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For the season I think that was. The article is referring to the first 6 rounds. Given of the 6 teams we've played only the roos and bombers won't make finals it's probably not far off the mark in terms of the difficulty of the draw.

C'mon OD, surely you know progress is not linear for young players, particularly for key forwards. Kids a jet.

Agree. He"s not fast, but he'll get bigger and stronger, and with a couple more preseasons quicker too - particularly from a standing start. Kid will be a beast. But he IS quick of mind. Really good decision maker, doesn't blaze away and lke the very best players has time with ball in hand. His goal was a good example Of what I mean. Was already set up for hooking the ball around his body when he received the ball. By the by that was an appalling defensive error to leave him by himself at a stoppage.

Tackles are just one element of pressure. JVR, who by the by is a jet, was probably dropped for form more than his lack of pressure, but nonetheless still has poor in that regard. Friiter's form was poor AND his pressure was hopeless Round one JVR: 30 Fritter: 29 Round two JVR: 20 Fritter: 11 Round three JVR: 19 Fritter: 23 Round four JVR: 19 Fritter: 20 Round five JVR: 17 Fritter: 28 Thus far this season, JVR is averaging 21 pressure points and Fritter 22.2 By way of comparison, our other forwards season averages are: Chandler 38.2 Koz 33.7 Sparrow 33.5 Spargo 23.5 (note: includes a game as sub, he had 33 pressure points against Freo) Melksham 18

100% agree ATG. IMO, half back is his best spot, in large part because it best uses his ability to get territory with run and carry and the good depth he gets with his kicking. The other factor is he doesn't have the kicking skills to be an outside mid so is fighting for a spot as inside mid with Clarry, Trac, Viney and the Bison - and their best position is inside mid (ie we'd be robbing peter to pay Paul to reduce their midfield minutes to accommodate a player who plays their best footy at HB).

If they are the metrics for assessing Spargo's performance, i'd respectfully suggest your assessment of his impact in the game is well and truly off base. All week Goody talked about our need to improve our intensity and pressure, particularly up forward. He subsequently dropped two forwards, i suspect in large part because they were not applying enough pressure. I went to the game, but have since watched the Fox replay, including the pre-game analysis, during which they banged on about Goody promising we would come out with more intensity and fire. My point is that the coaching staff's starting point for assessing a player's performance, particularly forwards, would be whether they brought the heat and applied pressure And on THAT metric, Charlie was outstanding - in addition to being part of a forward line that had season high inside 50 tackle count he had the: 5th most pressure acts (of the forwards only Sparrow had more 15-14) 6th most pressure points (of the forwards, again only Sparrow had more 37-33) Equal 4th most tackles (of the forwards, equal most with Sparrow and Kolt) (Note: pressure points are the weighed sum of pressure acts. Physical pressure acts are worth 3.75 points, closing acts are worth 2.25 points, chasing acts are 1.5 points and corralling are 1.2. ( https://www.championdata.com/glossary/afl/ ) Leaving aside his terrific pressure, given he is a forward it's reasonable to judge him on his contribution to the scoreline. On that front, whilst he only scored a point, he did have the equal fourth most score involvements (Max had 12, Koz 10, Trac 8 and Charlie had 7, as did Viney and Melksham). Of the forwards, only Koz had more score involvements. But seven of Koz's score involvements were the 5.2 he kicked, meaning outside that he only had three other score involvements, whereas as Spargs had six (he kicked a point).

Two players who have been applying very little pressure inside 50 being dropped also coincides season high tackles inside 50 numbers - a key element of our win discussed by both coaches in their pressers.

I think it's Steph currie's three point sign, which would be appropriate given he flushed it from outside the arc

And very much unlike the first 5 games our last quarter's pressure rating was our highest for the game. That's the first time that's been the case. Good signs Team pressure Quarter For Agn Diff 1 189 174 +15 2 185 159 +26 3 179 160 +19 4 195 163 +32 Match 187 164 +23

I wore dees socks as well.

This is something I just don't get. People want us to play aggressive transition footy with quick ball movement like the best teams currently do. But the problem, and key weakness, of that game plan is it impossible not to risk giving up goals on the counter. Can't have our cake and eat it too. And besides, our bacline was missing two All Australian defenders, the twin pillars of of our backline. It was a brilliant defensive effort today I thought, particularly in the last quarter when Freo were coming and mutiple defenders made potentially game saving spoils and tackles.

Controversial is not the word that comes to mind.

I heard there was a problem with the delivery of the eggs and none were found inside 50

'Yearn go be taken seriously by the football world'? That's one of the funniest things I've ever read on dl. Brilliant. By the by, I yearn to take the football world seriously.

Oh no, we've become a banana peel team! Next stop King's birthday is our GF.

Omac's selection brought a football related smile to my face for the first time in weeks. Love it. Seriously impressive effort to get back playing AFL footy after being delisted and copping not one, but two very serious, long term injuries. Respect.

I thought it was a good move selecting him because we need his kickong skills (though it made little sense to make him a sub). But agree, he's not been great. Goody flagged changes - I'll be fascinated if he follows through and who he brings in (surely Brown comes in given his terrific pressure at Casey)

Which highlights one of the problems of not dropping players when they should be dropped.

I'd stick with - geez our jumper is the best. Great colours.

The crazy thing is as furious as i was, and still am, about our performance lsd5 week, I'm starting to get excited about going to the footy on Saturday. As always, we'll know 10 minutes in if we've come to play. My mood will revert very quickly if the answer we haven't. I picked the wrong season to start following the spurs.

True 'nuff.

This has been one if the most noticeable aspects - where are all the leads from our forwards, medium and talls? It was particularly evident in the bombers game given they went small with selection. Leaving aside the inanity of that decision, why weren't the smalls and mediums going crazy making lead after lead? It did my head in watching us constantly kicking long to mediums and smalls, in most cases out numbered ones at that - surely that wasn't the plan? And jvr seems to have stopped making any leads altogether. Just wants to wrestle.

Yep, excellent points. A problem for us though is there's not 140 playerspaid paid more than clarry.

Not an unreasonable perspective.

At the risk of contradicting myself, clarry has clearly worked his backside off in terms of his fitness. The reality elite fitness is iterative and any elite athlete who missed 6 months of training, as was the case for clarry in 2023 into 2024, will take 18 months minimum t8 get back to their optimal condition- assuming I'd course they do thr work. All the track reports, amd my own observations at training, highlighted how hard clarry worked in the preseason. But he's still got a ways to go and alot of sort in front of him