Undeeterred

If we don't win this, I genuinely can't see where we will get another win until after QB... Also just sayin'.

Maybe. But he's also one of the players in the league I'd back to kick a winning goal from the boundary line (like, eg, the sealer against GC in Round 1)

Not sure if you're being serious, but he kicked a bag for Casey two years ago with precisely the same approach.

Just lazy and sexist, mate. Do better.

I repeatedly have to correct the basketballer = sook shorthand that people here seem to get off on as well...

Yes, but I think what has been demonstrated is that, actually, it doesn't need to be worked on.

I think we all need to stop demanding that Watts be something he's not, and start celebrating the fact that he is smart enough to ride out a contest he's not going to win, then has the presence of mind to whip it off a guy running past into an open goal.

This will be the difference between them limping into the 8 with 11 or so wins and finishing 12 with 7-9, I reckon.

Excellent, excellent post with analysis of a quality we rarely see around here.

Ludicrous.

Gee Geelong just know how to get it done, which will save them from total meltdown this year.

You are a dead set peanut.

Thank Christ you're not in charge.

gee that is fantastic vision. Bernie must absolutely hate him - very lucky he didn't connect with that elbow though.

Yes, but 'every time' is, well, just once.

Me too.

It's just one guy with a relatively minor injury in the scheme of things - it isn't the end of the world and it certainly isn't anywhere near how bad our injury list has been in previous years!

Was that the one we were up by about 45 points and beat them by 3 or something?

Sorry, my poor taste.

Brilliant. Thanks for that. Do you do workstation assessments for a living?

Ba doom, ching

That's just an unconscious bias in that you notice them more. We have injuries to VFL players all the time

That was my shorthand response to your exposition about how hard the players' lives are. You've said the players work 8am-5pm most days, with a day off. Let's take the week you set out on page 2 above as an example. You cannot possibly tell me that 'club recovery' on Sunday is more than a couple of hours at most. I often work a couple of hours on a weekend too and a hell of a lot of people work the whole thing. Meetings/training/weights - yes, heavy physical activity but no worse than a lot of blokes routinely put in at sites all over the place during the week. Their 'hours worked' number would be nowhere near your suggested 6 day a week, 9 hour a day job. Putting all of that aside in any case, your input into the original topic was to say that the players couldn't be expected to spend a couple of hours on a weekend watching a live game because their lives are so chock a block with their work already (substituting, obviously, 'work' for a 'career as an athlete'). Here's an idea - how about the club cancels just one of those afternoons of weights or meetings or hanging out at primary schools or, look, whatever they feel like really, and send everyone to a game of footy to watch how a decent team does it?

And I have a bad back and my eyes are stuffed because I sit in front of a computer all day. My career has given me 'injuries' too - what's your point?

Just throwing up a discussion, nothing more than that. Is that for last year as well, or just this year?