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Good old Dr.D. Always the pessimist. Where's he gone?

Tom S****y West Adelaide/SA Ruck/key forward, 201cm, 83kg Tom S***** is yet another tall prospect from West Adelaide to watch. He worked alongside Barnett in the ruck, but the strong-marking teenager proved a strong target in attack this year, booting 23.10 in 10 matches. Highlighting his potential, S*****, in just the second under-18 match of his career, tallied 18 disposals, 12 contested possessions, four hitouts-to-advantage, two contested marks, two goals and 135 ranking points.

When Easton Wood retired he said he had lost pace. Watching him 5 metres behind Fritsch on every lead, you can see why.

They are all strong premiership midfields, but I think Brisbane and West Coast are the standouts. Get back in 3-4 years time and we'll see if ours exceeds those two.

The Doggies midfield is deep and they have an excellent group of skilled players. But apart from Bontempelli, in my opinion they don't have the elite "power" midfield players (including rucks) that we are accumulating. You can see it in our players' strength and build.

The human race is getting taller!

They kicked three goals in 30 seconds in the third quarter of the PF against Geelong. 17:00 Fritsch (50m penalty) 16:42 Gawn 16:30 McDonald

We beat them three times in 2021 ... at the MCG, GMHBA and Optus. Time to get over the hurt.

I don't know, but I bet the club has it all under control.

We've built our team around a number of vital on-field elements (not an exhaustive list). Call it Plan A if you like: an uncompromising defence with the necessary key position backs half-backs with high DE% who can defend and then attack from the back half rucks who can also play flexible positions and roles a tough, deep, fit inside midfield with high tackling numbers good outside ball carriers on the wings who are prepared to run hard both ways adequate marking tall forwards, not necessarily individual superstars small forwards who defend and pressure inside our own 50 and work back to defend the whole ground I'm guessing all of JVR, Bowes, Woewodin, McVee or M-W are recruited with the aim of fitting into the above elements. If that's the model others are trying to copy, the elements will be universal to every team trying to win. Only the quality of the players will differ (and we've got heaps of that). I don't much care for recruitment to fit fads, trends or models of "clusters" or "paddocks". ☺️

If the rival recruiters thought our draftees were that good, how come no-one selected them (especially Howes) earlier than what we did?

If a new variant is more contagious but has milder symptoms, that is a positive.

If you didn't want to put a vaccine into your body, you probably wouldn't want to ingest a monoclonal antibody. Vaccine resisters will still claim natural immunity is the only way to go (or that pills contain Bill Gates' microchips). Guess it will be good for those who cry out for a vaccination on their way into the ICU.

Just name them "gawns". It could become a measure of football grounds, like "sydharbs" is to water capacity. For large distances, like between grounds, you might need megagawns or gigagawns.

Still, if you got 248 games out of a player that you drafted at #48, you wouldn't think you'd lost out.

I order a premiers polo for $65 six weeks ago and haven't heard anything. It says "awaiting fulfilment". Now the price has gone down to $58.50. Just wondering why they'd drop the price if they can't yet supply any of them? Do I get $6.50 back?

This pre-GF comment from a Bulldog supporter on woof.net is typical of the lack of recognition Fritsch had: "I just can’t see the Dees kicking a huge score against us. We will nullify Brown and McDonald. Fritsch will be found wanting." Few will underestimate him now.

Nineteen Covid deaths in Victoria yesterday. Seventeen of them unvaccinated.

Interestingly, some people are happy to have a flu shot but not a Covid shot, even though Covid is far more serious in terms of death and long-term complications. Flu shots have been around for longer and this probably affects judgements. Some old people who contract the flu also get pneumonia, and the two combined are a leading cause of death, especially in the aged. So a pneumococcal shot is important as well as an annual flu shot. As far as I know, there is no such thing as "long-flu".

In certain circumstances player moves make a difference (e.g. Oliver close to Bontempelli in the GF), but a lot of the time they're desperation moves in desperate circumstances and the side still loses.

"Plan A" vs "Plan B" is a silly dichotomy. Plan A is all the required necessities of modern football, like winning the clearances, winning the contested ball, tackling as hard as possible, moving the ball quickly, a tight zone defence, attacking from the back half, kicking to a leading target inside 50 etc. It's exactly what we did to a high level in the GF. Apart from a few hopeful player movements and different match-ups, Plan B is just to try harder at Plan A.

The only protests I've ever been to were the Vietnam war demonstrations in 1970-71. They were truly representative of wide public opinion. Not like that rabble on the steps of Parliament House, which is about as unrepresentative as they come.

I think she dismisses a bit too easily the way the far-right uses these events for their purposes: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/far-right-protester-charged-by-counter-terror-police-amid-talk-of-killing-daniel-andrews-20211117-p599qx.html "... the far right in Australia had long hoped for an event that would provide a series of hard knocks to the community and foster mass public frustration with governments. “COVID has delivered exactly what they have wanted. It has delivered it to them on a silver platter ... Freedoms and liberties have been temporarily rolled back and it’s been a time of extraordinary difficulty for Australians – and with a lot of real trauma.” However, it was crucial not to conflate hardcore, far-right “white supremacists who have an agenda, with these broader public movements and mass protests”. Demonising all people at these protests as being part of the far right “just makes people feel like they’re not heard and could even push them to those fringes where the actual far right lurks”.

Rubbish. Read this/: https://www.theage.com.au/national/dying-of-covid-or-with-it-pathologists-take-on-conspiracy-theorists-20211111-p5982e.html (Hint: open it in a private window)

Exactly. All the unvaccinated people who think it will make you sterile, or magnetic, or a slave to Bill Gates, that are failing to do the community thing and helping control the pandemic. All in the name of "freedom", that ironically none of them are getting. Liam Jones has made his own version of "freedom" I guess.