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The Dean Kent cup. I understand schoolgirls, dwarves and firefighting tools are banned on the flight. Less entertainment, but safer for all.

How about - the weak maggot threw himself forward and exaggerated to whole thing by throwing his arm in the air to attract a false and soft free kick from the umpire. No effort was made to remain in the contest or modify his trajectory once he fully committed to this cowardly act.

I keep waiting for the day that we become relevant and this crapola doesn’t happen to us, but happens to others. Still waiting....

more than half of his taps went straight to oppo midfielders. He had 16 cm advantage over Dunkley and didnt use it. He was not great around the ground (gets a pass mark). So how do you reflect that he was our best player (ahead of S May for example). He goes out for Max because Max is better. He only stays in if the structure suggests we need two ruck men. I doubt that we do, as we need more speed and defensive pressure before anything else.

Absolutely not have it a dig at you Rusty. I am so appreciative of what you do each week. Highly valued. Just calling out that any model measures what it measures. It also doesnt take into account individual bias, television coverage or the BT drivel factor. But I think your approach gives a grounded way to review performances and when the model is consistent, we can see changes between performances and discuss what we have seen. Cheers

When I see things like ‘bring in Smith’ or ‘move May to the forward line’ it confirms that we are feeling desperate and have lost faith. You would think the club has plans and an understanding of players capabilities and development needs (holding Weids back until he sorted his presentation and marking), but after what we see, we have no trust. So instead, supporters are left to make up ‘Hail Mary’s’ of ideas in the hope that something will fix this crapola we are delivering. i am not a fan of these- maybe a little in game to change things up is ok. I would rather see the players decide how much it means to them and actually follow the system. Set up, run hard both ways, be ferocious. Not the ‘let’s outrun them’ that they tried on the weekend, and will give us a 50 point loss against the improved saints. if you are not going to bleed for the jumper, then out you go.

I saw that with interest, too. I think it’s a case of different players needing different ratings, May was sensational, but midfielders who were average still beat him statistically. Weids led and marked well, and kicked 2 goals. Would say he did more than enough to be in the good books. Spargo struggled to get involved, and Pickett had another ‘nearly’ game in q1, gave away silly frees, then tackled hard in the last. statistics inform, but you only ever learn what you set out to measure.

If we play like we did yesterday, saints will smash us. Pressure is 300% what we offered up

We have to win this one, so it makes it hard to make the deep cuts that would teach a few that if they want a spot, they have to do better. Preuss - couldn’t tap to advantage against a midfielder. WTF? 16 cm advantage and half of his hits went to doggies on the outside. If Max is available, he comes in. Sparrow - busted wing. You would think this is the opportunity to get Harmes into this role and put Rivers back. Hannan - a half forward with no pressure. At least Jones would have done more. maybe this is what gives JJ his chance? Or do they just roll in Jones if he pulls up OK? A few need a kick in the trousers. Kozzie for his tackling style (pushing kickers forward giving downfield frees), Spargo (get involved), the midfield (sort it out!) TMAC (mark it, son!), Frittata (goal kicking). Put the acid on them to play the game on its system, not think they can cruise. Saints would have watched that and be drawing up plans already

Thanks, Rusty. You know the sort of day it was when May, Lever and Tommo all are near the top of the pops.

We lost the game because our defensive system was not followed. I hate it when I see the dees jogging after the contest. It is my number one indicator that we are going to lose. With no pressure at half forward, any entry that went in to the 50 at 40-50m out was just waltzed out, switched and put back into the dogs 50 for a shot. The lack of pressure from the midfield and the half forwards was pathetic. The dogs would pressure us and spread from contests and we would invariably have a skill error and they would have options moving into space. The back 6 had a hell of a day, as ther was no defensive support up the ground to allow them to get into the right positions. When the switch happened, it happened fast and this gave them all the space they needed. Did we get ahead of ourselves? Did the conditions have an effect on our disposal more than we thought (it did on some of our kicks at goal). A weak defensive effort by a team that looked like it was ahead of itself. Wanted a shoot-out and needed to stick to its knitting.

So was that Seek dot com or dot com dot au?

What a stinker! They waltzed away from half back, we jogged around the park. Backline were superb, Kudos to Weideman and Fritsch in the f50. Beaten comprehensively. No system to stop them, poor skills (maybe the conditions) and wilted completely under pressure. Really disappointing across the board, with only a few who can hold their head up. Kozzie has some spark, but lots of flaws (pushes in the back too much). COuldnt get near it with any value today. They need another kick up the bum. This measures us as a mid table also-ran team.

Being smashed in the middle. They just walk out with it. Fix this and they will struggle to keep up. May has Been brilliant

I hope he is that excited, but that sounds like it needs appropriate consent....

They rate themselves, don’t they? since we run a zone defense with May closer to goal and Lever next out, I dint think it is as simple as who takes who. Bruce is a big sook. If we keep him quiet early he will stay that way. They bat one deeper in the midfield? As I understand it, you only have a fixed number there at centre bounces... anyhoo, let’s see how it pans out. Anyone remember when we shellacked them at the Western oval to make the finals?

Three things will see us win: Our defensive Setup and willingness to run both ways. Closing off their ability to move it with speed from the contest will be critical in this. Inside mids setting up correctly. Not getting sucked into contests and breaking out of contest zones so we don’t do the work inside and get pillaged outside. kicking efficiency and marking. Given the windy conditions forecast, this might be the most important thing. Manage our tempo and control the footy and I think the dogs can’t get near us. dees by 26 points

Dimma is a goose. He is an angry little twerp. He has needed some pretty high quality people around him to keep him in check, but you can’t hide your basic nature for ever. Suggesting you like your key forward to ‘push the line’ is stupid. Have you ever seen a team throw their arms in the air for frees as badly as the Tigers forward line? (Except Geelong) . Riewoldt looks like he’s going to cry every time he misses out on a free. This now invites defences to really go after these nufties. Hard-wit is also essentially baiting the umpires. Should be some defences that take the invitation to play these fecal stains at their own game....

Might be thinking of confirmation bias, availability heuristic or duration neglect. If you get a red car, all of a sudden you see all of the red cars. Might also be a case of MFCSS.

Nice work. Can have disagreements over the odd position in the list,but not with the effort you put in to do this. Cheers!

So Lynch punches his opponent in the stomach off the ball, allowing him to break on to the lead, mark and goal. He cops two cheap fines. Max gets assaulted off the ball. When are the AFL going to get real? This is blatant cheating - stopping a player fairly getting to the contest. It can change matches and all they do is hand down a piddling fine? It brings the game into disrepute.

Father Son picks in normal draft with discounts as part of the tradition of the game.

Think they should have an academy run by the AFL. Then have an NGA draft.

I wonder how much ‘off the ball’ actions us fans don’t see really impact matches. What should we look for?

What is our current draft hand in this year’s draft? I seem to recall no first, and hawks second rounder, and about 20 4th rounders?