Little Goffy
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I have this gut feeling that the strategy of banging it long to King (impressive as he is) or Mr Loquacious isn't going to hold up against us. Their only true crumber is Ainsworth, who is fine but he's not Pickett or Chandler and I'd pick Nibbler ahead of him, too. A couple of their midfielders occasionally pop up for a couple of goals, but the overall scoring power is very weak. As I see it, there are just four players we need to put special attention to and we'd reduce the Suns to running in mud. King, Anderson, Witts, and Lukosius. The rest deserve normal AFL respect but these four are the key to the Suns being dangerous. -
No no no, silly, you're thinking the Legalise Cannabis Party. Remembering dreams is surprisingly easy to train for. Keep a notebook by the bed. Before you settle to sleep, look at it, think about it, and even say out loud a few times 'I will write my dreams down in the morning'. Then in the morning even if you have only the vaguest fog of a few images, write those down. In as little as a week you will be remembering dreams in astonishing detail. I did this as an exercise in a psychology course and by week three was remembering five dreams every morning with enough clarity to make notes on all of them. The good news is that when you stop the habit you also stop remembering the dream. It's a pretty wild rabbit hole you might not want to stay down!
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Lol, of course it is covering some cracks/sins. Our usual two main target forwards are both out and our forward line includes Van Rooyen on debut and Kade Chandler playing his first ever games not as a sub. It is spectacular that we are the No.1 scoring team in the circumstances. Maybe the accuracy is a bit of a streak that will come back closer to normal ranges over the season, but on the other hand the disruption to our team should settle over time as well as we figure out what 'works'. It is also fair to point out that neither our on-ballers nor our defence have been especially potent units compared to previous seasons. I suspect two things - 1. Mark Williams' took on the 'this will be our focus this pre-season' task, just as he had done for general kicking before, and he got the job done. 2. We are strategically making sure our forwards aren't being run so ragged they can't execute their shots smoothly. There is a separation of the 'chase all day' vs 'be a lurking menace' roles. I think that is why Petty keeps popping up as having huge distance covered stats. That second one is just a hunch which I would love to carefully investigate if I had access to the data and time on my hands.
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Lol, of course it is covering some cracks/sins. Our usual two main target forwards are both out and our forward line includes Van Rooyen on debut and Kade Chandler playing his first ever games not as a sub. It is spectacular that we are the No.1 scoring team in the circumstances. Maybe the accuracy is a bit of a streak that will come back closer to normal ranges over the season, but on the other hand the disruption to our team should settle over time as well as we figure out what 'works'. It is also fair to point out that neither our on-ballers nor our defence have been especially potent units compared to previous seasons. I suspect two things - 1. Mark Williams' took on the 'this will be our focus this pre-season' task, just as he had done for general kicking before, and he got the job done. 2. We are strategically making sure our forwards aren't being run so ragged they can't execute their shots smoothly. There is a separation of the 'chase all day' vs 'be a lurking menace' roles. I think that is why Petty keeps popping up as having huge distance covered stats. That second one is just a hunch which I would love to carefully investigate if I had access to the data and time on my hands.
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The terms are back-conflatible. Has anyone already noted that Van Rooyen and Kade Chandler are the 1st and 2nd most accurate goal kickers in the AFL so far this season? Fritsch also lurking in the top 10. All three are yet to go a game goalless in 2023. (also Pickett & Brown, but they have missed games) Edit: Van Rooyen has surpassed Lockett, Dunstall, Ablett and many other luminaries in his streak from debut, and just needs... 60... more games to surpass record-holder Coleman himself.
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I see no reason why they can't both clock more than a vote per game and then finish joint winners! Imagine the final round on Brownlow night. Oliver is ahead by two votes and had a good game, but Petracca just blew the Swans apart in one of his habitual monster events. Sydney versus Melbourne Melbourne, C Petracca, 3 votes. Melbourne, C... (crowd murmurs) ... Salem, 2 votes. Melbourne, C Oliver, 1 vote.
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I'll say it every time something remotely close to the topic comes up. We need a massive renewal of investment in the second-tier competitions. Revitalising the entire country's second leagues would cost about as much as adding one more AFL club and it would transform the playing, coaching and umpiring talent depth, reconnect Australian football to communities and be much more effective at infiltrating the northern 'markets' than the two styrofoam clubs set up at a $200m dead loss.
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"After almost 22 years, Pickett has spent less than 1% of his life sure that he will re-sign with the Demons." "After almost 9 months pre-natal, Pickett has begun being born in only the last 24 hours." Meanwhile, if the relief of the decision being made produced a 3 goal & 3 goal assist game, we need to consider the possible AA competition for relaxed and comfortable Pickett in the 'actual small forward' role; Papley, Green, C Cameron, Rankine, Higgins, and... Chandler!
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Is this officially Demonland's longest ever thread with a happy ending?
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Well, I'd be getting it for the lovely person sitting next to me, and she is convinced that Bailey Fritsch is her brother (he looks Vietnamese, for sure!) so it would have to be 31. Somewhere in a box at my mum's place (a casualty of multiple moves back in more adventurous times) I have a guernsey signed by Max Gawn before he had even played a game (pre-season, 2010-11). I feel like I should back that up with 11.
Melbourne v Collingwood is the Grand Final that the Australian Football League, and Australia, needs.
What the squelch just happened at half time of Pies-Crows? Noble obviously slipped down to deliberately draw a high contact, but Dawson then clearly caught him 'actually' high, Rankine decides he needs to prove to the world he's a git by running over to shove Noble while he's lying flat, and then Maynard comes in and has some kind of epileptic fit while holding Rankine's collar. Bizarro juvenile times all round.
Cheer up, two more teams are outside the 8 because we played them.
For all the Cameron hype, it is starting to look like Tom Hawkins really is Geelong's beating heart.
Live ladder; Essendon now out of the 8. Good times.
B: Logue HB: C: Acres Langdon HF: Tucker Hogan Hill F: Lobb FOLL: Meek Neale Cerra That's all just in Bell's time, so Weller and Crozier don't make it in. They weren't always screwed on the trade value, but then somehow managed to ruin it for themselves each time (Epic example Lachie Neale for 6 and 19 which became Hogan and Lobb) while also playing such pigheaded 'hardball' on the trades that they've ruined their relationship with several other clubs. They tried to trade in a rising star winner and premiership-winning ruckman-midfielder-forward unicorn projected to be one of the most potent players in the league, for, they believed, two picks in the mid teens and one in the 30s. Instead they now have a pretty handy young ruck, for whom they traded picks 5, 13, and 23. So we hate them for trying to screw us over and we mock them for falling on their faces doing it. DEATH RIDE!
I have concerns that Angus Brayshaw's April is starting to look a bit like DeadMeat from Hotshots.
I really wanted to reply a 'smug satisfaction' emojj but we don't have one. I wonder what it would look like? Also, more seriously, I think it is time for Spargo to be given a run for Casey with an emphasis on getting him more actively involved and seeing how that excellent brain of his adjusts to tighter traffic in the middle or even as a small defender. He needs to add proverbial strings to his proverbial bow. Angus Brayshaw's provided some very, very easy lip-reading as that siren goal sailed through, and it would definitely not make it through the Demonland censorship. The defenders all looking annoying and having a cranky chat right after was possibly the most exciting part of the game - it had the same tone as if they'd just let an easy one get through right at the start of an anticipated close game.
More accurate to say we have at least 12 who will be considered unlucky to miss out on All-Australian selection. AND maybe four or five who do get selected. Remembered fondly as the 'Robertson, Yze, White, Green, Davey, McDonald, Brown, Johnstone, Bruce' quality range. Except now we have a bundle of absolute guns to top it off, instead of that group trying to overcome an overall lack of depth.
