Everything posted by Nasher
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Gawn article
He leads by example, AND heās relatable to players and supporters. I listen every time he is interviewed, we always knew he was good for a laugh, but heās also extremely insightful, which is extremely rare. As a grown adult I donāt throw around terms like āfavourite playerā much, let alone āfavourite ever playerā, but if I had to nominate one, Max is a contender.
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Current Team Potentially Best in 50 Years
The higher you are on the ladder, the more you tend to beat teams below you.
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Fixture 2020 (COVID Edition)
Itās only Victorians who are pissy about not being able to the footy who think thereās an asterisk. Iām invested and want this flag as much as any other.
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Aaron vandenBerg to miss 2 weeks [CONFIRMED]
Pleasantly surprised, I was fully expecting this to be a post bagging him. A poster on another forum mentioned that vandenBergās tackles hurt more than any other player because they frequently cause turnovers. I donāt reckon weāve had a player like him at the MFC since Iāve been watching. A medium-tall with an extremely solid build whose greatest asset is defensive work. His tackles hurt in both the physical and footy sense. Iād be afraid if I was nearby. Hopefully he is able to get a decent run at it - he was important in the finals in 2018 and has been so far this year.
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Current Team Potentially Best in 50 Years
I hope youāre right, but as you are also the OP of the Goodwin thread, I think you are riding the roller coaster a bit. I canāt remember the origin of this quote but someone said things in footy are never as bad, or as good, as they seem.
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CHANGES: Rd 08 vs Brisbane
Iām shirking selection this week. Who comes out for TMac is too hard a decision. It would be a very brave decision not to select him. I think he is going to be in. Make no mistake though, the TMac question is the only one being asked. Melksham and Brayshaw arenāt going to be dropped for Jones or any of the kids, those suggestions are just laughable. The only player whose place in the side is tenuous is Lockhart, and they wonāt make a pointless change like that after such a big win.
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
Fair enough. Over the years I have formed a pretty healthy disregard for what āsourcesā say on matters like this which are completely subjective. Even if Troy Chaplin himself was my best mate and told me that the newfound success was because Goodwin started listening, Iād still treat it with skepticism because I know if I asked Goodwin heād say heās always listened to his assistants. Perspective and facts arenāt the same thing, so I think we shouldnāt treat them as such when weāre so far away from the situation.
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
This is just inventing what happens in the box, just to suit narrative/agenda. Goodyās started listening to his assistants and now weāre good. Or Goodyās stopped listening to his muppet assistants and become an authoritarian, and thatās what has made us good. Or, the most likely thing, the relationship with the assistants is the same as it always was, and theyāve arrived at the right chemistry by chipping away at the problem together. We donāt know though, so we shouldnāt guess. In my view if weāre prepared to unreservedly put the blow torch on Goodwin when weāre struggling then we have to be prepared to give him all the credit when weāre flying. Anything otherwise is complete double standards. For the record, I do neither.
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The official I love Dom Tyson thread
He was a decent player who filled a need at the time. I donāt know why people feel the need to whack club and player for no reason over ancient history.
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Fixture 2020 (COVID Edition)
On a scale of 0 to 10, my desire to go watch Hawthorn play is about negative eleventy billion.
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Fixture 2020 (COVID Edition)
@Skuitwill be happy!
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CHANGES: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
Wish someone would have told me that before I made 13,000 of them!
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CHANGES: Rd 07 vs Hawthorn
Welcome to Sunday morning boys!
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Fixture 2020 (COVID Edition)
No Tassie either. Weāve just ticked over 60 days with no cases. Perplexing.
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POSTGAME: Rd 06 vs Gold Coast
Agree LH. We could have won by 100 points had we only kicked about 15 more goals. You can't make a sliding doors projection based on what-ifs. If the first behind of the game had been a goal, everything that happened after that will be different to what happened in the real game, because the ball will be back in the middle rather than being kicked out. The outcome becomes undefined and unknown. The only valid scenario to ponder is the one that actually happened.
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Joe Daniher
I reckon thatās rough. Itās true that he didnāt want to leave Essendon (evidence by the fact that he went back) but he had his moments at Melbourne. I donāt agree with the implication that he didnāt put in. The problem was that Heffernan was overrated to begin with. Heād played well in an extremely strong Essendon team and that created expectation, but there was a reason he, Blumfield and Caracella were selected as the sacrificial lambs when they had salary cap issues. The perception was made worse by the fact that we were crap in 2003 when he came on, and we all know how rationally fans view things when theyāre not going well, and once the minds have been made up, thereās no changing them. When he went back to Essendon he didnāt magically become elite again even though he should have been in his prime; by then they had descended back to mediocrity and he looked the same journeyman than he was at MFC. He was finished by 28. Moorcroft on the other hand was clearly out of his depth. Not quite sure what the MFC were thinking with that one.
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Injury List 2020
Same. Very unpleasant injury. I was surprised at how long it took them to patch it up for him, he was sitting on the bench for ages with nothing but his jacket hood covering up the eye. Taping the bugger shut is the only way to get any relief.
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The Oscar McDonald Appreciation Thread
How about Jordie McKenzieās handball in that passage? MFC were definitely taking the .... when they gave Oliver no. 13, they look exactly the same.
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POSTGAME: Rd 06 vs Gold Coast
This type of discrepancy would be because the opposing coach will be assessing on different criteria to the coach assessing his own players. The player's coach knows the role the player was supposed to play, how well the player performed it vs prescribed, and how that exact role impacted on the result of the game. The opposition coach doesn't know any of that and will just be determining how much hurt factor the player delivered. Of course, we still don't know which coach is which.
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POSTGAME: Rd 06 vs Gold Coast
Great post binman. This type of play is interesting - I think someone else earlier in this thread (I've forgotten who now, sorry) mentioned this particular shot as a calculated risk rather than a selfish play that the oafs in the box made it out to be, and I agree with that conclusion. Petracca is more than capable of that type of shot and would have been lauded as a genius if he had pulled it off. In the same way that I was stoked when he took responsibility for his kick in the last quarter and drilled it, I'm more than happy for him to try and take these opportunities when they present. If they don't come off, so be it. By the way, you may think you overdid the criticism of Brown and Lyon, but I don't think there's such thing as over-criticism of the current state of commentary in our footy. I've been harsh on Lyon and Brown too, but they're really just this week's symptoms of the problem. The commentators have plumbed to such low depths that they're ruining the experience watching football for me.
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Jonesy to 300?
To me the prospect of manipulating selection to get Jones across the 300 line is out of the question. Heās too far away - the gap is every H&A game remaining this year and a couple of finals. If he was on 299 I might give it a thought, but you canāt carry a non-best 22 for that long just on sentiment. Unless he happens to go around again in 2021 AND can get his place in the side AND can hold it for that long, heās not getting to 300. Sad reality I think.
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Fixture 2020 (COVID Edition)
That only looks unfair because the Adelaide side happens to be hot garbage this year. Most years that would be an extremely tough assignment. I really doubt the AFL has room to consider the strengths of the teams playing each other for individual matches, where they have to somehow have to orchestrate a season where everyone plays everyone with only 3 cities available. Weāll see if weāre still saying how lucky Essendon are when they end up playing a home game in Perth against West Coast. Anyone know why Tasmania isnāt being used? I assume it is border policy related.
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Jonesy to 300?
Good point, Jordan Lewisā 319 included 26 finals. Jones 287 includes 5. If Lewis had played his whole career at MFC, assuming he didnāt actually cause us to play more finals and all other things being equal, heād have finished on 298. Degree of difficulty has been made higher for Jones by spending so much time in crap teams. Shaun Burgoyne has played 346 home and away games alone. Freak.