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I watched the game too, ans agree. He was solid for sure, but he was fir us too in most games last season. But he doesn't look to have got any faster, which I reckon is his biggest weakness now. It will be interesting when Greene gets back as he's not super quick and the way footy is being played atm I don't think teams can carry more than plodder in the midfield.

I'm old school - I keep mine in the cupboard.

That's a good point about being able to also use Casey if we go to Waverley - given Waverley's location, and the fact its fight on the freeway it would be a pretty quick drive to casey

Fear not - I reset at 10am

Well that changes everything. Koz is 100% gone. If you think otherwise you not only have your head in the sand, you are in total denial. I think we should start a Koz is 100% gone thread and hyperventilate and panic all season. Pass me the lighter fluid so I can set my hair on fire, and perhaps a hard hard too to protect me from the falling sky.

You're accusing a poster of having their head in the sand because they don't mindlessly agree with your completey uninformed guess that Koz is out the door because you've heard a rumour he and his partner have split up and she gone to Darwin? Seriously?

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant with post you are responding to. Sheesh.

Yeah right, goody left the club in a mess. I forgot the coaches run AFL clubs and their boards, CEO and administration are purely figureheads, not the people responsible for running professional football clubs.

Did I say they didn't deserve praise?

Not sure I'd say really happy for him, perhaps happy. But otherwise reflects my thoughts exactly. One thing I will say, i couldn't get kayo working ans so watched Chanel 7. Good lord the praise for Tracc was way over the too- you'd think wes watched the greatest match played by an individual ever. And Blimey, also over the top praise for Suns too.

You can only laugh. Real, of course it happened to the Dees vibe.

Next Tuesday night. Go Redleggers.

lSLM (layzie's Small Language Model)

I hope Kalani gets taller.

Sadly, thought exactly the same thing.

Being able to run is key for player's rehabbing in maintaining their aerobic base - given he's had a pretty solid preseason he should keep his fitness level up ok if he can be running say after a month And he'll be able to do upper body work whilst in a boot, which as a key forward won't hurt.

Not sure. But I know they've got their April/Easter photo for the MFC calendar sorted - a picture of an oiled up Paddy flexing his biceps. The tag line will read: Hot Cross Guns!

No ACL, no surgery - that's a terrific outcome. Of course a month in a knee brace, and maybe two months of rehab, is not great but the alternative was 12-15 months out of the game.

Diagonal.

I'm still holding my Kolt shares - for now. Hes got to get super fit and strong, the latter because he's a power player. And he really needto lock into a position. I'm not convinced he'll make ir as a defender, and atm he's not likely to play mid. Meaning hia bedt shot is a half forward who gets up and down the ground, gets one or two goals a game an kick the sort of goal he did on Friday - be a spor up option neat the arc and convert from 50. Wherever he plays Diagonal.

I don't know where we'll finish, but from what ive seen of the community series it will be above the Roos, Eagles, Tigers and bombers. All look woeful, particularly the first three - which must be a big worry for the AFL as the Roos, Eagles and Tigers all should be on the climb at this stage of their respective rebuilds.

Agree - foot injuries really are our achilles heel.

Perhaps. But everything has to go right - tricky injury.

It's also perhaps a guide to Kings thinking about whether to run two rucks or go with Max, with Roo and/or Kentfield providing a chop out - that's to say he might well be using this game as dry run for the season proper, which would not surprise given last Friday was anything but (ie we used 28 players, had players only playing a half, etc etc). If tomorrow is dress rehearsal for the season proper, i'd be a tad worried if i was Jeffo.

It never ceases to amaze me the stock people put on the 'eye test', and the extent to which they'll ignore contrary statistical evidence (or poo poo it). And it drives me buts when so called 'experts', who really should know better, like Derwayne, do this. It goes without saying that looking at stats alone gives an inaccurate picture of say game style. It's equally inaccurate to base such assessments on observation alone. Which is why of course coaches, and anyone seriously trying to understand the game, do neither - they use data AND observation Coincidentally, back in mid Jan i responded to a similar conversation (ie we were a bomb it long team last season) thusly: Agree with much of the above, except for the notion that our players would often bomb it long. We def turned it over a lot but we were not a bomb it long team. There are plenty of stats that can be misleading - one such oft cited example is disposal efficiency (eg inside mids dispose of the ball under more pressure than say a half back flanker who get the opportunity to chip kick the ball around the back half under little pressure). But some stats are less misleading, one being metres gained from kicks. If in 2025 we were a team that often resorted to long bombs, you'd expect to see that reflected in the data - we'd be near the top of the table for metres gained per kick. But we're not - in fact we were 12th in the AFL for metres gained per kick (26.2 metres gained per kick). By way of contrast teams there are number of teams above us on that table that many would imagine don't bomb it long (eg Freo is second for most metres gained per kick, the Pies 5th, the Hawks 6th and the Crows 7th). The premiers were 17th for metres gained per kick (25 metres - only 1.2 less metres gained per kick than us). Interestingly, i think I'm right in saying that last season the average metres gained per kicks increased across the board from 2024 as teams started kicking longer to get over the top of zones, look to win the contest head of the ball and mitigate the impact of turnovers (ie better to turn it over in your forward half than miss a short kick at HB) - so perhaps we needed to bomb it long more often!