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To be fair at the time, he had the Pfizer I'm not sure the AZ had been approved by our authorities. Even if AZ had been approved it is worth noting that Albanese also had a Pfizer shott and has now had his second albanese-gets-his-second-pfizer I'm happy for our country's leaders to be vaccinated as early as possible. Btw, Morrison's wife, mother and mother-in-law have had the AZ. His daughters haven't been vaccinated as they are not age eligible. Balanced posting on such a critical subject would be useful.

Fortunately rounds 12 to 14 include a bye round for each club. So there is a fair amount of wriggle room for the AFL to reschedule games without jeopardising the second half of the season. For us the impact of the current covid outbreak doesn't look too bad: It looks like tomorrow night's game will go ahead. If the Lions game isn't at Alice or the G it will be i/state and if in Qld most probably at Metricon as the neutral ground. If we need to temporarily relocate we will have time to prepare. Hopefully, it is all sorted by the QB game at the G. Then we have a bye. Being 2 games and % ahead of 3rd and 4th on the ladder holds us in good stead. Given we are a top two team we should get the benefit of favourable travel and game intervals, if there is a condensed fixture in the future. So overall we are well placed and much better placed than a lot of other teams to deal with whatever covid brings. As fans we need to accept covid is beyond our control and be happy of where we sit relative to other teams.

Brendan Mccartney discusses WBD and the Dees dogs-are-better-but-so-are-the-dees-says This is what really caught my eye. “And Christian’s closer connection to (Clayton) Oliver has been good,” he said. “He’s dragged him along with him. There’s healthy competition between them. They’re not cutting each other out of the game, but they’re drawing inspiration from each other.” Clearly Petracca is quite influential with teammates. Wouldn't the young players really love him for washing the milk of Chandler's face; the impression for a young player being: ' he will look after me'. I don't think we will lose Oliver or any players we want to keep while he is with us which is the next 8 years! I mentioned it a few weeks ago in another thread: Petracca is captain material and wouldn't be surprised if he succeeds Max or is a co VC in the next year or two. His leadership qualities are more apparent as each weak goes by. Back to the thread title. Oliver and Petracca may not be the best midfield yet nor reach the heights of the Lions/Eagles midfield in their day. But they will certainly be at the top of the tree for the rest of this decade.

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Oliver has another perfect 10! And taken the lead!! One of these days he will get the recognition he deserves from the media and the rest of the industry. And, hopefully from umpires when they do their Brownlow voting. The votes for Keays and Seedsman show where the damage was done by the Crows Votes 10 Clayton Oliver (MELB) 7 Ben Keays (ADEL) 7 Paul Seedsman (ADEL) 2 Jake Lever (MELB) 2 Taylor Walker (ADEL) 1 Christian Petracca (MELB) 1 Ed Langdon (MELB) Coaches Split: 5/5 Oliver 4/3 Keys/ Seedsman 2/0 Lever, Walker 1/0 Petracca, Langdon. Leaderboard Surprisingly, Petracca has dropped off the leaderboard. 52 Clayton Oliver MELB 50 Marcus Bontempelli WB 50 Hugh McCluggage BL 44 Samuel Walsh CARL 39 David Mundy FRE 38 Darcy Parish ESS 37 Jarryd Lyons BL 37 Touk Miller GCFC 36 Zach Merrett ESS 36 Ollie Wines PORT 34 Max Gawn MELB 33 Jacob Hopper GWS 33 Jack Macrae WB 33 Christian Salem MELB 32 Tim Kelly WCE 32 Dustin Martin RICH 30 Travis Boak PORT 30 Mitch Duncan GEEL 30 Cameron Guthrie GEEL 30 Taylor Walker ADEL

Richmond quietly slipped out of the 8 this week...may they stay there!!

More likely his info is from reading DL.

Being one of the teams that adapted to the kick in change and the general 'stand' on the mark rule it helped us early in the season. It certainly helped us transition the ball end to end. How many times did we see Langdon and Hunt speed and overlap down the wing. It was a joy to watch. We are still going end to end but (without checking stats) it doesn't seem so frequent . There were a few teams that also made the most of the extra distance at kick-ins and the ''stand' rule in general: Bulldogs, Port and Sydney. However, most clubs have now developed tactics to defend both the kick in and the territory around the man standing the mark in general. And learnt how to use the new rules to their advantage. These are key reasons why Cats and Lions have improved so much in the last 4-6 games. It is no coincidence that those teams that adapted to the new rules in the season so far, are the top 7 on the ladder Not sure Richmond have adapted but they are the 'Bradbury' team at the moment in 8th spot. They will adapt. We had a head start but we need to keep refining our tactics and adapt to counter tactics. The tests will come vs Lions, Port, Bulldogs (x2), Eagles, Cats (again). They will be fascinating games to watch as they have the best and smartest coaches. They will put a lot of work into us and our game plan. From now on I don't see the rule changes giving us an advantage.

Can't comment on any issues in his youth at Wang but the issue at the Dees was very minor. iirc it wasn't an accident. He had a + alcohol reading while on P plates (should be zero). He was not over .05 which means he could not have had many drinks. I'm not condoning his mistake, just giving more context to your statement. There was no police action. The club asked him to get education and he apologised to the team. His behaviour since the + reading has been exemplary on and off the field. He is one of our hardest trainers and takes his football very seriously. I'm sure you don't intend to cast dispersion on his character but claims about 'issues' need a bit more substance.

Oliver has shot up the Leaderboard of the Coaches votes after a perfect 10 this week. He is now on 42 votes outright second to McCluggage on 44. The Bont is 3rd on 40. Doesn't get enough credit in the media.

Coaches votes: 10 Clayton Oliver (MELB) 8 Tom McDonald (MELB) 6 Jake Lever (MELB) 4 Samuel Walsh (CARL) 1 Christian Salem (MELB) 1 Sam Docherty (CARL) Split: 5/5 Oliver 4/4 McDonald 3/3 Lever 2/2 Walsh 1/0 Salem 1/0 Dcherty Very consistent coaching view this week. Leader Board 44 Hugh McCluggage BL 42 Clayton Oliver MELB 40 Marcus Bontempelli WB 38 David Mundy FRE 36 Ollie Wines PORT 35 Samuel Walsh CARL 34 Max Gawn MELB 34 Touk Miller GCFC 33 Jack Macrae WB 33 Christian Salem MELB 32 Dustin Martin RICH 31 Tim Kelly WCE 30 Mitch Duncan GEEL 30 Cameron Guthrie GEEL 30 Jacob Hopper GWS 29 Tom McDonald MELB 29 Zach Merrett ESS 29 Darcy Parish ESS 28 Tom Hickey SYD 28 Christian Petracca MELB 28 Taylor Walker ADEL Oliver outright 2nd! Well Done. Gawn and Salem in top 10 McDonald has flown up the charts Petracca is sliding.

Awesome that we are 9 - 0. The ladder has now settled and our biggest challenges are yet to come: between rounds 11 and 22 we play 6 games against teams sitting 2nd to 6th and only one is at the G. All 8-point games. And a few other tough games along the way eg GWS. We need to get past Bulldogs and Lions in the next month to lock in our credentials.

Hardwick's arrogance is most nauseating: “Mate, I hate coming here... {Marvel}". hardwick-press-conference-marvel-stadium-crowd-home-game-complain He is becoming as big a whinger as Scott. They are now equal as my most disliked AFL coach.

And the thuggish Petrevki-Seaton isn't playing so expecting a 'bruise-free' Carlton. He, he.

Nothing to fear from Carlton's changes: Out: Jack Newnes, Michael Gibbons, Jack Silvagni In: Marc Murphy, Will Setterfield, Nic Newman. Cripps will probably put in a blinder as he did a few weeks back when the media put the blowtorch on him. Harmes to take care of him. May will take care of McKay, if the ball even gets down there. A dark horse is their ruckman, Pittonet. Last year he really lifted and was the reason they got back into the game and nearly won. Max needs to be on the ball and dominate. Hibberd to keep Eddie quiet. There will be a day when we lose but I don't think it will be tomorrow.

I wouldn't be too hard on Hayden Kennedy. Being the Head of Umpires, I think he has little choice but to support umpires in an interview. As it is he has resigned and next week will be his last game. umpires-coach-hayden-kennedy-leaves-afl-suddenly There seems to be a bit of friction between how the AFL (Hocking) wants rules interpreted (HTB) is discussed in the article. I feel for umpires: if they pay the HTB/throwing etc the AFL cans them for slowing the game; if they don't pay them the media and fans can them for letting them go. A no win situation. In the meantime some clubs take advantage of the laxness. Soon the skill of Hand-ball will be a novelty of the game.

Good to see Ratten call out the lack of frees for the dropping and throwing the ball by Geelong. It used to be mainly the Bulldogs but now more teams are taking advantage of the lax enforcement of the rules. Not enforcing the rules may speed up the game which is what the AFL wants but if all clubs start dropping and throwing the ball and go unpenalised then it will be a free for all.

Thanks Andy. That is fine. A good suggestion by @daisycutteras having the latest and the original chart shows the changes for the year at a glance I will 'report' any post I make with a new chart.

This is what helps make a champion: "Petracca has been using his day off each week not to study or play golf or surf or even sit at home on the couch playing FIFA. No, the superstar Demon has enlisted highly rated assistant coach Adem Yze as a personal coach to get extra work in...The two are usually dressed in plain clothes and head to an oval where they can work together for more than an hour on touch and craft. Speaking of Yze, he’s fitted in seamlessly at Melbourne. Essendon was chasing him last year, but he couldn’t say no to returning to his old club. He wasn’t far off the Adelaide job which Matthew Nicks eventually won and judging by his lofty reputation at Hawthorn and Melbourne, his time for a senior gig might not be far away". man-on-the-mark

Yes, easy to copy into a new post at the end of a thread. But I do not have access rights to 'edit' the first post or insert the latest table at the start of the thread.

Good idea. 'George' is a mod so he is able to edit and update the membership thread. The chart is an embedded image so it would be difficult to update and keep the formatting. An option might be for me to have open ended 'edit' facility for this thread but perhaps not technically possible and I copy the latest to the start of the thread. Or the mods may find a way to copy and 'lock' the latest version to the start of the thread. I would like to also keep the updates in the body of the thread so the on-going dialogue makes sense, especially to infrequent readers. @Demonlandwhat do you think the options might be?

I had a different take on that article. I took it as a huge endorsement of giving Petracca a long-term contract (without knowing what monies he is on, nor do I particularly care). In terms of 'value' the graphs showed he is in the elite category so for mine whatever money he is on is good value. I'm not worried about Petracca's contract starting problems. Our President last week outlined the governance process the Club and the Board go through for contracts over a certain length. She didn't say what it was but I would guess > 3 years. I trust that our players we want to keep will be well rewarded. Will they get as much as other clubs will offer, probably not. But if we are in premiership contention for the next 3-5 years and a player chooses to leave for more $, then such is life. Jackson has one of his best WA mates at the club: Rivers. Lots of reasons for Jackson to stay. If he gets homesick well that is a different matter.

I thought the same when I read it this morning. I don't know the authors but at last sports writers who actually analyse data and present meaningful information that provide great insights. Their tables and graphs are multi-dimensional and worth taking time over. The first graph 'On the Right Tracc' shows how good his 2021 season. Best season in nearly every measure. Mainstream sports commentators/writers can learn a lot from these authors. Talking of which would someone like to send this to Cornes! I doubt he will ever stop making platitudinal and banal football comments but he could learn a thing or two about making useful contributions to a discussion.

Just for fun how is this? Australian Capital with damaged fallboot and golf stick where a fan has tossed (arid+some+n) Number of letters in each word: 9,8,4,9,8

The split looks like: 5/5 McDonald 4/3 Mills 4/2 Oliver 3/0 May 2/0 Harmes 1/0 Hickey 1/0 Salem So both coaches gave votes to McDonald, Mills and Oliver. No agreement on May, Harmes, HIckey and Salem.