Engorged Onion
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Media Bias, What Can We Do? 🤷♂️ (meh) Suggestion of a slight tweak to the title...
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where is McKay off to?
I'm going to disagree here as well - we smashed them on scoring shots, that's one of my metrics for performance. 8.18 to 9.8 It's still out of 4 teams. 😇 If Collingwood had beaten us like that - and we were 3 games ahead of them and favourites, I'd be hoping Goodwin and Co would be going through that match in forensic detail to ensure it doesn't happen again vs resting on the fait acompli that a few players come back would make all the difference. Our system comfortably beat their system.
I'd argue you are misinterpreting an outcome (a win) as the evidence that you have or have not played in a particular way. There have been very very tight matches between the top 4 all year. Now, some people will have a look at expected scores - say us and port vs Collingwood and Collingwood should have lost both by around 5-7 goals. I guess it's about how we as individuals look at whether performing means getting the win, and by/or by not taking into account the other team. I come back to my point earlier about having lost 2 in a row and then suddenly winning... whats that about? We hadn't 'practiced winning for the previous two weeks'- so it had zero baring on the outcome of the 3rd game of those matches that we ultimately won.
We will have to disagree... the evidence is, we have lost 2, won 2, lost 2, and the inconsistent form - driven by the training methodology, didn't impact on our ability to come from behind in the final quarter and still persist. The outcome quite likely could have been different. The winning builds belief concept only works, if you subscribe to the fact that you 'need' it. For what it's worth - I appreciate the sentiment - and having worked in the space, it's not a useful theory to buy into. It's ideal if you have confidence/belief....but you don't need it. As an example, we lost two in a row... not winning form I suppose. Then we won... so what happened... we didn't have winning form AND still won? We don't need to intimidate anyone... we just need to win on the days that it counts. Go Dees ❤️💙
I'm confused... as you wrote this " Need to go out there and win the football game today. Probably getting to the point where we can only drop one or none more in 2023 to be realistic shot at anything. This simply must be a win. " The fact that a win gives us 2 matches on 5th and percentage, would also mean, its not a must win.
Good points. It's an interesting one, unlike the article, I don't subscribe to the belief that we (or any team) need to provide evidence to anyone currently that we need to be in 'winning form' or to get on a streak, or to win by a certain amount. Are Collingwood clear favourites now due to last nights win? Personally I am neither here nor their on them having stronger credentials than the other top 3. It's going to be a role of the dice to some degree, luck, personell on the park, 'moments' in games that win it. We (pundits, supporters) retrospectively look for patterns to make sense of things, and then contort them to a way that then fits a narrative. Port were due for a loss.... last year Geelong managed their aging stars well... So between now and the first finals weekend, I am not the fussed... I'm happy to see what the Dees do come the first match of the 'post-season'. We're well drilled for it, that's been part of our DNA since Goodwin came along.... the other 21 rounds is the refinement process...
Longmuir 😵 cards, marked?
Skill levels of both teams, both media darlings… can’t just be the evening dew? They all look out on their feet half way through the second …😉
5? 4? years of specific style of training under Burgess and Griffiths. 5 years of not just being fit at the start of the season but refining and exposing each athlete throughout each subsequent season to be able to perform under fatigue during the season, both from a physiological and a psychological perspective. Stress Innoculation. It's done this way, because the evidence is the list is Top 4 worthy. So the 'poor form', the 'we're not contenders' narrative from those that need the immediate gratification of a win to not question a teams credentials, ultimately misses the point. When the plateau in training load comes... the ability to execute physiologically and consequently psychologically without the burden of the physiological stress, becomes far easier. 5 years of building on the base pre-season, and mid season, year after year after year and for some of those athletes in the 23-27 year old range, the will reap the rewards. It'd be different if we ranked the list at 18-11, we'd be operating the fitness cycle quite differently. The incremental and cumulative affects should have been seen 2022 where many players were crocked. I whole heartedly expect to see the rewards of this in the 2023 finals campaign.
