Earl Hood

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.

F••k all GA seats available in the Northern! Everything is reserved for the filth. Up so high I will be calling for oxygen at half time, but I am still surrounded by B&W ferals!

Sestan, any hope there?

Yes there is a lot of work to do but I believe, as much as it makes me feel ill, we were taken apart by this years likely Premiers in top form!

Can’t disagree, we looked insipid early on but to be fair in the second half we chased and scragged and managed to stem what looked like being a 100 pt thrashing into a 36 pt loss. Just where we are I am not sure. The week before against the dogs we tried, we ran, linked up, transitioned the ball from D50 to I50, delivering the ball into our forward line in different ways that allowed us to rack up a competitive score against a better, inform side. Then on Saturday I fear we were watching this year’s best and likely Premiership team take us apart. The Hawks’ relentless pressure across the whole ground laid bare all our deficiencies in skill, lack of system and running power. With the Hawks dominating the midfield we reverted to the get ball, kick ball forward stuff that is a trademark of the Goody years and too easily picked off by good defences. So maybe we are somewhere in the middle and there is some hope if a new coaching panel can develop a resilient, competitive game plan, annd adding some extra midfield leg speed from somewhere. I suspect a fire sale of senior players will not gain us much in return and there may not be many suitors. Our performances are suffering from having experienced players struggling who should be in their prime in their late 20’s. Tracc, Oliver, Langdon are all playing well below their best. Along with Viney their butchering of the ball, lack of poise in traffic is just baffling. Can a new coach change this around? Viney as a defensive forward, Oliver back to handball first, kick second, Langdon back to the wing and new faces (Langford, Windsor, Rivers )for the majority of CBAs. Tracc an extra year from his traumatic injury to regain his ability to operate in traffic. Most importantly in my mind if the old firm starts the get ball and blindly bang it long stuff we are so familiar with, the new coach has to act and drop the offenders.

Wrong Errol!

And hoping Sestan is recovered and up for selection. I assume there is a limit on the numbers of AFL listed players that are allowed in a team in finals?