Robbie57

On 2/12/2019 at 7:53 PM, Watson11 said:

If 10+ minutes goal kicking practice 3 times a week is all they do then I am with Dr D on this, but only comfortable in the knowledge that the entire AFL industry is pathetic on this issue.  It really is waiting for a club to put some proper work into goal-kicking.  Someone is going to win a premiership off it soon and then the entire industry will follow and we'll see players doing goal kicking practice for a couple of hours a day.  Would be great for us to be the first.

Saty, maybe you can ask Max Rooke at training if he has any ambitions to see our forwards improve accuracy the way the true professionals have in the NFL.  Back in the old days (60's), accuracy stats were around the same as the AFL at the time (~50%).  Every decade the NFL has improved and now if you are not around 85% you don't have a job for long.  The best career record is Justin Tucker of the Ravens at 90.1% over the last 6-7 years.  The average field goal distance is around 38 yards (so 34m) so probably not that different to AFL.  They don't have a ball drop but there is a bit of variation in the placement and their posts are about 1m closer together.  Compare this to the AFL where accuracy has not really improved over the past 50 years.    A professional golfer would not be professional for long if he did putting practice for 10-15 minutes 3x a week.

On the bright side, for players that had more than 30 shots at goal in a season, Tracc sits at 13th on the all time list for his 2017 season.  And for career stats TMac sits 9th on the all time list for those that have had >50 shots at goal. 

Well said. If your a forward in an arc of 45 degrees from the centre of the goals  and 35 out it should be a gimme every time. There must be a training routine for this. Who was the player who used headphones with crowd noise?  

Congratulations and welcome Teddy to the Red and the blue.

Grateful to all sponsors so welcome Jag, still would have been funny had it been a Range Rover sponsorship. 

1. Neville Jetta vs 3. Clayton Oliver

1. Neville Jetta vs  5. Jake Melksham
6. Tom McDonald vs 4. James Harmes
3. Clayton Oliver vs Jack Viney
2. Max Gawn vs 8. Angus Brayshaw

Jayden Hunt vs 4. James Harmes
3. Clayton Oliver vs Bayley Fritsch
2. Max Gawn vs Michael Hibberd
Christian Salem vs 7. Angus Brayshaw

1. Neville Jetta vs Jordan Lewis
Alex Neal-Bullen vs 8. Jake Melksham
Charlie Spargo vs Jack Viney
6. Tom McDonald vs Billy Stretch

Oscar McDonald v Alex Neal-Bullen
Bayley Fritsch vs Aaron vandenBerg
Sam Weideman vs 7. Angus Brayshaw

Thanks for all the reports. Very pleased that Jeffy is up and about and hope he has a good year. 

Christian Petracca vs 8. Jake Melksham
Tim Smith vs Jordan Lewis
Michael Hibberd vs Josh Wagner

Mitch Hannan 
Corey Wagner 
Kade Chandler
Toby Bedford 
Charlie Spargo 

Going to call it now

A goodwin special: ‘hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard'.  He will fit right in. Welcome and good luck.

Best colours in the competition. Looks good in them.

14 minutes ago, WERRIDEE said:

I done this on another thread but here I go again

1 Pruess - The Strawbs\Stynes combo

12 Kolodjashnij - Taking over Tyson

27 May - I changed my mind with this one. Rivers, Inga and Wight have worn the same number.

 

27 for May for the reasons above. 

Loved Sean, one of my all time faves. Looking at the clip I saw a bit of Hibbo. Goodwin would have absolutely loved him. With Harley Balic leaving 27 is free for May (or does he get 1 from Hogan?).

I rate him and the rest of the team highly. Hogan's manager said if Melbourne were in Perth he would be with us. What is implicit in that statement is that we have built (Mahony especially) an environment that players want to be in which will help us retain our talent. He deals with people honestly. Every year i am bemused by the value placed on the number of the trade as experience tells us its the outcome that is important. Mahony and Co are outcome focused.  

If May goes who will turn the lights out at GCS?

https://twitter.com/TitusOReily/status/1051626486044577792

7 minutes ago, CHF said:

This reflects 100% with the whispers I have heard.

And what I was told. 

2 minutes ago, EnterTheDragon said:

It’s coming down to this: 

1. Accept pick 5 & 23 from Freo for Hogan 

2. Hold out for 5 & 11 and walk away if not met.

What will the club do?

What should the club do? 

Going to go down to the wire folks. Real line ball call given all the circumstances. Wednesday it’s Mahoney v Bell with guns drawn outside the OK Corral.

It’s pretty clear. The club is happy to have Hogan stay. We want him to sign long term. We tried to get permission to use our first round next year for May but didn’t. I wouldn’t be surprised if the outcome is Hogan signs on for 3 to 4. 

38 minutes ago, ShaneJ said:

So you're putting Carlton up as the example to follow??

What I'm getting at is either Hogan hasn't been honest with the club (during season) or the club hasn't been honest with us. Angus and Goody hosed off noise around Hogan leaving WEEKS ago, defending his commitment to Melbourne. Jesse "loves" Melbourne they said. Clearly Jesse doesn't.

It is entirely possible the real situation is that Jesse wants to stay but doesn’t want to sign a long term deal yet whilst the club wants a long term deal for certainty thinking it’s better to take the pain now than in 2 years. If that is the case both sides have been honest. Jesse has had a rough trot and probably not sure what he wants in a few years thus told the club he doesn’t want to commit for 4 years whilst the club has said that’s what they want.  We should be slow to suggest a lack of candour.