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There is a stark difference between rnd 23 vs Lions and last night. In rnd 23 we switched play and centered the ball deep i50. The result was we kicked a high score and were accurate. Reverting to the kick-down-the-line, into- the-pocket didn't look deliberate. It was partly Sydney forcing us to play that way and partly when under pressure players/teams revert to habit. We went back to what was most familiar. It is a miracle Fritsch kicked any goals let alone 3. When we got possession up the ground he was literally sandwiched between two Sydney players. Fritsch's opponent would walk him into a the back of another Sydney player who was pretending to causally walk backwards and they sandwiched him. Even when they separated the front player still stopped Fritsch getting to space. That plus Max and BB not having anywhere to lead left us going to the pockets where the ball came to ground and our lack of pressure allowed Syd to move the ball out. All that aside, what surprised me that we started the last qtr 2 goals down in a low scoring match. Why oh why did we not switch to an attacking game? There was no way we were going to beat Sydney playing our defensive/contested game. Attack was the only way to win. Take some risks; play the corridor. Hell we may as well lose my 6 goals as 1 point but at least give us some chances.

Cryptic? More info please. Was just about to head to Hampton station...

I'm very impressed that so many men care about and undoubtedly 'use' their vacuum cleaners!! All for sharing domestic work. Or is it just they are like a 'robot'.

On several levels this doesn't compute😐🤔

Yes, you are correct it was McCarthy, not Bailey.

LOL! Looks a bit rustic for your good self, Bbo. This solves my dilemma as to when to put out the banners etc while not jinxing the team. As we win a final, I will fly scarves from my car window until the next final. If we win a PF I will then put out all the red and blue paraphernalia.

Richmond got a lucky call not long before the goal overrule. Daniher was paid a free against while legitimately going for a mark and it became an 'unrealistic attempt' when the Richmond player bent forward...he looked like he wanted an in the back free. It would most likely have been a goal to Bailey, dead in front if not for the free. The free was very soft at a clutch time in a sudden death final. That is the time the whistles should be put away for soft calls.. I thought Lions deserved to win.

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Thanks. I'll cheer loudly for you at the game tonight. And will the 'modest' one out himself in the quiz?

In the last month we have changed our kickins and occassionally switch. With Salem back we sometimes kick short to him which starts our ball movement chain deeper. Both tactics neutralise the opp talls parked under the ball for May's long kickins to the boundary. Longmire is very smart and he will have noticed those so I doubt he will try and park talls at the drop of the ball so much tonight. We have more strings to 'get out of our d50' bow now which should keep Longmire on his toes a bit.

In the mid year game didn't they kick something like 7+ goals from turnovers to our hand full of points? iirc most of those turnovers were from kickins or around the middle of the ground. They didn't tag Langdon but cut off supply to him from our turnovers and we just couldn't get our overlap ball movement going. Brayshaw in the midfield and roaming between the arcs should help that. When we did get it forward we kicked high and their defenders took a trillion marks. And they had a massive mismatch of Paddy McCartin on Kozzie who just peeled off. Max playing forward will be a big improvement on Mitch Brown forward. That would have been one of our worst game this year. Longmire may have some new tricks up his sleeve but this will be a very different game! Dees by 10 nerve racking points.

Thank you. Very thoughtful of you. It looks like I'm late to the party again. I've been out all day again so I can't access my laptop. Why is the laptop significant? I restrict myself to read DL only on it otherwise I would spend all day here if I used mobile device while out! Need to go and read the Team thread so will try and have a look at the quiz later.

Great pic. And very nice house. I now wish I had kept all my decor up for the year as reigning premiers!

Either 'copy' then 'paste' the picture into this window. or use the option at the bottom of this window that has a paper clip to choose a pic from a device.

Because I just arrived home and now about to go out for dinner. And it isn't Thursday🙁

Lions vs Tigers will be fun to see how far Tiger players go in goading Zorka into a brain fade. Cameras will follow his every move. Reckon they'll push him to the limit!! Then S-N-A-P?

No offence taken. I like my diagram as it shows the possible combinations for each final. In a nutshell the diagram is in ladder order and the colour shading in the first column shows the pairings for each week one final. The W or L is the winner/loser of each pairing and so on and so forth.

I'm leaning the same way. The teams in Red in the Table are the ones I earmarked to play off in the respective final. In the Table I have Geelong/Sydney in PFI and Dees/Freo in PF2. Sydney have a good record over Geelong. So yeah, Dees vs Swans for the GF. Not that I think Syd are that good, just that they match up well with the teams I think they might meet.

Agreed. I reckon the OTT commentators may get Draper GOTY because it sounded so exciting. But Nic Nat has done that dozens of times so Draper's goal isn't really so special. Just the noise is a few levels higher. Bit disappointed one of Kozzie's miracle goals in Alice didn't make the final 3. Or his match winning, top 2 ladder position setting, goal vs Carlton with 10 seconds to go while being tackled. Right up there for a crazy, match winning goal in a clutch moment.

Who are you tipping to play off in the GF? Here are the options:

Liberatore out is huge for the Bulldogs. Not sure they have another 'extractor' and they rely on him immensely to feed off to McCrae. Bontempelli and Smtih.

Chook-In-Perth is different poster.

At least I'm consistent🙂

I Fantastic! If we had a prize for the best; that would win!

Didn't the AFL change how MOTY and GOTY are decided when Howe was denied the win by the weight of numbers of fans voting for others. I thought the decision was taken 'in-house' by the AFL so this voting by fans could be a 'mock' vote to keep it in the news. Edit: Just found this: "At the end of all Competition Rounds the AFL Game Analysis Committee will select the best three marks from a selection of 28 (the 23 round winners, along with 5 other contenders as determined by the AFL Media). The best three will be based on a 5/4/3/2/1 vote given by each member of the selection committee". https://www.afl.com.au/mark-of-the-year/prizes It doesn't say where fan voting fits in. It doesn't say who is on the selection committee that does the 5/4/3/2/1 voting or how many. All the technicalities aside, fantastic that Spargo is in the final three! Very courageous going with the flight of the ball and no idea who was coming the other way. Deserves extra points from the voters for that.