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Could and do, often.

Can you explain how?

Haha - are you trying to rile me up with this comment..? I'm going to let this one pass.

We have to capitalise here. This is such a crucial game - and the footy gods are giving us a good look at it. On the match ups front, I wonder if Q gets Greene instead of Maynard. I think Q is our number 1 lock down defender and we need him zeroed in in OR. I'd give him the opp on Greene. I...

Frankly, almost all of 2024. Intensity and 'f****' given was very low.

Every ANZAZ Day game he slot two goals from the 50m line on the boundary.

Haha, chill out Scodog - I don't have my back up at all. I just don't agree with your definition (although maybe it's because I don't completely understand it). Just to clarify, in your explanation are you saying the player who can read the queues better than their opponent has good 'closing...

Bont should be okay for our match. But they are missing loads of others - if we can't knock them off we shouldn't play finals

No, that's not it either. What is means is how quickly a player who is trying to defend against their leading forward counterpart can close down the space between them when the opponent is on the lead. But the reality is that it is just 'speed' that people are talking about.

And I guess for me I just can't get over the fact that if he had have converted either one of two super simple opportunities he had very late in games against Freo and Sydney (which any AFL player could have converted 8/10), then we'd have had the extra win needed to make the finals. Someone is...

So we think that Reef is slow off the mark, but quick over the second half of his sprint efforts? Do we have any data to support those two gears of speed as being a characteristic of his? Or are we just doing what the rest of the football community is doing, and misclassifying normal 'speed' as...

Totally agree. And the Lippa example is a good one. And I think most critics are acknowledging the same, i.e. that if we got Schultz for nothing but a late pick for example, we'd be less harsh on assessing him, despite it being not in his control at all what he was acquired for. Regardless of...

What's the difference between closing speed and just normal speed? And is there opening speed?

I unfortunately agree - I think Frampton plays next week and Reef gets some more time in VFL to learn the key back craft. This is going to be a problem for us all year though, and so I think we will see Cameron play deeper in defence providing arial contest support and contested intercepting...

I think part of the problem is that we could have gotten him as a UFA just 12 months later (i.e. at the start of this year), and kept our first round pick - which as expressed by someone earlier, could have been used to bring in another strong player. Bailey Smith for example went for pick 17...

Yep, we looked massively vulnerable on the long ball into our backline for most of the game. I'm less convinced that Reef is going to be able to handle a key back role than I was before the game started. I watched the first 3 and a bit quarters, and don't actually remember seeing him affect a...

I don't believe they are necessarily ordered.

He'll need to be fit well before then along with Jordy, or we won't need to worry about September.

Presti didn't get shifted from forward to back. Presti just walked onto the field and the entire ground shifted around him.

I really hope Sam Taylor has to work through concussion protocols quite slowly - he would also be a huge out. GWS without Taylor and Greene is a far better prospect.

I did, for at least one game against Carlton. I assume he played a few that year forward. I left the game thinking "This guy will be dropped and forgotten forever within a month."

Damn! I was scrolling down seeing all the other names people were mentioning thinking "I can't believe I am going to be able to bring up Presti! The best example of a forward turning into a gun defender!". And in stroll you with your post... :(

I just think a day starts in the morning of that day, and finishes at the end of a day (i.e. as registered and counted on a calendar). We never say 'it is the 12th and a half of March' for example. There is a unique day for each day of the week, and that's the count.

I definitely won't read into pre-season team form. But if I'm honest, I'd rather not read into form where we dominate, than not read into form where we don't...

It's a shame we let one of our emerging fierce competitors pick up both Barras and Battle. We'd have loved to have one of them.

Yeah, I've never ever heard a coach say "It's a tough fixture coming up, because we play 3 games in 14.24 days", etc. They always seem to count the extra day that you aren't ever seeming to count

Wouldn't it need to be to the final siren in round 2? Otherwise that game hasn't been played

This one sr36 - you said '3 matches in 12 games'

Oh, okay. So why did you above put that our current fixture has 3 games in 12 days? Isn't it actually 3 games in 12.24 days? I would define a 'day' for this purpose as a uniquely numbered day (as illustrated by a calendar for example).

I guess it depends on how you define days.