Dee*ceiving
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"are you on your own?" "nah mum this is being recorded" 😂
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I guess they were still hopefully Pickett would be available? BEST LINE EVER! 😂
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If we are legitimately banking 'different ways to win' and can call on various strategies throughout the year based on opponent, conditions, personnel, etc. it would be amazing. Perhaps a bar set a little too high though!
Great analysis and conversation! No question we are setting up deeper defensively and moving the ball from the back half more agressively both 'on foot' and 'by foot/hand'. We are better utlising our speed behind the ball (McVee, Rivers, Langdon, Windsor) and ahead of the ball (Kozzie, ANB, Chandler & at times Langdon & Windsor).
Pleasant observation of insinuation, Palace? 😉 Jokes only. Seeing little Eddie warms the heart on a cold rainy Melbourne morning!
A professional outfit our Demons from the Pres to the boot studder. It's never perfect, hasn't ever been perfect anywhere, but you can see the efforts they make to be connected to each other and the fans. Definitely agree with others that the players look to be enjoying their footy more as a group so far this year. They've put a crushing September behind them, lost a solider in Angus in outrageous circumstances and been battered pillar to post by the media but they will not yield. Win, lose or draw they've earned respect.
Goodwin has proven to be loathe to make change above what's necessary. With sustained time off courtesy of a R6 bye I can't see anyone being rested and am of the view no one is currently due for ommission. So based on what we know to be facts today IMO, it's either no change or Pup Brown for Pickett Purely based on role Brown and Spargo are the closest matches but the latter is unavailable. McAdam probably not quite ready? Other options like Woey 2.0, Kolt, AMW, Laurie, Hunter, Sestan etc. play a different role. Not to say Goody couldn't/won't shuffle things around, just feel like evidence suggests it's not his preferred approach. Unfortunately for Taj I think this would mean he is sub again.
Several years of gather rounds in SA feels like a good way for the AFL to pave a pathway for a 3rd team in SA. I think reports were that revenue for last years gather round topped $80m. Might not be until the early 2030s but it seems to me a 20th team is inevitable. The only other place you could put it would be WA but they are further away and won't have had the billion $ cash injection SA will achieve from 8 - 10 years of gather rounds. NSW & QLD markets are full and I can't see the NT working considering their economy, popluation and mid year weather. The NTFL season runs October to March
Not Billings his best effort but the bloke hasn't played in 2 years, is learning a new system and was coming off a 5 day break. I think he's coming along ok. He will know there are competitors for his spot. Taj has had two small bites, probably not enought to stake a major claim though (tool us way to long to get Brown off and him on in the last qtr though). Hunter will need to prove himself at Casey. And eventually it will be impossble to ignore the Kolt.
A 20th team makes sense though and SA and WA would appear the most viable locations. At least both those states aren't completely broke like we are here.
You're underestimating the deep seeded corruption. At the AFL it would make no sense at all to have the two SA teams play each other in Gather Round...This model provides cream for the investors (SA Govt) at no cost to the AFL 😀 Not really, but, the 3h 20m flight itself is only a part of the journey. It would be double that in total travel time when adding in travel to the airport, standing around at the airport, waiting to taxi, waiting to disembark, more standing around at the airport then bussing/driving home.
Without wanting to count eggs late or hatch chickens early one has to think our change in gameplan makes Kozzy and Chin far more dangerous now we aren't continually cutting the ball off on the wings and banging it back into a packed F50
