darkhorse72

My first comment as I caught up not he telecast. Gawn off really unsettled us, it took to qtr time to resettle the side. Grundy is not winning the ruck and when he does he just drops it at his feet (Did that Collingwood) What is making it harder is the humidity/due... To me it looks like it making balling handling much harder, hence the fumbles.// Brizzie look like they are handling that a bit better. The ruck that qtr was better, Tmac just needs to draw any contests and Bring to ground. How does Ashcroft get so many highs, surely the umpires are looking for a drop of the knees. A half to go, we just need to continue to stop their scoring as in the 2nd and slowly peg the goals back. I think they'll be fitter in the seance half.

Longevity I think is a mixture genetics, mental drive and how much they got banged up 16 - 23… as they early injuries start to surface later. we keep a good club culture it’s possible

No Selwood = no cat wins.. So sad to see...

plague on the modern game. Look at the great forwards and their kicking techniques.

So it begins… they did not look good at all.

Guess that why I haven’t noticed him. Though it on in the background while more interesting are being done

Looking better the last 10 of that qtr, Was Oliver off for ages in the first half of that qtr? He wasn't at centre bounces. Is it part of our plan to have him running 2nd half more fresh?

Yes and he's sitting only DT tech :( I wonder if I should trade in a non-playing player to get his score.

He's great player with 2 better mids above him. Hence he was brilliant at Geelong. he doesn't have the "size" to control the centre by himself. All the trade capital ended up at GWS.

Geelong must have some players coming through their NGA they want access too... But seriously, maybe they look at the level of resources and length of time allocated to a player to determine whether a club can have priority over them. And they make the rules the same for all clubs and not have exceptions for the "non-football" state teams.

This is expected. Between the 2 articles some interesting points. One of a player who took out premnament disability insurance (He got a payout for his concussion injury) and he said other players should too at the start of their careers. The AFLW player is interesting, (I don't know her history) given the short span of their competition at AFL level. How many did she receive in her juniors etc? I coach junior girls footy, I spend time making sure they know how to approach the ball and protect their heads with good technique. If it gets the trial, will the players need to bring up footage of every hit and who was negligent and why in the head contact? As degrees of negligence is possible. Lastly if one article which included Smith and Jarmen etc. They are starting the case of duty of care from 1985, which was when a major study found the long term damaged from concussion on sporting players. While recent action has seen an improvement in dealing with it, there a few decades the AFL did not address it. This is going to be a long process and it will be interesting to see how the AFL respond with a hard legal defence or reach a compromise and fund ongoing player welfare and support programs.

Any this year?

Yes I know, But its often fun to sit with he cheer squad and that atmosphere. Hoping for a good game with no lightning..

Got my member tickets for the game., they have put us in bay 333, which is opposite end of our cheer squad.

Might be able to get my tickets tomorrow when we get access with our memberships, after the farce of yesterday.

Hi Just seeing if the leagues are being setup again. Also looking for fantasy leagues to join. Cheer

Ignore, found the stream

Being in WA, Kayo is the way,. Though with our success, we're on FTA a lot more than we used to be.

Sliders I expect are: Tigers: simply time catching up Freo: harder draw, more dissecting of their players and game plan. Dogs: most likely fixed their fwd line issues with variety, but defence still lacks and he mids are aging. Cats: If they stay healthy, as they have the home games to support their run. The unknowns are Swans, they didn't play eh SCG well last season, but did very well not he road. So you can't guarantee a high % of wins at home say like a Brizze. Pies, they hold in the 8, with year under their new system they should be better this year. However, can they sustain that pace till the end of the year with the shorter break. Bit like us this year. They percentage say's they won't progress if anything major goes wrong in injuries. However, they had their share last year and managed.

We all saw this coming. Great career giving the short history of the AFLW. More importantly our club is better for her involvement more than just on the playing field. She has been part of the cultural change in the club, plus the creation of the culture of our women's team. Despite only winning 1 GF so far, we have always been almost there with her in charge (Often unlucky based on AFL season decisions or 1 lost game). We'll hopefully get the see her become a great coach and a regular first string commentator of the footy.

As a teacher I'm pushing staff to adopt the capability of ChatGPT as a tool. it's brilliant even with its current shortcoming's in terms of knowledge and ability to process. I can produce new resources and check existing one's very quickly. The area of AI it is still considered that humans have to final say in what is produce or acted upon, as systems even AI at this stage only produce what we tell it to produce. They are taught to look for patterns and act upon them. This is evident in ChatGPT responses. So I would say existing data science techniques with staff over sight will be the norm for a while longer as the datasets. With experience and knowledge we can see patterns without within the AFL context without needing to rely on AI systems.

Which comes back to player management. We have a few more weeks of rest and prep going into next year.

I'm excepting big things from Hunter in the coming season. He should fix our other wing and provide sweet delivery to the forwards.

I would imagine a big party of the season review will be player management and load. The cats got it right this year and kept their team "fresh", though an easy run home certainly helped them do that. It will be interesting to see how we manage players this year.

You seem to be fixated on this, how about make up your own mind what the best game is for you... that's not for me to decide for you. I was commenting on why soccer is popular world wide.