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You don't get or aggravate OP from a single event. Here: https://physioworks.com.au/injuries-conditions-1/osteitis-pubis

Ah Demonland, don't ever change.

If there's anyone out there about to write up a paper on victim-blaming, plenty of source material in this thread.

Demonland. So many assumptions.

Doesn't get much lower than this: "Ploegmakers, who has a learning disability, told 7NEWS the 34-year-old offender called him a "[censored] and a [censored]"."

If reports are true, the beer-snatching occurred after the Hawks supporter had been verbally abused by the Dees guy. As others have commented, physically attacking someone is unacceptable, and assault is a crime. Equally, calling someone with a disability a r*tard is unacceptable - and is also covered under abuse/offensive language laws.

No. Confirmation bias. You're taking examples that illustrate your point, while ignoring ones that contradict it. Watch the whole game, and assess it in its globality. He had double the number of 1%ers as anyone else, and was in the top half dozen for marks, 3rd for rebound 50's. Sure, he made a couple of mistakes and didn't dominate, but not he's Robinson Crusoe in that regard.

It's not a lack of intensity, it's a lack of confidence. The second-guessing and hesitation are classic signs. But he just has to play through it. Sending him back to the VFL where his ability to read the ball is clearly a class above and he gets a lazy 23 possessions without having to work for them isn't going to help anyone. He had more 1%'ers than anyone else, and his 6 marks and 100% disposal efficiency go down on the "plus" side of the ledger, so hopefully he can build on that and get a bit more confidence.

Going to need to take our chances a bit better, but fingers crossed they can keep up the pressure, at least.

It's not the skills per se, they have the skills. It's the between-the-ears-skills, the lack of confidence, the second guessing, the don't-[censored]-this-upping, the pressure (perceived or otherwise) ... every player is only too aware of what's not working, and the pressure and expectation that that brings is almost impossible to ignore. The big mindf*ck.

Oh for the days when Tom Mac used to knock off an easy 4 or 5 goals a game.

Well, cracked record here: confidence (lack thereof)

This is a team with no confidence - either in themselves or their teammates. Survival mode kicks in, as does the "I've got to do something" mentality, and then it's all down hill.

Confidence shot, skills nowhere. If you can't get simple 2 metre handballs to reach their target ...

Apart from anything else, this thread just shows how out of touch many here are with the realities of professional sport.

Congrats to both of you. Just to clarify, if I may, if this was on the cards yesterday, why was Smith named in the side in the first place?

Not so much. Anything to help get Fritsch back up the ground where he belongs is a step in the right direction IMV. Also, Fritsch forward frees up Petracca to do some of the on-ball heavy lifting. Of course, best laid plans ...

Smart selections: O Mac allows Tom (our best KPF) to go forward, as does J Wagner for Fritsch.

That's right, because an untested player who's never played a single game at AFL level and is playing OK/consistent footy at VFL level is our saviour. And because we have inside mids and KPF's just queuing up to get a game.

I expect the effort will be there, but we have too many key players injured/down on form. Between our cobbled-together backline and misfiring forward line, hard to see us getting a win here. But heh, go dees.

In 10 days? It'll take a season.

Mods should delete if a duplicate. I put it up because I couldn't see any reference to it anywhere, but if it's already been discussed ...

"In his presentation, Misson showed that the Demons had 39 players complete a total of 33 training sessions each in the pre-season prior to the successful 2018 season. This year, in Misson’s telling, there were just 25 players completing a total of 22 sessions each – a massive drop partly explained by high number of players who had post-season surgery." https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/demons-early-warning-on-poor-start-to-2019-20190430-p51isa.html

Apart from anything else, what's happening shows how highly tuned successful teams are. It doesn't take much for the wheels to come off big time. Consequences have causes, but not all major consequences have major causes.

The two are not mutually exclusive.