darkhorse72

Bloody hell, that terrible. Is it simple genetics or bad surgeon, if its the same knee ?

On memory the very first year they were paid $5,000 flat fee for the season. So a definite improvement. How long is it from start of pre-season to end of finals.

Looking for more opportunity as they only play what 8 games and finals each year. Plus clubs are still working out their core group. From what I gather most a mutual moves, as the new players coming in have shown to be of a higher skill level than the first few seasons of draftees which is to be expected.

What the tassie government needs to do is create a register of who will become a member of a tassie club. If they can get say at least 50k they would have a strong foundation for their push. The more they get the better obviously. If they do get their own team, how many members will the hawks (and North?) lose as don't they have a lot that take out the membership for the tassie games. Good luck to them.

Freo seem to look better overall last year, as they appeared above the pack in structure and talent. Most likely would have won last year if there was a GF. If we got free in round 1 I reckon they would have beaten us, as its taken a couple of games to get a out grove in. As for north last night, it was their first loss to since they lost to us rd1 last year, bookends :) This year free haven't played in the top of the ladder team yet, same with brissie and pies. Like us yesterday, until you play one of us, north, freo, brissie, and maybe pies (Not that impressive to me so far) you don't really know where everyone sits. After last night we can say we consider ourselves a top 4 side, North was out first real opponent, the interesting thing is pies have north this week, but the rest of the top teams have lower table teams. With covid, its unlikely we'll get freo and and eagles (Pity for percentage boost) quarantine rules unless we play somewhere northern Australia. So bulldogs and then only Vic, teams for the short term. Good season so far.. Go Dees.

Agree, the ladies team needs representation, they play with determination for the jumper. great game to watchans showed that have a great opportunity this year.

They said there was no wind that qtr, we got onto as we broke their early pressure around the ball.

"signature" quarter by the dee's. Looking like a well drilled team and everything seems to be clicking.

The team is looking good, no nerves, great lateral movement with run to find space, as north are great about shutting down space. Greta night for footy.

No, simply as his long term quality of life is far more important. He should go play some low end social footy if he still wants to play. I can see him getting hit hard pretty early int he season and that being the end of his career and maybe more for good.

Their defence hasn't looked that great, the opposition were just really poor in their options and delivery. Roos do have great and fast outside run and look for this runners with a handball.

Good to get this one early in the season to see what the standard is. We beat them last year, so lets see!

Were they given extra help than, was it Geelong who joined at the same time? I know they were smart in how they put it togethor. Do the girls salary cap?

Waiting on Covid rules in different states I imagine.

Yes, from what I saw of the different games, esp. the Sunday ones. Massive gap between the skill levels and structures of the top/bottom teams. The newer teams will continue to really struggle til they build up their experiences and cohesion. Yeah the Roo's look ominous at the moment, still built on the raid they did on other clubs in their first year.

Shock horror, I'm sure there are no examples of outstanding players not taken in the first round :) Gee, if I could only think of even one...

Every team is a contender at the start of the year, some just have a bigger mountain to climb and need more to go their way. Interestedly I have been listening to the podcast "The great coaches" (Well worth the listen, coaches from every sport world wide). They interviewed Paul Roos last year, and one of his points was at Melbourne, one of the problems they weren't holding each other accountable anymore.

Virtually not a single ground ball kick across the whole round from what I saw. Its how they are being trained it would seem.

Bit annoyed as I had organised to get off work early that day to be at the game (in Perth). Such is life. edit: typo

We don't need her to "star" anymore with lots of possessions, she is far more valuable to the team controlling the game for us.

Not that I can remember, I think Freo last year has been the only team to score at that rate? The standard has raised again this year so the scoring will become more common. What I don't want to see is taking the foot off the pedal, the team needs to learn to bury sides.

Another goal, Sun's have started well, very good pressure and lots of clean ball movement. We seem to slowly getting on top as our experience and systems seems to getting cobwebs off.

Yeah surprised Cordner left, but I guess its more opportunity, maybe she wasn't going to be a regular with us? Looking forward to seeing our first game of the year, the first two games shows a steady rising in the standard expected.

Actually it stated in the Red Fox, Smith offered to stand aside and let RDB to take over. RDB refused because he didn't want the impression of Smith standing behind him and being seen in being a factor in RDB success, as what happened to Smith with Checker Hughes. Like Smith who went and coached elsewhere first its the bets policy, go to another club establish your own culture and values and then return. Our problem is that we didn't get him back earlier to modernise the club, while we still had a playing group with a culture of success.

Yeah they have a efficiency algorithm, not just dispels count. But in terms of real world impact very slim connection.