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- GAMEDAY: Rd 09 vs Carlton
- PREGAME: Rd 09 vs Carlton
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Premiership Rings?
Absolutely this. If the pies want to spend $50k per head of their own money they can buy all their players runners-up rings this year too after we beat them in the granny - the league gives the winners on the day a medal, no need to change that imo
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PREGAME: Rd 09 vs Carlton
Toss up between Laurie and Billings to go out for mine - Billings seems to be considered in the best 22 ahead of Laurie and Woey Jnr but his form hasnât been great last couple, Laurie though seems to be only in to cover injuries so Iâd say he goes out for Bowzer. Blues arenât coming in riding high like they were when we played them in the final, and it seems weâre less reliant on dominating the centre square this year so we donât need Trac, Clarry and Viney to dominate Cripps and Walsh to win it, I think theyâll have trouble moving the ball against us like they did against the Cats at time and like the Cats had against us. Quietly confident though weâd want to be fresher than we were against the Lions. 5 day break is the price we pay for being a big club now, weâre prime time every week - not hidden off broadway like Hawks, Norf and co
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POSTGAME: Rd 08 vs Geelong
Union is better referreed, but itâs a different game with a different culture. The afl tried zero tolerance and everyoneâs brains melted because 1) we all love to yell at the umpires, 2) thereâs so much grey area in our game that some decisions are legitimately 50-50 and 3) itâs never really zero tolerance (some chosen ones always get tolerance). Weâd never cope with the 15+ 50m penalties that would come about from zero tolerance, itâd have to be a 25m penalty
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POSTGAME: Rd 08 vs Geelong
Really happy with that game, more so after a couple of days to think about it. Before the game I thought weâd need big games out of our big 3 mids to get the job done but it turns out we didnât. Clarry came into it after half time, and Trac & Viney had moments but they didnât dominate and we still beat them pretty solidly. I think this speaks to the change in style that isnât so reliant on Trac streaming out of the centre bounce for us to score. One question I had was whether weâd be able to slow down their ball movement and we did that very well with pressure on the ball carrier and our organisation across the ground. Pressuring each disposal disrupted their run as it made it hard for cheats like Close and Miers to run forward of the contest all the time and not be accountable. There was debate around whether Petty needed to be dropped or the plan to run him into form in the 1s would work and clearly it did. Makes a massive difference having him clunking marks and he was also putting pressure on at ground level (very important spoil that led to the Fritsch miracle). Big tick for the fitness and coaching staff. Scott and every Geelong fan telling themselves they nearly pinched it which is true, but we couldâve also had it over by half- or 3QT if weâd taken our early chances. Theyâll know internally we had them on toast. Can we do it again against the Blues? Will be tough off a short break but the cats move the ball better than the blues do, we should be able to stop them, and if we canât so be it - a loss here doesnât end the season, just need to keep building on it for September. Signs are good.
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2024 Expected Score Ladder
Itâs not a good stat or a bad stat, itâs just a stat imo. For teams like Port and the Dogs it indicates to me that theyâre doing a fair bit right and creating good chances but not executing. For us on the other hand weâre probably overperforming on conversion at the moment. Does it mean Port and the Dogs âshouldâ have won more games and we âshouldâ have lost one more? No, executing under pressure is part of the game, if you canât do it on the night you donât deserve the win on the night.
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Mobile Membership Tickets
Thanks, have done that now. Still annoying that the proper method doesnât work..
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Mobile Membership Tickets
Has anyone been able to transfer a membership ticket using the app this week? club told me the option would be there 24-48 hours before the game but weâre now 6 hours before the game and I still canât do it.. tickets are in the app but I canât send them
- GAMEDAY: Rd 08 vs Geelong
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Richmond
On expected score that was a 21 point win, which feels closer to the mark to me than the 43 points we got away with. They didnât take all their chances, and our defence held them out well but they also didnât have a forward line. Put Lynch and Balta up there and those wasted i50s they had turn into scoring opportunities. On our side we kicked 13 goals but had 3 at half time (after 3 at 3QT against the lions). Did the tigers set out to stop us scoring? Yes. Dud teams do that every week, and good teams kick goals anyway. Weâve still got issues going forward, hopefully we can get them sorted - ultimately thereâs still time to get things right by year end, but you donât make top 4 kicking 2 or 3 goals in a half cos you wonât win enough games and you wonât keep the % high enough. The biggest plus for me is that we arenât playing all that well and 3 of our best 6 or 7 arenât playing that well (Trac, Oliver, Viney). If your guns are firing and youâre still struggling thereâs a big problem, but if those 3 can get back to their usual then weâll be in a much better place. We have room to grow into the season, but we donât want to lose too many as we need a top 4 finish. Hopefully put two sketchy games behind us and give the Cats a flogging
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Clayton Oliver: A real Mensch.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4MXr6bPW6v/?igsh=MW9hcmNrZnB2bWltaQ== A few months ago now but nice little clip with one of the young blues talking about Claz giving him tips during the preseason game, heâs a nice guy Clarry
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
May and Lever have been best on for mine, not playing on much of a forward line but kept us in it in the first half. Disco kicking 3 has been the difference. Langdon solid and Windsor came into it in the 3rd. Koz makes a massive difference to the forward line. Petty canât move, I think theyâre hoping to run him into form but I think he needs to go behind the ball until he gets fitness and touch back. Billings needs the mids to be feeding him or heâs useless and heâs pretty hungry at the moment.
- GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
I wouldnât be surprised if we do eke out a win here and yes theyâve thrown everything at us but if we were as good as weâre supposed to be we should be able to control the ball under pressure instead of turn it over in dangerous positions time after time. Decision making has been atrocious.
- GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
- GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
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2024 MRO & Tribunal
They canât help but make a mess every time because they always allow special pleading. Step 1: any contact to the head is now medium impact and a week, no ifs no buts. Step 2: ok there are some ifs and buts, it kind of depends. If youâve got a good record maybe itâs ok, and if you do good off field stuff. But otherwise no ifs no buts. Step 3: no really we mean it, thereâs no ifs no buts, we were very clear in step 1. Step 4: weâve just got to stop citing these, get them all talking about the dissent rule again or something for christs sake.
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2024 MRO & Tribunal
The outcomes are predictable, itâs how they get there that keeps you guessing
- Kozzy bump on Soligo
- Kozzy bump on Soligo
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PODCAST: Rd 05 vs Brisbane
Thatâs different to where you started though, you were talking about heavy training to prepare for later in the year - training normally to maintain the same level of fitness is something else. That I donât really disagree with. They train to play, and potentially train harder over the bye to play harder later on - they arenât going to train harder between games to rest on the bye. They monitor each players loads individually, and players will go up or down depending on where they need to be that week, you canât plan for the whole team to be 95% in 3 weeks and 100% the week after that because it doesnât work like that. Players have interrupted preseasons (Oliver, Petty), old age (Brown, McDonald), injuries (May, Salem), changing loads (Salem going down wouldâve changed the loads for McVee, Rivers, Woewodin and theyâll need to account for that) - thereâs no one fitness level itâs about maximising the chance of winning each week. No point targeting a game 3 weeks from now and finding out when you get there youâve got half a vfl team in the 1s and youâve lost 3 in a row. Itâs a dynamic process, Iâm sure thereâs a very detailed plan at the start of the year but as per Iron Mike everybody got a plan til they get punched in the mouth. Itâs a week to week proposition to get as many of the best 22 on the park as possible, as close to 100% as possible to win as many games as possible. Hopefully we get a chance to do some extra work later in the season before finals but there wouldnât have been extra work this week.
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POSTGAME: Rd 05 vs Brisbane
âThey have us worked outâ is such a nothing statement though. 2022 semi final we were shot, Trac had a broken leg, Gawn was stuffed, we still beat them for clearances and contested possessions and if we hadnât kicked 11.13 we probably win anyway. 2 of those 4 games we win clearances and contested possessions so I donât think âcontinually get us at stoppageâ is accurate. If Gawn could start tapping it somewhere near our mids instead of thereâs it would certainly help though. We were bad on Thursday, I think it was a one off. I donât think thereâs a secret method that shows teams how to keep Trac and Oliver to 20 or less disposals otherwise every team would be doing it.
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PODCAST: Rd 05 vs Brisbane
I donât believe itâs possible or would be at all sensible to target specific games at the expense of others. We win one more game last year and we get a home final against the lions instead of an âawayâ final against the pies. Thereâs no margin to drop games against other finals teams. No way we put at risk 4 home points against the lions for some potential fitness advantage a month down the road, that will wear off by finals anyway. Thats on top of the danger of soft tissue injuries if we were to overwork them. I think your point on the pod regarding Goodyâs game style is correct, we play the way we want to play and we play it all year and we donât chop and change mid-game and we donât tailor it for different opponents week to week. Itâs all about preparing for the end of the year and I think that applies to fitness as well, itâs all about getting to the end of the year in the best shape, not peaking at different points through the year against various opposition - win as many games as we can to get top 4, get to the finals with run in our legs to take advantage of that.
- POSTGAME: Rd 05 vs Brisbane