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COME OOOOOON YOU CROWS!

Just now, BDA said:

If the Suns are ever going to realise their potential, they just have to win this game. 

Basically the Gold Coast club motto. Except this time... they might yet hold on!

Is there a way to slip them a note to convince them that percentage matters?

2 hours ago, Redleg said:

Ye of little memory.

She did say she was concussed.

Or did you forget that!?

Oh no, it's contagious!

Yep, Blues are now our only remaining proverbial 8-point game. Win that one and it becomes near-impossible for us to miss top-4.

All teams chasing for our top-4 spot now need to pick up at least two wins compared to us, thanks to our percentage. That stays true even if the Saints win tomorrow.

Beat Richmond on Sunday and obviously that makes the gap three wins, with just four more rounds to go.

Aaaand as I type this Gold Coast are ahead of Brisbane... which would very much bring 3rd into play... and with Port now hitting a solid bollard even 2nd isn't out of possibility if they can fluff it against the Crows tonight, too!

42 minutes ago, No. 31 said:

Watched Collingwood v Carlton last night, the Blues played better, with more intensity and pressure and the Pies wilted at times. The Blues have knocked off No.1 & No.2 on the ladder convincingly. The wailing and gnashing of teeth from the toothless ones and the nauseating pro Pies media was like a symphony to my ears.

Currently flicking between Doggies v GWS and Geelong v Freo on Kayo. GWS are pretty insipid so far. Cats lacklustre too ...

I'm getting a strange premonition that the Blues' run will be a bit like our 2018 - break into finals with a bit of form, win an elimination final over a roughly-equal team due for a letdown, have a special night out in a semi-final beating a vulnerable top-4 team, and then get absolutely splattered in a prelim.

Coming up against any of Saints, Cats or Giants, the Blues would certainly feel they had the upper hand at the moment. Given that they've now beaten Collingwood as well as giving Port a thorough whack, anything is possible.

Collingwood out in straight sets to Melbourne then Carlton... oh, the humanity!

What's going on in the Geelong - Freo game? Not free-to-air where I am, and I just flicked through stats and noticed 15 hit-outs already - on target for about 150 for the game!

Is that that much of a slog down there?

22 hours ago, binman said:

Also, as further consolation my purple friends, pick four has terrible record of producing decent players.

Pick 4 is, objectively, the best draft pick this century.

In fact, the unsuccessful pick 4s are almost entirely limited to Barry Prendergast selections!

Actually, on further investigation pick 5 may actually have pick 4 just slightly beaten thanks to the incredibly early run of McVeigh, Franklin and Pendlebury, and overall consistency with almost no 'misses', and those misses are GWS anyway.

So I'll be able to remain calm if Freo put in a little bit of a late season spark and somehow climb to 5th-last!

We should try to trade up to get both 4 and 5 because I don't think there's ever been a draft without at least one of them going on to be absolute pinnacle-level champions.

If there's non-alcoholic whiskey, why aren't there alcoholic bananas yet?

Come on, Science, we're relying on you!

McKay is a gun but we don't need the super premium option. We need a job done and it can be done by someone on less than half the salary McKay claims and about a quarter of the trade value. Our draft hand this year (which I suspect will once again be partially played into next year) is the key to turning a peak into a dynasty and it would take a truly exceptional opportunity to convince me that tossing it in would be worth it.

That scene with the crowd of boofheads at the race (10:30) enrages me every time. A bunch of them where smiling and enjoying themselves - genuinely just revelling in the chance to form a pack to be abusive to a stranger.

In contrast, it is interesting and a little bit beautiful to see genuine hard-nut Viney at this level of also being a genuine clear thinker about the importance of managing your emotional balance.

11 hours ago, The heart beats true said:

Collingwood have looked pretty ordinary.

17 minutes ago, Jontee said:

I thought the Pies were slightly off their game from the first bounce.

Sidebottom was moving like a glacier.

And De Goooooey, terrible disposal and couldn't break the tackle of an auskicker

9 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

Are they tiring? There last 3 rounds are tough games. Hopefully they cop a few injuries and get bundled out in straight sets…..the only thing better than that is us winning the flag. In fact the trifecta is the Pies going out, us winning and then getting Harley Reid. Can you imagine the celebrations? I mean seriously, that’s a life changing chain of events. Anything after that is of little consequence.

go Dee’s, unleash Hell

So, can I be first to declare the opening of Colliwobble season?

Bit early this year, but climate change is messing up all of these natural cycles.

Personally I'd like to congratulate Carlton for finidng a way to make BT go quiet for a while. Barely a peep out of him. You can feel the other commentators being made uncomfortable, too.

On 7/25/2023 at 3:20 PM, adonski said:

Fremantle's part in this trade is starting to look like a Russian 'goodwill gesture' rout.

15 hours ago, Roost it far said:

Drafting has improved year on year since Scully. Not only that so has development and coaching at the Dee’s. Put Scully and Trengove in a Melbourne jumper now and the outcome would be completely different. 

You'd have James Bartel and 'a zippier Simon Black', as per the original product labels! I think Scully was limited a bit in ways nobody picked up pre-drafting, but Trengove was the real tragedy of both development failure and career-crippling injury.

But this thread keeps making me anxious because I simply cannot see the basis for burning multiple good draft picks just to turn pick ~4 into pick 1.

I'm just going to repeat over and over - I'd much rather a second bite at the cherry, such as pushing our pick 15 a bit higher by packaging it with later picks or pick swaps.

For the first time, I'm getting a feeling like the women's team might get on a roll this coming season and really hand out some thumpings.

No idea why I didn't feel it before - it is the rational assessment of how awesome we are - but maybe it is just the realisation that our new captain is my favourite kind of high-impact high-entertainment player with loads of initiative.

But only because AFL doesn't have goalies. I'll always be loyal to goalies!

13 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

A mixed bag of views.  Quite bland really. 

4..  This comment:

• Well loose

Google search results for 'feeling well loose':

Looks like Richmond are in for a rough day.

6 hours ago, SFebes said:

Apparently the lads call him the "magician", must have something to do with his skills perhaps? Any info on that?

I'm guessing it is a bit like Nibbler. Say 'Matt Jefferson' repeatedly and fast enough and it garbles to majeffeon, which doesn't sound like any word except magician.

My level of interest would depend mostly on how much Watson can roll through the midfield providing an agile, speedy point of difference, and partly on whether Chandler's return to form against the Crows is something that is going to hold. Remembering that in the first 8 rounds he kicked 14 goals and earned 10 goal assists, if that is going to be Chandler's future then between him and Pickett we are in no need of any additional dangerous smalls!

I think our list is in more need of the bigger-bodied forward-mids offered by the likes of Duursma and Caddy, as a point of difference and as another way to ensure at least a contest happens when we dump it forward. Plus, I still like the thought of the super-succession plan if Daniel Curtin can come in to to learn from the masters before they retire. I feel that players like him are genuinely rare.

45 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

The win comparison in finals to Hardwick doesn’t stack up for me. Hardwick has won 3 flags in his wins.

Hopefully Goodwin adds a second this year.

To be fair, it took Hardwick seven years to get his first finals win, after going zero-from-one in three consecutive seasons and then dropping back out of the 8 for 2016.

Coincidentally, that marks a near-exact halfway point in his career, which, double-coincidentally (co-coindicentally?) is also near-exactly the number of games Goodwin has coached so far.

hm, odd that Hardwick retired 9 games from the 300. You'd think they could have used him at least as a sub for a while.

5 minutes ago, sydneydee said:

He may have the best record however he also has the best list. I would argue that this list has underperformed vs potential if we don’t win another premiership 

Hmm, it is hard to judge. And by how much does the 'best list' increase your chances of a premiership each year compared to second, third, fourth, best list?

Bontempelli, Liberatore, Treloar, and Macrae being rucked to by English is a midfield that keeps pace with ours. Having Naughton and Ugle-Hagan would turn us into an unstoppable killing machine. The three Baileys and Caleb Daniel are a great running set. Really the only area where we definitely have a better list than the Bulldogs is in defence, which includes multiple players with around 50 games or even fewer.

I'd argue that Sydney have seriously underperformed given the extraordinary block of talent they have accumulated.

Those two teams aren't even in the top 4. Unlike our impending draft pick! Bwa ha! I got your best list right here, buddy! (Saying that to the rest of the league, not you personally)

Lol, having four picks in the first two rounds make me a little giddy sometimes.

His overall win-loss record is slightly ahead of Clarkson and Hardwick. Nothing to be sniffed at.

The club has been explicit with the goal of making the top-4 consistently to give ourselves the best chance each year of seizing the moment. That's what they are doing and I love that we can be top four while still being a bit rough at the edges mid-season.

Of additional significance, I think, is that Goodwin has the best finals win-loss record of any current AFL coach. He was exactly equal with Hardwick, but with Hardwick officially retired that sets Goodwin as the best-performing finals coach in the AFL.

Now, three quick finals wins in a row this year, and Goodwin can surpass Norm Smith's win rate. Albert Chadwick might be a little harder to catch at 80%!

6. Viney - exemplary midfielder

5. Brayshaw - fully transitioned into well-rounded midfielder

4. Gawn - Gawned

3. Chandler - possibly a game we'll look back on as a 'moment' in his career.

2. Pickett - welcome back! Looked scary strong at times

1. Nibbler - earns a point for responding to my criticism! 🤣

Many good contributors. A 15minute lapse timed with a 15 minute freakshow from Adelaide undermines how excellent we were.

He's clearly great but pick 4-5 and two other first rounders for one kid? Have we lost our minds? Did we suddenly become Fremantle?

Anyway, the way we work, we'll probably end up holing the magic early pick, then trading our own first, Freo's second and next season's first for North's first next season.

It's the old Jason Taylor 'make the trades so confusing nobody is sure who came out ahead' routine.

'Now would be a great time for Franklin to settle the Swans' I thought to myself.

Any further psychic power requests let me know in DMs.

It's funny, I'm sure I've seen Ben Keays do a great job against us as some kind of particularly annoying tag & retaliation player, but based on Adelaide supporters' comments he'll spend the day two metres behind Rivers and thinking he's done his job.

Interesting that Crow supporters haven't noted how much time Petracca is spending up forward. If they're anxious about Crouch and Sloan being left in the dust by Petracca and Viney, they'll be crying when they realise they've been picked as the bunny team for Pickett to spend a chunk of time in the middle to find form!