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Is that a euphuism?

Only if they knew

Maybe 1000 MFC members tickets? Makes no sense that 25k can go this week, but only 1000 next week (unless they know an impending outbreak!)

Crowd is capped at 50% https://www.afl.com.au/news/640225/get-your-r16-tix-be-part-of-something-special-be-there-live And 25k can go https://www.adelaideoval.com.au/news/25000-crowd-capacity-confirmed-for-saturday/

She'll be apples then

What? There goes my trip to Adelaide! Maybe. For the life of me i wasn't been able to find any info about crowds at the footy in Adelaide (as i was planning on going). Not on the SA gov website or on multiple news sites Eventually checked the Adelaide oval website. The crows lions game this weekend is capped at 25k. No changes to restrictions today, so who knows how many will be able to go next Thursday.

Thanks TU So not many intercepts marks then and really good spread of dees players marking inside our 50. Out of interest where di you find the stats.

I reckon that is really good point. And nullifying strengths is good way of describing it too i think. its not as if we do anything radically different week to week, like say Geelong sometimes do (eg go super slow against some teams, fast against others). We still stick to our model and work to get the 'game on our turn'. But we are really good at mitigating strengths. Maxy mentioned straight after the game, in his on ground interview that they were a high scoring side and we did well to keep their score low, as did goody in his presser. It was clearly a key focal point coming into the match. Like we did against the dogs, one way we achieved that goal was being super focused on blocking the corridor and at marks/frees having a player stand on corridor side at 45 degree angle (in addition to he player on the mark) making a kick inside risky. We have probably improved in this area from a coaching perspective, and given Yze was in charge of opposition analysis at the hawks (i think) no doubt he has brought some great knowledge. But i reckon a big tick needs to go to the players as a benefit of them all being focused on doing their role and the team first things is that they are better able to implement instructions and strategies designed to nullify the strengths of the opposition.

Indeed. We had 14 marks inside 50. Our season average is 12.7. Tick We had 56 inside 50s against a season average of 55.4. So then you can't discount our marks inside 50 number by arguing we had more inside 50s than we normally do. As you say our efficiency inside 50 was poor - 44.6% against a season average of 50.3%. And a high percentage of our missed shots at goals (eg Tmac, Spargo, Harmes etc) were from shots with little angle, as opposed to being from the boundary, as is often the case. And many of our missed passes were similarly in the middle lane. If we had converted our chances and not missed so many easy passes inside 50 we would have won by 5 goals plus. The other stat he might want o check out is how many intercept marks the bombers' took inside our 50. Given he reckons the Giants intercepting defenders, Haynes & Davis, will knock up taking uncontested marks because we are looking for the marking option that don't exist then perhaps, the same should be true of Ridley and Stewart . I can't find those stats, so perhaps I'm wrong, but my guess is they had bugger all intercept marks - certainly less then they average

True. But i hope they do bring the heat as I want to watch a good game now that i finally get the chance to watch a game of footy live again. One thing i love about where we are at ATM is that the game plan is built for the g and the a clear focus of 'making the g small' as max said after last weeks game. It seems a bit counterintuitive, but i reckon our game works well with the extra space at the g becuase if teams try to switch to get around our zone the width means it takes two shoter kicks or one long one to go to the fat side. Both options give us time to get across and cover that opposite wing. And each extra kick required to switch or pick their way though us is an opportunity to force a turnover.

Where did you see that discussion? It might be a financial and logistical consideration for 7 given all tbe chaos with grounds and coverage

I wasn't disagreeing with you. On the contrary, I meant to say they can be in the 8 if they win and as you say may not make the eight at all if they lose, so it is huge game for them. And i have no doubt they will come out hard In a funny way it might help us. I sometimes feel that for top clubs (and i'm still pinching myself that we are one this year) they sometimes find it bit hard to get up for games when the opposition isn't up, and those games can, somewhat counterintuitively, become danger games . But if the giants bring the heat from the start hopefully that gets us wired from the get go too.

If they win they may well be in the 8 at round's end

That's a quality preview.

Jones desperately unlucky. Not surprised Brown did not come in. Give him another week to build his strength and fitness. He has played bugger all football in the last 6 weeks. Another game at vfl level and he comes in for Port game. And that will be tbe forward line settled. Assuming his form is ok I suspect he will play the rest of tbe season and finals from next week.

So i should book my flights and hotel room. Or not.

A covid related footy specific question - i promise. Currently there are no restrictions for Victorian traveling to SA (well that's not quite true - as per the SA gov website anyone who has been at a COVID-19 Tier 1 or Tier 2 Public Exposure Site in vic are not permitted to enter SA) And looking at the SA gov website, it would appear there is no restriction on crowd size. So does it not seem likely that the game will go ahead at Adelaide oval next weekend (assuming no change to current situation)?

The Captain jack avian disease is mutating

Fair calls. I'll make one last non football related comment then desist from posting non footy related covid stuff here. I think there is plenty of sensible center people in the media, but like politics the media model is devolving into a very dangerous binary divide that places all opinion and information on an completely made up, abstract notion of a left right continuum of beliefs. Ideas do not fit neatly on left right divide. And nor do all policy decisions What is important to understand is why this model has gained such traction. The key driver is that this model is easily monetized. Conflict rates. Division is lucrative. The price we pay for the model is hyper partnership, poor policy, over simplification of complex issues and misinformation. Australia has long political history of sensible center politics and bipartisanship. That model has served us well. But is at grave risk One of the great ironies of the left right nonsense is that on both ends of that spectrum people share concerns about government overreach and the loss of personal freedoms. But the way things are heading fascism and authoritarianism are the likely end point. Surely everyone, no matter their political beliefs would hope to avoid this. This article provides some fascinating insight into the drift towards, and support for authoritarianism by Republicans in the states (with reference to voters on the right other western democracies) https://morningconsult.com/2021/06/28/global-right-wing-authoritarian-test/

I would have been more convinced if the list included Miranda devine

200 Proofs Earth is Not a Spinning Ball, by Flat Earther Eric Dubay[14] What more really needs be said? It's 2 hours long. At best, every proof would get 1.67 minutes of screentime. As a PDF, it's 35 pages long[15] — too long to debunk easily, too short to present conclusive evidence. Nevertheless, rebuttals have still been made From here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

Ta. Did may plsy on greene in that game? If not, who took him? Tomlinson?

That is brilliant. I have never heard the term but know tactic very well. Its funny, because the tactic is pretty much the organising principle of the Murdoch mafia's business model - millions of spurious arguments designed to create furious arguments and division. And Murdoch's genius is the model is not based on ideology. He'll leave that to the suckers. It is about monetising conflict. And power of course. Theirs, that is. Trump, and his acolytes, has taken the core of the gush gallop model and put their own spin on it - flood the zone with so much [censored], so often that rebuttal becomes futile. And the very act of rebuttal confers some level of credibility to complete and utter nonsense. Imagine having to rebutt a claim like the Jan 6th insurrection was a false flag event. Or that trump won the election.

Faulty, you made the argument not me. I asked for evidence to back up your assertion. It is tbe classic strawman play, a favoured trope of peanuts like Murray, to make a big statement that corresponds with their own world view - and when asked for evidence to back it up , don't provide any, and instead say 'prove me wrong'. I rebutted your argument and provided mutiplle examples of evidence to support my argument. But you have not provided a single piece of evidence to support your argument. On polling, a quick search and I found this, from a Murdoch site no less: 'But despite the reassurance a lockdown wasn’t imminent, a news.com.au poll of more than 22,000 people shows that the majority of people in Sydney think that we should go into lockdown. Those in Melbourne and interstate are also very keen for it to happen. https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/australians-seem-happier-to-be-locked-down-than-vaccinated-and-it-makes-no-sense/news-story/4f0b4dbd43b555e8d556f15e8d687f6d By the by the article also directly contradicts your claim that most people wont swallow the b.s any longer.

I didn't suggest you claimed a majority were against lockdown. I know you said opinion is changing. What's your evidence thst opinion is changing.?