Its Time Again

Lot of females at that gig.

Just came across this. Only 4 years later. Bless DL. Love Brett Goldstein. Very talented actor writer director. Looking forward to listening to this. Thanks for posting about it.

There's a few people on here still not getting it. He's an UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENT!!!!!!! There is absolutely no trading or bargaining. He can walk to wherever he wants and we are stuck with whatever herbs and spices the AFL mixes up to decide the compo pick. Based on a nebulous, fluid mixture of age, contract given by the new club, whether a top 23 player, clubs ladder position and my opinion only not fact, how the AFL feels the club losing the player is going. If we are struggling the band will be higher. If we'r firing by the end of the season and prospects look good it will be worse. There's no definitive formula you can use.

Exactly. No source just sauce. Tomato. On the face.

Won't happen for McAdam unless he breaks down again. He's only 2-3 away now. He's going to come back and be better than Charlie Cameron. 😎 Heard it from a reliable sauce. Sorry I'm wrong about the 2-3 weeks. He remains TBC.

Here's some proof of the membership impact an unexpected win like the one against the Suns has. Last year in the same weeks the memberships increased by just on 230 this year after the Suns win they jumped 1300. Come on Dees scrape a win over the Lions to erase the Gather Round Dons anomaly and get our season and memberships back on track.

Well we got our unexpected win against a fancied team so now we see whether that inspires some of those missing members to climb back on board. This season has already exceeded my hopes and dreams. Beating Saints and Blues was my benchmark this year and we did it in the first three weeks. I could add Port onto that list and I'd say Collingwood. Now we've beaten one of the top teams. Whatever happens from here it's been a successful season for my pre season benchmarks already. But memberships are the lifeblood for the club that's why I created the membership table. Bring them on.

Looking at the last three years from this week to the end of the membership period memberships have gone up 9,000 to 10,000 so as our current membership is just over 52,000 looks like our total this year will be around a bit over 62,000. Hopefully with the team starting to play exciting footy and fingers crossed a few unexpected wins against fancied teams it will climb a bit higher than that.

To my eye another reason for the more accurate kicking is the leading patterns are into areas creating shots from much better positions. For some seasons Goody was training them to lead out to the boundary in case the opposition got the ball so it was harder for them to rebound from the boundary. Whereas now the philosophy seems to be lets put ourselves in a better position to score and with quick ball movement and separation we don't have to worry about the opposition getting the ball and clearing too easily.

I'm guessing that what he is actually doing is dodging in towards the corridor to be more directly in front of goals and reduce the angle to create a higher percentage shot on goal.

Thanks so much for this update. Makes really interesting reading. Standout is the metres gained from handballs compared to last year and the retention i50. One other suggestion on formatting would be to switch the 2026 and 2025 stats so the 2026 ones are right next to the other current stats and the 2025 ones come after just as a comparison if you want that.

Hey @WheeloRatings thanks again for this awesome work. I am wondering if it would be possible to add in last year's averages to some of the stats so we can get a gauge of the change with the new regime and game style. Many thanks in advance.

Based on the fact that we were told there would be a significant announcement at the AGM which was 3 months ago and it didn't happen and Steven Smith's comment at the AGM that the club people involved were learning a lot about politics, joining the dots there seems to be a pretty serious glitch going on in the chance of this happening. Based on past comments the Caulfield stakeholders seem to be onboard so I'd be guessing the bankrupt Victorian State Govt don't want to contribute. Possibly there are other stakeholders as well that aren't contributing. First time in this process I've begun to wonder if this is actually going to happen.

French

Only 10 months to go. He's almost here. 🫣