binman

Just watched it - absolutely brilliant. Love it I haven't watched any of his videos before - I'll watch them all now. I learnt more in those 27 minutes than i have in every game or replay I've watched this season combined That's exactly the sort of analysis that should happen during games and at quarter breaks.

Based on what- the decent crowds we've had this year? We get enough ill informed rubbish from the media about crowd size without fans feeding misinformation too.

All while struggling with personal issues off field. A case can be made that he us our greatest ever skipper.

I'd go with:

I'd prefer he went with this version of The Guns of Brisbane:

He actually mentioned that they don't get many easy kicks to pad their stats, to the contrary they are taking on high risk kicks under pressure.

I heard hoyne say on sen that 8 of the top 10 rated kicks are half back flankers. Shows how important it us to have elite kicks behind tge all in terms od both creating scoring chains, but perhaps even more importantly not turning it over taking on high risk kicks that create scoring g chains (eg yo the corridor). Windsor is a weak link atm re: kicking skills, but great to have Mcvee back and Bowey playing so well. And tmac is generally excellent by foot too.

No. See Maxy's last quater heroics in our three consecutive wins for evidence.

Mcvee

I'd be shocked if melk doesn't go around next year. He looks as fit as ive ever seen him, he us driven and he plays a role that doesn't involve the sort of running other foreards might have to do.

Not an extra forward, we just kept all our forwards forward instead of bringing say a half forward flank up to stoppages. At least we were in the first 3 quarters - they mentioned we brought extras to tge stoppages in the last, perhaps to take advantage of maxy's dominance, which we hadn't for the first 3 quarters. By the by I'm just going off a couple of random comments from thecommentary team. Irs all but impossible to work that stuff out watching on TV. It infuriates me how ridiculously basic the coverage of the game is. I mean they have a special comments person, a boundary rider and access to al thr data and vision they could possibly need and they can't do things like: show the set ups at each centre bounces (eg a box in the corner with visuals and names the way they do in cricket to show the field), analyse the stoppages and use vision to explain things like what bringing an extra to a stoppage look like and why clubs might do so Show vision of individual players and their running patterns Use drone shots to show how zones are set up structurally and maintained, and how they work (or not as the case may be) Provide analysis, with accompanying vision, to explain things like how pressure impacts thegame, what transtion football involves, key stats coaches would be focused ok in game (eg post clearance possessions), provide vision to explain how individual stats are defined (eg what a contested possession is - it's flat out ridiculous how even commentators confuse disposals and possessions - what hipe do fans have) etc etc etc Unpack the tactics of each side Use the down the ground, behind the goals shot more often to show running patterns and structures Anything else that helps fans understand the game, one of the most complex elite sports in the world Its ridiculous the coverage of the game on TV has basically been unchanged for 30 years. Compare the coverage to test match cricket, NFL, NBL and MBL. Chalk and cheese. Tame cricket- I consider myself very knowledgeable about test cricket, behind footy irs my great sporting passion. But every time I watch it I learn something new. And the use of stats really adds value - particularly the granular stats like say a player's average against a particular bowler or bowling type (wg left hand wrist spinners).

For ultra old school, it's still 2004 go to afl.com:

Melk 100% meant it. It was brilliant- he knew he just had to get into space and was able to execute. Bybthe by, the dart he kicked on his left to Sparrow in the corridor was a thing of beauty. I thought Melksham gave Andrews a bath. Andrew showed him no respect playing so aggressively in front. That contest was a big factor in the result.

Kid is a total gun. And in 2-3 years time he'll be a pretty big unit whi I can def see going thru the middle.

Oh, I assumed it was to clean the players shorts after [censored] ting themselves in front of goal again

The Casey best tells a rather disappointing tail, wiry not one of the three players dropped featuring: CASEY DEMONS Hardie Howes Billings Brown Smith Bonner

Go redleggers!

One of the most ridiculous things I've heard this year is two Demons fans calling into senior after our win over the tigers furiously calling for goody to he immediately replaced as senior coach by choco Williams. Blokes supposedly our kicking coach and in my 50 yearsof supporting the dees I don't think I can remember a list that accross the board is so woeful at kicking.

I've wathed the last 25 mins and thought exactly the same thing. I'm a big kolt fan but he's gone down in my estimation. i realise thats a big call given its only a quarter of footy, and he'll learn, but I put a huge stock in players who get dropped but don't drop their head. Made worse by the fact that goody gave him mutiple games to prove himself and he gave goody nothing. Wear the red and the blue and effort is 100% non negotiable.

Is he? Came back from mid preseason break overweight, ruining his preseason. Remains overweight and is a total head case that other teams are winding up for fun. Doesn't sound much like a winner to me.

Pracis?

Agree.aq

I don't think AJ will be sub. Fritter wouldn't be a crazy choice. Ia also a bit inflexible position wise but not as bad as AJ. And he could cover a tall or medium forward.

I can't see rhe logic in bringing in AJ and making him sub given they dropped JVR- who is going to bevtge second ruck? Leaving that aside he can only really play forward or on the ruck, so doesn't offer much positional flexibility as a sub.