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Don't disagree with the thrust of that, but it's worth bearing in mind that we now have quite a few out or unavailable (Kent, Maynard, Viney, Vandenburg, Petracca even players like Wagner) who have shown something at AFL level, at least occasionally. So yes, we have 25 or so decent AFL players, just not all at the moment.

Also the same questions from journos again and again. Though in the article I read that's based on the presser, Goodwin tackled the issue of social media and players, which is something from outside the box. No doubt you'd be pleased.

You're defending mediocrity. Garlett had 6 possessions this week, and 5 the week before. Heaven help us that's what we expect of a "rusted on best 22 player" He deserved to get dropped, regardless of who made the decision.

"club officials, coaches and the leadership group" The days of coaches calling all the shots in isolation finished the day they stopped moving their own cones around, about 50 years ago.

Attempted delete, somehow the app is double posting.

A funeral in W.A. has been mentioned.

Too difficult to check? BEST Melbourne: Petracca, Gawn, Oliver, Jones, Hogan, Lewis Geelong: Selwood, Ablett, Menzel, Duncan, Parfitt, Kelly

Lewis played 4 games, one with a broken hand/finger. In the other 3, he was twice named amongst the best. As for Pedersen, he's had one decent game in the VFL, to go along with his average games in the VFL and 2 poor games in the firsts. You see what you want to see, and ignore what you don't.

He did lay 9 tackles against Richmond, so not exactly "done nothing".

If only that were true.

I'd leave Stretch in myself. Give him some consistency, and it's not as if we have players banging the door down (for the moment). Also, given the reduced time between games, pool of possible replacements is already low as some will need resting.

Very hard to see Tom Mac playing - if his recent interview is anything to go by, he's only due to start full football work this week. And people here were bitching about players who were "rushed back" last year as one of the causes of all our woes.

Agree on all that, though I'd take Tyson's "can get a clearance". Not to be scoffed at.

Except that our "A grade talent" are all re-signing. Got anything else?

Disappointing result, but then they're not the reigning premiers for nothing. A well-oiled machine in full flight, they did to us much as they did to Adelaide in the granny, and if they keep that up, hard to not see them doing the double. More than a few positives from the night, Lever's best game, Melksham, Jetta and Hibberd were back to something like their old selves, and Weideman did enough to justify his inclusion. But at the end of the day, the difference between the two sides was that their bottom 6 players are so far ahead of ours it's not funny. I get the players over the back/outside bit, but if we didn't turn it over so much, it would be much less of an issue. It's the reason that they can get that run of players going and we can't ... somewhere in that chain there'll be a Harmes or ANB who fumble the ball, or misdirect a handball and then it goes back the other way with interest. And ... still think Viney's absence is hurting us a lot more than we realise, it's not for nothing that we're not doing as well with clearances as we did last year.

They're a better team? Just a thought. Could be wrong.

Composure = experience.

Says a lot about how to encourage developing players.

Oh yes I can. Exhibit A, the Bandwagon Effect: "As people come to believe in something, others "hop on the bandwagon" regardless of the underlying evidence." And there's plenty more where that came from. The work of 3 Nobel Prize winners, Herbert Simon, Daniel Kahneman (with Amos Tversky), and Richard Thaler, comes to mind. We are, as Dan Ariely pointed out, predictably irrational.

Oh no there doesn't. There are a whole series of cognitive biases around group/sheep/herd behaviours. And this goes back a long long way. We're social animals, and the pressure to conform to the group (from both self and others) trumps rationality every time (almost).

Sure, but the Essendon game could meet those criteria. (Though I would have thought he'd need at least another week, but what would I know?)

Oh FFS.

Pedersen didn't take a mark all game? His 2 goals look good, but apart from that, i'd be taking Weideman. If we go tall. Of the others, Stretch and Hunt? Maynard maxed DT points behind Mitch King, but not sure he does enough damage at AFL level. But ... stats.

Given that he was named in the bests for 2 out of the 4 rounds, is currently rated in the top 10 on most stats and is in the top handful for possessions, I wish we had a few more players playing as "poorly" as him.

The only person who's kept Jayden Hunt out is Hunt himself.