Engorged Onion

Mate, you are clearly trolling now. Surely. Just so I am clear, do you have a belief that every individual who played in the 9-0 bracket, had no capacity to improve in their role? Or... is it just Gus who was blindingly brilliant and without peer? or !! EO: Gus, how'd you rate your first half of the year on the wing? AB: 9-0 tells the story Onion! 🤣

Ugh, not sure why I am weighing in. But I'm so unclear how you got to what you did with @Lord Nev's post. Perhaps the more useful conversation with Angus would be - ' Gus, how did you see the first half of the year, playing the wing role?' I've only heard him speak limited, I am assuming he would give an honest answer, so, what would your take on his 'honest' answer to the question be @Sir Why You Little?

Oliver > Fyfe

Fortunately that's not a priority to the AFL.

Well, implicit in that headline is, who they are not chasing, and for what reasons.

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Yesssssss :)

The AFL should totally have gold embossing for the GF winner for the previous year for the subsequent season. Further, a series of stars, should now be mandatory, representative of how many premierships you have won. That would look farrrrking sexy. A la...

Norm Smith Medallist All Australian ————> HoF?

Yet the commentators simplify it for the masses, and assume that the midfield group are only operating well if clean take-aways occur.

Erm... already done methinks... Unless of course you think respect is only earned after 2 consecutive premierships? But I can imagine luminaries of the game such as L.Piconne, A Carazzo, B Stanton and T.Richards are turning in their proverbial existential football graves that 'pressure' doesn't mean Melbourne choke anymore. We've all moved on from that story, surely?

(for the sake of getting to 100) Am I the only one on here, who feels that 'Bang, Bang, Bang' undersold the occasion, and wished like hell the Channel 7 version had someone else in commentary at the time, rather than JB or Bristle?

The tonne is a metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms. It is also referred to as a metric ton. It is equivalent to approximately 2,204.6 pounds; 1.102 short tons, and 0.984 long tons. The official SI unit is the megagram, a less common way to express the same mass. Surely you mean a ton - as in 100 runs -> cricket Care to adjudicate? @Demonstone 😇

Here is an overview of some 'stats/trends' from around the league by the gents at Mongrel Punt, it's an interesting read, and for those that salivate over Clayton...well there is a lovely little piece on his influence.

As I have nothing of interest to contribute today in the slow wind down to Christmas, I received a little email from The MFC re: a $999 watch! It's got a logo and SOIL- yes SOIL from thy hallowed turf that is The MCG - personally I'd have put in some Optus Stadium grit in. Anyway... what's the forums view? 😄

Hotness was exemplified by kicking truly a few times from the left pocket 40 out throughout the season... just didn't quite replicate in the GF

What an odd opening statement... "Melbourne has enjoyed a rare win at the national draft when it secured two of its top first-round targets exactly 20 picks apart across two nights."

Thanks @Watson11 a far more forensic dissection than I have the intelligence for...

Up there with Shane Ellen...

In looking away from our shores at distant leagues and thus different approaches, here is an article worth reading. It summarises (for those that care or are even aware about club legend OGS's sacking from Man Utd) and what the FD have done next, in obtaining a specific person, with specific skills sets and philosophy in what works for high performance. Geez I'd love some discussion in AFL at this forensic level. Anyway, what stood out for me in reading it (and linking it to Goodwin). "But with Tuchel and Rangnick, and Guardiola and Jürgen Klopp for that matter, the most notable quality is their restless intelligence, the obsession with detail, with football as a play of shapes and numbers and ideas. This is how you win at this game now. The fitness and technical quality of elite players is so well-matched that this has become a game of details, a cerebral as much as a physical battle. With this in mind Solskjær’s departure has spared us what would have been a very obvious contrast." I am firmly in the camp of Goodwins intelligence, and subtle strategic curiosity and credentials, and have been since his first year as coach. This was evidenced by Goodwin's willingness to be 'experimental', to test out in-game ways of being different with strategy to win matches. Roos, Clarkson, Beveridge and Hardwick all have shown this attribute as well (or at least, more clearly on display than other coaches). There is a comment around Tuchel's press conferences also. I for one hope Goodwin, with premiership success and his standing a good/great coach validated, also allows him to be more authentic with his strategic acumen and put it on display in press conferences going forward. Have a good week everyone!

Media still confused about whether 2021 was Melbourne's anomaly, and feel 2019/2020 is the better predictor.

Strongly disagree with the notion that coaches don't rate him. He fills the gaps of the leading lanes that either Brown or Tmac (Weid) create. His assets are his hands and his leap and his read of the play, and then the silk of his kick - he is highly highly regarded with AFL circles, as has been for a few years. The question for each coach, is about how they allocate their own assets. Once Brown and Tmac (Weid) has been covered off (as each have shown they can kick multiple goals many times throughout the year - who is left to cover a fairly unique player who isn't tall, but plays tall... he's on to the 3rd best defender, who is a mid size, who wont typically have the leap or is deficient in other attributes. Fritsch's body of work ALSO means that defenders are well aware of his ability- so defenders also have to second guess whom to commit to - giving both their own defender AND Fritsch, often enough time (milliseconds) to react to the flight of the ball moreso than the defender who is 'panicked' about whom of the 3 (or 4 if Jackson/Gawn floats down) is the bigger aerial threat.

You look like one of the most under rated guitarists of the last 20 years or so Steve Craddock. Are you Steve?

Well done for not censoring your face! (unless of course it's someone else!)

That's brilliant @Watson11 - my hypothesis was correct :)