Engorged Onion

You know that frustration seeping out of your pores, that, [censored] urge to point fingers at the coaches and yell at the players, yell at each other on Demonland? It's just not good enough, the team let me down, the players are hacks and the FD department are useless... if only I could recapture '21. Here's the thing, *geeks, which I am one* have a term for what's happening: Regression to the mean. Statistical inevitability. So, here we are. God football is emotional.

Tom Lonergan agrees with this post.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/enough-is-enough-simon-goodwin-on-personal-attacks-and-the-demons-culture-20240605-p5jjl8.html

Welcome to the curve of equilibrium, by design. Welcome to the sport that neutered the influence of cash to have a 'relatively' equal competition, rather than purchased success, where over a period of half a decade, any team can win a premiership, in effect. We rode the crest of the wave with a game style that won a premiership and now, as the sport, the tactics and the opposition has evolved, those warriors (and coaches) that won us a premiership are moving towards the setting sun... Some may see it that we haven't moved with the times, or haven't drafted/recruited well enough. Or the coaches cant coach, or are outdated. Some may even be genuinely entitled in their expectations of a dynasty has been missed. I would take the players that we had, and the coach that we had, for the one premiership of supreme joy and 4 years of quality, quality competitive football, game after game after game. Whilst acknowledging that all good things, start a decline, and it's actually no-ones fault. There is no one to blame, but we do like to do so. Every thing in life is transitory, Everything is impermanent. "Pursue it vigorously, and hold it lightly."

Mate, it’s Jesus Christ. He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. god, that reads terribly 😂

Mmmm, Carlton are THE litmus test judging by 9 Entertainment

Not tactics - just the ‘L’ word - or intensity of training volume and density. 👊🥩💥

Lacrosse? [censored] love it - that is one brutal sport... if he is up for that - then he'll go in very hard.

fixed.

Lismore Vic, or NSW? If it's Vic - how's The Blue Yabby? They got in on $5 latte's well before the rush, around 20 years ago 🤑

Subtle pop culture reference*

Alice is effectively 15 hours (1500km) south of Darwin, probably has a different climate eh? #knowgeography

I've flown up for it a few times for the matches- effectively like a clear spring day on the coast here in Vicco. Perhaps 26 during the day and then dropping down to 14 overnight... clear skies on both occasions. So needed a jumper as soon as the sun set.

I always look at quotes to reactions ratio to gauge a posters propensity to put forward outlandish statements… whilst you are entitled to your opinion, the ratio stacks up well. Oh, and Membrey and Stewart Lowe to kick 10 each…

It’s 2020 style posting in this thread, all over again 🙌🏼

You know how you get a little kick on Demonland when there is a notification - that’s dopamine. It counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression. In effect, the Pat-a-cake is a behavioural activator of the same thing, in a highly stressful activity. It’s evolved in the last 10 years, where it only used to be done after a ‘positive’ bit of play whereas now it is done irrespective of play and acknowledges the effort irrespective of the outcome or error made by an individual. It is good for the receivers 🧠 to more quickly get back on task - at least that’s how I explain it.

Oh for the love of god… 😂

Geekout: Our evolutionary focus on pattern recognition, a key to our survival, is not always correct. The brain excels at finding meaning in randomness, a skill that once helped us anticipate threats and opportunities. However, this can lead to confirmation bias – we overemphasize coincidences that fit our existing beliefs. It's a fascinating paradox: our very strength in pattern recognition can create psychological vulnerabilities when faced with the randomness of life.

source??

Oh, you weren't aware? "$4.1m was allocated in this week’s state budget for a new scoreboard at GMHBA Stadium, while millions of dollars of cancer funding research was slashed, prompting widespread outrage."

Premiership favourites to this…

This idea is the biggest [censored] myth on Demonland. All teams blaze away, all teams miss targets. All teams at times go lower than their expected score... some days that doesnt happen (see Carlton's first quarter)... We are changing the game style compared to the last 3 years because a) our midfield structure has changed, whereby we would bludgeon through clearances and pump the ball in and go for the weight of numbers philosophy... b) the weight of numbers philosophy (when it didn't work) became amplified because 16 of your opponents are already in the forward 50, making it harder... c) evolution - the change of style - to be more intercepting - is to reduce this effect. It is analogous to having a great tap ruckman, who wins 90% of the ruck taps, so the opposition therefore no longer tries to win the rucktap in of itself, it aims to shark the ball from that great ruck tapman, knowing that their ruck will not win it... In my mind, It's like people on here want perfection all the time... or at least are more accepting of it when we win, and not at all accepting of it, when there is a loss... that's a pretty [censored] up way to operate.

you can have more territory, and more inside 50's - and the context is to that - that the space is already jammed full of people. it's not a nuanced enough look at what is actually going on, rather than looking at the raw data, it's far more subtle... it's not necessarily poor attack, or poor delivery..., You've got to give some credit to the opposition and their structures and game plan.* Those stats were about the notion of us not converting well enough - we convert around the average or above average for the league over the past 4 years... *but if you are the sort of person that doesn't, then of course we're never hitting perfection, because of our inadequacies, irrespective of whether elite footballers are allowed to make skill errors or not.

2024 Average AFL goals per game = 12.1 2024 Average Melboure gpg = 11.8 2023 Average AFL goals per game = 12.1 2023 Average Melboure gpg = 12.8 2022 Average AFL goals per game = 12.1 2022 Average Melboure gpg = 12.5 2021 Average AFL goals per game = 11.5 2021 Average Melboure gpg = 12.9