mauriesy

All AFL teams have been given strict restrictions. There's no limit on trravel into and out of the state, and they'll get permission to go anywhere.

I had the first AZ vaccination last Sunday. Just a very mild headache for a day afterwards. The clotting risk is lower as you get older, for 70-year-olds it's about 2 per million. Less than the chance of a car accident on the way to the clinic. Sometime, events will be limited to fully vaccinated people. That's an incentive to get it.

So we've beaten three of these and haven't played the other two. ?

So Jackson back, but a week or two more off for Viney.

You mean "exorcise".

Regardless of individual games or examples, there are three areas that are inconsistently adjudicated: holding the ball, throwing and whether a kick travels 15 metres.

Does Goodwin get any credit for bringing in Yze and Williams?

Seems to me a disposal efficiency somewhere above 70% and a couple of critical errors per game is league average or better. But some on here think only 100% DE and zero CE is acceptable, even in a game that was very high pressure, with showers and a slippery ball that was not conducive to great skiils or totally avoiding errors. Can we give some leeway from perfection without perjoratives such as "putrid" and "atrocious"?

I don't think much increased pressure and a more solid defensive structure is "fluff".

Good player that Jawdyn.

It's not as hard as it looks. Even Oskar Baker had one possession running down the wing on Saturday night, according to Luke Darcy. ?

It's a bit confusing describing it as a "barcode" when it's really just a number.

Clear your cookies and you'll have to reenter all your log-ins. It's an Age article, so just open the link in an incognito or private window.

On Sunday, shifting TMac was to shore up the backline when Tomlinson went down. It was Plan B ... the one that people on here say we never have.

So we "aren't all that different", except we've changed five backs, three mids, three forwards (i.e. half the team positions) and two assistant coaches?

Interesting that Rhyan Mansell had two rough conduct charges in the Tiger's match against Port Adelaide on April 9 and was fined $6000 (2 x $3000), down to $4000 with early pleas on both.

Except Collingwood 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930

It's all fugazi.

If you are calling your opposition "crap", surely you are diminishing your win?

I doubt they'll change it. Corporate advertising is a lot more important to them than crowd comfort.

My view is it was accidental. If you look at the replay in slo-mo, May actually pulled Hawkins towards himself by the jumper at the same moment Hawkins handballed. That exacerbated the close contact and brought his swinging arm from the handball closer to May's face. I don't see how you could possibly charge Hawkins with an offence, let alone think he did it in any way deliberately.

Just a note that the AFL abolished all affiliation fees for country football leagues in 2018. Maybe too late, but at least it was done.

I think there's a tendency when examining the forward set up to just divide them into "talls and smalls" and go by the old "two and four" maxim, as if talls have the turning circle of the Titanic and the smalls are the only nimble crumbers and pressure players. Rather than just height, mobility is a consideration as well as ability on the ground. TMac (since trimming down and getting fitter), Jackson and Weideman are all very mobile. Jackson is also very athletic, good below his knees and with development has the ability to play like a midfielder. I think the two and four "tradition" could get thrown out the window.

Gawn took a number of intercept marks in the backline last night, all of which could have saved a goal to the opposition. Saying that a 208cm ruckman who can reach higher than anyone else on the ground "should stay out of the backline" is silly.

Yep, Chandler would be good relieving in the ruck. ?