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Heart and soul. His critical defensive effort inside the bombers' 50 late in the first that started a scoring chain, ending with koz's goal was so important.

Credit to McKay. They would have been list without him. A thought experiment. Imagine taking draper and Merrett out of the bombers team tonight (the equivalent of gawn and tracc).

He was just brilliant. Gave Skinner a complete bath.

Thoughts on the non selection of a ruck?

Indeed. I expected we would win. So certainly not against the odds from where I sit.

That was bizarre umpiring in the last 5 minutes. For example the bombers throwing the ball all night and they pluck one out of nowhere against rivers.

Go redleggers!

Good game of footy

And what about those swannies? Lose a couple and people are wondering if they have come back to the pack....

Go doggies. The 13 point line was my best bet of the round. A long way to go yet (it's 3 quarter time), but they look the better, and fresher, team atm.

It's so weird that the dees and the giants also had tragic downfalls at the same stage of the season as the cats, and also appear to be turning things around. Just a crazy coincidence I guess.

Snap.

What will your reply be if we win and break even in the ruck? Admit you were wrong and give goody credit?

It's funny you should say that. I've been really crook with a cold for the last couple of days and been stuck on the couch. In between reading a crime novel and watching dees games I've been scrolling news a aggregator sites etc on my phone. Its insane how many 'articles' are clearly AI generated. They have a weird, distinctive style with clunky phrases. They read like a first year high school essay. It's funny how an author's name is always included.

No, there is a disconnect here. And it relates to how a team's total metres gained is calculated. My understanding it is simply all the team's players metres gained added up to arrive at a total. Tbe differential between the two teams is the difference between those two totals Metres gained, or lost, are not added or subtracted from the opposition. They are completely independent of each other. So let's say a player only has two possessions for the match. The first he wins a ground ball, runs 10 metres and kicks it 40 metres toward out goal he is credited with 50 metres gained. The second he wins a ground ball, runs 10 metres towards the opponents goal and kicks it 30 metres towards the opponents goal. He is credited with minus 40 metres. His total metres gained for match is 10 metres. And let's say hypothetically all 23 players do exactly the same ie 1 possession goes forward 50 metres and one goes backwards 40 metres. That team's total metres gained for the match is 23 x 10 = 230 metres gained. And let's say the opponents 23 players also have two possessions, but the metres gained and lost are reversed. That team's total metres gained for the match is 23 x-10 = -230 metres gained. Therefore the differential for the fitst team is +460. Perhaps the confusion is I am talking about total, or net metres gained, not effective metres gained, which factor in turnover. That's because net metres gained is what wheelo includes in his stats summary of each game. And far as I'm.aware effective metres gained are not publicly available

I'm happy to be proven wrong, but i don't think that is correct, My understanding is as follows: Each time a player gets the ball anwhere on the ground they can: - get tackled and not move the ball anywhere: zero metres gained. - run and carry toward their goal: metres gained = how far they run in a straight line towards their goal - kick the ball toward their goal. metres gained = length of the kick - handball the ball toward their goal. metres gained = length of the kick - run and carry and kick or handball the ball towards their goal: metres gained combined measure BUT they also have metres lost if any of those actions go towards their opponents goal, ie backwards. Which is why you sometimes see a player with negative metres gained. Players kick, run, and handball backwards all the time, and some teams do so more often than others. For example the pies love to feed handballs backwards into space. My understanding is a team's total metres gained is simply each players' metres gained aggregated. (I'm sure @WheeloRatings can clarfy). If that's the case, and im not having a brain fade, then it's got nothing to do with goals or points kicked (other than the scenario where one team kicks way more points than their opponent because by defintion each kick has to go forward). And your hypothetical scenario doesn't hold. Again, if my understanding of how the team total is calculated is correct, it is a arguably more useful stat than individual players metres gained as it helps in understanding a team's method. For example, in 2020 to 2023 we were a forward half territory team that prioritised going forward with each possession. Consequently we always had high metres gained. Whereas the Eagles 2018 team kicked the ball backwards all the time to keep possession and control the ball, and consequently were low low metres gained team. Ditto for the cats under Scott until the last 3 seasons. And it's also my understanding that winning metres gained differential strongly correlates with the likelihood of winning. Which is why the territory game hardwick developed has become the template for footy.

Strange hill to die on - a young player at another club is improving I tells ya.

Some of your best work cranky.

Zero chance they are Prodee. That's an insult to my old sparring partner (who by the by is now posting as gator).

I'm looking at the stats you provided a link to. And from those stats the best you can provide of evidence he has improved is kicks, kicking efficiency, disposals inside 50, metres gained, ground ball gets, inside 50 marks, more shots on goal, goal assists, tackles, pressure acts, spoils, one percenters? The player ratings are by far the best measure of a players performance level. His player rating has dropped significantly. By the by, JVRs rating has also dropped this season, albeit only slightly - 7.3 on 2023 and 6.99 this season. Anyway, whether Amiss had improved or not this season, he is a good young player who will become an excellent one. So not sure why you are feeling the need to argue. Let's leave it here.

For pete's sake, did you even read those stats? Sheesh. Last season his player rating was 7.21 and this season it is 4.73. And there is barely a single stat he had improved. For example his numbers for marks, contested marks and goals - stats I assume you agree are kpis for a KPF - are all down this season. In fact based on his numbers you could make a case that not only had he not improved, hes gone backwards Feels like you are arguing for arguing sakes.

He hasn’t improved this season. His goal kicking accuracy has fallen off a cliff for example. Agree he will improve. Plenty of upside. Like jvr he's still a kid and development isn't linear.

And jvr kicked 4 last week. So what? Both are good young forwards, hence the comparison And you'd hope a third year player would improve. Ditto for jvr - who is also a third year player. Not sure what relevance petty's performance against freo has vis a vis a discussion about the best young forwards.

Impressive number for roey. Good evidence to support my opinion he is the best 21 and under key forward in the game. And arguably the best young key forward full stop. On that front, preseason i compared his numbers with Amiss, Logan McDonald and Ugle-Hagen. He had all covered at the same point in their career. And of that group, jvr is the only one of that group who has subsequently improved.

It's totally nuts the amount of hand wringing on here about the non selection of a kid who is two years away from being AFL ready and an ex basketballer who could only manage 19 games accross 3 seasons at the lions, is not even the main ruck at VFL level (he only averages 11.6 hit outs - by way of contrast majak daw averaged 26) and has been in the best in the maggoos no more than 2-3 times.