Go Ds

Don't ask me. Despite my childhood home being metres from a golf course I've barely played minutes of golf. Even our cat spent more time on greens. 😂

Umm, different conditions, yes? How many hours is training? I guess in games a player has to last about 70 mins till half-time, with a chance to go into the rooms if needed in that period. And then the same after half-time. Are training sessions spaced the same way? And what about if players need to empty the other exit? I reckon every guy has used a tree in his life. But this arrangement sounds ridiculous (especially if an AFLW player has to expose herself, even if behind scrub.)

A Titleist ..... number one?

A wider range? 😯

QED ... A player doesn't have to have mongrel.

I must add this.... One of the tricks of sensationalism / propaganda is to not start the horizontal axis at 0 on a graph . Tiny changes on the line on such a graph would look huge, even though a value has only gone up from 24 to 25 in 4 years or whatever. Nearly every team's average age is 24.1 or higher. In other words, our average is only 5.4% higher than the fourth youngest team. It's time to panic! 🙄

More crude stats. I guess the footy media needs to discuss something in the silly season. Weren't all the guys who got to 400 still playing pretty well? If a team had them all , on paper you might write it off. But not in reality. BTW losing an eight-time All-Australian will damage any team. But I'm not convinced Gawn is about to drop away, nor that the club are unaware we have some older players needing replacing in the next year or two.

Imagine being paid a million a year yet being forced to pee like an animal at your workplace.

Question to everyone is this actually true? Did Robbie Flower have mongrel? If it's exactly the same as competitiveness I guess I agree. I just want to see players giving their all. Is that the same?

Seriously, people go off on tangents all the time and given trackwatchers will use some nicknames in their reports it's a pretty small tangent. Honestly if someone mentions a player's baby or Labradoodle or One Direction T shirt or how they watched The Three Amigos last night or The Flower Drum what's it matter? It's all part of the rich tapestry. And as someone else said you can scroll down. I'm assuming you did anyway - Roosiah and I didn't slide in some tasty morsel about team tactics or Viney's limp in our nickname posts. Just scroll down. (BTW you must find the jade monkey before the next full moon. Dang! I meant to hide that!)

I don't like these things. It's good to have goals - and measurable ones at that. But the goalposts (excuse the pun) can get moved so easily. It's almost like Mr/Ms Right - you can have all these impossible criteria like people tend to put up on dating websites and then when you find your Mr/Ms Right they're not quite what you imagined. Anyway, I'd like to see improvement. That is one can see lots of long-termers playing better than last season, improvement in the young players, a few of the draftees slotting into the seniors team later in the year, CJ, Steele, Miochek etc fitting in well and Casey putting pressure on the senior team by performing at a high standard. If this happens I guess almost automatically we start winning some close games, improve in ball movement and are more efficient. I think this is more important than overall wins. Of course if we're 5 and 2 I'll dream bigger.

@Roosiah mileage will vary how much people care about this. 🤣 Anyway some more ... May - Wint (almost winter) Salem - Lot, Slot, Cat, Sabrina, Citrus (lemon) Lindsay is hard? So not Lohan? He's XL so Jumbo, Spreadsheet, App even Strive or Prosper. I don't mind Leb but Duke would suit Windsor too Viney - Creeper, Grape, even Gilbert Steele - Remington or Rob (steal) or by going from saint to demon something like Lucifer or Judas or plain Bad Turner - disco Tholstrup - Buya (as in Buy A Vowel in Wheel of Fortune Culley - slaughter man (I'd prefer Shooter) Melksham - any variety of milkshake is your favourite (I’d call him chocolate) (or Dairy) Matthews - New-Leigh? Jefferson - Prez Howes - that (or Zat or Zing) Mcadam- Tea or Golf (caddy).... or Shack. Nut? Rivers - Nile or Delta. Darling would be amusing . Flow? Campbell - TC is fine (No, We've had one before in late 80s). Soup? Warhol? Sharp - Blade Fritsch - Magnet White - Wong Petty - Cash or Crime or Crim Berry - strawbs (or Goose or Cackle or Digga (bury) Mentha - Butter or Cigs Henderson - as an 80s child .... Kids , or maybe Cluck or he could be the Chook Kentfield - If he's Clark then the Kenterfield confusion will disappear AMW - how about ..... B?

That's why i think we should spell his nickname as Sailo or Sale-o

Maybe he could imagine sheep in Melbourne jumpers.

No one's mentioned Tracc and Clarry leaving on here. Any new thoughts? 🙄

Is that like a White Russian? (Seriously what is it?)

Hopefully the connection between yhe Krakeur brothers is bettered with our "Pickett line".

Only if they "eat" set shots for breakfast.

Thank you!!!! I spent maybe 15 minutes trying to get across techniques more advanced than just chanting a fact and felt like I got turned into a punchline. (I even mentioned, same as you, how you can memorise facts/items along points on a journey or a location you know like the back of your hand.) It's not quite perfect - you need to refresh your memory occasionally - and memorising useless stuff like a hundred digits of pi is silly. But certainly I learned the numbers for the season just past in minutes this way maybe last January. Then when Ghostwriter (?) relayed a friend's training report referring to all players only by numbers it was a cinch to 'translate' it for everyone here. EDIT: Ah yes, bingo! My comment: "On 08/03/2025 at 16:23, hardtack said: Call me dumb, but I really did not understand any of that. I’m guessing it’s player numbers, in which case, not really being across most of our team’s numbers, I’m completely lost. I’ve got some serious studying to do in the next seven days!! I hope that one day the AFL might see the benefit of putting the player's name on the back of the jersey.😵‍💫 Red 11 35 1 17 5 3 6 20 19 15 8 13 2( Rooey absolutely killing it) 31 37 26 21 disco( no number) 7 32 Gawn petty may bowey Tracc Salem Windsor Lindsay Langford Langdon Lever clarrie Jvr Fritsch Chandler Adams Jefferson Disco Viney Sparrow VS Mentha Petty (again?) Johnson Fullarton Verrall Sharp(too good) Spargo Johnson Campbell woewodin TMac Sestan howes Roy George Adams.... Grey 39 (forward) 35 42 33 28 30 (too good!!!) 9 42 29 40 25 38 22 Roy George 26 and someone I didn’t recognise probs Casey Quote"

Hmm, a bit like , if i heard correctly, crims in England used rhyming slang as code everyone else wouldnt twig to. Especially once you dropped the second part (such as "tart" in "raspberry tart") it'd be almost impossible for a bystander to guess the original term.

Yep, bloody stats! Obviously they can be extremely useful and coaches, and probably some good punters, know this . But in the wrong hands it's like a kid who's played a flight simulator on his comp ans now is trying to fly a jumbo. I'm sure it's not just Bruce McAvaney but my I'd roll my eyes when he'd say a team has been behind by 11 points or less at 3 quarter time 6 times this year and won 5 times as if this proves trailing is an advantage. So many times Ive heard BS like this.

Cool. I was more hedging my bets. Crude statistics can easily miss what is essentially important.

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.