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Thank you. Excellent!! Hadn't heard of him before. I can 100% identify with what he says. I guess being a 'visual learner' makes it easier for me to see the info in data and relationships between different sets of info. Excel and other tools help present it in more digestible formats. But I didn't hear him speak of the 'red dot'. A 'red dot' for me is when a piece of art in an exhibition is sold....

Not directly nor even indirectly related but this comment reminds me of one of my pet hates of how poor the typical AFL sports writer is at presenting info. Sometimes, it is necessary to scroll through reams of data when they could put it into a table and it be so much more easily understood. eg Fox footy have 15 tipsters fox-footy-afl-tipping-for-round-11-2023-expert-tips and there are about 10 pages on a laptop to scroll through. Many many more on a mobile device. How much more meaningful would this be: And that is without making it 'pretty'. It isn't just Fox - all mainstream AFL outlets do a very poor job converting data to information in easily digestible formats.

Love you too, Layzie ❤️💙. A simple Excel table earns me such undeserved flattery, albeit in jest!. But I'll take it.🙃

Votes: 10 Christian Petracca (MELB) 8 Steven May (MELB) 5 Jake Lever (MELB) 4 Ed Langdon (MELB) 2 Harry McKay (CARL) 1 Jacob Weitering (CARL) Coaches Split" 5/5 Petracca 4/4 May 3/2 Lever 3/1 Langdon 2/0 McKay 1/0 Weitering Good to see Langdon get votes from both coaches. A good time to hit form. Looks like Goodwin gave at least one of McKay or Weitering votes. Leaderboard (top 10) 63 Zak Butters PORT 63 Nick Daicos COLL 61 Christian Petracca MELB 52 Zach Merrett ESS 47 Jordan De Goey COLL 45 Matt Rowell GCFC 44 Noah Anderson GCFC 44 Marcus Bontempelli WB 43 Connor Rozee PORT 43 Tim Taranto RICH Petracca closing in on the leaders. All top 10 played this week so the top 3 should stay the same despite the bye.

Thank you. It is the simplest Excel Table possible. Takes no time at all. Just a reordering of the AFL Fixture in Ladder order, using the 'copy/paste' function. Then add red and blue and some random colours for highlights. Same approach for the 'Contracts' Table.

I'm hoping our top 2 position is locked in by round 23 so the Sydney result won't be too critical. Yes, a win coming up vs Pies. Must win to get the monkey off our back and have them question their credentials against us come finals...probably the GF!!

Also posted this in the Contenders/Pretenders thread . Recently I posted about remaining 8-pt games and a teams opportunity to gain % boosts ie most likely vs the bottom 6 teams. Summary below. Right hand column shows total 8pt games. Not very scientific but gives a good picture of the Run Home. The rationale of the commentators saying we have the hardest draw is flawed imv!! I reckon we have the easiest draw of contending teams. Setting aside that any team can win on any given day, The 'easiest' draw is Demons, Saints and Bulldogs with six 8pt games only two of which are vs top 4 teams. The 'hardest' draw is Geelong with 10 of the last 11 being 8pt games, 5 of which are vs top 4 teams. They may not even make the 8 if Sydney and Freo get on a roll. Pies will have to fight out the season with games vs Cats, Lions and Bombers in last 3 rounds. Similarly Lions have a challenging last 4 games. Cats will have to fight in every game; no resting of players this year. Top 4 locked in. Other contenders not convincing of late. Dees will probably be top 2. We play 5 of the bottom 6 sides to see out the season. (6 of the bottom 7 if we count Sydney). Suns are the team to watch. They won't make the 8 but they will have a very big say in who does!! A very different run home for us than 2022. We will have the chance to manage injured players enabling us to be one of the 'freshest' contenders going into the finals.

Recently I posted about remaining 8-pt games and a teams opportunity to gain % boosts ie most likely vs the bottom 6 teams. Summary below. Right hand column shows total 8pt games. The rationale of the commentators saying we have the hardest draw is flawed imv!! I reckon we have the easiest draw of contending teams. Setting aside that any team can win on any given day, The 'easiest' draw is Demons, Saints and Bulldogs with six 8pt games only two of which are vs top 4 teams. The 'hardest' draw is Geelong with 10 of the last 11 being 8pt games, 5 of which are vs top 4 teams. They may not even make the 8 if Sydney and Freo get on a roll. Pies will have to fight out the season with games vs Cats, Lions and Bombers in last 3 rounds. Similarly Lions have a challenging last 4 games. Cats will have to fight in every game; no resting of players this year. Top 4 locked in. Other contenders not convincing of late. Dees will probably be top 2. We play 5 of the bottom 6 sides to see out the season. (6 of the bottom 7 if we count Sydney). Suns are the team to watch. They won't make the 8 but they will have a very big say in who does!! A very different run home for us than 2022. We will have the chance to manage injured players enabling us to be one of the 'freshest' contenders going into the finals.

The email arrived this afternoon with Ticketek '(GA) ground entry pass' tickets enclosed.

No chance of a rookie! After all he was pick 5 two years ago. His trade value would slide but not that far!

iirc he was touted as a fwd/ruck back up. Always expected to need time to fill out and develop. Others fwds with his build iare King x 2, Daniher, Hipwood etc. GCS won't do a Bowes type deal but they may trade him for a second round pick!

Did we dodge a bullet or should we bring him home?. He was very grateful for his time in our Academy which we continued even after the AFL changed the rules stopping us from drafting him. Reckon he would still feel some of that TLC and support and we are a much more stable and better club than GCS. He is OOC in 2024. GCS have a history of getting poor value for trades. JT stays close to prior draft targets and and I reckon we should bring him home!

Must be a spelling mistake!😁

As traumatic 💔as it was to lose him I'm really happy he has settled in at WCE. Back to what he does best and has taken on a mentoring role. hunt-s-advice-for-young-eagles

A month go I bought two guest passes with the intention of using some spare GA memberships for their entry to the G. When the email saying GA memberships will not provide entry to the G arrived, I contacted the club and they advised they were working with the AFL and MCC to sort it out. I called the club this week and they explained that complimentary 'ground entry passes' will be provided on request. I haven't as yet received the email with a link to how to obtain the 'ground entry pass'. Will let you know when I see it.

Some of us 'got it'! 🙂

Hang on! We have at least 5 very good years left from Petracca and Oliver. Petty is our replacement for May. Premierships are often won without dominant ruckman, altho they do come in handy 😉 The club tried to trade up in recent drafts to get elite midfielders in Dursma, Holmes and Humphrey. Couldn't get the pick swaps done to get high enough up the order. Pipped at the post for Holmes when Geelong made a last minute 'live' pick swap. We will land an elite midfielder sooner or later. Fingers crossed we can trade up the order this year to get the younger Duursma. Our list isn't and never will be perfect; nor will any other teams'. But we have one of the very best right now. Undoubtedly JT and TL are working on the future.

They rate him only for cameos!

🙂They might stay clear of that one and preserve their sanity. Or be like me and read it only up to the first bounce.

I was amused recently to see there are 280 Guests reading DL and 59 members. That ratio is quite typical. And I don't doubt the club has staff whose job it is to read DL: to judge the mood at times. But I doubt it would affect the FD.

One at the G will do me fine!

Not sure where to put this. From fox website: They don’t come out of contract until the end of 2024, but Western Bulldogs star duo Tim English and Aaron Naughton are already being courted by nearly half the competition. The Herald Sun reports up to eight clubs have interest in English and Naughton, who’re both from Western Australia, some 18 months ahead of their contracts expiring. The pair’s manager Andrew McDougall said they’d wait until season’s end before considering their next move. “Both boys are reasonably happy but we will wait until the end of the year until picking up discussions,” he told the Herald Sun. The Dogs are reportedly keen to lock away English and Naughton on long-time deals before rival clubs come calling this off-season. Can anyone with access to the HS website see if names of the clubs with interest are listed?

Gleeson was the previous lawyer of choice by the AFL to make their case at the Tribunal. He is now the permanent chair of the Tribunal. Any wonder he is doing the AFL's bidding and making up nonsense to support the desired outcome. The Cerra and Laird decisions were nonsense, especially Laird's as it was identical to Sparrow's: grabbed him around the hips, spun around and momentum took them to ground. No wonder players are second guessing themselves. By the way, David Neitz was on the Tribunal this week. Doubt he would take the nonsense the Tribunal is going on with. May have been over ruled by the Chair (Gleeson). Gleeson certainly seems to lead the Tribunal members in his commentary during hearings.

Someone reported in another thread (@Redleg maybe) that he has noticed players second guessing themselves when tackling/contesting because of the confusion around Tribunal decisions eg JvR and Hunter appeals. That would certainly affect our pressure and potentially cause doubt in players' minds on other aspects of play. Would also help explain why Port and Fremantle seemed to by-pass or easily break tackles. I wonder how we have rated on the pressure and contest scales in the last few weeks.

From AFL website: MELBOURNE is in discussions on a new deal for youngster Taj Woewodin as he pushes for an AFL debut. The versatile youngster is due to come out of contract this season at the end of his standard two-year contract after being drafted at the end of 2021, but is in contract talks for an extension. A two-year extension would be likely as with the majority of draftees coming out of their initial contract. With Chandler in discussions, Hibberd to wait, Jordon likely to go there are not many left OOC