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38 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

Crucially, I suspect when Steele says 'have a beer' he means have 'a' beer. Not like a 'gonna have a beer with the boys on saturday arvo' version of 'have a beer'.

18 minutes ago, TassieDevil said:

Could he outdo his Uncle Byron? Well on track - his work in traffic is superb.

i was a big byron fan, but koz went past him a long time ago.

6 hours ago, Demongirl35 said:

Any chance Goodwin can coach the Swans this week??

I'd rather he didn't actually given he has been credited as being a key driver of their new, hyper agressive ball movement that has the Swans playing such high scoring, dominant football.

As Director of Coaching and Performance at the Swans, Goodwin is responsible for 'team strategy, training implementation, and overall offense.'

On 04/04/2024 at 02:39, DEE fence said:

I’m going early with this but have been watching Chandler very closely this year and I see a different player to last year. I think he’s upped his endurance by about 15%. His pressure acts, and tackling have improved, and he remains brave as. I would very much like to see a proper I/V with him to get more of a sense of him, I’d like to believe he is a very decent young man. (Gus and Gawn he was hamming it up) 

To my point, he is ANB 2.0, lots of hard defensive running, role player, and I think we are quickly starting to rely on his defensive pressure, it is something about his effort that makes me think he has moved past a few on the list. I was genuinely nervous when he’s had some leg knocks as I don’t think he’s obvious replacements match him for defensive efforts.

For mine most improved player so far this season.

Oh and if he’d kicked that snap that hit the post in the opening qtr last week, I reckon he’d almost be in the votes, was a great bit of work that just missed.

I opened this thread - but obviously not for a year as it opened on the post above (my first unread post).

I read it initially thinking it was a recent post - and agreed with it.

You were you right then DF and your right now.

Like nibbla, chin has become a critical player - culturally, leadership wise and with his incredible running power and work rate to the game plan.

46 minutes ago, praha said:

Corporate boxes are overrated. Whenever I am in one I always find myself in the stand by the end of the game.

Is that your stand rule?

2 hours ago, Greg Schneider said:

At the moment he’s not even getting a contract for next year

D9nt draftees get a minimum 2 year contract?

3 minutes ago, DubDee said:

What was the attendance for last night?

64k

Is that panel buying, holding or selling shares in:

• Jeffo

• Laurie

• Adams

• XT

• Cross

• Henderson

Can the panel do a quick review of their preseason selections for breakout players and players under the pump.

2 minutes ago, thirty-one said:

I woke up at 5am worrying about Culley's knee.... Invested much? I'm a bit miffed that it is ANZAC Day and then there's a public holiday on Monday. It could be Tuesday before we get told anything.

Not in Victoria 31?

No public holiday here on Monday

54 minutes ago, WheeloRatings said:

Yep, of the 54 games this season that a player has had 25 hitouts, that was the third highest hitout to first possession conversion (69.2%) and fourth highest hitout to clearance conversion (53.8%).

Yet, it didn't translate into clearance or scores from stoppages dominance.

2 minutes ago, Swooper1987 said:

Impressive hit out to advantage figure for the big Moose.

Yeah, I thought that too. Didn't translate to dominating clearances, but impressiv nonetheless.

@WheeloRatings the quarter by quarter stats ate particularly useful for thus game as much of the data, in particular contested possession and ball winning equity points, is completely skewed by the blow out numbers in the last quarter.

Yze made that same point in his presser when he said their focus pre game was winning the contest and stoppages, which he noted they lager did for the first quarters.

They simply don't have the legs atm to play out games or quarters - reminds me of us last year (though we were never that far behindvthr 8 ball).

I made the point on the preview pod yesterday that having 12 best 22 out obviously hurts talent wise, but also running power and fitness wise.

But I also made the point, when running thru your match preview data, that we basically had the same average age and games played as them - something you wouldn't know watching the replay the way they kept talking about how young the tigers were

1 hour ago, Demonstone said:

I hope you don't work in a bar.

Or portoloos

1 hour ago, old dee said:

Some have been saying he is past it for 4 years. We have gone for a very fast backline this week. Let's see how that turns out, I would have preferred Toms sureness so lets see what happens.

It's all about leg speed and run od

9 minutes ago, Chook said:

I love winning, because all this dross about ex-players becomes fugazi. He's happy, we're happy, everyone's happy. A premiership was won, and we go our seperate winning ways.

Spot on

I honestly could not care a jot about tracc. He's not a dee anymore, and good luck to him that he's playing well for the suns.

C'est la dee.

3 hours ago, Dannyz said:

Been told they're SUPER keen to get Cross back in. If not this week, next.

Doesn't surprise me for three reasons.

One he looks super fit.

Two, he's genuinely quick

Three, he has a great leap and is surprisingly good aerially. Meaning when we bomb it into the forward line he can bring it ground.

All big ticks in terms of how King wants us to play.

Oh, and four - once added to our list King picked him after just the one VFL game.

5 minutes ago, Greg Schneider said:

Pretty ordinary footballer if we’re being honest. Not playing him over a few others.

Why do you think King did so before his injury then?

3 minutes ago, Deez21 said:

Riv has never denied to the club his desire to get home, but I believe marrying a Melbourne girl has put a halt on that. I believe from now it will depend on our management of him and giving him a clear cut role. Trains all summer in Midfield 2 years in a row and then not used there. It impacts performance.

That's not really true - yes Riv trained as mid in the previous two seasons, but he was given sufficient midfield minutes to determine if he's suited to the role. And IMO the conclusion is he isn't - particularly the way footy is being played in 2026.

The optimal centre square set up now is:

• one true inside mid, who often has some defensive responsibilities (not tagging per se, but defensive accountability) - Steele (with Sparrow providing the chop out) has as that spot sewn up atm

• two mids with genuine acceleration, who can get out the front of the stoppage and hit a target inside 50 - Koz is the exemplar of that role, and has one of those spots locked up and Windsor the other (has the speed, would love for him to improve his kicking)

Riv does not have the acceleration or kicking skills to play the latter role - and i can't see him replacing Steele or Sparrow in the inside mid role, particularly with Viney (hopefully) back at some point.

That leaves half back, or perhaps the tall winger role that Culley and Langford are playing.

I'm a Riv fan, but it might well be that trading him (perhaps for some high draft picks to provide some tassie insurance) at seasons end is the prudent call.

14 minutes ago, BoBo said:

Does Jiath come back in when fit?

I think so

15 minutes ago, Fat Tony said:

Stiff is a great name for a urologist though.

Really? I'd be more than a bit concerned visiting a urologist who was stiff

2 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

Thankfully he’s not our physiotherapist!

Stiff is not a great name for a psychologist either given it's hard open up to someone who's a bit stiff.

6 minutes ago, The Taciturn Demon said:

You could listen to Champion Data analysis. Or you could watch an octopus point to club logos with its tentacles. Both are arbitrary; one is at least entertaining.

Arbitrary?

Champion data's key stakeholders, and primary source of revenue, are the AFL clubs.

All of the data, stats and categories (eg speed of ball movement, pressure, player ratings etc etc) has been developed in response to what data AFL clubs have said they need to understand the game and increase their chance of winning a premiership.

Much of the data is available in real time during matches (watch fagans post match presser for evidence of that, and the stock AFL clubs put in Champion data stats)

That's almost literally the opposite of arbitrary.

2 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

The boys are coming out now.

At the risk of resurrecting JuddGate, Spaz said he’s staying put.

PSA

All rational DL posters GW included, understand that Sparrow might still choose to leave at year's end.

38 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Agree. Don't think it helped his cause that the club were pumping up expectations that he was one of the players likely to get games early, from the moment we drafted him. Maybe there's a lesson in that.

Really?

Alternatively, Goody deserves much credit for gifting Kolt games he didnt deserve to fast track Kolt's development and getting critical AFL experience into him, and by doing so putting the club and Kolt's interst ahead of his own.