Engorged Onion

It'd be great to be at the match review, to understand what the emotional experience was like for each player on the ground, when we were scoring points, and how that interacted with each players, intensity, belief and just the urge to continue, whilst experiencing (presumably) disappointment? Did they feel deflated? Did it feel like it would 'turn' at some stage? More importantly, now that we've experienced a match like this, what was learned from it emotionally about that sort of situation? And what would happen if it was in a Final?

The match against the Tigers reinforced to me that Goodwin and Co has a plan B (yes I am being cheeky here). But really that Plan B, is an extension of Plan A. The way I see it, if we assume teams will 'back their system' against ours, it plays into our hands of our (Plan A)...things such as Our rolling defensive system cuts down opportunities to kick on the 45 to switch play across the centre and spread us (creating gaps for free players) Due to this, we force long kicks down the line, to wherever Gawn, Jackson, Brown, May Lever is on slow plays On fast plays exiting our F50, opposing teams get dump kicks, typically mopped up by our defensive pressure by our forwards and mids, and repeat entries into F50 occur...typically towards the pockets if it is defensively packed. If a team gets it out moving towards our D50, due to our strength of the back 6 - we can then typically rebound quickly and find space to accurately deliver a ball to a forward Our strength inside AND then outside on the spread (post contested ball) allows us deep entries that either gives us another opportunity to keep the ball in (set up when a point occurs) or it's out of bound and we set up for dump kicks and also the expectation that we're likely to win the clearance. All this works in our favour if a team chooses to try to negate all that (which moves them away from backing their system presumably)..and you get what we saw last night. 3 times the amount of scoring shots due to an inability for the team to get the ball regularly beyond centre square with any 'real intent', due to all players parked between our goal square and center square - with May or Petty acting as sweeper The challenge then becomes for the team to switch, and with Jordon, Brayshaw, Spargo, ANB, Langdon all valuing defense, typically slowing down, and then we are back to a slow play where by it falls to Plan A again (for us) - forcing long kicks down the line. Alternatively trying to go up the center, but risking interceptions and the quick rebound into our F50 Anyway, that's why I think our system is pretty amazing.... because our one woods of Plan A are are better than any other teams, and if teams go to trying to do something alternate, it still plays into our strengths, quite inadvertently. It'll take either injury, masses of individual brilliance, or umpires, or inaccurate kicking to stop us. Feel free to add any other thoughts on how the system works please.

The ride home would be great for some genuine post match downtime by himself...

unsure about one player....who may be omitted due to 'mouth-knack'?

Most Scoring Shots (31) vs Least Scoring Shots (14) of the year... so far.

I hope I am being... went for a spoil, collected the head slightly I think...

Weeks for Brown there on the MRP...

Always happy to have double the amount of scoring shots.

Watch the match day thread light up if we only win by 4-5 goals

there was a non paid throw in the lead up to that goal, rationalised as 'knocked out'.

mmmmm. Ben Keys has a bit of a Bayley Fritsch aesthetic about him.

Yes, the scots tend to think that. However, having spent around 6 months in the Orkney’s they’d say they’re Orcadian first and then drift to Caithness/Sutherland next and Scottish third… must be an island thing 😎

Let us get a working definition of abuse vs sledging vs 'putting off'.

I've been trawling Statsinsder each day for 5 rounds.... just waiting and lurking for a piece on us! Thanks dude!

Art is... always subjective and always cultural. And from what I know as a privileged white middle aged bloke... there will be a story that I can't connect with by merely looking at it... ...until it is put in print to me, in which case I then reflect on the paucity of ritual and connection to land that my ancestors that emigrated here 150 years ago passed on to me. That's when the object that I am looking at makes sense, and transcends my socially constructed version of beautiful art.

...legacy

"His record over the past decade, given the talent at his disposal, is remarkable. And he is an old school players’ coach. He refers to them as ‘my sons’. Even Kane Cornes, who is constitutionally required to find fault with everyone and everything, speaks of his former coach with great fondness." I liked this quote from The Guardians Jonathon Horn... I'm not sure when Ken will get the chop... but surely Ken has got the chop?

Are we now 3 games AND % ahead of the teams out of the 8? After 5 [censored] rounds? Have I died and gone to some alternate version of sporting heaven?

He does it a bit... surprised he hasn't had a quiet word said to him be it internally or from AFLcorp(tm)

Oh...I just presumed because of the avatar etc etc...

How do you know this?

People make their choices given what's in front of them at the time. He was just a Dom Sheed pearler away from having one hanging around his neck. I have no animosity towards Jeremy, even with what appeared to be a slight on the club in some of his commentary over the years. Good on him for getting the double century. It's quite the career... and is just one chapter of who he is.

It's been telegraphed for a while... who will be jostling for the chalice?

I'm half a pint through a fairly strong beer... and rate my post, so much, I thought I'd post it here. Happy to debate... As per language used now when observing other matches, and how it informs our lens of how we see Goodwin and Co's philosophy. Re: 'Goalfests'... (any team that allows any other team to score over hmmmm 80?) Isn't there a massive shift in the supporters understanding and THUS the language used by us, because we now have a lens of what 'works' to win football matches consistently. It's also not just our - defense (back 6), running parallel to the strength of our 'defence' is still the system - which I still count as a a Goodwin version of gengenpressing. #goodwinpressing ps... does anyone have any data on how many left foot kicks Gus does per match vs right? pps... do you say data or data?

Love it @Lucifers Hero Not a pot at you at all...and isn't there a massive shift in the supporters understanding and THUS the language used by us, because we now have a lens of what 'works' to win football matches consistently. It's also not just our - defense (back 6) running parallel to the strength of our 'defence' is still the system - which I still count as a a Goodwin version of gengenpressing.