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And so an extension is overdue.

Now we just need to re-sign Oliver

A Joeboy rundown: Buddy Franklin goalless. Mid-season draft. Uber Alex Georgiou.

Haven't read the whole thread. I would send Mitch Brown back, and have full faith in his abilities.

The game makes heaps more sense and then becomes a bit funnier if you imagine Brayshaw had a few cones in advance. Also ducked down to the changerooms for top-up in the last quarter. He and Jones managed to [censored] up just about every forward thrust they were involved in by being super-[censored] non-Matrix. Add ANB and Tomald in that. If Kozzie is near the ball, please just [censored] off.

Now you're just feeding the stereotype.

There was a mini-patch of closely fought games in the back half of Roos' first season as coach in 2014. Salem's famous sealer in a 1-point victory over the Dons, and two losses within a kick against the Bulldogs and Port (incidentally our current top-of-the-ladder competition) - from memory due to [censored] efforts from the Bont and Jay Schulz. As cited by the AFL, these games ultimately cost us a priority pick, despite only winning something like four matches against non-expansion clubs over the prior three seasons. Still, thanks to St Kilda, we would walk away from that draft with Christian Petracca, along with as Angus Brayshaw as compensation for James Frawley. (If we did receive a third compo pick, there's a good chance it would have been spent on Jake Lever). Anyways, my original point: in the middle of that patch of close games we also played North Melbourne, in the debut of Ben Brown.

Yes, what an amazing motivator he was. In the fortnight following Barlett's 'blast of beauty' we smashed the 17th and 18th teams (with a combined win-loss record at the time of 3-21) off the park - by almost ten goals apiece! - and then followed it up with victory over a wildly undermanned arch-nemesis Collingwood (injuries be damned, as they don't count when we suffered a spate of them in 2019). Unfortunately, we fell short to the Bulldogs and Sydney and Fremantle over the space of the next four weeks, but that wasn't related to Bartlett at all - as they were all challenging for a spot in the top ten and is Goodwin the right guy thread? And now that girl president is going to undo all that tough-speaking home-truth stuff that Bartlett did over the past eight years to get us to our 6-0 start this season. Folly!

Brisbane are also 5-0 for final quarters. But we do have the highest 4thQ % - 151 - 74 - keeping in mind we've kicked 25 4thQ behinds as well! Need to hold on to Burgess any way we can.

'Twas David King and some dude from Champion Data. Not sure where I stumbled upon it.

Some randoms gleaned from the Pure Footy podcast: Melbourne are only conceding scores from 30.6% of i-50s - the stingiest ever for a team after round 4. Melbourne should be scoring a predictive 101.8 points p/g (currently 89.5). This part was unclear if related to the above or not: we're currently generating the second-hardest shots profile. Adam Tomlinson has lost 1 out of 19 one-on-one contests since shifting to defence in round 10 last year. 21 players have played every game so far this year (obviously set to dip this week).

Did you read what I wrote in my follow-up post? Acknowledged the value of first bolded part, questioned that of the second bolded part. Anyway, no point arguing contrary perceptions. Be well.

When Spargo got a dicey free from Selwood for high contact. And then when Pickett executed a pass so slick that even Clarry missed it. Haha and when Selwood was caught holding the ball by a flexing Pickett.

I would have bet anything that Langdon touched the ball more than the 25 times recorded in the stats. Is it possible that the part-time notchers are getting him mixed up with Hunt?

Took the equal-most marks on the ground in a stat that I think is super-important for us. But it's what he does after those marks - and moreso when he's trying to win the ball in tight situations but mostly just gets in the way - that just seems a poor fit with what the rest of our team is doing right now.

Seems I was the only one wildly frustrated with TMac today and pleased that Ben Brown was waiting in the wings. I did think that Tomald played reasonably well in round one (with steadily diminishing returns ever since), so now I don't know if it's confirmation bias or not. Out TMac and probably May. In Brown and Majak. And no disrespect, but our other 150-plus games veterans in Nev, Nat and Melksham can no longer be relied upon in clutch situations either (e.g. finals), and should probably be transitioned out sooner rather than later. It's not the same at other clubs, but veteran players at other clubs haven't been through the same as what ours have. We have coverage for the above-mentioned players, and our maturity is beginning to shine without them. I'm also confident that our next generation of veterans will continue to perform and lead the club and nurture our recruits in a way that our current ones haven't been able to due to a multitude of circumstances.

I am Jake Lever

Seems counter-intuitive but a slop-fest requires extra maturity - which the Cats have in spades. We've also demonstrated extra maturity this season, so will be interesting to see how far we've come. Crazy to think that we could go two games clear of fifth spot by the end of round 4!

Apologies if covered somewhere else in this thread. Looking to sign up to a five game membership. It's unlikely that I'll make it to Melbourne this year, but who knows. The question is, is it easy to transfer tickets? Ideally, I would like to donate them back to supporters who might not be able to afford to go, or offer them to anyone who wants to recruit a newbie to football. Any advice?

And here I was thinking that Underwood's inane afterthought-bubble would disadvantage Pickett. Each to their own I guess.

'Demons star Max Gawn triggers the latest global helium supply crisis' is an awesome headline, the big fella destroying the hopes and dreams of kiddies across the world with upcoming birthday parties.

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Ben Brown also recorded the AFL's highest average distance covered per game in 2019.

The secret to Pickett's evasiveness is that even he doesn't know what his legs are doing.

Dom Barry, Paul Puopolo, and Jackson Callow combined for 7.5 for Norwood on the weekend.