Engorged Onion

Marcus, are there vibes you are picking up on?

Ermmm, are we talking about the same player?

Poor ba$tard - he'd better perform, or he'll be more of a Demonland whipping boy than Spargo and ANB combined...

Thanks for that @xman97 is this a direct way of interpreting it via how I assume the NBA works? I am so naive in this area.

Must have misinterpreted this... my apologies.

Hence Goodwins unusual overt frustration in the post game presser against The Bulldogs...

Ahhh, the ol they were complacent reason. Just confirming they were complacent at 0-0 5-0 10-0 12-3 16-6

😂 so so undeniably true.

Ahhh, a trip down memory lane... This year feels a lot more relaxed! How do you spend your pre-game 1 year ago? For me, I was camping in a motorhome in Halls Gap, my parents in law happened to be up there as well... it was pouring with rain. My dear wife had pretty heavy menstruation, my then 5yo was also a bit sick, with all of that, she was over the camping and decided to leave and go back home. My parents in law kindly drove her and my son back. That left me with the motorhome by myself - and a choice to head back to regional lock down ... so I drove to the edge of the nearest LGA that wasn't in lockdown and ended up in...Birregurra, rented a house for the night, brought plenty of Forrest Brewery Beers and lit an open fire and relaxed.....and then paced around, and paced around some more...happy in the knowledge that I could completely stress the [censored] out by myself and not on public display...

In all seriousness, is there a trade scenario that could make this happen?

I’m starting a thread based on that…

You know where that actually is right? A slightly larger home! 😂

Been salivating over dropping that zinger in @adonski?

Here's one I posted a month or so ago- does this help? Posted August 9 I love stats, and sometimes I completely misinterpret them... in interpreting the image on the screen, have I mucked this up? CPetracca = 124 @ 14% =17.36 at AFL Average 19% = 23.56 = that's -6 marks difference over 20 games... COliver = 94 @ 13% =12.22 at AFL Average = 17.86 = that's -5.5 marks over 20 games... M Gawn = 59 @ 12% =7.08 at AFL Average = 11.21 = that's -4 marks over 20 games... CSpargo = 56 @ 46% =25.76 at AFL Average = 10.64 = that's +15 marks over 20 games... (in the positive) TSparrow= 54 @ 7% =3.78 at AFL Average = 10.26 = that's -6.5 marks over 20 games... JJordon= 53 @ 15% =7.95 at AFL Average = 10.07 = that's -2 marks over 20 games... ELangdon= 50 @ 18% =9 at AFL Average = 9.5 = that's -5. marks over 20 games... Total amount of marks difference negativeve and Spargo's postitive of a 20 game stretch behind AFL average, is 14 marks over a 20 game stretch.. less than .75 of a mark a match.

Hilarious wording around ‘ban’. How about ‘upon reflection, we bought into marketers spiel on the need to ‘activate’ the crowd, when obviously they didn’t need to be activated.” Its a game of football, not a [censored] nightclub or current day supermarket…

Has anyone posited Steven Johnson yet?

What are you sorry for @Jontee...you're hilarious!

My two cents, echoes @Little Goffyover the last 5/6 years, we make very little noise, and get jobs done. Further to that, and generally speaking - each club, each year, has players that either leave, or go. So like Schrödinger, we are both a departure and destination club co-existing at the same time. Just like all clubs. Ps...love it in when you post... my head always makes laser noises..

good chat...

Apologies, you are correct, I was being obtuse, and I'm not sure why I wasn't willing to present my argument in a different way last night. In all seriousness, I thought your original post (and posting in general) is marvelous. You've articulated your theory well, although it is not a theory, a lot of this can be and is measured, both through qualitative and quantitiative means. I was very very snidely making the point that great culture doesn't guarantee you anything, and that we often like to do post hoc analysis (which we all do, I did it around 'loading and training management') to make sense of things (particularly in sport) I'd imagine if you asked each person at the club this year vs last year, the 'felt' experience at the club, would have been quite different. Did that in of itself impact on performance measures in training and game day? I'm not so sure, that those links are as measureable. I'm well aware of a person (formally) in the AFL who walked into a club - saw certain values painted on the walls, laughed, and said this stuff is bollocks - and was gone within 3 months. Values matter, culture matters, psychological safety matters - they'll give you the best opportunity for performance outcomes, and those outcomes are not guaranteed, because in this particular context you are coming up against 17 other teams with personal and organisational cultures that intersect and butt up against our own, on game day, with the same outcome desired. *if you feel like nerding out on the topic

Or completely ahead of the curve with strategy.

Just confirming that 17 other clubs don't have the culture that it takes currently? And we didn't have the culture in 2020 nor 2022, but did in 2021? 🤨

For pedants sake. Not back to back after their first... and Brisbane is 20+ years ago now... 😇

and the inane posting (mine included).

Yeah you're probably right on the first point. 👌