Demon Dynasty

Looked to be a very proud and kind natured fella if that photo's anything to go by Uncle. His name?

Two bear cubs! You're probably a bit young to recall these two but our bears kinda fit the bill. I can see them enjoying a picnic as long as there's plenty of honey snacks! No i didn't know that Jaded. How uncanny is that. Our pup's haircuts can also get pretty scruffy and out of hand at times. A good match up for Clarry's very stylish do!

Meet Ollie Bear the cavoodle. Mini poodle with the olde prince charles. Recruited roughly about the same time as Clarry. Had early overweight issues but has since blossomed into a K9 super star... Bear because we sometimes wonder whether he is one or not. Loves to hibernate during winter months and only likes to venture out in warmer weather. His favourite snacks are two crusty corners off my early morning toast and anything biscuity (water crackers!). He thinks he's a bit tough around big dogs (which is most other dogs) until things get a bit rowdy then he's like 'what the' and exits stage left. This is his Demon V jacket...

My understanding is this had nothing to do with what happened in the game and that this toe jam stuff is merely a cover. Apparently he got wind of the MRO crappa on Sparrow and hunted Christian down. Pssst....this hasn't gotten out of the four walls yet so mum's the word!

My understanding was Macca missed last week's Casey game due to a latent ankle issue from a week or so before. Doubt he would've gotten up? Haven't seen anywhere in this last week that BBB has had a comtinuation of a slight niggle about two weeks ago (i think). If he's right to play Casey this week then he'd be straight in surely

BBB is a chance i thought?

Didn't listen to much 60s pop Mr Leg? (apologies to McQueen et al in advance...back to topic promise!!)

Some comfort food after that door-in the-face rejection WCW. Hopefully this helps you to forget & move on with your next banner build! ...

SPC bit of respect when responding to Jordy pls

Agreed but you might want to say that to a stack of other posts as well Steve that aren't on topic

Below is a season v season comparison of Sparrow's averages on a few metrics. It should be noted that these are publicly available stats only and many, as mentioned above, are flawed to various degrees of severity. Take no notice of some of the massive percentage gains, such as marks inside 50, which are just mathematical outcomes due to a very low figure from 2022. Also contested marks et al. If anyone needs a legend i can post that separately but hopefully the abbreviations should be mostly self explanatory. Looking at some of those numbers, it would seem Tom might be being asked to play more of an outside-mid role (less clearances, less contested, more uncontested)? And possibly being asked to run back a little more often to support (rebounds up somewhat, inside 50s down a tad)? His average game time is up a fair amount but off a fairly low figure in 2022. #32 T Sparrow 2022 2023 % Change CP 6.62 5.00 -24.5 UP 10.00 12.56 25.6 ED* 12.10 13.22 9.3 DE% 74.99 76.12 1.1 CM* 0.14 0.11 -22.2 Mi50* 0.14 0.56 288.9 1%* 1.43 1.67 16.7 CL* 2.62 1.56 -40.6 R50* 0.86 1.78 107.4 i50* 3.10 2.56 -17.4 T* 3.48 3.89 11.9 Si* 3.90 4.22 8.1 MG 238.76 290.44 21.7 TO* 3.43 3.00 -12.5 ITC* 1.86 2.00 7.7 T5* 0.43 0.67 55.6 TOG% 68.33 74.33 6.0 G* 0.29 0.56 94.4 DD's Player Rating 2.66 3.01 13.1 * Indicates metric is used for Player Rating

It's not an ideal indicator Jimmy for sure. I would say probably a VERY rough guide between players you're comparing like with like in terms of position / role being played but to be taken with a grain of salt if not. However even then, who nowadays plays a role/position that is super similar to another player? Maybe the ruck, FB, FF and the two wingers? That is debatable also. As you mentioned it also doesn't take into account the degree of difficulty and pressure factors so you have to be super careful when comparing two players with this one. The best metric going about is the 'Kick Rating' from Champion data which does take into account pressure, degree of difficulty using their 'Expected Hit Rate' (EHR) as well as the type of kick being made (short vs long). Unfortunately, we have no access to that. Here's their explanation as well as the EHR that feeds into that rating... Kick Rating: The difference between a player’s expected hit rate and actual hit rate. A negative kick rating indicates a player is not executing the kicks as well as the competition average and a positive kick rating shows a player is hitting the target more often than the competition average. Expected Hit Rate: Used the calculate the difficulty of a kick by looking at how often, on average, any player in the competition managed to hit their target when attempting a type of kick. Kick types are determined by combining the intent, distance and direction of the kick, along with how much pressure the player was under at the time. The one stat we do have access to though is AFL's kicking efficiency % which i assume is just the % of effective vs non-effective garnered from the stat below... Effective Kick: The sum of effective short kicks, effective long kicks and effective ground kicks. Effective Long Kick: A kick of more than 40 metres to a 50/50 contest or better for the team. Effective Short Kick: A kick of less than 40 metres that results in the intended target retaining possession. At this point in time Sparrow in 2023 is travelling at 65.8% (kicking efficiency) vs 62.4% in 2022. However, this still doesn't break down the short vs long components. We also don't have the AFL averages by position which you would need in order to see where he is at vs other players playing a similar role in the comp trying to pull off similar kicks under similar pressure. Again we are stymied by not being able to drill down and see this data to truly know these things. We are left to judge by the eyes only and hence differences of opinion occur as they are mostly subjective judgements. Some more accurate than others but no real way of telling either way in many cases due to the above restrictions for us punters. Obviously the clubs have access to all the juicy bits and will have a much better idea of how the boys are travelling.

So am i correct in saying an umpire didn't report him for this in game?

Pretty much sums up the interpretation of most rules now. The AFL has created its own version of chooklotto.

Mathematically the more time we put into Grundy in the middle the less in game practice is happening between Maxy and the core group yes? Does this have the potential to break down the cohesion and reads off the tap/taps to advantage between the better Max option (only my opp) little by little? I should point out only IF we take it too far. Some should be fine if Grundy plays his part and some cohesion starts happening under pressure. But is it starting to gel? And is it gelling enough to hold up against rated mid set ups? Im still not convinced it is...so far. That could change of course as the season progresses. The end result (and a potential danger as a whole) might be that both options become a B rated version of the former (ie; mostly Max) which was up there as our 1 wood in 2021. Most likely i am wrong on this but it has crossed my mind. In particular afrer watching the 3rd quarter (twice) against the Hawks. The Grundy version was pantsed from the get go, pretty much the entire time during his stint and the rot set in. We only started to arrest and turn it back our way once Max was switched in later in the third. If anyone has any doubts on this do yourself a favour and watch the third quarter 666s again. It was like switching off a tap and slowly turning it back on again (pre/post Max)

...."Wherever thou art wherever thou be, always let thy wind go free. For the holding of the wind was the death of me"...

Johnson to kick two for my multi ...get him back near the goals FCS!

Great hands Hogan. No more pls or my multi's done

Best call of the Round ... push in the back there. Congrats ump!!!

Flynn's a big lump of a lad (always wanted to say that)

Kinsgley after seeing that pressure rating...

I still think Bedford will be a very handy small forward given another pre-season and a decent go at this level. Would've tried to hang on to him for another season or two if it was poss