
Everything posted by binman
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Richmond
Spot on ATG. Though I thought the tigers did a good job negating our efforts to run and carry and go thru the corridor- albeit they were very negative. On percentage, how many people complaining about us not adding 4 or 5% think we are a realistic chance of making finals?
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Richmond
No, I don't think so. We won after all. And apparently our pressure rating in the third quarter was 237. That's nuts. After that we were never going to lose that game in the last quarter. How many games have we all seen where a team where has the game wrapped up with 20 minutes on the clock only to give up easy goals late As a punter who often backs the over 39 Line ne for value I can tell you it happens ALOT - for me most recently the port hawks game (I backed port for the win and over 39) Could we have gone up a gear in the last if needed - I think so. Did we need to? That's another discussion - but as frustrating as it was I understand why we might have put the cue in the rack. Taking Gawn off was the right thing to doing my opinion. And besides but for some inaccuracy and poor decisions we would have equalled their score in the last. And whilst I take your point about young players its not as if we didn't have our fair share of first and second year players too (four).
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Richmond
Straight to the stats file.
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POSTGAME: Rd 07 vs Richmond
Spot on - though of course they were off a 5 day break too. Big difference between us and them though is we had had a season high pressure rating in our last quarter and they completely stopped to a walk in their last quarter. Big reason for resting maxy too no doubt. In 2025 do people still not understand the impact of factors such as 5 day breaks and the playing in hot and/or humid conditions (not saying we played in the heat last week - though if you weren't there it was really hot tonight)?
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PODCAST: Rd 06 vs Fremantle
I thought this note was interesting: 'Others, like Geelong in recent years, have manipulated form across the season through careful loading and tapering phases.' I reckon that might be a factor contributing to how variable and volatile results have been this season and last season (particularly around the bye periods) Also perhaps supports my comment about us targetting particular blocks of games to be in optimal shape - like tonight (by the by Casey looked way fitter than the tigers today)
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PODCAST: Rd 06 vs Fremantle
BI - binman Intelligence (And like AI sometimes 'hallucinates' eg my Phil Jackson comment)
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
I'm here. Trigger warning- small handful of dees players on the ground in a circle - kicking around a soccer ball.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
Hello, is that me? I was going off last week about the inconsistency - does my head in
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
They must have been going off against freo.
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CASEY: Rd 05 vs Richmond
We only scored one goal in the first, so 20 in the ladt 3 quarters including 6 or 7 into the wind in the 3rd.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
Overheard in th MCC 'I don't mind global warming old chap as i love the heat and my three houses on the Coast are all closer to being beachfront - but geez its ruining the ski season. Hardly getting any use out of the Chalet. Thank god for Japan'
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CASEY: Rd 05 vs Richmond
Having won their first 3 games (they lost last week but were leading at 3 quarter time), the Tigers are 5th on the ladder, and we are 12th.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
Casey are using great combination of maintaining possession with lots of chip kicks and lead up marks and going fast with overlap and forwad handballs. I reckon that's the template for Goody's game plan.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
Class bit of tap work from Campbell sets up long bomb goals from Henderson
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GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
Good call
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CASEY: Rd 05 vs Richmond
And on cue Bailey nails one from 50
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CASEY: Rd 05 vs Richmond
He's been really good actually so far in this game - was just flying the flag, which i don't mind (JVR had been driven into the ground after his mark)
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CASEY: Rd 05 vs Richmond
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Just had a certain goal taken off him after a beautiful lead and big shove would have put him in the goal square but for a reversal (Laurie smashed into a tiger's player)- CASEY: Rd 05 vs Richmond
Some great footy - very noticeable how they are using lots of forward handballs like we did in the seniors last week. Also running on top of the ground- CASEY: Rd 05 vs Richmond
The internet is amazing! Match feed, which includes real time updates on all scores AFL - News, Fixtures, Scores & Results - AFL.com.au- GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
That may well be true, but he still needs to bring the defensive heat and effort- GAMEDAY: Rd 07 vs Richmond
That's very true. There were three interesting things about last week's game in terms of accuracy One was our actual score was only 4.1 points above the expected score, meaning it's not as if we shot the lights out or anything. Basically, AFL average for the shots at goal we had. Secondly, it's not as if Freo were inaccurate and unlucky to lose because they missed too many easy targets - their actual score was 3.3 above the expected score. And thirdly, that means that the margin between expected scores was basically the same as our winning margin of 10 points (expected margin was +9.2), meaning there's no asterisk on our victory of the sort that there is on the wins of many of our opponents over the last two seasons (ie they won, but only because of our woeful inaccuracy) xScore Score xWin % xMargin Margin Swing Melbourne 102.9 107 69% +9.2 +10 +0.8 Fremantle 93.7 97 31%- PODCAST: Rd 06 vs Fremantle
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By the by, I answered yes to the question: Want an example of a team this year that looks like they might be loading early? This was the response: - CASEY: Rd 05 vs Richmond