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Can you give the stats for Jackson's time management. Just so I can cross reference it with the standard form for 1st year players, that is sent out to all AFL clubs and their supporters. Everyone's wise in retrospect @Hogan2014.

Who's having parties these days? ? Speaking of parties, with Kozzie's quick feet - he'd be a monty to win twister... you know the one, where you drop the keys in the bowl?

To be honest I havent tracked his form this year... but Stephenson. does. have. worryingly. blistering. pace. I expect him to get an obligatory 4 goals, unless Mason Cox get's his.

I couldn't select both 'thanks' and 'haha' emoticon! Nice one!

Can we confirm you are Simon Goodwin now?

Fair enough @sue, I just assumed that all clubs, have all of champion data's intel on all clubs, easy accessible, relatively easily relatable to coach when the club itself would focus on what it can do, with minor tweaks (as its one player)..with the knowledge that roughly 7/8 days ago Gawn was going to miss. Tweak the need to shark Max's dominance Combat midfield as a consequence Kick Ins to Max Max dropping into the hole in defence. But, I do love to simplify things.

@chookrat - im not trying to be flippant... so collingwood plan for contingencies. Then an hour prior, the confirm Gawn is or is not playing... they then go through there list of what they need to do in 'said' situation. I'd argue there is no competitive advantage...it's not particularly effortful for them. It's as straightforward as, is it raining yes/no - long stops or short ones? BUT, help me understand what the competitive advantage is from your perspective.

Some overall commentary on the use of analysts in AFL and media. http://figuringfooty.com/2016/08/17/4-things-stopping-analytics-from-providing-afl-club-success-part-1/ http://figuringfooty.com/2016/08/24/2-things-holding-back-quality-footy-writing-and-analysis/ " The AFL have Little Incentive to Share Data In order to do any sort of quantitative analysis, you first need rich, accurate data. When it comes to the AFL, rights to any match scores and statistics are exclusively held by Champion Data, a company owned 49% by the AFL itself. Champion Data goes to great effort in hand collecting detailed data on each and every event that occurs in a match.2 They then make money by selling a watered down version of these data to clubs and the media who are obliged to buy it in order to remain competitive."

mmmm this article tells a very different story https://www.thefootycorner.com/2020/08/12/how-sam-weideman-has-become-melbournes-go-to-man-since-his-return-to-the-team/ but you know, opinions are like anuses... everyone has one. just every now and again, unlike your anus, you should inspect your opinion. *love the filter taking anatomically correct language.

Speaking of poetry - I'll just wedge this in here. Song of a Baker.

From butcher to baker: Melbourne rising with a gun mid's skyrocketing stat CLAYTON OLIVER Rounds 1-9 Rounds 10-11 2020 AFL Average Kicking Efficiency 50.6% 67.6% 64.1% Kick Rating -13.3% +10.0% Statistic unavailable Kick Metres Gained per game 307.5 496.1 188.1 Kick Retention % 36.0% 64.7% 57.5% Kick Inside 50 Retention % 16.7% 55.6% 46.3%

It's probably because when you post it's typically quite negative about players, coaches etc. So, understandably the inference is that if it's 'neutral' Elegt must mean not good enough. I know I took it that way as well. For clarity - perhaps it would have been better to write Sparrow and Jordan: We haven't seen enough to judge.

Came across this, this morning under the house. Good, good times. Can't believe Chris Connolly wrote the words!

Sorry, @bobby1554 that wasn't an attempt to let you know 'how wrong you were'... merely getting some feedback from someone with a different take. I do take the same approach about the half decent teams of course.

@A F @bobby1554 - yes it's only 12/13 days and not 21 - what's your take thus far?

110% - and the search function of the website is amazing in what can be trawled up

Shot Charting Explorer (for all teams and all players)

Evidence as to why Goodwins philosophy hinges on the contested ball/clearences is found in this article, but perhaps not in the way you would think. I'm assuming all FD's across the league are abreast of this info... I need to think about it, to see how it feeds into what it looks like we are trying to do.

Apologies about my fascination with what you choose to type (it must be lockdown). ..I just did a check - and I must confess I thought it would be at least 10% of the time...but of your 20,000 odd posts - 231 include the phrase 'no excuses' or derivatives of. It's only 1% of your posts, but jeez it feels immense. All the way back to 2009, no excuses. For a bloke that bangs on about no excuses, incessantly you're a pretty patient one

110%

Nothing meaningful at all - just being a pedant.

So you're not sticking with the old one week at a time then?

If these are the obvious ones, and you feel they're furphies, in your opinion, what's our one wood @binman? Which essentially is, what is the 'game plan' that drives these things as an outcome?

Binman, I feel I am really ordinary at seeing the big structural things (which is why I love this thread). And ill pass comment on your Lever quote. On Lever, essentially a question to put to the ether is 'how long, or how much evidence does one need to have, when they're coming back from such a significant injury (on top of his junior knee reco) to really genuinely feel they are 'safe' and ok, and therefore act less hesitantly. He has really being building into it, since his return.We got to remember, it's his livelihood, he has a kid... he doesnt want to do it again...its bloody scary to front up weekly (4 days) rinse and repeat (considering how innocuous his last one looked) Harley will be the same. On the notion of risky kicks. I look at risk as - what is your capacity to competently complete a task. Eg: If you can competently hit a kick x distance, long and flat... then the evidence is you can do it... thus its not a risk from a biomechanics perspective... so as spectators (coaches, parents) it's helpful not to get caught up in the outcome of the executed kick..but naturally we, coaches and the player does... and this then leads to either, willingness (and confidence) to do it again... or back away, play safe, be less daring and move away from [censored] up...which in turn moves away from game plan... Believe me in that I know that Goodwin has been schooled in language that helps open up players to make errors and keep taking risks in service of being at their best. Naturally though, each 18yo comes into the system with 18 years of not wanting to upset, disappoint, get judged by making errors...so the tension for goodwin is to help them have those emotional experiences of making errors but still compel them to 'go for it' - whilst under immense public scrutiny. On a side note, One of my pet hates is the language around confidence, or someone is a 'confidence player...' Confidence is a feeling, and it ebbs and flows, dependent on tasks completed, and outcomes of said tasks... see Weid's goalkicking last night. Confidence IS NOT the reason for him to be able to kick a ball through the goals (he already has the biomechanical capacity to do it)... but if he believes he NEEDS it first... then it's a problem. Confidence merely makes it easier... On Weid, he will come good...if he can work through his own stuff around the need to feel good as he is running in to take his kicks... Essentially, when he is playing in a Grand Final in 2021 in front of 100,000 30m out directly in front...how in the hell would you feel 'good' at that time... so it's a good thing for him to be aware of and work through. But, what is sound, is biomechanically his ball drop and follow through is great. And that bodes well for his consistency.

Neale has this year sewn up... Trac will be top 3 methinks....