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It's why AFL media is so ****ing boring. Nothing interesting ever gets said, ever. But more media keeps appearing. Incredible business really.

Players thought he was nuts. Very few were sold on him from the very start. Interestingly, club went out of their way to tell the players to talk him up more than usual in the media if questions were asked. There is no 'fall guy' or 'scapegoat'. He might've been great at Hawthorn but was poor...

What u/18 draftee with questionable kicking style, accuracy etc has really turned it around? From my perspective they all remain about the same or slightly improve. For example, Ollie Hollands is an ok kick - but is slow boot to ball & lacks penetration, I expect he will improve, but not that...

Blokes beat cancer twice. I’ll back him to contribute if he still thinks he can, no matter what scritchyscrooflog & fudge think of him 👍

do a word search for: ‘The turn of the century’ ‘The last 25 years’ ‘This millennium’ See who’s the biggest culprit of talking about everything but 2025. Grow up.

No we weren’t. Poster I was responding to was saying our top players were available all year (2024), I listed our top 10 BnF of 2023 & their availability for 2024. Docherty finished 7th, thus for 2024 he was a huge loss. You just derail things with stupid repetitive troll shit.

Yeah mate the bloke who finished 7th in our BnF & spiritual leader wasn’t a big loss. Meanwhile you crap on about how hard done by you were because Cox missed a few games. Genuine idiot.

Confidence thing. Players naturally want to attack - they spend their Juniors being told how great they are and to take the game on and play on instinct. Their gameplan empowers this - take the game on, get space & open up the play. Before they know it they've got yards of space & plenty of...

Lol, skewed stats from Fadge who does mental gymnastics to try and prove that our 'top 15' (chosen by him) were always available. Of our top 10 BnF from 2023 & games missed in 2024. Weitering - Missed R0 against the eventual Premiers Newman - played every game Curnow - played hurt since the...

So, West Coasts 14.7% win rate the past 3 years is worse than anything Carlton has produced since the turn of the century? Thanks for proving my point. Scary thing is they haven't even hit their bottom yet. Top 10 of their BnF has an average and median age of 28.

8 wins & 62 losses the past 3 years? Yeah, nah we've never been that bad. Try again.

Geez, West Coast, that’s a blast from the past. I heard Jack Petrucelle is still on their list. Is it true?

I guess my back-to-back Ressies Premierships are a figment of my imagination????

Think it comes down to recruitment & drafting rather than training. Played a lot of footy & very rarely did I, or anyone I played with, improve their skills consistently over their career - besides set shot kicking. Can practice your kicking & handballing as much as you want out on the track...

This stuff from you just gets funnier & funnier.... How's the job hunt? Lmk if you need a reference.

3 players had down years so you went from 1st to 9th? Sounds like you rely on your stars even more than us. Also Fadge told me your poor year was due to player unavailability, an injury crisis for the ages it was.

Collingwoods depth? Where? I don't see it in the AFL? A bit of bad luck with injuries and you didn't even make the 8. Ah, it must be in the VFL. Wait, your VFL finished 2nd last, with a % of 76! You lost to Carltons VFL (depth) by 83 points & got done by 50+ points on 4 other occasions...

My God this is funny.

One minute we're too top heavy with a bunch of stars and a bunch of spuds. Next minute we have the best list in the league because of our bunch of stars. You lot need to get off the day drinking. It's Wednesday.

You think Carlton have the best list in the comp?

Is there a bigger w***er on this site? farrrk me dead.

They’re ignoring the definition & foundations of sabremetrics & moneyball. It’s what they do though.

It was a roster fill and it’s likely the Red Sox knew about it/didn’t care, thus basically a release. He certainly wasn’t traded from the Red Sox to the A’s like you condescendly suggested. Your call that Perryman, a player being paid $900k, who’s a former first rounder being given a role in...

Nope. He was traded to Colorado for Rees, who then released him 2 days later due to his injury and got picked up as a FA by the A’s.

sabermetrics is for baseball you drongo. you going to try and redefine that too? :tearsofjoy:

Applying Sabermetrics to football doesn't work. Thought you'd know this as a VCE Maths wizard?

Oh boy. You lot are so far up your own asses it's hilarious. The recruiting of guys like Perryman & Houston are not Moneyball type recruits, it's legitimately the opposite. And once again, it goes so far beyond focusing on 'ready-made' players. Hatterberg was released from the Red Sox - he...

Collingwood: Recruits a former pick 14 & pays him 5% of their salary cap Recruits a 2x AA star of the comp 'yeah we do the moneyball approach!!!' :tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy::tearsofjoy:

Way, way, wayyyyyy more complex than that. The original Moneyball approach is based entirely on analytics and overlooking 'undervalued' skills (& other things). The idea that it's just some theory based on 'mature players with proven output therefore less risky than kids' is just wrong. If you...

I dare say humans that spent 25% of their waking life on a footy forum talking about a rival footy team are part of the 'lowest common denominators' of society. Please seek help. This has gone so far past the 'im barely taking notice of this i only post occasionally and its very quick on my...