Curry & Beer

mate I am asking people to forget their draft pick which is the opposite of what you are accusing me of. In your example you picked 3 blokes that no longer play for us. Nice job I think a lot of people partied hard over the festive season because it has been a tough week in d'land

I agree with you for a lot of stats but for inside-50 differential the correlation and importance is completely undeniable

all I want is for us to win by a point in round 1, with an i50 count of 51-49, just to see what you would say. You would still find a way I'm sure.

exactly - he hardly ever gets caught now, except for those ones where you are blanketed a quarter of a second after you take possession and they call it 'prior' (the ones nobody in the whole country likes to see paid but they keep happening regularly)

do you think we are making an error in assigning Hogan the status of no.1 key forward before he's played a game? It is like we are calling him the new mitch clark. I am as guilty of this as everyone else BTW

I fit annoys you so, please explain it further instead of just throwing in the word 'conditioning'. OK, if you are talking about a pure midfielder missing a big stretch I can see how it affects their ability to run with their opponents in later stages of games. However, for non-midfielders, and players that cop niggles that only sideline them for a few weeks, and perhaps do not even prevent them from running, how can this argument be made?

In your wildest dreams you cannot imagine the marvelous surprises that await you (when you get a niggle in January training) !

I have no idea what you're talking about, unless GWS stands for Gorgeous Woman Sexmachine

you sir, are a gentleman solid ettiquette aside, I cannot excuse a player for being 'out of form' either! I think 'out of form' , when applied to a whole season, is simply a synonym for 'carp'

so you're suggesting that if a player misses some training in January we might as well bench him for the year because there is no way he can reasonably be expected to perform to the standard required. Did you read Jonesy cut his foot surfing? Forget him then! No 4th Bluey that's for sure! He's been interrupted FCS! it's BS. If you are fit to be selected that is all there is to it - particularly if we are discussing Dawes, give me a spell, he wouldn't run 13km for the year! Are you saying that his lack of performance was because he was not fit enough to keep up with the play? Or are all those dropped marks because he missed the day they practiced marking cos his preseason was 'interrupted'?

oh boy! that's like the third one today :D

oh gee sorry

I would love to, but I know it's impossible. What I would add to your post is to lose all memory of what draft pick players were taken at (particularly Watts and Toumpas)

I often wonder about this Same with 'the pressure of being a high draft pick'

OK... you're doing that retrospectively now. Plus he's not even talking about our games being more 'free-flowing'. He's just talking about scoring. Even so, it makes almost no difference to the discussion. We've been talking a differential of 11.6 meaning 5.8 plus/minus to make us break even Standardise our 92-total to a league 100-total. You get 43.5 vs 56.5, differential 13. That's 6.5 plus/minus vs 5.8. We are 6.5 contests per match away from breaking even.. even in your 'free-flowing' scenario. Done.

you forgot hearsay, groupthink and my personal favourite - extreme pedantry

well why did you decide to make THAT point? when was anyone talking about us changing our gameplan to a more open one? you just made that bit up for some reason. I said if it stays constant at a total of 92, then we win 6 more stoppages or other important contests, we get 6 more inside50s while simultaneously denying them 6, and therefore breaking even. It is extremely straightforward which is why I a feel like I am taking crazy pills with you are arguing it for some unknown reason

with or without clark I don't think anyone would have been happy with 20 goals from 18 matches when he was recruited does not do a hell of a lot apart from kick goals either (apart from smashing blokes, which I do enjoy)

yes we undersold him but we had no choice, we couldn't keep him and not many wanted to chance him, we had to take what we could get really that's why the man is a dirty pig

especially since none of us know how true it even is, or how effective it is, it's all just assumptions and vague folklore

To be fair mate, if he did hold the club responsible at all, there is no way he would mention it to a supporter

I am when on this site. What do you think mate match 1 - team A:40 vs team B:52 match 2 - team A:46 vs team B:?? all things being equal what would you expect ?? to be

and tarred and feathered by the supporters at training

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Still makes me feel like the kid's back is a ticking timebomb waiting to explode misery all over us