La Dee-vina Comedia

How very self-aware. Me? I've been stuck in the denial stage since 1965.

There was wind? I'm in the "leafy eastern suburbs" and there hasn't been a breath of the stuff all day.

Preuss was diabolical up forward last week but was handy as a tap ruckman. Unfortunately, Smith offered very litte up forward last night and absolutely nothing on ball. In my view, we may have won last night if we had Preuss, Weideman or T McDonald as the second ruckman. So, although he's only been out one week, I would bring back Preuss (particularly as the stats of the Casey game suggests he had a monster game). C Wagner isn't up to it and not worth persevering with, so I would also suggest he should be omitted. Baker and Petty were also poor last night, but have a future so could be persevered with, although a swap of Baker for Lockhart might be worthwhile. In should be Preuss and Melksham (if ready, if not, Lockhart). Plus May if he's ready. Out: T Smith, C Wagner plus O McDonald if May returns and J Wagner if Hore is back.

6. Gawn 5. Oliver 4. Petracca 3. Harmes 2. Frost 1. Lever Every one of the above has played better games than they played last night and all made mistakes or were poor in patches, but in my view, they were still better the remaining 16 players.

I hope you could see I'd written it using sarcasm font.

Ignore the presser. It's what he says to the players privately that matters.

Imagine sacking your coach and making finals in the same year.

Demonland haiku

Seems appropriately worded.

Confirmed. https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-07-25/get-ready-for-ejx-legends-game-gets-new-format-and-new-home

There's some weird logic going on here. Usually the concern is when someone leaves an organisation in a worse state than when they found it. But blaming someone for events that occurred after they leave and for which they cannot possibly be held accountable is, well, bizarre. It's like saying it's John Lennon's fault that The Beatles never reformed after he was shot.

I have never believed that people booed Goodes for staging. Rather, I have always believed that people claimed they booed Goodes for staging to avoid having to admit that the booing they participated in was racist. (You will note I have deliberately phrased the above to say that the individuals themselves may not have realised that what they did was racist.)

This is just a guess, but I suspect concussion symptoms are completely unpredicatble with no way of assessing any likely timeframe. In other words, players have concussion symptoms until they don't. If I'm right, KK is listed as TBC because he's not yet right and there's no way of knowing when he will be. It doesn't have to mean that he's "done"...but until he's over the symptoms we also can't rule out the possibility that he may not play again.

I thought this thread was going to be about useless Demons rather than useless statistics. It's marginally more interesting than what I was expecting. Just.

Didn't I just read that Shaun Smith has criticised the organisation of the 2019 EJ Whitten Game for converting it to AFL-X in format? I've always believed that there's a place for AFL-X, but this isn't it. I see it as a simplistic game played overseas as a way of accommodating amateur players, where there are smaller numbers playing (so it allows for reduced team sizes) playing on rectangular fields. But I wouldn't care if it died a nautural death, either.

I like the subtle recognition. Compares favourably with the sometimes overblown criticism of the CEO in this thread and elsewhere.

Just what we need. An excuse for the players to fall back on for their poor set shot goalkicking technique.

I like the way you appear to describe Boomer Harvey as apparently having "key position size"! Nevertheless, as always, a well-expressed opinion supported by clear explanation.

Also, St Kilda only plays one ruckman, so we don't lose by using stop-gap as our second ruck.

I can accept the criticism that his poor disposal was the cause of the problem; but it's not correct in my view to say it was because he didn't run back hard enough.

Gary Ablett Jr? Or would you argue that he's not slow? Mind you, I agree with your post overall.

Didn't "his man" get the "go ahead goal" following a bad turnover? If that's correct, Brayshaw had presumably run off "his man" because we were in an offensive play and it was "his man" who could easily have been criticised for "not running back hard enough" if Brayshaw had ended up being involved in our forward momentum.

Made me laugh...I can't imagine Preuss as a forward ever playing on anyone but a smaller opponent.

It's not that hard to understand...once someone under the age of 20 explains it to you (speaking from experience). Think of it this way: If you'd tipped the team in 9th position every week this year, your tip would have been right 12 times out of 16 games. On the other hand, if you'd tipped team that was second on the ladder every week this year, you would have only got that tip right 4 times out of 15 games.

Based on that statement, I have to assume you'd be happy to trade Gawn.