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Maybe they were told "Don't worry about being scored against, just be aggressive. We'll leave practising stopping goal runs till another day" (which usually means just slowing down and retaining possession). Unfortunately the aggressive bit didn't work much.

Playing the game itself true. But depends on who the opponents are in the 2's. Unlikely tomorrow I'd hope, but some players who are always only going to be at VFL level, like being able to tell their grandchildren what they did to a star player back in the day. Physical, and maybe verbal. Anyway not enough to affect the decision to play him.

Problem is it is an ingrained habit. Possible to overcome during practice, but in the heat of a split second decision, hard to overcome the habit.

Be interesting then to see how he goes in the practice match vs Carlton

about time too. With the bounces going all over the place half the time it is inevitable that there will be perceived blocking and ludicrous free kicks paid.

Why am I still looking at this de-railed thread supposedly about training. Bring on this week's training reports so I don't feel tempted to look in here again.

I'm interested to know why saying one is sick of a topic clearly shows that person doesn't understand sport. And show me where she denigrated Schache? She just cheekily pointed out the apparent contradiction between those who were desperate for him to be subbed -in and those who say he is sub-standard or worse. BTW, I am also a sport ignoramous because I too think this discussion is going round in circles and anyway, it is out of place in a training thread.

I found this (doubtless well-known to many') but what you said looks very true. Delay is particular bad for a player https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/melbourne-demons/afl-2024-melbournes-joel-smith-facing-minimum-twoyear-ban-for-using-cocaine-before-2023-game-drug-test-ruling-latest-news/news-story/3bd3e7f9ede9df8638c98a2ec44caa5b

What is happening with Smith? When is his case decided, if at all? When could he be back? Seems to have gone very quiet unless I missed something.

4K? If only the package came with appropriate surgery on my eyes to allow me to tell the diff from HD.

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/our-primary-focus-is-clayton-s-overall-wellbeing-oliver-still-on-leave-20240111-p5ewgt.html

While I tend to be a bit on the glass-half-full side of things, I'd prefer a few more glass-half-empty posters in place of the couple of glass-completely-empty posters we seem to have.

For those who want us to be near the centre, have a look at this map. Geographically at least, it is not near the MCG. Other than questions of finance, negotiating difficulties, sufficent space etc, the only real issue is ease of access for players and staff. Caulfield is fine.

If we were that off-key, amazing that we lost by only 7 points.

Sorry, just a little crappy joke based on the subtitle being AFL National Womens league.

Great news, but I was hoping theh men's team could use it as well.... 😀

Well I'll spell it out for you then. It is obvious because there was a lot of discussion about how we could or even should manage to draft him. So there was emotional investment by many of the board members (not me BTW, I stay away from drafting details because I haven't the foggiest). So it is natural/reasonable that there is extra interest in 'the one that got away'. I suppose when he turns out to be a dud, you'll criticise anyone posting how lucky we were to dodge that bullet. With luck you won't open the thread.

The answer is obvious. And not really unreasonable.

Onne thing they could do is pay holding the ball frees when a player takes possession with the clear intention of getting tackled which seems to be very common in the recent matches.

I'll probably get caned for this, but I think the standard has gone right down and it is hard to watch. Over recent years the skill levels have improved a lot, but suddenly they have fallen away. I suspect that increased pressure is why.

good to see someone here taking a +ve attitude.

Hear Hear. We lost those 2 finals games by a grand total of 9 points and all we hear is what a disaster/cultural issues etc. Anyone would think we lost both games by 10 goals. Doubtless there is a lot to fix, but jeez....

Is his real name Saxe-Coburg?

And that makes it less ridiculous? Not to me.

One day someone will be able to explain to me the point of the "gather" round. Till then I'll continue to wonder why (surely it's not to make money?). There is enought difficulty in arranging something even approaching a fair draw given all the constraints that exist already.