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Jeez, a bit early for all this discussion. We can't tell whether we've capitalised on our flag for another 3-5 years.

It's MFCCS ... Merlbourne Football Club Contract Syndrome.

We haven't reached "primo", "transcendent" or "supernal" yet. 😆

I'd also be looking at what life after football could bring. Earning less money in your football career but being a multiple premiership player at one club, maybe with a coaching career, might be more lucrative over your lifetime than earning more immediate money but with a lesser achievement. Of course, not all think longer term of life beyond football.

Disconnect between Champion Data and Twomey! CD Elite Ruckmen (Twomey's ranking) Naitanui (19) Grundy (50) Darcy (--) Hickey (--) CD not elite ruckmen Gawn (5)

Christian Salem still underrated.

Drop Foxtel and just get Kayo. ☺️

Oliver and Petracca are like having two Martins or two Bontempellis, or one of each.

It's funny being the same age as old people!

Gus can get back to golf. RM greens are back in play, albeit a little slow, 4 weeks after the "incident".

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They went our very hard to begin with. After a four-day break, they were sure to find the going tough after half time.

I had to laugh when the media reported that one advantage of Optus stadium was a cup holder in every seat. I thought they only compared cars like that. 😆

Profligate waste of money and the world's resources, just 30 years after construction. Concrete production is the world's single biggest industrial cause of carbon pollution, responsible for 8% of global emissions.

Sure, knock your little MFCSS hearts out! 😁

So we've now got six pages of discussion about an article (in the same rag that has been attacking Simon Goodwin), with the same conjecture that we had last time before he signed (about going west, presumably because of his brothers). All based on some journalist's total speculation. Why worry about something that hasn't happened?

If Champion Data scored the merits of an apple tree, they'd measure the trunk, branches, leaves and the height, and ignore the quantity and volume of the fruit.

Yeah, like use of the term "hero". Even someone who runs a supermarket is a "local hero".

Stuff that! Sign him up for 7 years! 😁

Great work. If someone discovers you, don't forget to dial 117 and press the call button.

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Best Hitout Differential (Win Rate) Max Gawn +38.3% Sam Reid +36.3% Paddy Ryder +35.0% Brodie Grundy +34.4% Nic Naitanui +30.2% Total Hit-outs 2021 1 Max Gawn Demons 25 30 v Western Bulldogs, Grand Final 803 2 Nicholas Naitanui Eagles 22 53 v Brisbane, Round 23 684 3 Oscar McInerney Lions 23 40 v Western Bulldogs, Semi Final 671 4 Todd Goldstein Kangaroos 22 41 v Adelaide, Round 23 652 5 Brodie Grundy Magpies 20 23 v Essendon, Round 23 648 6 Sean Darcy Dockers 21 16 v St Kilda, Round 23 599 7 Reilly O'Brien Crows 20 28 v Port Adelaide, Round 21 588 8 Scott Lycett Power 20 26 v Western Bulldogs, Preliminary Final 519 9 Tom Hickey Swans 21 33 v GWS, Elimination Final 504 10 Rhys Stanley Cats 19 26 v Melbourne, Preliminary Final 391

The rolling 40-game average accounts for a few anomalies. Not saying they give a sensible result (for example, no way is Gawn below Hickey, Grundy and Darcy for 2022), but that's the metrics they use. So the assessment average includes the 2020 season where Melbourne was indeed fairly average, although the rolling points also diminish in value over time. Finish near the top of the ladder this year and we'll have 10 elite players when two top-quality seasons (40+ games) come into the calculations. However, the absence of Christian Salem from even the "above average" category is the most perplexing. Even on Champion Data's assessment, this year he was elite for Kicks, Handballs and Disposals, and above average for Marks, Tackles and Metres Gained, most of the metrics of an elite medium defender. Couldn't see Disposal Efficiency there either. Surely he is "elite" for that.

Going on players named in other teams, if Fritsch, May, Gawn, Salem and Langdon are not elite, Champion Data is measuring the wrong things.

So Scott wanted to advantage his team by postponing the game, but disadvantage us compared to the Bulldogs by shortening the time between the PF and GF?