Go Ds

And can anyone (you included, Ghosty) remind me what a beep test is. It's still similar to running 100 x 100m's , but adjusted times to run each and to recover? So what is it now? Run each in 11.5secs and then recover 10 secs (those are completely made up guesses). What exactly?

OR ... maybe her beep test was how many F bombs she could drop during the session. Maybe she gave Gordon Ramsey and Brian Blessed a run for their money.

Unless it happens mid-game or a now misshapen finger ruins a player's marking or disposal skill i can't help but feel the report on Gawn's finger is fearmongering.

How did Ghosty go on the beep test? Did her darts slow her down?

I know what you mean. 😂 But I'm trying to become better at delaying gratification. The silly thing is a few months into each season, with so many games and hours of footy coverage per week, the aura has faded on plenty of footy stuff IMO. Players would burnout and not develop if preseasons were only 3 months and round 1 was next week. Doesn't your sister have friends you can dance with? 🤣

And they got traded! 🤣

Honestly who knows? I just know I'd rather be excited about 26. I'm not betting a cent on it or anything. It's just more exciting to not already feel like a bottom 6 finish ison the cards.

Indeed! Talk about having low self-confidence. Honestly I wouldn't be totally shocked if some [censored] insisted later in their relationship that their partner stand on a scale to decide if they'd stay. But even the most shallow loser doesnt need scales to be an *****ole

Bloody Chris Connolly - otherwise the A or E connection would work again. I actually got to know him a little bit just after he retired. He was quite nice. That said I have no inside info. Maybe I should have kept in touch so I could now solve this brainteaser. 😂

Yep .. training like a giant

Players aren't robots. If morale was low - and Trac leaving improves it - better morale will help negotiate the gap Petracca, the player, leaves.

We deteriorated more than the Dogs? Tenth, thirteenth and then two elimination finals losses after finishing 7th a week earlier? Sure the year after they make the GF (and we won't). But we're arguing whether two teams did the equivalent of coming 19th ot 20th in the Melbourne Cup.

The weight thing has always been such a silly non-issue. Only doctors and people trying to get thinner/stronger care about exact weights. Could you imagine someone taking a set of scales to a nightclub and only hitting on someone after they've weighed them?!!!!! Even when size matters to someone their eyes are a better judge for 'discerning' size. Player weights were such a silly stat. They fluctuate daily and whether they were because of extra fluid, fatty tissue, muscle or a full belly is relevant. But, no, the AFL would get some momentary, transient measure for players during preseason that somehow the general public would use months later when theyre doing their footy tips in August. (!) The thing is people have always used their eyes to judge size. Whether kids want to say Amber has girl germs because she looks fat or you can see that a lanky 6'6 rookie ruckman will struggle against his opponent who is built like a brick s****ouse we dont need a scale. None of this has changed. Despite whether weights are published or not people can still fat-shame and football staff and fans can still see if players are/were fat or muscular - all regardless. We may as well include, and then not include, players' favourite colour in their stats.

How did Clayton Oliver go? I haven't heard him mentioned on Demonland in months. 🙄

Hmm, as long as we can run a thousand miles we'll be playing well.

We all know that era was an unmitigated disaster. Even a premiership-winning coach in his first two years could only get our rabble from absolute laughing stock to mediocre battlers. But are we still in that era?

What are you basing this on? Most of our coaches, for decades, have propelled us forward. We had that horrible period where the whole club sucked in the noughties .... and we didn't find good replacements for our veterans (nor recruit or develop talent well) .....and Bailey and Neeld saw our team go backward. But arguably post-Barrassi these were the only ones who 'saw' us go backwards. In the meantime within two years Northey, Balme and Goody had us go from also-rans to preliminary finalists .... while Daniher saw us go from last to prelims in under a year! Argue what you like about round one (especially as I think we beat the reigning premiers to start 97 yet ended up with the spoon.) But, if anything , often a new coach has seen Melbourne becone surprise packets.

I think youre confusing "it can happen" with "it will happen".

Indeed! They can beat us every year if each is a virtual remake of 2021

Yep! We want more F____s given!

Hmmph! Triple M play Croatian prog rock all day! 😂

You're worse? 🤣

Cricket virtually finished today. The Australian men I don't think play again till T20s in a month's time. (WTF happened to maybe 10 Aussie ODIs over summer???) Yep, bring on the footy ....but i know it's still 2 months away.

Unless someone's in the inner sanctum of all 18 clubs it's almost like poker hands round a table. Someone starting with 3 jacks can feel really confident while someone with a pair of 3s knows they might win and someone with a nothing hand knows they'll probably lose - but at that time no one knows more than a small part of the whole picture . As players get some new cards and then reveal their hands the original predictions can turn out to be way off. Right now we probably do deserve to be 3.50 or 4.00 but come October and we might be marvelling at , say, Langford coming third in the Brownlow and Latrelle being the recruit of the year and JVR kicking 45 goals -everyone would in hindsight say 3.50 was a gift! I already said before this thread was resurrected what i really want to see is improvements and good foundations built. But i certainly can imagine us being a surprise packet. Over and over 3 or 4 teams go back into the 8 each season. It's so regular I'd almost bet my life savings that in 2026 that 3 or more teams return to the final 8 (let alone 10). The 3.50 will be irrelevant by May (whether shortening or lengthening.)