Go Ds

I can't quite find or remember the quote but Shane Warne criticised another bowler of going through the motions just balling the same ball thousands of times, without ever learning from it. Number of games is a crude half-truth stat. There'd be some natural leaders in their second year leading more than some 300-gamers. And of course a player forced to play injured or now past it can't be much of a leader as a witches hat, even if their advice is brilliant. These articles are vaguely interesting but they're also only vaguely right. (I bet most teams' coaches are very aware when a lack of leadership (probably more important than number of games) needs to be addressed.)

Cheeky monkey!

It's funny reading these memory 'techniques' here. 😂 Going over stuff close to when one falls asleep or soon upon waking is good. But repetition is so primitive. This is a footy forum and plenty of memory stuff is online but there's lots of good memory techniques out there. Famous examples are the Major system (where 0 is converted to S or Z and 1 converts to T or D (and '01' could become SEAT or SEED or ZIT or SUIT)) and Memory Palaces (where you have a sequence of locations, such as, say, May at point #1, say, your letterbox, a Roo (or just Van Rooyen himself) at point #2 (say, your welcome mat) through to a chandelier (Chandler), say, at the back doorstep and eventually Henderson and Johnson at the back fence plus using association where words or images help embed stuff into one's memory. (Even cheesy stuff like LangFOURd and nine sounding like 'nun' and former Saint Steele now with that jumper number can help memory.) If anyone wants to memorise the players' numbers it's a lot easier to do than you might think.

I reckon we could braindtorm some good ones for every player. But even if the trackwatchers passed them onto the players I doubt it'd change much. I like Orb (or Malone from On my Pat Malone or Bear from synonym barely). But I think mostly that if I want to be casual and mention Gawny, Ghosty ( or even the well-known singer as Swifty or Tay Tay) the audience doesnt ask "who?"

It really is both. In a lousy team the B & F may not have even played as well as the guy who came 4th in most other teams' B&F ( nor did he come close to All-Australian selection.) Then again I don't think any team felt that Garry Ablett was mediocre in the year he won his Brownlow with the struggling Suns. A B&F with the premiers is a great indicator of a fantastic year. But one player can only do so much (Ablett) and conversely having superstars around you can help lift up every player in that team.

Didn't we have quite a few invisible players last year? 🙄

It's bad enough he gets Kenterfield. Anyway Luker is too close to Luka. 🙂

Of course! But it'd be pronounced Yoda.

Yeah, Jed could be Clampett or (Adam's) Apple or Jed Adams could be pared down to Dada. Luker could be Yoda. Then again these guys are paid to play footy, not sing or make nicknames or get ideas off a fan site.

Yeah, basically adding a Y or O to a surname for a nickname is so MEH. Too many of these nicknames are like this. While Rex Hunt tried way too hard to find interesting nicknames and going through Brewer's Phrase And Fable is too much I wish there were more Bisons, Discos and Chunks.

Where's Boof, Simmo and Wally?! 😯

Nope! I just had a problem noticing every last thing said on here.

Umm, fantastic goal but was there a reason you posted it just now?

These are official? If anyone wants the dorkiest post ever i could post ideas how to remember all those numbers. 😂

Thank you! I havent memorised the new numbers yet so saying number 40 draws a blank.

Who is "new Taj"?! I thought maybe i got confused and wrongly thought Woewodin was delisted. But he was.

Any idea when he'll be back into full training? At least game 1 is months away .

Maybe. But I reckon sometimes recruiters virtually play a game of "chicken". Latrelle was in the mix and being Kosi's cousin Melbourne quite believably might nab him. But if they felt Melbourne didn't quite rate him #12 then maybe both Melbourne and the clubs with picks before Melbourne's next one might risk this fact and both wait to pounce at or near that next Melbourne pick. It wouldn't surprise me if this has happened before - a bit like an investor selling at, say, 4.00, but suddenly the share price drops from 3.96 to 2.00 and stays there for years.

Sorry, i really wasn't making out you were insensitive. Your comment really didn't come out that way.

This is one of the amazing things in life. Kindergarten teachers could probably make many good guesses about which kids will be successful, which will grow up to be adventurous or intellectual and maybe even which kids will or won't be lookers. But there'd be factors they don't know about. It could even be that a few years later a stepfather changes a child's life either way. And of course with other things, like matchmaking , on paper and actual real-life chemistry are two different things. The early drafts probably had way less useful stats on draftees making the drafts more random. But even now all the variables for 18 and 19-year olds , who often are still really just kids , and then all the variables.... and permutations for many years after, including people in their workplace and team, those in their personal life, how they use their spare time and money, injuries and so forth are just so many it's almost a miracle we can predict anything. There will always be X factors that will affect how accurate a draft pick will be. (And of course even if all the #1picks turn out to be correctly the best of their crop with maybe a dozen playing each year some will be more "#1 " than others.)

Alas, if the poor guy can't bring his cat back he'd really be pushing it to bring strangers back. It's fantastic that these days immigrating doesn't mean losing all connection to one's past. But it still would have its down side. So many people would find it devastating to have to give up a cat. My heart goes out to 31.

Who would have ......picketed it?

I remember back in 2009 I was working with one of THOSE Hawthorn fans - you know, otherwise nice and good company EXCEPT when they'd bting Hawthorn into the conversation. I met his fiance at a work dinner. As a Dogs supporter she also found his fanaticism tiring/amusing. Though banter I was right in saying that if I could choose a happy, successful life over a more successful team then I would. I didn't quite get the first part and I know I so easily could have chosen my grandfather's St Kilda and feel even more cursed re footy teams. We've had a fair bit of bad luck over the years. But seriously if I jumped over to Carlton or Essendon circa 2000 i would have smirked big time if a fellow Dees supporter jumped over to Geelong or yhe 'new' Brisbane Lions. Maybe we'll always have a weakness with our fans choosing MCC memberships over Demons ones. But who knows. For all we know we're on the verge of a successful era with all our ducks in order. Maybe.

And you shall have them. Amazingly these days it's so easy to have almost any song at your fingertips. Ministry covered Lay Lady Lay, yes? I know the title but finally Im gonna play the song you mentioned (which is probably way closer to my tastes than Whitney. Oh, and maybe Kosi could have instead selected the fast One-Armed Scissor by At The Drive-in or The Rapture's House Of Jealous Lovers.)

Oh, yeah ..... who? 😂 Sorry, but I saw Flower, Schwarz , arguably Petracca (and Stynes, Lyon, Neitz, Jakovich), and Gawn by now. But I take your point . No one's wanted what's happened in recent years.