Deetective Sgt. Taggert

Haven’t had a chance to watch the game yet, but I can’t help but feel we were due a loss to Essendon. Arguably we only just got over the line against them the last few matchups so seems inevitable that at some point they were going to get us, as much as that sucks!!

1 minute ago, chook fowler said:

McVee is nice to watch

Agreed! Has looked really composed with the ball. 

Both Petracca and Oliver don’t seem to have their touch today (Clarries great goal on the run being the exception)

1 minute ago, praha said:

We brought it back a lot that quarter. We are beating Sydney in stoppage clearances and contested ball which is a good sign

 

Currently 15-18 total clearance, which was better than it felt watching it!

1 minute ago, gregdemon said:

great servant of the club but gone

Eh? Big call this early in the season on our vice captain

Not sure I like Petty up forward. Feel like we are missing him up back especially with those goals to franklin and Logan. Can’t help but feel like he would have stopped at least one of those marks. 

Just now, DubDee said:

suns are home!!!!

cats 0-3

Wrong thread!

Great start. If we could start evening out the center clearances and Petracca can find his kicking boots we’ll be in for a good ride. 

I thought this was a interesting article from the Age: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/cats-10-goals-up-even-before-landing-henry-dees-rely-on-the-replacements-20221012-p5bpcj.html

Given the situation with Geelong being able to pay players less, which lets face it, is not simply because of 'lifestyle' and 'culture' but also because of that fact there is a significantly lower average cost of living in Geelong compared to all the other major Australia cities (between 10-24% lower according to this website: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Australia&country2=Australia&city1=Brisbane&city2=Geelong&tracking=getDispatchComparison).

So surely on that basis Geelong ought to have a lower salary cap than all other teams,if the cap if meant to provide some form of equalization? Seems a no brainer for me and would be very similar to other types of companies and organizations that adjust salaries based on the the location of the job (and the associated cost of living).

I think an alternative on the current model could be that once one team activates their sub, the other team has the option to  activate their sub (replacing an under-performing player) either within say 5 minutes of the sub being activated, or during any of the subsequent breaks in play (qrt time, half time, etc.). But if they have an injured player then then could still activated the sub at their discretion. 

So McInerny is out for the lions. That means our rucks have a great chance to dominate unless lions have a good backup waiting in the wings?. That might also be a reason that our selectors choose not to take a punt on TMac.

I’m curious to know if the guys think the pre-finals bye worked against us (and to a lesser extent Geelong)? It seems both Collingwood and Sydney were able to apply enormous pressure during their respective matches despite the fact that @binman and others were anticipating those (relatively) younger teams would begin to run out of steam come finals time. I can’t help but wonder if the pre-finals bye helped Syd and Coll freshen up more than it helped us freshen up. It will be interesting to see how the pies fare against Fremantle having to back up again next week. While Sydney will obviously get to freshen up again ahead of their prelim.

Is it just me or do Ginnivan’s baggy shorts make it look like he’s wearing a skirt?

We’ve now won 15 games, the same amount as Richmond in 2017. Just saying. 

I’ll take any win at this time of year! That final goal by Pickett was somewhat similar to Tommy Mac’s goal to beat the eagles in Perth back in 2017. 

Another 6 day break for us. Lions play the previous Friday night albeit in Melbourne so maybe we break even there even though they have 7 days in between matches. 

8 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Who can stop this team?

Well, you wouldn’t expect the team sitting 14th to do so…let’s see how they fare in the remaining four rounds against actual contenders and teams vying for spots in the 8. 

1 hour ago, binman said:

I should have said every team who is going to make finals do load. Those out of contention, or on the bubble, can't afford to lose games they would otherwise won if not for fatigue.

Other contenders do struggle at this exact point in tbe season.

As an example, in the last two weeks,  Brisbane, the second favourite for the flag were beaten by the hawks and almost got rolled by the giants.

Geelong, a perennial contender, famously struggle after the bye.

The tigers hit a flat spot in each of their premiership years, just as we did last year.

 

Out of curiosity I did some quick research on this point. Putting aside 2020, which was a shortened season, the Tigers did have a slump in 2019, losing rounds 11-13. In 2018 the Eagles also lost three in a row from rounds 13-15 after starting the year 10-1. The Tigers in 2017 lost 4 in a row from rounds 6-9, but not sure that counts as mid-season loading? 

Interesting to compare Carlton 2022 to Melbourne 2018. After round 10 in 2018 we were 3rd at 7-3 with a % of 136.6 (the highest % in the competition). Compared to Carlton this year with 8-2 but only 114%.

Guess who was a game clear on top at round 10 in 2018? Eagles at 9-1 and 135.8%…

We also ended up with the highest total score of any team that year by more than 150 compared to the next best in Richmond, and had the second highest percentage at the end of the year, but we saw how that panned out in the prelim…

4 minutes ago, Radar Detector said:

That was a bog ordinary game. 

Objectively we are a much better side than Geelong and should win if we can avoid a run of goals like last time.

Nonetheless I’ll be having nightmares all week.

Well if we win the prelimin then we get the extra day break heading into the GF. 

Pretty sure there was a passage of play where Rivers effected a crucial smother then followed up on the opposite wing to set up an attacking foray that resulted in a Frisch goal. Pure class. 

Brayshaw was huge for us tonight, and Rivers was desperate in defence and attacking in the rebound. Frisch take a bow with his clutch goals. 

Random question for the podcast, but given the lack of home ground advantage for Melbourne in finishing first do you think the AFL should grant us the right to choose our opponent for the preliminary final? If we win the qualifying final of course. Ie we choose which winner of the semifinals we want to play. 
 

Same could also apply to the semifinal in terms of the highest ranked loser of the qualifying finals  

I see no reason why they couldn’t given that ladder positions only really dictates the first round of the finals. 

I think Goodwins comments reflect two things. One is that he wants his assistants to know they are highly valued by signalling he expects them to stick it out until the job is done. The other is that with the current soft cap restrictions there isn’t enough coaching staff on the books to cover the loss of a senior assistant, so the club would be more compelled to play hardball in terms of holding them to  a contract until at least the end of the season. 

Did anyone else notice that Brayshaw let this slip in the post match interview? Seems like its almost a done deal…