The heart beats true

This drove me insane. It’s such an obvious distraction.

I posted this in the post game thread, but if you want some different insight watch the press conference…. Watching Goodwin speak in the presser he was very confident that we could get them on turnover. I feel like we are trying to win differently. For years we’ve needed to smash the contested possessions, where as I think now we are often having a look at breaking even there, which means we use our match winners more sparingly. Goodwin spoke about this in the presser. I think it’s about winning games, but not taxing our best players every week, so they are fresher when needed.

I just watched The Round So Far on the AFL site. They spoke about the game as being a really tough contest, with a lot of brilliant individual efforts. Last year in the first 10 games the team said our game against GCS up there was our hardest match by far. We only got home by 13 points, and that was when we looked unbeatable. That’s a tough win last night I reckon. It wasn’t pretty, but I think that’s character building.

Watching the press conference Goodwin seemed very confident that we could get them on turnover. I feel like we are trying to win differently. For years we’ve needed to smash the contested possessions, where as I think now we are often having a look at breaking even there, which means we use our match winners more sparingly. Goodwin spoke about this in the presser. I think it’s about winning games, but not taxing our best players every week, so they are fresher when needed.

In the 3rd quarter the suns got 3 free kicks in front of goal, one to Ellis and 2 to King, all resulting in goals, and they didn’t show the replay of the incident once. Theres a clear mandate by both broadcasters not to show free kicks being paid in front of goal. That they don’t think we are aware of it is embarrassing. There’s an average of 27 seconds to show a replay of an incident before a shot for goal. The only logical conclusion is that they are trying to protect the umpires.

You’re so negative. The Suns played really well, and we played at 40% of our capacity, and we still won. You can’t win flags in May, but you can lose games that mean you won’t get there. That didn’t happen.

This game day thread is a great reminder of why I don’t often read the game day thread. It’s ok to acknowledge the competition is tough, and we are a big scalp. Have some faith.

The entire team was atrocious defensively. It was just that the other 17 players also couldn’t find the footy. He’s far from a perfect footballer, but to single him out in the context of that performance seems wild to me.

I feel like Hipwood gets off the chain 3-4 times a year because their forward line is stacked with potentially damaging players. In an ordinary side I reckon he’d struggle.

They got pummelled by 90 points. I thought he was one of the only players who looked able to control the ball.

Workplace romances are one thing, romances with clear disparities in power dynamics are another thing all together. Kyle Sandilands married his former assistant. I feel like that makes my point, and I rest my case.

Aaron Hall had the most possessions for North and second most fantasy points of anyone in the game last week (behind only Tracc)… and got dropped. Clarko clearly ‘going to the draft’.

Have you lived in Geelong? Saying it ‘offers more to young people’ is a huge stretch. I grew up there. The players like living there because it’s not a big city.

Like Luke Jackson did in Melbourne, and conversely Kozzie didn’t? It’s horses for course, and a lot more to do with culture and the individual. This reductive thinking that ‘young people don’t want to live in Tasmania’ that you keep trying to sell is such an over simplification. You still can’t tell us why it doesn’t apply to Geelong - with half the population.

Melk was the difference between the sides last week, and Box Hill are a good side with a lot of talent. I wonder if Max’s marking prowess makes it easier for him to play forward? Let’s not forget he almost single handedly won us the Carlton game last year, before Koz had his brilliant cameo. He’s a very talented player.

I really hope the Naarm merch is as strong as last year. The scarf and baseball cap last year were, what the kids would call, ‘fire’.

Drake

This image is giving me final scene of Willy Wonka vibes.

How is Tasmania different to Geelong? It's got twice the population. If they get their internal culture right, they could become a very sort after destination. Kozzie doesn't want to go home - because the culture of our club is strong. Everyone goes on about eyeballs. There's a lot of eyeballs in Western Sydney - but less than half of a percent of them turn up for a game of AFL there. It's not as simple as population, or else everyone would be starting teams in Tokyo and Shanghai. It's also about culture.

As an impartial football fan I think this is the most exciting announcement for the AFL since Adelaide joined. This is a genuine football state, that has provided some of the stars of the competition for a hundred years, finally getting the team they deserve. I can't wait to go there and see a game. I genuinely wish it nothing but financial and cultural success, not just for the people of Tassie, but also to show the AFL that it should look after the communities that already support it - before chasing after speculative communities.

Last year, according to the media, we rated GCS at home as our hardest game of the first half of the season.

I like your 3/4 length army pants in that pic. For some reason I always imagined you were taller Daisycutter.

I’d be interested to know if he has any good recommendations for French restaurants in Prahran?

Triggered? Me! How dare you?!

Good footage of Ben Keays working over Nick Daicos On The Couch tonight. I think there’s a blue print there. He didn’t work back as hard as he did forward. That was very evident.