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In the circle of cafe coffer lovers, it's called a "Why Bother".

He's not actually 32 until December.

Lots of panic when their backs were one or two out with Curnow. He gets lots of free kicks.

Collingwood's disposal was generally atrocious. A good sign of fatigue.

Just losing to Collingwood was their best, not their worst. Today was close to their best.

Dwayne calling the 50m line "the paint" ... uugghh!

More underestimation of our opposition. They lost to Collingwood twice by a total of 3 points.

You could have left off the fry pan. 😄

All close games between good sides can ebb and flow.

We should be celebrating the win by wresting back the momentum when it was severely against us.

I don't find Barrett's diction to be conducive to my ailing hearing. Very mumbly.

I'd love it if ANB has 30 pressure acts and 15 tackles a game, plus the occasional goal. But he does screw up a lot of disposals.

I got the definite feeling from listening to Goody's press conference that he actually prefers the 10-day break (with 4 days off) because it is less impactful on their continuity than a 14-day break, and the fact they are training a few times before the Thursday match (including at GMHBA) will be better than losing training time. Correct me if I'm wrong.

We had a 15% success rate everywhere since 2000, at least up to 2018. 😄

Well, it's not the player old boys. That's the point of the article. Didn't we get into more trouble when we had a lot of old boys that were too involved in the club?

Nothing like a 10-goal win at the MCG over poor interstate opposition to deceive Carlton into thinking they're any good.

The Big Freeze is all a cunning plot to sell lots of blue beanies so it looks like most of the crowd is Melbourne supporters. ☺️

So do I, but I think using Jordon instead of Jordan should be easy. It's not like it hasn't been raised before.

What I really wish is that player's names could be spelled correctly. 🥲 Also, I've never played AFL, but it doesn't mean I can't have a valid opinion. FWIW, one of the world's most respected and commercially-successful golf course architects, Tom Doak, is an 11 handicapper who has never played professional golf. By contrast, not too many people like the courses designed by Peter Thomson as being far too hard. Down at the National they ripped one of Thomson's courses up because no one wanted to play it. It goes to show that sometimes those outside the professional game can have just as good a perspective.

I wouldn't take too much notice of DE% between, say, 60 and 80. But if one player is on 90% and another on 30%, it either says something about different roles (e.g. outside v extractor), or that one really is a poor disposer.

Definitely not a SPAngled dRonGO.

The Age game day blog said Sparrow was subbed off. Close enough to Spargo apparently.

Undermining Collingwood is my favourite thing. 😄 Gee, it must be hard for you to accept that perfection is unachievable. Listen to Justin Longmuir on AFL360 tonight, when he says that players will always make mistakes, and that it's how they handle them and recover from them that is the true measure of a player and a team.

I think their list is over-rated. They have three elite players: Curnow, Weitering and Cripps. McKay should be but has the yips, Docherty is OK, but the rest are average.