Tarax Club

For those wishing for a bit of local colour. The adjacent island of Nusa Penida has the Pura Dalem Penetaran Ped temple, within which there is a shrine for a Balinese Demon. It is amongst other things a place of pilgrimage for those seeking a safe return journey. Serendipitously for the man rescued Goody was there. An offering at the temple may be in order.

AMW’s Category B classification? Can eliminate the first possibility played his junior footy with Nightcliff FC in the NT AFL. Although he may have given rugby league a go for a time as a number of kids do in the top end. There is a sizable East Timorese community here in Darwin and Moniz fits the family name profile. A mate coached him at Nightcliff in a premiership season. Praised him for his determination and football talent. If he has the appropriate work ethic and opportunity with luck goes his way would love to see him get a guernsey. Has a serious hint of X factor but needs to be more consistent IMO.

So it’s Curtain’s for Caddy…

Is Deep Thought pondering the Kye Turner conundrum too?

Pleased to see a groundswell of backing the young bloke has emerged. Those members of the geek chorus who seem too ready to shout half-arsed ill informed inanities from behind the mask of an anonymous facade. Come across like a bunch of third form boys still in shorts.

Post this in the family album than. Welcome to the vampire apocalypse.

Shane may be just the jigsaw piece needed to complete the forward puzzle. Enigma to some of course but a great western in the tradition of Stand off at the Corvid Corral.

AFL in their omniscience created the draft. Lesser ‘equals’ at Struggle aka Arden Street have a cargo cult lead by high priests Clarkson, Viney and Rawlings. Meanwhile… In the more salubrious surroundings of Jolimont Terrace. A messiah cult has again re-emerged with a growing number idolatrous adherents seen fervently worshipping the mysterious “No. 1.” Understandably DL is a broad church, but will the moderators ensure a modicum of common sense prevails? Or will it be necessary to call in the Inquisition to purge these heretics so equilibrium can again be re-stored?

Meanwhile in a parallel universe Ben Tom and Jack saddle up for a great season at Casey.

Sound thinking. As the old adage suggests “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket!” Then again ‘you can’t make an omelette without cracking eggs.’

Well somebody’s got to own it…

Those advocating a radical change of direction may be right after the notoriety of “the double” (straight set finals exits). But be careful not to throw out the ‘baby’ with the bathwater.

Congratulations Axis of Bob, a pleasure to read a well thought out and logical post. The current vogue for reams of often dubious data accompanied by near meaningless psycho-footy babble, needs some serious backwash. James Harmes’s diagonal foot pass to Bayley Fritisch in the 2021 GF. Rightly deserves legendary status as one quality kick to premiership glory. Efficacy with efficiency seamlessly.

Deakyn Smith. Must feel confused, a multi-award winning exit with recognition at both Casey and MFC. IMO has shown he has AFL attributes. Deserves an opportunity elsewhere. It’s a hard game.

Given the demographic of the Woods premiership team, still a glimmer of opportunity out there for Jake to fulfill his AFL dream. Will be cheering him on.

Referring to Simon v Garfunkel 1969 (visually) "Still, a man sees what he wants to see. And disregards the rest." Appreciate the reference to Edward Tufte, but the AFL graphic is not in the same football park or within a bull's roar of Minard's Carte Figurative. Nebulous comes to mind, I'll stick to sculpture.

So you're prepared to put the ruler thru Euler? My understanding a graph should communicate a summary of the information (data) succinctly and simply as possible. Allowing the reader to ideally correctly interpret the 'data' with relative ease. Pleased you've been able to glean some useful information from the 'graph' but to my eye the boys and girls at Champion Data or whoever put the graph together moonlight at Bernard's in Elizabeth Street. old55 your moniker suggests 'old school' so I'm going to cut you some slack... the horizontal or x axis is the independent variable or time. The vertical or y axis is the dependent variable ? (wave a magic wand over that).

If this is the future of an enjoyable day at the footy good luck. Just about need a pHD in graphical analysis to begin to make any sense of it. Where to begin? The y axis (vertical) is ... and the x axis (horizontal) is… Parabolic curves, independent,dependent and controlled variables and outliers. Lines of best fit, plot points... Think of all the homework required.

SCC will suit JJ, expect his field kicking to immediately gain penetration. Lovely if the Swans repay the meat and potato largesse, (throw in Brody Grundy as steak knives). With one of their plethora of up and coming young tall forwards.

Straighten up And fly right Demons

Fire up Demons!

“Dreamed l was an Eskimo… Don’t eat the yellow snow…”

This is pivotal 666 replies to this topic. Is there a reckoning in the wings? (the devil made me do it).

Score sheet from the night has Gawn 5 goals. It was a remarkable performance from a 2.08 m ruckman. One goal was due to a handball receive from the centre bounce. One goal after Max marked within the 50 metre arc played on and kicked it around the corner from CHF. One goal when Max received a free kick from about 20 metres in front of goal. One goal from deep in the forward pocket where Max took the ball from a boundary throw in. One goal from a mark close to goal. It was the best performance l can recall from a ruckman in the forward line. Amongst a decreasing number of options up forward l’d expect this scenario to be considered by the FD.

In big Finals there has on occasion been unexpected selection/positional moves which have blindsided the opposition. (BMT of course!) Jack Mueller’s recall in ‘48 is the stuff of football legend. Max has goal kicking form in finals, who could forget the ‘21 Preliminary final where he gave the sCats five of the best?