Little Goffy

Really? Halo has Petracca as the main character.

Needs to dye his hair blonde.

That is art.

I can trace the origins of this thread to the mention of Cam Rayner in the 'What they're saying at Springfield' thread. Humans are fascinating creatures. Anyway, if Watts had been taken at 31 we'd love him and if Fritsch was taken at 1 we'd probably have burned him for 'underperforming' for the first three seasons of just being good. Of course, NOW we can say that pick 1 of the 2008 draft got us one handy third tall swingman for a decade and then the games' best mid-sized forward who kicked 6 goals in a grand final and is realistically top-3 in his draft. It's like an MFCSS therapy session in here.

Mastery of the understatement. He's going at a tick under 2 goals a game for the Lions, which taken as an isolated fact is pretty good, but he was supposed to transform their attacking game. Last season was kept just outside the top-40 for contested marks/game (kept out by Harrison Petty, I'll note), and not even in the top 200 for marks. Instead of being a dynamic forward target that creates chances, he is just consuming their forward 50 entries for a basically adequate result. Daniher had 5.26 score involvements per game, of which 3.3 were individual scores (2 goals, 1.3 behinds) Hawkins had 8.7 score involvements of which 4.4 were individual scores (2.7 goals, 1.7 behinds) So Hawkins, the benchmark for team-oriented key forwards, generates double the scoring activity for teammates than that of Daniher who is probably on similar money.

On the team sheets, yes, but apparently not according to the comments Brisbane supporters are making!

Can confirm.

We should really target Jiath for recruitment. a) He's pretty handy. b) He's Hawthorn's only entertaining player under 28. Other clubs can pick up Newcombe and Lewis, and that'll be it, no more Hawks from 2024-2030. Get it done.

I didn't get to see this game but it looks to me like Freo's defence was just playing kick-to-kick on their own while Ross Lyon had St Kilda doing the the Ross Lyon thing clogging up the options further up the ground. Those four players shared 2000 meters gained at 90% disposal efficiency. I'm not much of a fan of Ross Lyon as a character but he is a master at knowing what opposition activity to not care about. Alas, Saints might have to be taken pretty seriously once they have a few players back, particularly King for the second half of the season.

Interesting opening this thread and seeing his draft weight was just 68kg and his current listed weight is still only 70kg for his 185cm. Watching him play in the practice games and on saturday he looked like just a naturally lean body rather than the skinny implied by those numbers. Wouldn't think he was 15-20kg lighter than, say, Salem and Hibberd at the same height. Giving this to the Demonland trackwatchers as a mission - what is McVee's current playing weight compared to his pre-preseason weight?

Liked McVee - played well but most importantly played his role in a system that was under pressure. Laurie I'm happy to wait and see. Baker I have no particular feelings about except that we clearly haven't made any big error letting him go. Similar note - I'm sure everyone is happy for Sam Weideman. I don't think there was ever any doubt about his 'sincerity' as a demon and footballer, it just didn't come together for him and sometimes you just have to change the scene. Happy to see him kick 40 for the season and still wouldn't feel hard done by. But I just can't bring myself to feel stressed about our depth when we've got Jefferson, Adams, Turner, Woewodin, and Van Rooyen and a few others all brewing from just the last two drafts.

Simple. Jack Viney is an excellent midfielder. Angus Brayshaw is an excellent anything.

That spin happened so fast there have been dizziness-related concussions. I mean, that is Prigozhin level spin there.

That story ran so hard I was slightly surprised to see her at the MCG on saturday night!

Yes, but Jackson could still be contributing that for another ten years. 🦄

Bombers have Suns Saints and Giants to come. If round 5 Demons - Dons is a top of the table clash and we completely derail their season in the space of a couple of hours, it'll be worth it. Temple of Doom scene where the guy has his heart pulled out and shown to him before he is lowered screaming into the lava.

I'm in transit so can only take a quick glance at stats. Q1 is Jackson playing for or ruck because he has no stats for either position. Q2 is Fyfe okay?

https://central.rookieme.com/afl/player/harley-reid/ Just in case.

Saw this about five seconds after I saw that Daniel Rich had eighteen (18!) rebound 50s, about 40% of the Lion's total. I'd say Harmes has a definite job to do. I'd also argue that 'negating half-forward' has always been his destiny and we shouldn't be worrying about making him a midfielder. And now I'm going to mention his long kick to Fritsch at the pivotal moment of the 21 grand final. Why? Why not - do I need a reason? 😄

It'll be interesting to see how Gawn's great contribution around the ground and away from stoppages affects the perception of this core unit, especially with Grundy in the mix. The way Oliver and Petracca complement each other's game could become legendary. But let's not forget that for about 8 weeks last season it was actually Viney who was just quietly our most in-form and relentlessly effective midfielder. For a player who has embraced unselfish play so thoroughly, his numbers were astonishing.

Straight kicking or not, if that game doesn't boost his confidence only medication would. Not often a player doubles their total career stats in their 11th game!

Unfortunately even though Pickett's bump action didn't 'elevate' off the ground (his shoulder was actually lower than if he had been standing) the fact both feet left the ground and there was a really good cinematic camera angle will count against him. Still, late bump that hits the head, you cop your suspension and hopefully take the point to heart.

...and then you have to hang out with Anna Kendrick. (Maximum obscure reference)

Yep. Just got a little gut twist now. I'm all clear of other duties and activities for the day and two more hours of undistracted anticipation is just a little bit too much.

Not looking for anything big, just getting the four points and working our way into the season. It'll be a few rounds of just heads down hard work to start the season while we get everyone back on the park. (Quietly hoping Essendon are already falling in a heap by round 5 and that will be the game we first decide to really go nuts. You know, because, hate.