Engorged Onion

wrong thread.

Your memory is astounding @Bring-Back-Powell

I disagree with your premise @Deemania since 56. We know that fantastic players, and fantastic teams will always be feted on or given more leniency from the media, or umpires. Actually, it happens in all walks of life. It's not just, or right, and it happens. Thus, as we improve with our consistency in winning - it will come our way as well.

Great strategic analysis here, re: Richmond game Thanks @Clintosaurus https://www.rsn.net.au/podcast-2/ and will be in the top left box - Monday Footy Review with Jimmy Bartel. what it speaks to me about our ability to change game plans AND execute it with aplomb. we’ve always had plan b and c, and now we are reaping the rewards

Clint (or anyone) would you be able to post a link to the interview?? Many thanks

Deliberate spelling?? I love it and will now only refer to him in this manner.

Yep me too...

"Before others love you, you need to love yourself" The MFC is in a great space with itself... All the rest if Fugazi, and it's fugazi for a point. What gets people talking? It is commentary in the media that is divisive and deliberately adversarial. I'm not talking left and right politics here of course, I'm talking about something far more emotional to people..it's football! Anyway - anyone's opinion in the media is about as useful as the bloke you vaguely know 3 doors down, who kind of [censored] you because he has a Tigers flag in the window.

Not quite @Demonland - he did say that he asked the question, and he acknowledge it wasn't actually a problem. It was more he was incredulous/surprised that they kept missing targets.

Watching drinking light beers last night - where Max took a mark and for the 5th time Nankervis was all pre-mediated tumbling on top of him and his back and neck - to make him earn it... I seriously had a moment where I worried for his future mental/physical health. It beggars belief that there is no genuine protection for certain players who mark the ball...

can you forgive a typo?

Some bloke -and I paraphrase said - if you look real closely, overnight success is years of hard work @leave it to deever The core players are now 25-27 not 19-23 - physically, tactically, technically superior to where they were 2-3 years ago. Well done to Goodwin and the football department for staying true to the philosophy of 'winning from the contest out'. Because that was in evidence last night, in why we won the game, and why we are 6-0. Now its the contest out, flourishing - with additional add ons to the suite of services, like 1) constant pressure and 2) outside spread. With the added recruits that we didnt have 2-4 years ago, which help the spread, and the outside game.

Did I mention he is only 19 ?- his spatial awareness is fan bloody tastic

You think the players are thinking about North??

6 hours later... I probably should have put a little ? or a ? at the end of my previous post of a 19yo. I thought he did some lovely long kicks into the F50 a few times... so I also just checked the stats on the AFLPRO and he is going at 60/40 handball to kick ratio, and the main point with that, is that I dispute that neither he or his team mates have confidence in his kicking. I think @Lampers nails it with his quote around the flexibility the he provides for our team and also the difficulty as a match up for opponents.

If you think this is THE important metric - it is helpful to think about the advantage he give to the team beyond his goal scoring or current lack thereof. He is 19 for gods sake.... 19, he is 19, nineteen years old. So, anyway he is 19, 19 years old and he is helping the team you love win games and are currently sitting 5-0, due to the way that he plays the game, spreads the opposition backmen, and also by the way he doesnt score goals. Did I mention we are 5-0 with a range of goal scorers who are coming in to play due to how he plays the game. If I think about it really hard - he is 19 and whilst he is 19 - he could have scored a minimum 5 more goals more, than he currently has, due to the fact that he is 19, and the fact that TMAC kicked a goal that was his last week in the goal square, and that Petracca kicked a goal the week prior (the first for the game) due to a sublime palm down in to his path.. and 3 more for good measure. So going on that rate - as a 19 year old - he would have 6 goals in 5 games... 6 goals for a 19 year old - so by the end of round 20 he would have 24. Does that change how he is seen? @leave it to deever - you're been far to harsh mate on a 19 yo

Geography lesson :) - it's not the wheatbelt!

The Sad emoticon, does not convey the sadness in a way I prefer... ?

100% correct. The mere fact he kicked 7 as an output, is not indicative of him being ready from a fitness perspective. Granted though, it's pretty fantastic result and feels good, but its about km's in the body.

Reluctantly put it forward as it is Sports Bet... But a fair likeness

He is in a rich vein of form re: one on one's. Normally a fantastic kick - shanked a few on a the weekend. Is quite combative, considering what looks to be a slight frame. Anyway - I put him as floating between an A and a B - so B+ with his worst being a B and his best being A+ from contest to contest. And some more indepth info https://www.afl.com.au/stats/stats-pro#/Discover/CD_I296359/Salem-Christian I also think it's helpful to think about the language of 'average' as being on a bell curve - some maths guru will correct me - but I assume it is about the mean, as opposed to the median or mode.

Anyone know what Guy Rigoni is up to these days? Does he moonlight on here??

Assuming that at some stage Gawn, Jackson and Brown are all in the team, as well as TMac, May, Lever and Tomlinson as our talls, is pretty damned impressive wall to try and get past. between the 80m-50m zone from kick outs.

I guess by going into the pocket, if it gets a ball up or spoilt out of bounds, then the game plan is either for our mids to win it and distribute it out, or if the opponents get it and dump kick it, there may be a greater chance of finding someone on the re-entry. As well as backing our players to kick it from the pocket. I guess its better to have it in our end, then flying back the other way.

Just read your post... and then went and watched a bit of lat nights AFL360. Leigh Montana - discussed that we had above 22 total intercepted marks per game... with the below caption. Now either Leigh is wrong, or I highly suspect the work experience kids inadvertently clicked the 'shift number 5' button as opposed to..I dunno, shift and number 1. We're intercepting every 4th or 5th kick? Perhaps this is true?? The analysis of the data is not only 'lite' it's often incorrect, or at a minimum speaking of something else altogether.