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I brought a friend from the UK who had never been to the footy before. I made sure we were there before the team ran out so he could experience the banners. He thought they were incredible and couldn't believe how big they were. He'd never seen anything like it. Thank you @WalkingCivilWar for all your hard work that contributes to the great culture of our game.

Happy to clarify! Previous years averages were for the full home and away seasons including finals. I left 2020 out because of reduced quarters.

The numbers support that we look a bit more like 2018. Which was the last time we were also rated number 1 in the comp for scoring. Our attack and defence averages for scores are actually a lot closer to 2018 than our previous two seasons. At the moment in 2023 we are kicking an average of 16.10 107 a game. Which is considerably more than: 2022 12.12 87 (up 20 points per game) 2021 13.12 90 (up 17 points per game) and a lot closer to our 2018 scoring average of 15.13 101. (up 6 points a game) Now on defence we are averaging 74 against this year, which was: 69 in 2022 64 in 2021 79 in 2018

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Surely this sets the precedent for JVR to get off. It was a marking contest. Amazing that this gets 2 weeks and Chol doesn't even get looked at. His action was much worse.

His jaw is all chin

Apologies IRW I was being flippant

Just a two piece suit, you can leave the 3 piece at home.

If I were you I'd wear my colours to the game and wait outside the North rooms til my friend is done 🤣

I agree, loved hogan but there isn't enough positives there. He oozes talent but doesn't work hard enough for it. He doesn't have it and what it is is what Trac, Oliver and Gus have. That unwavering work ethic. That's how you get to be elite.

I can completely see why you feel that way however I don't think Jackson stuffed us around maliciously. Being a 20-21 year old away from home he's most likely not mature enough to feel comfortable telling the authoritative figures at the club that he want's to go home mid season and then deal with working there for the rest of the year. He could have thought something like if I tell them I'm leaving then I'm probably playing at Casey for the rest of the year. He chose to be avoidant of the issue with the club and in turn it did affect our season negatively, but it is what it is. Our club did everything right by him and that is great to see.

The solution with the forward line would be TMac or Brown but both are either out of form or not healthy/fit enough for the role at the level its required to be.

I know and only 2nd by 2 points. Image how much better we would be if we fixed our kicking inside 50 efficiency. It's the difference between the competition being so even and us blowing everyone else away.

Yes, You are correct about round 5, slipped my mind but I am trying to not think about that game ever again. I really value him so highly as a defender and don't know why we are robbing Steven to pay Jacob. We have seen this regularly in defence but forward in these games he has only taken a handful of marks. We are going shorter in defence with the 7 rotation now being - May, Lever, Rivers, Brayshaw, Hibberd, Bowey and McVee which in turn has seen an increase in marks by opposition inside their attacking 50. Agreed that it ain't broke. I'm a big campaigner for the Keep Petty in defence, I haven't seen enough results to change my mind yet.

I've been very impressed anytime I have heard ANB speak. He bleeds leadership.

completely agree, we both think the same way and need to find those kicks and angles we had earlier in the year. I also think if we switched the ball a little more as it would open up the ground a bit better. We rarely do it compared to other teams but when we do we tend to get an avenue to goal or at worst a turnover at half forward.

I understand it's deliberate choice because moving the ball 50 meters forward to a new contest is more ideal when under pressure and unable to get to the outside, which also allows our defense the space and time to structure up, I just think they can do better with the inside 50 entries like we showed in the practice game against st kilda.

at least were at our prime and not needing to rebuild this time.

Brown kicked 4 goals in both the first two games of the year and looked great. He plays on the oppositions best defender and we don't kick it well to his (or anyone inside 50's) advantage. That is the problem, the players dump kick half the time to the oppositions advantage wasting 40% of our inside 50s.

Where he is played is the difference, Petty stops way more goals than he kicks per game. Since he has been played forward our average score against has gone up a couple goals a game. He's played forward for 4 games and kicked 2 goals 1 for the season, It isn't working.

Set shots have greatly improved this year since choco took over goal kicking coaching.

I umpired local footy about 18 years ago. The umpires for the league would catch up every Wednesday night, we'd watch tape of any controversial decisions from afl games. If there was any incidents on the weekend in our games it was shared and discussed. Then would do some laps of the oval and some ball work. I would assume the AFL umpires would have a performance review during the week and would at least do a bit of running to stay fit for the games.

Both Sam and Jacob are currently listed at 193cm. (Sam 85kg, Jacob 96kg) Both are young boys so still have some growth to come.

Sam kicked 5.5 on the weekend for Claremont, has a lot of potential and will have more eyes on him because of JVR .