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Well he does need to become more of a peak Roughhead that can run anywhere in the front half and be a central moving focus that is as flexible as anyone else. I'd say he was more like Cloke or Hawkins this year ie waiting at deep forward and initiating a wrestle duel. Modern game has gone past that style.

The absence of an early returning Dean Kent last week sparked a few comments along this line

Fisher King on the left there could've come back in better shape

More of a Sydney issue that one.

So we are in the box seat to pick him up when he wants to home? http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/brisbane-lions-weigh-up-draft-bolter-with-top-pick-over-favourite-cameron-rayner/news-story/bb9562d5c91ee1b6bd410fb9de604fb7

I hope not, i switched off the international rules after 5 minutes. It feels so two dimensional

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Tom Lynch (GCS) has been the go-to rumour for all things Collingwood, and Sloane for St Kilda.

I don't think the intention is to create 22 meditation masters who never stop being mindful or aware during a game. It's to have 22 players who have less of a tendency to drift away into negative self talk or to lose focus on key instructions that pertain to their role, than they did before. Of course, a large amount of the game will be decided by instinctive reactions, athleticism, strength which are covered in physical training and specific positional (fwd,mid/def/ruck) coaching.

The pali term for 'sati' has been translated as mindfulness and also 'remembering' - remembering your object of attention that can be experienced in the moment. Be it breath, mantra, body sensations or whatever. You pay attention to breath, the mind drifts into thought, it comes back and you remember to focus on the breath again. The focus of attention is a means to an end though. To continually focus on the breath after waking up from mindless automatic thought is to retrain the mind to habitually drift away less and less ie spend a month meditating and your mind drifts away less than it did a month earlier. That translates to being able to come back to the moment and not drift away into a stream of negative thoughts and defeatist idea's more often. Its also going to allow you to wake up and recall coaching instructions at a quicker pace. The Tiger article said they helped each other, so one attentive person who is recalling tactics in the heat of battle can remind others, so youve got a network of attentive players. Of couse, even without meditation, people can have far better memory recall than others. Players with natural leadership abilities or players that seem like they're a class above others, may often spend a lot of time studying or focussing on their tasks and taking it very seriously so they have that attentive ability in games and can instruct others around them. Luke Hodge springs to mind. People might call meditation 'woo' and 'spiritual', but i think thats just a misunderstanding brought on by the vagueness of the word - I prefer to strip it down to the task of 'remembering' something. Being mindful of a task

Not worried. We'll bring him in for a late pick in 2 years when he wants to come home (We're the NT Dees right?)

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Isn't it equality at work though? A 21 year old leaves for more money if a lower club has less talent and can make a bigger offer. They can only do this because they don't have a current premiership window open and aren't stacked with elite players. You have to balance who you keep for success now vs success in future. Adelaide were squeezed because they're on top of the ladder. And we'll be squeezed either by being on top and not being able to match offers or stagnating and not making the finals and players leaving to find success on lower pay.

From Adam Cooney's mad monday article perhaps? "Hibberds and Melkshams: The animals of the group, rock up feeling the effects of the night before, nude by 12, abusing everyone by 2pm and home by 6pm. Great value."

Two oldest clubs in the comp. My only gripe is that it's not the opening game of the season every year, as i've always said we should play them first up in our heritage guernsey's. Fingers crossed we don't play again at Simonds.

Isn't the question more of a 'Why keep Watts and have a developing star poached on a massive offer' issue? I think future economics comes into it far more than whether we're immediately upgrading/downgrading. Anyone we bring in at HF is being added to the depth and to place pressure on selection be it an 18 year old or a 25 year old delistee

Not that i'm debating with you, i'm not fussed one way or the other, but i'm pointing out that a starting offer shouldn't be about right, but unders. But i misread 'stated' for 'started' so don't mind me.

Defeats the purpose of making a starting offer if thats where you eventually want to compromise to. Next time offer 10 and a 3rd round eh?

We should've just kept his legs and sent the rest of his body to Port Adelaide.

He does look like he jumps in the air to kick the ball in a toe pokey kind of way but in the middle of the boot (Middle poke?) - Reminds me of Tyson, with the chip kicks. But that jumping kick style looks as though its propelling his body forward for the one two which Tyson doesnt really have the burst for. Excited to see that he looks like he does have some natural acceleration and athletic power.

We played him forward in the last quarter to try and win the game against the Pies in r23, while it's a tiny sample size, he was easily spoilt and bodied into the wrong position as a lead up forward. Goodwin went one unorthodox move too far and cost us a few chances at goal. He's far better as the ruckmen that drifts forward and takes a towering pack mark once (or one and half times) a game, if that's what you mean by seeing him in attack?

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Re Gibbs: Easy to take a paycut when youve been earning 500-600k for 5 years and 400 or so the 5 years earlier and have probably made smart financial investments. A career ending injury wont put a dent in his bank account. And Tex taking a paycut? Easy to do when you've got a career lined up post-footy due to captaincy and ironically getting a payed radio spot (Outside the cap) to spout this nonsense. Tex is a fool if he thinks that their underpayment policy was going to work for a kid that gets rival offers that value his ability and get him to come home. Easier to point the blame at others, rather than your own salary cap manipulating tactic coming back to bite you in the ass.

He looks slightly uncoordinated with feet full of concrete, or maybe it's that mop of hair thrashing about. I can see him becoming the new whipping boy in 2 years time. His kicking for goal may need work, unless that was a shank in isolation. Hard to glean anything from just one video, but we may want someone cleaner with the ball?

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