Go Ds

I wish I knew. The guy used figures he didn't explain.

Daniel Hoyne was on First Crack Preview saying Melbourne's ball movement vs Carlton was the fastest Champion Data has seen in their 8 years, i.e they play on almost at all costs. I'm sure there'll be a follow-up story or clip online eventually but this is interesting to hear.

We could've so easily given up when Carlton goaled in the third and last quarter. Usually two quick goals and a 4goal lead like Carlton's early in the last will quash a tiring team's comeback. But not only did we hit the lead we kept going! Certainly Melbourne did so much right after Q1.

McLure on 360? He hasn't been on it for probably at least 4 years.

Are they loading already? That's confidence! 😂

Years ago Jordan Lewis and Jack Riewoldt started appearing on AFL 360 in a weekly segment. Maybe the show had a lot of players turn it down. It sounds like Tony Grieg was so cooperative with helping Packer's idea of one-day cricket take off that he was rewarded an almost unconditional position as a commentator later on. Maybe FoxFooty is as grateful towards Riewoldt.

The Midweek Tackle?

Google is now officially hopeless. Who's on AFLToday? Is that on Kayo?

I'll watch a bit of 360. But I'm kinda over all of them bar First Crack. They used to say today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish and chips wrapper. That's the way even most AFL games feel - apart from Carlton's collapse (Melbourne comeback) in a month's time all people will remember from the weekend just past is which teams were looking great, good, mediocre or atrocious. So lesser things like a player not shaking an opponent's hand will be even more forgotten. I agree re Riewoldt. He might be a really nice bloke but looks a school's PE teacher asked to teach year 10 French while Mrs Beauchamp is on maternity leave. And of course no one was recruited because of their understanding of probability, statistics and football prediction. I'm sure ex-players appreciate the skills of players better than most civilians and recount what shellackings were like either side of the ledger. But just cos they could kick 60m goals doesn't mean they know whether West Coast is now better than Carlton or if Freo is better than Hawthorn. (Similarly journos are taught how to find sources and write concisely, not indicators of an improving team.)

Surely people realise the Giants/Saints game was put back maybe 45 mins due to lightning. Fifteen mins before our game started a message came on the screen that our game had been moved to ch503. Hopefully they kept repeating that message. You cant blane the AFL for that. Also Fox has used 503 like this plenty of times.

Yeah, I'd feel so embarrassed being seen at a Coldplay concert. 🙄

Wow! Who knew that a tiny little addition to the football experience as thirty seconds of music here and there would have so much mileage here!

If it were the last bit of the third quarter in the 2021 grand final I'd love it!

Hmm , did Slash ever release any solo albums?

While true I'm guessing that if in the years since all the extra noise the attendances have dropped or there are a lot of official complaints (or even just many online) somewhere along the line those leagues would take notice and remove the music. I hate to say it but I'm guessing their audiences have not dropped.

To the first part of a three-part Aussie classic.... CJ! CJ! CJ, you stopped another goal! da da da you stopped another goal.

Wow! So much dislike for this post. ^ I am surprised. Unfortunately gimmicks work enough that companies keep trying them out. I sure hope no actually stops attending or watching the footy; these postgoal songs are going to be around for years if not forever ( sorry)

You're making me feel YOUNG. 🙄

Surely it's an AFL thing, and still only one team will win each game. I don't want these songs but actually there may will be kids dragged along by parents and bored out of their mind as their crappy team loses nearly every game for four years. Perhaps this music and maybe other draw cards such as Dad buying them a hot jam doughnut after the game will stop these kids giving up before their team rises up the ladder and they permanently become AFL fans and members.

I too would rather there'd not be these stupid songs. But it is it really that bad? It/they just sounds like a bit of an inconvenience, that's all.

October?! I can't wait that long. 😢

Sorry. I wasnt going at you. I wasn't even going at Hardwick e. I'm just sure some players start at a new club and even if the coach were Mark Neeld , with the move they've been spurred on to be a better player.

So you can guarantee no other coach that has not coached Petracca could have instilled selflessness into him over summer, other than Hardwick e?

I take your point but King also is a new coach.

I'm agreeing with you. I still think brownlows have plenty of significance. But of course the Moneyball story helped remind people that stats can be misleading. IGNORE So hard to say... Maybe Geelong will buck the trend but sides that get thrashed in the Grand final tend to have enough year the following. IGNORE A @Demonland I want to scream out every rude word I know. So often something weird happens and I'm stuck with stuff I started or didn't want to keep and then it's not easy to just delete it in one fellsweep. Even if I close a post and try and start a fresh I get this rubbish almost like a virus with a cold sore meaning they keep returning. Please tell me how to fix all these right now - it's making commenting on here infuriating. And often I have to click about six times to get into notifications and get them loading and I'm not using an ancient piece of technology here. And other times I cannot click on reactions , or if I do it only lets me click the "like " one and then sends me to the top of the page. I don't remember this annoying stuff before the reset a few months back.