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If one match will sway you, what we’re you thinking when we beat Geelong at Kardinia Park? We have been seriously rebuilding for 5 years. We should have made finals this year, if our program was on time. If we do not make finals next year there will need to be a very serious rethink of our...

I believed at the start of this season we had a side capable of making the 8. Given our run with injuries I believe we should have made the 8. So I am very disappointed to not make the 8. Imo a good rebuild should have seen us (with luck re injuries) contesting for a finals spot in year 4 (2019)...

Don’t want to sound negative, because I am not. But the only think I took away from last night was further torture. True we put in for 4 quarters, which was great. Second time this year. But our opposition was double roasted and we had an opportunity to crush them and failed. The Suns were...

You are right, it was the doggies game I was thinking of. I was happy with the win against the cats (who wasn’t) and remembered that and, with all the other 5 goal give ups, overlooked the last quarter. I now remember the searing psychological pain of the last quarter. So I am not thanking you...

Posters who think bringing player x in for player y are misunderstanding our problem this year. imo the players we select week in week out have been good enough to win every game we have played. Where we have lost games is between the ears. For this reason I have found this season the most...

I think McGov would get dropped because a) he is out of form; b) Kennedy has apparently played very well at the lower level; and c) Kennedy in for McG would be replacing one type of marking forward with another. On revealed form McGov is a much flashier player with his high marking. Kennedy's...

In the one game

4 quarters.

In the one game, please.

4 quarters.

Umm, what? To describe my statement raising what players might do to expose themselves to C-19 in a counterfactual to continuing to train and play footy as an indication that I was inferring that footy players might go on a rampage is definitely a framing issue. If that is the totality of the...

Its not exactly how I would frame the proposition but for those who do simple yours is a valid framing.

It is a good question and has an easy answer - yes they are. The harder answer is to consider the counterfactual - what increased exposure to C-19 might 18 footy lists of unemployed players have? Whilst those players are inside clubs they can be educated, monitored and to a degree regulated to...

IMO at this stage the season should go ahead. AFL football clubs have been told to ensure players and their contacts engage in exemplary social distancing techniques. It would actually be an interesting real life experiment to see how long all players from all clubs were able to be kept immune...

There are times when judgment should be reserved. There are times when judgment should be delivered. In the case of Jones I, like practically every poster on BF, formed the view that he was incompetent at AFL level. Eventually he was dropped to the reserves. He was tried at FB and, at that...

There is every reason to believe he is a good clubman. He played 20 games last season. He runs hard and can "perform a role" if injuries mount. He did show good form a few years ago, give him confidence of a 2 year deal. Finally, clubs are periodically crazy, emotion-driven places and discarding...

Your first defence: that Newnes is new to the Carlton system and teammates. He is a very experienced player who has played all sorts of game plans under a number of coaches with a large number of players. If his excuse for poor ball handling and disposal and thinking in a praccy match is...

Yes, I am being selective. Had Newnes passed to a player in a better position than he was in (as Murphy did), no worries. Newnes passed to a player who was further from goal and on a worse angle. Does that make Newnes low on confidence/a poor kick? Yes, I think so. Facts Newnes came to Carlton...

The coaches and MC have not, as yet, picked the round 1 side. My comment was directed to what the MC ought to do - not pick Newnes. I don't remember Willo not having a shot from 30 out dead in front. When that happens I (and Newnes) might agree with your comment. Newnes, afaik, plays wing...

Agreed. Kruez, Fish, Simmo & Murphy are proven players, no need to worry. M'bank, McG and Plow - working into round 1, subject to M'bank injury. Mk looked ready to me. Judged after a year? Why? Newnes foot skills were hopeless. He looks like a poor man's Kerridge and at least Kerridge would...

No, I am not forgetting. The VFL in 1897 was a separate competition to the VFA in 1897. Because the clubs that formed the VFL split from the VFA makes the VFA an antecedent competition. It does not make the VFL a continuation of the VFA which continued separately, and continues separately to the...

I went yesterday. Liked Haring. Did not understand Basquiat at all. I thought he was as meaningless as a mick Malthouse game plan (2013-15). Still, have to agree the exhibition was very well presented.

Best take-away from the game: we won’t have a whole heap of posters rabbitting on about what great depth we have because we have a few players who can dance with their sisters. It is a preseason game and means next to nothing. We had no system and it follows we did not play to a game plan...

This sort of tactic was used by the Saints against us in 2016. Ostensibly Jack Stevens was competing with Cripps for the ball. Stevens seemed a bit hampered by injury by quarter time and instead of going for the ball he simply ran interference and this allowed Gresham to go straight for the ball...

Agree with your last sentence but that is NOT how Caz could (should?) be used as I explained. You can use a bench spot for a Q stick type who can go where need and provide cover for tiring rucks/injured or out of form KP players and otherwise create match-up confusion for the opposition.

Agree entirely up to the point where you say "it is hard to carry a second ruckman who isn't playing 1 of those other spots". Caz has one really strong attribute, contested marking. When he couldn't kick goals he was useless since his other qualities as a footballer, particularly mobility, were...

I understand that is one thing filth supporters have no further need to worry about.

Since meaning is derived from self-investment I think you are in no position to judge whether my post is wasted.;) The conditional is irrelevant. We humanity will be wiped out along with everything we give meaning to. Unconditionally. It might be an asteroid, it might be a super-bug, it might...

Check out you your post 76 in this thread, particularly the last sentence which I highlighted in my post 77. As it seems you cannot read your own posts it is disappointingly clear you don't read mine. I did say "No doubt the watered down SOO did reduce interest, in some (such as you) more than...

You did say the risk of injury is high. This was the only example you gave to support your claim that the risk is high. I do apologize for assuming you had put 2 (Tony Hall got injured) and 2 (playing SOO) together and came up with 4 (the risk of injury is high) . That leaves unexplained the...