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Awesome. Allows us to concentrate on recruiting for other parts of the ground.

Yeah he was just not given any respect in 2021. Just boot it out to his wing and most of the time he’d be there in a paddock of space. Yeah today was just a smacking. We looked a half move behind them every time and they were just set up so much better. They got it out at will and was almost like JL knew what all our centre bounce set ups were going to be. Out coached in the middle completely and the numbers reflect that.

Ok case in point! meters gained metric 2021 - 417.4 meters gained 2022 - 376.3 MG 2023 - 320.5 MG 2024 - 277.5 MG So one metric with a big drop off. All the others are pretty much the same. So 100 meters less in 2 years.

Yeah maybe! It’s compiled by a lot of stats so if he maintains the majority of them but falls away significantly in 1 or 2 stats, I’d imagine that will send his ratings plummeting. Not an expert so take this with a grain of salt, haha

Yeah that’s a fair call. Would you say Ed Langdons role has changed much in the last 2 seasons? Seems to still occupy a wing and run from one end to the other. But to agree with you, those ratings don’t seem to reflect my own opinion that Ed is having a better year this year than the previous 2 despite going down in ratings considerably 🤷‍♂️

He got a possession in the last and burned away easily from a Freo playing in chase. His top speed is up there at 34.2km/hr

Went and had a look at some player ratings numbers for all players. I wanted to see how sparrow ranked for the whole AFL and randomly picked another player which was Ed Langdon. 2022: Tom Sparrow was 275th ranked player. 2023: Ranked 219. 2024: Ranked 333 Big progression in one season but then a bigger regression 2024. For juxtaposition… Ed Langdon - 2022: ranked 238 2023: ranked 257 2024: ranked 323. Ed on the other handed has had 2 seasons in a row of regression. Going by the player ratings alone, you could argue Ed Langdons effect on games this year are only just better than Tom Sparrow. Doesn’t feel like it but the rankings are what they are. Edit: this is neither an endorsement or defence of Tom Sparrow. Just interesting to look at some numbers and compare him to another player.

Absolute mauling.

Genuinely asking, what would you have done?

Whoah hold off, I’ve done one of those things and it wasn’t a new religion.

Happy to eat my hat and hat my eat. Sorry Goody 👒 🧢 🎩

That was also the year Collingwood had plenty of injuries going into finals and they only just lost the GF from a clutch kick from a tight angle. Everyone is gettable this year. 1 or 2 bad injuries to any team is going to change finals.

I think both TMac and JVR need to play their main roles for the majority of the game for us to win so I’d rather see someone come in and just try to make a contest in the ruck, but mids to rove off Draper. Haven’t watched any Casey so no idea who is the better option out of Fullarton/Verrall.

21 marks inside 50 which is 2 more than the last 2 games combined. Forward connection was beautiful and we converted with 17.10. Unequivocally a great improvement.

Dot’n gvie meth oot uchm iergf. Llpsnige si rahd.

I personally have only heard very good things about him as a person (could be things I don’t know?) which I like. If people want to criticise him for his footy (fairly or unfairly)… I’m glad he’s playing again?

@SFebes MFC website and Facebook both just say a ‘return to football’ without saying either seniors or Casey. Im just glad he’s back!

Going off MFC socials, Jake will be playing this week. I’ve never heard a bad word against this man. When he grabbed the Freo jumper that said ‘Jackson’ a couple years ago and threw it on the ground, it really struck me how much he cares about the jumper and his understanding of what club culture means. Have a cracker game Jake.

Kneepocalypse? Kneegate?

Perfect sentiment.

I spoke to 2 co-workers today about footy and they both (independent of each other) said exactly the same thing I said on here in the last week. That they only watch their teams play (Essendon/Carlton) and they don’t watch neutral games anymore because the umpiring is so frustrating. I was pretty surprised to be honest. Hard to extrapolate out to broader supporters thoughts, but 2/2 thinking and saying the identical thing is interesting.

EXACTLY!!! The AFL creates rules and then lets the interpretations/applications soften overtime until an umpire pays it again after LITERALLY 100 preceding times it’s already occurred without it being called. WTF is that?

I take your point, but if Maynard is overreacting then why is long copping a fine? Long pushed him in the chest and now suddenly it’s a fine?

Pretty undeniable at this stage and it is killing my interest in the game.