binman

A pet hat of mine is retrospectively downgrading a victory because or the form of the beaten team the following week. Did the lions brilliant demolition of the hawks the week after we beat them make our won over them premiership worthy?

Binge sometimes has kayo content as a way to promote kayo

That's awesome, right side of town for me - I'm there with bells on.

I agree that we're kicking inside 50 better but really, as evidenced by our relatively low marks inside 50 numbers, were still oten bombimg it in to a contest. I think the big difference to 2021 - 2024 is, on both first time and repeat entries, we're going around the arc more to spead the defenders so if we do kick to an aerial contest it's more often a one on one, which we're halving more often than not.

Front half game is dependent on contest and defence. I don't think we are setting our D further back - we're certainly pushing up when we have the ball in our forward line (key to creating front half turnovers).

It's funny you should mention the 'terrority game'. Like the pies, we are still playing it in so far there us a clear emphasis on winning the territory, inside 50 battle this season. The difference is the focus on, as you suggest, not always bombing it in (though we are still doing plenty of that) and bei g much less straight line. It's interesting because in 2024, on the back of the pies 2023 flag win, it was all about scores from the back half and spring boarding from half half. In 2025, whilst transition from the back half is still important, the pendulum has swung back a bit to territory, get it inside 50 and trap there, forward half turnover footy. It's a shift that suits us. The red and blue print.

A good example is trac handballing sharp in the seans game to set a running goal rather than bombing for goal himself.

No it's not.

Yep, back to back solid games with good intensity. Times his leads super well.

Neat

Noah yze kicks a beauty

Sound is nor synced properly with the vision, at least it is for me, meaning the whiistle is slightly ahead of the play, which very annoying.

It's not deliberate. Its insufficient intent to keep the ball I the field of play.

All true. But it should never noted that whilst we have 15 AFL listed players they have 11.

Demonstrating how he keeps reinventing himself?

Any truth in the rumours you are reporting from your studio in South Melbourne?

And people wonder why Spargo is a best 22 lock.

Yep, no rivalry at all. To the contrary, its terrific there's two good dees pods and i reckon they compliment each other really well as they are both a bit different in style. All power to the dee brief team (by the by it's a great name for a dees pod)

I forgot about that. That's another black mark on that podcast and in particular Birch's 'analysis'. They actually implied Saints hadn't played there (but i was dubious which is I added the i dont tkink caveat) and as a result didn't point out an obvious flaw in Birch's 4-6 rationale - ie, the dees might well have lost 6 of their games at Traeger Park, but one of their wins was against the Saints (who may have lost 100% of their games there?)

I won't be making that mistake again I can assure you.

Agree cranky, calling for violence is a red line for me. I understand the anger, though to be honest any residual anger I feel is directed at the AFL for the sham that was his non suspension and their role in the shameful thug washing of maynard"s reputation. I'm happy for the karma bus to hit Maynard. Then stop, reverse, and back over him.

Out of interest i just listened to some of the podcast. Firstly, leaving aside her feelings about the dees, after earlier saying in a different context that the saints only had 2 decent players, she picks the Saints to win. Nothing wrong with that on its face - as I've noted earlier in this thread it's definitely a danger game. Given it supposedly a podcast focused on tipping the winners in the upcoming round I had expected some analysis, and certainly the rationale for selections. Birch's rationale for setting the Saints? That the our record on the 10 games we gave played ar the Alice is four wins, six losses. I mean c'mon, that makes zero sense - for one thing those games cover a 10 year period. Perhaps, at a strech, you could say last year's flogging by freo is relevant (she didn't) but any further back has zero relevance to our chances this week. Actually, it probably does a little - but in a positive sense for the dee as we have 10 years experience of travelling there and all that entails. Surely that's an advantage over the saints who I dont think have ever played there. And that was it. That was her sole reason for selecting the saints - that our record at the Alice is 4-6. Though she tipped her hand as to the real reason a couple of minutes later. One of the other hosts said he thought Melbourne were 'starting to play really good football.....' before Birch completely cut him off to say contemptuously 'oh, they're still pretenders'. The co hosts were surprised, noting the dees are her former club, and after expressing their surprise, one asked for her 'analysis' as to why she thinks that given our current form Her response? Because, and this is a direct quote, 'the only reason they are playing well is they have nothing to lose'. I mean please, that's pub level rubbish.

It was posted in another thread. I won't/can't speak for Andy, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't mind other pods etc being promoted or shared. I certainly don't. The more the merrier when it comes to dees stuff. Is it a good interview (I plan to watch it)?

This game be like: How did we lose to the bombers? How did we beat the lions?