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I actually reckon he is. Just a vibe. Perhaps a coincidence but that was the best I have heard him speak. Bug respect for his comments about the fringe players

Wasn't having a shot or anything. Apologies if it came across a bit combative. On the back of what i thought was a number of strange selections (not dropping melk being one) wondering by goody I was wondering if his focus on relationships clouded his judgement sometimes. And iirc you said that was unlikely

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Well that support my arguments, not yours. The fact that that we had three players ranking so high in clearances suggests he did have a big influence. The predictably, or otherwise, of his tap work is largely a function of the set ups they design and practice in the preseason in training. Set ups designed by the mid field coaches. No point randomly hitting the taps to a spot if the mids don't know what he is planning to do. And maybe some of them 'aint too bright, and struggle to learn new patterns (jack says hi)?

Jeez you are being tough on Maxy AF. Sure his year wasn't as good as his last few but he was so far the best ruck man it is not funny. He played nearly 93% game time and almost all of that time in the ruck. Was smashed and physically targeted all year by opposition thugs, sorry rucks. Since the Port game carried at least two pretty serious injuries that we know off (and no doubt other niggles) - a lat tear and a PCL. The latter an injury that often means six weeks plus on the sidelines. Incredible he played as many games as he did, particularly given the travel schedule, compressed fixturing and that fact Goody barely gave him a chop out all season (by comparisons Nik Nat only played 69% game time and did much less travel). Was ranked 8th for average contested marks, with nearly two marks per game (as a comparison Nic Nat had 0.4 a game) and second most hit outs per game. In terms of influence, like most rucks (less so nic nat because he is he is different sort of player) he needs his mids to be switched on and have really effective systems in place by the coaches. With justification, you have been critical of both these elements at different times this year. If his mids get tackled immediately or don't give it off when they have a chance, or don't block an opposition player sharking his taps then his influence is diminished. Worked his guts out all season and in every game. One of the few dees players i saw who gritted his teeth and put every ounce of effort into games when they were eon the line. One of our few true leaders. And was a brilliant skipper to boot. In his first go as skipper, in an incredibly tough year. Fully deserves his AA spot. I'd make him captain.

Max was and is a far better than Natanui, a hugely over rated player.

Gawn clearly the best ruck man this year. Total lock. Trac also a lock

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More inappropriate touching?

If i recall correctly you said, in response to my concerns that his close relationships with players could potentially cloud Goody's judgment, that you didn't think that is likely.

This is the post truth, Trumpian world we now live in. Some peanut says something completely ridiculous. Not once, but over and over. So often in fact that it infects webland. And eventually, rather than just being ignored as rubbish should be, it has to be refuted. And refuting, or indeed even acknowledging it, lends it some perverse credibilty. There is no more obscene example that QAnon. And no more bizarre example of the Kafaeaque world we now live in when a sitting US president given the opportunity to denounce such a completely insane and dangerous conspiracy 'theory' says "i don't know much about them, but i've heard they like me'.

or 'i was watching a replay of your last game and one of the commentators said they love the ball in (insert Saad's or Salem's names here) hands. It made me laugh because you then turned it straight over and also they always say that about me too! Do they actually watch any of our games?'

That's exactly what i thought. Edmund seems to be implying he really got on the turps. Which i guess he could have the previous day and into, but he wasn't drunk obviously when he decided to leave the hub. Maybe something happened the previous day or night and he felt he needed to run away? Sounds as if he is in a bad head space. I'm sure the club will get around him, as they should.

If we took Perryman i would want him to be on a purely performance based salary. So when he was having a shocker at the G i could yell out: DON'T PAY THE PERRYMAN!!!

Blimey people like a pile on. How about we get the full facts, but based on what we have seen he has made a blue, but in isolation (pardon the lun) surely not one so grave we wouldn't offer him a contract next season. No worse than the blue made by spargo and kozzie, and i don't recall anyone saying we should let either of tbe go

You can add in self congratulation

Had a solid bet on dees over 39. I hope they don't showboat from here. Should be 3-4:more goals up as it is. Smash them redlegs

Some good points deanox. I would have to do a deeper dive but I have heard from different people bonus points have been helpful in rugby and even more so in netball. Your suggested rule changes def would help, assuming they could be paid. Players might simply get better at masking blocks for instance. You might need to give boundary umpires the ability to call them (or similar). As a rule, I'm agin rule changes. They usually never work as intended and always have unintended consequences. But if they are looking at rule changes two i reckon worth considering to increase scoring are making kicks 20 or 25 metres for a mark to be paid and no mark paid for kicks backwards inside the degensive 50 metre arcs. Both would make 'defence with ball in hand' tactics that are the key driver of low scores much more difficult to implement.

Agree. I'm surprised he's not in the side given opposition goals come overwhelmingly from smalls and mediums. Bringing jetts back in a pretty clear sign there are not too many other options. And I like his energy and attack on the ball carrier. But he is pretty limited and is another dee with sketchy foot skills.

sounds awesome. Is the jalapeno juice vinegar and if so do you just buy the pickled jalapeno in jars (i go through about a jar a month) and use its vinegar?

The capping rotations, even nor having any, have many supporters. But it won't work. One players are just getting fitter and fitter. And teams will look to draft players with huge tanks at the expense of footy skills. And two the coaches will just find other ways to rest their players. And some of those strategies will reduce not increase scoring, for example slowing the game right down, chipping it around your back half, create stoppage after stoppage et eyc

I am of the firm opinion that changing rules to create higher scoring games will never work. Mainly because coaches will always find a way to make the game more defensive because defence wins. Always has, always will. To be honest I'm not sure if I reckon we should try and create higher scoring game as the game looks after itself. But if we do want to orchestrate higher scores in my view the only effective way to do so is incentivise it with premiership points, eg 1 bonus point for 100 points. Coaches will still default to defence but have other tactical options to maximise the chance to make finals. Use the coaches rather trying to limit their impact though stupid rules that simply never work. Leaving aside the counter arguments (conditions, grounds etc etc) tonight's game will provide the perfect example of the difference to tactics an incentive to score creates. The giants have to make up 3% on the dogs to have a chance of making the finals tonight so really have to win by four plus goals. How will this impact on the tactics cameron employs tonight? He may not decide to be more aggressive and hope their standard settings get the job done. Or he might be more aggressive from the get go (eg get his defenders to press reallt high like both the dees and the giant di last week - resulting in high scoring). Or perhaps if ahead at 3 quarter time tell his players to throw caution to the wind and take on the corridor. And if the giants do win tonight Goodwin will face the same tactical conundrum. Lets say we know we need a 6 goal win. How best to engineer that? From a punting perspective tonights game lends itself to a good bet on the over tmp bet (the tmp line 117). As will the game tommorow if the giants win tonight.

Not sure i agree with that cdp. It is easy to fall into the trap of over rating certain players from other teams at least it is for me. I see the occasional game and snapshots of saad for example. And I see every game salem plays and are more attuned to any errors and poor bits of play. All that said I'd have them on par. And is suspect if salem went to market he would have a similar trade and salary value as saad.

This is the sequel. Like godfather two a rare example of the sequel being better.