Neil Crompton

2 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Love the front, hate the back. You’d think Hertz might get into the spirit and have a logo that worked for this special jumper.

Ffs get petty off.

Ffs get Oliver off 

3 minutes ago, Gator said:

Billings has always been a terrible kick for goal.

Yes, his career record till end of 2021: 102 goals, 118 behinds, so not so reliable at all. 

5 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Against Adelaide it was Langdon 15.5kms, ANB 15.2 and Ned McHenry 15.0

Against Port it was Langdon 15.4, D Houston 14.5 and ANB 14.4

v Hawks Langdon 15.0, TMcDonald 14.7 F MacGuiness 14.6 ANB not in the top 5

v Dogs Langdon 16.2 Bont 14.4 Fritsch (!!) 14.4, TMac and Rivers next

v Swans Langdon 15.8, ANB 15.5 Gulden 15.1

What a machine Langdon is!

So ANB should have 5 votes, and therefore must have been missed for some reason.

1 minute ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

What part of ‘Pickett Fence’ and ‘Bitter But Optimistic’ do you not understand????? 

You’d handle both of them with one arm tied behind your back. They’d be WCW’d.

Just now, leave it to deever said:

I'd tune in.

Haha I’d prefer to watch this one.

3 minutes ago, Billy said:

Fair enough, l just thought it was an interesting enough for a conversation 

Obviously not for you Neil

Sorry, I didn’t intend to offend you specifically Billy. 

2 hours ago, Billy said:

Can’t believe what I just heard Dermie say on crunch time (well l can actually) he basically said that Oliver took short steps with Darcy Forgerty on the lead Thursday night.

Just a bit more fuel on the fire to stick it up these outdated media [censored]

How much more credibility can this dinosaur lose.

To suggest that Clarries effort was soft especially with all the concussion concerns now & one of his best mates forced into retirement is embarrassingly pathetic 

You would see a harder ball player than Clarry 
Oh yeah and then Tom Morris said that Kozzies action was similar to Maynard’s against Gus!!

Why do you care what Dermott “I’m just a Stone Age dirtbag baby” Brereton says or thinks? He’s an [censored]. Why give him any airtime at all? I do admit I love it when the football media is against us. Why would I want those cretins pushing our barrow? I’m a lot saner since I stopped watching and listening to these so-called football experts about 4 years ago. The only thing I get worked up about now is game day - and that’s enough for me thanks.

2 hours ago, leave it to deever said:

If we did decide to go the path of including Fullerton, who would make way for him?

I think they will probably stick with Jvr rucking. His tap work isn't the rest but he's ok at ground level follow up.

Deev, I think his strength and tapwork for an undersized ruck is really good. I also noticed a stat where his percentage of taps to advantage is slightly better than Max’s! So not too shabby. 

10 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Said himself on an interview after the game last night I think it was that he's now having a bit more confidence in himself to take the game on a bit more, slow down and finish when he's got ball in hand than perhaps he has in the past.  Do agree and think he's become a more damaging and dangerous player as a result.

In addition, RG, he said that once he has ball in hand he now takes a breath and steadies before disposing. I think that has been a key element in his improvement.

1 minute ago, deejammin' said:

Verrall is very very good for a second year Ruck. I think it’s easy to forget he is only in his second year and that was very interrupted through injury. Once he gets his fitness up to get to more contests and clunks a few more marks he’ll be AFL ready. 

I think he’ll make a better key forward.

Very best wishes, Bill. You've been given a golden opportunity to prove your worth.

Don't stuff it up.

ANB is the exact mould of a team- first player and clubman that Tasmania should be chasing. (But hands- off Nibbla!).

1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Am I the only person left that doesn’t have their own podcast? 

Yes

1 hour ago, hardtack said:

I get your point re the supporter group stepping in, but the issue I can see is that there’ll be numerous suggestions, some good, some not so good, so to avoid the list getting too cluttered, how do you decide what is acceptable?

I’ll add to my conundrum with these… For those old enough, Marty Hore’s nickname could be ‘Spin’ and Jed Adam’s’ could be ‘Uncle’ or even ‘Pugsley’.

Haha, no one is that old, hardtack!

Suggestion for Blake Howes : “Crowded”. (Inspired by @Timothy Reddan-A'Blew).

2 hours ago, Demonstone said:

This just in from AFL Headquarters:

If Collingwood lose to Brisbane next week and to a Jack Ginnivan-led Hawthorn the week after in Gather Round, they will be granted exclusive draft access to Nathan Fyfe's twin boys as compensation.

If that happens, expect to hear a lot about Collingwood, Owen Fyfe and Norton Fyfe.

Normally I’d just put a laughing emoji on your work D but not enough in this case. Just brilliant! 

2 hours ago, binman said:

 

The Swans press, combined with the ridiculous dimensions of the SCG, would have created density further up the ground that made it hard for us to get through. Its worth noting that they also struggled with transition too, with lots of turnovers. The scores were level at three quarter time after all.

Binny, why are you suggesting that the SCG has "ridiculous dimensions"?

From a total area perspective (set up for AFL) its middle of the road from all the grounds we play on. From a length perspective its only 5m shorter than the MCG (at 160m), but while it is the shortest of the main grounds we play on, it's only 1m shorter than the Gabba. In terms of width, there are only 3 grounds wider than it - with the MCG (at 141m) being 5m greater. It is actually only 2m less width than the Gabba, but 13m wider than the Adelaide Oval, and a massive 21m greater width than Kardinia Park.  It's approx the same size as the Gabba in length and width, and I cannot remember hearing any adverse comments about the "ridiculous dimensions" of the Gabba (although I could be wrong here). At 5m shorter and 5m less width than the MCG, the SCG therefore has similar proportions to the G - ie its exactly 96% of both its width and length - and therefore you wouldn't think it would affect the Dees too much.

If the MCG is the benchmark for length to width ratio - (L:W 1.13 : 1), then the Gabba at 1.13 : 1 and the SCG at 1.14 :1 are all very similar. With Docklands at 1.24 : 1, Bellerive at 1.29 : 1, Adelaide Oval at 1.36 : 1, and Kardinia Park at 1.48 : 1 bringing up the tail. 

All this perhaps begs the question, should the SCG be copping such flack about its "ridiculous dimension"? I also cannot think of another code of football that doesn't have same set dimensions at every ground it plays on. This, I believe, is a unique character of AFL, and therefore makes it more interesting in so many ways - to my eyes at least.

(dimensions taken from a 2022 ABC analysis article).

4 minutes ago, Gator said:

Maybe a little.

I think it's easy to see little bits in lots of different players.  For example, my Brother sees a bit of Gerard Healy in Windsor.  I see a little bit of Bailey Smith in the way they move.

But the one player that has never had anyone remotely resemble him is Flower.  I've never seen anyone that reminds me of Flower.  They used to say Dean Kemp, but I couldn't see it in him either.

But each to their own.

My memory could be bad but I was of the opinion that the only player that had a Flower-like gate that I’d seen was Keith Greig from North. 

Wasn’t Waverley the site of the Packer cricket circus, and the site of the world’s first drop in wicket? 

5 minutes ago, Smokey said:

I believe Hore's nickname is "Dirty" 

Could be a lot worse.

42 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

It's not that hard. The rule is simple: If the name ends in an 's' sound, you drop the 's' and add a 'y'; if it ends in a 'y' sound, you drop the 'y' and add an 's'. For all other names, add a 'y'.

 

So by your rules Gus becomes Guy?

Can someone please enlighten me as to the definition of a centre bounce clearance - and who gets the stat? Is it the player who gathers the ball and handballs it to another, or is it the player who receives the handball and kicks it away from the centre? 
(if it’s the latter, then the old saying that “it is better to give than receive” obviously doesn’t apply to AFL stats).

I love Jack, but after listening to over half of that podcast, he still hasn’t grown up and he still hasn’t acknowledged that he could have changed his whole image at the Dees by simply meeting whatever standards we had back then. One day, hopefully, he might wake up. 

I thought Lever had a shocker, including giving away 5 free kicks.