The Cult of Disco Turner

Idk what you’re talking about I’m having the time of my [censored] life.

Appalling 1st quarter. But I think we battle back and win this. Despite last week our quarters have been uneven all year.

about 5 free kicks for holding not called there

Well this makes a lot of sense now

Would be great to have Viney back in the side at some point but I’m now far more concerned with his long term health and well-being.

The quick, creative handball chains we’ve been executing so well recently are right up there with the speccy for my favourite thing to watch in footy. There have been a few that have been like poetry in motion.

Could be wrong but I feel like there might be a bit of a disconnect for some here in terms of what the coaching staff seem to want our forwards to do versus what forwards have historically done in footy. Have found the game plan thread and Binman’s recent comments there really helpful in trying to understand this. Petty and AJ certainly aren’t Hogan or Cameron but the way they play largely negates intercept marks in the forward 50—which both prevents those really frustrating fast transition goals through the corridor that killed us earlier this year and allows for ground balls that either let Kozzy do Kozzy things or starts those inside 50 handball chains to try to get to the open man. Given that we do not have a dominant key forward at the moment, it honestly seems like a brilliant move by the coaching staff.

I’m not as well versed in footy coaching/strategy as others but I feel like it’s been noted that the “tagging” isn’t really tagging and is instead a way to put Clarry with players/into spaces where he gets a lot of the ball and can shine, thus building back his form. Yesterday’s 31 disposals when he’s supposedly “tagging” seems like pretty strong evidence of this being the case.

If you’d like I’ll genuinely give you my Kayo login information so you can go back and watch how much of a positive impact he had in that second half.

I’m…happy? And not anxious or furious? What is this feeling…?

We’ve given up 6 goals in the entire game…

difficult to not think about the % we are missing out on…

HOLY HELL KICK IT THROUGH THE GOD DAMN STICKS

Dominating this game and missing our kicks. Should be up by 4 goals. So frustrating.

Dean Martin a lovely touch

Disco 4 goal game incoming

I’ve found that for me the anxiety inducing way we play means every game is the Tim Tam binge game

Melbourne-based Swans supporters make us look like an incredibly blue collar team by comparison. They’re next level posh.

Boy, the sport gets a lot easier when you can just sprint 30 meters into the goal…

Nah I’ve lived down here for several years as my partner is from Melbourne but I try to get to a game or two at Lambeau (wearing my cheesehead, of course) when I visit family. The Packers are genuinely like a religion for Wisconsin—the roads are completely empty and some businesses even shut down during the games. If the Packers lose the entire state on Monday morning has a very similar vibe to post-loss Demonland. But one of the many, many things I love about living here and supporting the Dees is that I never have to ask myself “do you love this team enough to go sit on a concrete bench for 4 hours when it’s -20C and snowing?” (I will shut up now and we can go back to talking the Sydney game, everyone)

Yeah, my family has had Packers season tickets since the 60s and Brett Favre has been an [censored] for years but the CTE is certainly making it worse. My non-evidence based take as someone who grew up around and played American football as a lineman is that the hard helmets can and often do make things worse via a false sense of security and the brutal impact that one hard helmet has when it hits another. Some players in the NFL have started wearing an additional soft “guardian cap” on top of the helmet which looks an awful lot like the soft helmets used in AFL and NRL. The NFL, of course, does not really care about player safety and has been working to protect itself from these lawsuits for years. But at the same time, there is only so much you can do in a sport where the objective is to repeatedly line up and crash into each other at full speed.

Has been the same story for us a number of times—gotta take advantage of your chances. 17 behinds is brutal. But at the same time…frees being 26-12 is just appalling. And I reckon if you look at where/when those frees were paid it was just as appalling.

I’m here to complain about the umps.

Yeah I think you’re right that the winning is definitely the lion’s share of it—you win a few and suddenly the vultures start looking elsewhere. And I could absolutely be full of [censored] with the rest of it…maybe I’m just so excited to have good vibes back that I am giving a bit too much credit. But at the very least there’s finally been some positive momentum recently both on and off the field and we haven’t ruined it with unforced errors which, given all the nonsense off the field in recent years, feels like a Herculean accomplishment worthy of some praise.