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Ted Lasso

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  1. Worth noting that Gus as a half back is right up the pointy end of the league for Marks and intercept marks. He's really shown he's a bit of a unicorn player down there because he's so good in the air but also quite a good aggressive half back. I'm bloody glad not to be a coach because when you've got a guy of this quality in multiple positions it's a hard choice.
  2. To me it does make the most sense that a smaller Victorian team re-locate to Tasmania, ultimately it's a national competition and we have 3-4 excess Victorian teams that are in debt, heavily reliant on the AFL just to run and fairly irrelevant in terms of on field success. Going to Tasmania for one of these clubs has the clear potential to greatly improve one of these clubs in terms of financial standing and relevance, and i understand the history behind clubs and why they don't love the idea, but surely from a practical standpoint it's a pretty straight forward one.
  3. For periods yes, i think Gus should play wing and rotate through the midfield. I think we really need to increase rotations through that area to keep players fresh. I also think we should look at Tracs forward/mid split, we might need him short term up front to give us a target
  4. I think there is a mental component to it as well. last year we were hungry and keen to prove ourselves, this year i think we kinda know our best is the best and i am sure there are some individuals who are battling with maybe looking ahead a little bit too much. I reckon it's important to remember that none of these players have been in this situation before, being reigning premiers and looking like a fair chance to go back to back, it would be incredibly challenging to stay in the moment i reckon. So i think where we are is due to a whole lot of factors, but gotta hope that the form turns around fairly quickly so we can lock up that top 2 spot and get some more silverware.
  5. I think we'll win another 5-6 games in the run home, return to form in a pretty serious way, finish top 4 and be in a pretty good spot to have a good crack at it. I am going to predict that Fremantle fall away slightly and we play the Cats in a qualifying final and the Lions in the big dance.
  6. I would ask all posters who actually believe this team is unfit to go back and really look at last season. In the same block of games we lost to the Crows, Pies, Giants, Dogs and drew with the Hawks. we faced almost identical criticisms from the media in terms of our lack of run, suggestions we'd been found out and if we don't improve our scoring we can't win the premiership our form between rounds 10-19 last season was incredibly patchy, we didn't win more than 50% of games but from round 20 we significantly and suddenly improved and hit our best football right in time for finals, almost by design. This year i believe we're in exactly the same phase, the only difference is due to injury and unavailability our backline has been compromised the last 3 weeks and we've struggled to stop opposition momentum. With Steven May in the side i believe we'd have won at least 1 of those games. I almost guarantee this team will set themselves and really lift for the Lions game, but i strongly believe we are setting ourselves to play our best footy when it counts.
  7. Personally i feel watching us play that we're lacking the dare with the ball that we had at our best, we're just going a little bit slow, sideways and doubting ourselves too often. I think we play our best when we attack and play on instinct and if we do turn it over we back ourselves to win it back. that's what turned around the grand final and won us the flag.
  8. We had exactly the same problems at the same stage last year, i distinctly remember the same commentators saying we can't score, and we can't win the premiership unless we address it. I think there are a lot of reasons for it, but one of those in my opinion is because we've banked early wins we've gone about a process to try and ensure we peak at the right time, and that means both this season and last we've had a flat patch in the middle rounds after a win streak. we were never going to just win all 23 games and smack everyone in finals. but i am still very confident we will be there abouts and give ourselves a huge chance to go back to back.
  9. It appears the Pies had some Intel on Max's injury and deliberately targeted it all day. I've decided to baselessly blame Jeremy Howe.
  10. Out: Disco, M.Brown, Chandler In: May, Weideman, Bedford
  11. Short answer is no, i'd say we're probably in the heaviest part of the phase now and we'll slowly release it over the next 2-3 weeks and look to be cherry ripe for the run home. I think honestly we've just had a few things go wrong on field at the same time as we've not quite been at our greatest physically, we've got a few players who i think are playing injured, a few who are pretty banged up and losing Steven May has absolutely killed us. I think we had a little bit of a blessed run with injury in 2021 and 2022 is a little bit closer to just what you'd expect, especially given we now have Selwyn Griffith in charge who has a very similar program in place to Burgo, but not identical and sometimes individuals respond differently to subtle changes in the conditioning program.
  12. I couldn't disagree more. i'd suggest Luke Jackson would be one of the most valuable players in the competition trade wise, not just because he's already a premiership player and rising star winner, but his potential is almost endless. he's 20 and good enough to be a number 1 ruck in a top 4 side. Losing Jacko would really suck, but i have a level of confidence in the fact if he did leave we'd be compensated pretty well and Jason taylor and co would be able to use the early picks we'd likely get to really re-set us to stay near the top for a long period of time.
  13. Collingwood supporters are a special breed of gross, honestly the Boo's you were hearing may have just been them trying to talk but their lack of education, teeth and hygiene in general does make it difficult for them I for one say we let them celebrate their June premiership they seem to think they've won
  14. We are 100% loading. the last 3 games we've gotten into a dominant position and then run out of legs. Form, confidence, opposition tactics, our players being a little banged up in some cases are all factors, but there is no doubt in my mind our lack of run, energy and spark is due to a heavy loading phase. the same 3 rounds last year we went 1-2 and dropped off dramatically, with commentators saying we were shot.
  15. I reckon teams are just taking LJ a bit more seriously these days and putting in more effort into stopping him. No clue if he will stay or go, but we will be fine either way. I'm sure the club has plans in place for either situation.
  16. Can't wait to see the BS token punishment that comes of this and the story being very quickly swept under the rug.
  17. I have been shocked at the development of this kid, don't be surprised if he really makes this spot his own. He's a very capable one on one defender but his reading of the play is very good and knows when to peel off. if he's come in for Adam Tommlinson it could really suggest it's going to be harder and harder for Tommo to gain a spot as a defender in this team
  18. That's as strong a media performance from a player as you'll ever see, Raw, you can see he's hurt and dissapointed, but articulate, doesn't duck any questions, sets boundaries well. Such an impressive guy.
  19. Definitely agree with all of that. but i would also say that while our coaches have done a brilliant job, we still aren't a particularly skillful team, and so when fatigued we do revert a little bit to old habits when the options aren't immediately available to us. I think our poor conversion inside 50 is a result of our forwards being fatigued and not being able to create gaps as easily with their opposition, and the players further afield being slightly fatigued and not being able to run and carry quite as far before being rounded up, so they end up having to kick long from further out, resulting in shallower, and more predictable entries. I feel like we had a similar issue at this stage last season, i remember commentators saying if we can't find a way to score we can't win the flag.
  20. I think you should look closer. they've been scoring, but their scores against have risen dramatically. so it's pretty clear to me that loading fatigue has caused the less natural game phase for both sides to fall away slightly. we've lost our offensive game a little bit, and they're struggling to transition back and defend. 117, 96 and 99 have been their last 3 scores against, and important to note 2/3 sides are outside the top 8 pretty comfortably.
  21. The interesting thing is that the Brisbane Lions are in exactly the same boat as us. they've won 1 of their last 3 games, been beaten by Fremantle and Hawthorn, and had a very narrow win against the Giants that could have easily been a loss. but they're not getting the same media attention we are. I think both teams have done a great job banking early wins without an enormous injury list, and only doing that really allows yourself to load to the extent that may offer a really serious advantage in the back end of the season. It's a really interesting topic to discuss on here because we've been awful for so long, that we've not been in a position for decades where this sort of thing is something that's even been relevant to us.
  22. It's really interesting topic to discuss on Demonland because there is so much varied knowledge poster to poster on the topic that it's almost impossible for the conversation to play out productively. For the record, i am almost certain out training is in some sort of loaded phase at the moment, to what degree that impacts is impossible to tell because it's different player to player, some players performance won't change at all, some will fall away 5-10% due to fatigue potentially. it's a hard thing to balance. I'd say the loss of Steven May has had a bigger impact on our two most recent results than anything to do with training. i think we would have definitely beaten Sydney if May played, and likely would have beaten Fremantle had he not gotten concussed.
  23. I assume you're an expert within the fitness industry?
  24. Geez a fully fit Joel Smith would be handy.
  25. I surely can't be the only one curious about who was winning the fight? May is a beast, but Melksham is a more than handy boxer.
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