game at next year's pantomime football? Not Brisbane. Carlton? Maybe they still have enough clout at AFL house to get out of it. The mighty MFC? Can see it all too easily.
  23. Unfortunately yes. With the talent they have, they should have jagged some wins against good sides on days when it all "clicked". That they haven't says everything you need to know about Bolton. Surprised it took this long.
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