Earl Hood

Gee don’t even try to tackle Rowell or you will give away a free.

Unlike us they have been trading and drafting very efficiently and smartly and to a plan. Picking up cheap as chips trade bargains like Ginnivan, Chol D’Ambrosia, then pay full price for Barrass and Battle to go with early picks like Watson.

Imagine if his defender(s) actually played off his back shoulder instead of 5 meters away guarding grass.

Crows making some shocking blunders. Tex might be number one culprit, burning team mates and kicking points.

All over!

Have the Work Experience kids been put in charge of the night or something? Seriously this club rarely ceases to disappoint administratively. The Club dragged itself out of mediocrity for brief period with Peter Jackson and Paul Roos and the smooth transfer to Goodwin and brilliantly snaffled a flag in 2021 even as the wheels were falling off at the top end. It’s been a slow motion downward spiral since then.

Try 3 picks. We traded 14, 27 and 35 to get three spots up the list to pick 11. That’s a big investment indicating they saw someone they were really confident in, Kolt or was it someone who went earlier?

Yes what is the rule? The Suns guy took possession then gets tackled and the ball jars free but the tackler takes him away from the ball. It’s not holding the ball as he had no prior and not incorrect disposal but why is it holding the man when he had the ball?

Yes and after we watched Hogan and Bedford kick 5 of the GWS 11 goals this arvo.

I have been abducted, taken to Sydney and forced to watch this game, dressed in Hawks colours! I can report that Jesse is looking very good in the warm up!

From what I read the agility test tries to determine a player’s speed to react to sudden changes and to make decisions. I suspect if you score well in what can be measured, with coaching and application you can be a good AFL player. To be a great player you probably excel in those areas that can’t be measured, can’t be coached and that includes the ability to predict where the ball is going in tight spaces before it does and the ability to predict the bounce of the ball, for example.

Umpires missing some obvious frees against the Pies, one right in the Crows goal square!

Nibbler best on at the moment! His hard ball gets and delivery into F50 has been excellent.

Interesting thoughts about Kolt’s footy IQ. In theory or at least in testing this is a deficiency that can be addressed. Kolt in his draft combine came second in the agility test which when I investigated, it measures not just lateral movement but also speed of reaction and speed of decision making. That’s second in a draft that included Harley Reid, Nick Watson, Sanders, Windsor, Curtain and Wilson! Most of those guys are playing and keeping up with the pace. So if he is struggling at the moment in that area, his testing says his potential is very high and the issue can be addressed with coaching, training, more game time and attitude adjustment? On paper (draft testing and observation) we have a player with above average aggression, confidence, agility, decision making, endurance with adequate foot speed. It should work?

The AI tool available on X (Twitter). Similar to ChatGPT and DeepSeek

Grok says a father son prospect can go again???

No it hasn’t.

Yeah I remember there was a Yzier Yze playing seconds in the 90’s and I would check the results and it would be Y Yze 3 goals or 4 goals every week. Never got a game in the firsts though. I think he played forward pocket as we may have had a regular KPF playing reserves. Then he just disappeared? I think I remember Gary Lyon once saying his nickname was “knock, knock” in reference to the pronunciation of his name, sounding like “who’s there”. That may have hastened his decision to change his name to Damien?

Given his draft combine results where he scored top 10 in endurance and speed and second in agility and his appetite for the physical stuff he ticks all the boxes. Perhaps with a solid, injury free preseason he will be ready to go.

Our version of the Hawk version of Brad Guerra playing out of the back pocket with the bullet passes to a team mate running through the corridor?

7mate is a blank screen but 7mateHD (ch74) is working?

Kane Cornes on SEN this morning is not a fan. Described him as a small, one speed accumulator who doesn’t hurt sides with his short kicks and low meters gained numbers. May not be what we need.

The umpiring has reached a new low in this game. Seriously they are paying what’s not there and missing the obvious! Paying holding the ball when you take the ball and get immediately hit front on, no prior, no chance to release, but it’s a free, then guys taking on the tackler, get tackled and then try to hand ball, it’s play on. Lions kicking themselves out of this, they should be 7 goals up at three quarter time. Suspect the Hawks will Walz home here.

It’s not clear on the video but how did Ed end up with his leg? He didn’t pick it up, Daicos must have swung it up somehow so Ed could grab it easily. No free, throw in.

Lions just kicked themselves out of a top 4 spot and all done in the first quarter FFS! 0-8. I have convinced myself the freaking Dorks are going to walk off with another premiership as every team around them falls in a heap.