Preview Carlton vs Essendon, MCG, Saturday 18/04/15, 1:45 PM - Changes post #573

[Doss]

Guys, calm your farms please.

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

Calm your farms?? Did you make that up?

 

[CourtzMajora]

Hahahaha calm your farms. Using that!

 

[Alfred E Neuman]

Hahahaha calm your farms. Using that!

It's real!


calm your farm
telling someone to chill out or relax... or chillax. when they get all psyched up over something and you want them to shutup. equivalent to telling someone to take a chill pill
Fred- OMFG I HATE YOU, YOU STUPID LITTLE..
George- calm your farm!

via urban dictionary

 

[Pevers-Legend]

Chappy last year too.

Which game? Seriously can't remember which is why I didn't list him.

 

[Doss]

Which game? Seriously can't remember which is why I didn't list him.

Fairly sure he was rested from the Freo trip rather than injured. Also missed the first game against Sydney, can't recall whether that was injury or resting though.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

What's with the resting? Early last year we lost to the Saints when every man and his dog thought we would win.

 

[Halftimehero]

Calm your farms?? Did you make that up?

Really? Have you never heard that before?

 

[JDavey]

Guys, calm your farms please.

Calm your farms?? Did you make that up?

Hahahaha calm your farms. Using that!

It's real!


calm your farm
telling someone to chill out or relax... or chillax. when they get all psyched up over something and you want them to shutup. equivalent to telling someone to take a chill pill
Fred- OMFG I HATE YOU, YOU STUPID LITTLE..
George- calm your farm!

via urban dictionary

My understanding of the origin (or if it already existed why it became popular again) is video games.
In some of the online games I played if someone was "farming" too hard you'd tell em to calm their farm.. then later on it turned into whenever someone started raging you'd tell em to calm their farm...

 

[Doss]

...anyway, back to the game, folks.

 

[Halftimehero]

...anyway, back to the game, folks.

Calm your farm

 

[Doss]

Pah.

 

[Halftimehero]

But anyway, yes back to the game folks, **** Carlton

 

[hurlygurdy]

What's with the resting? Early last year we lost to the Saints when every man and his dog thought we would win.

Who did we rest that day?

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Who did we rest that day?

Winderlich

http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2014/5/ess-v-stk

 

[yaco55]

It's a balancing act...
If the likes of Cooney and Chappy play this week that will make it 3. Next week against Collingwood Anzac Day understandably they won't want to miss it so that will make it 4.

Selectors could go with..
Rd 3 v Carlton MCG =
Chappy plays, Cooney rested
Rd 4 v Coll MCG=
Both Chappy and Cooney play
Rd 5 v StK Etihad=
Cooney plays, Chappy rested
Rd 6 v Freo Subi=
Not sure what is best to do

I made a mistake - Should be - Should not be on an AFL list if you are unable to play 5 consecutive games - Look at the top teams - Are they resting players after 2 or 3 games ?

 

[yaco55]

With the amount of tuning these players are going through I feel its an old fashioned notion that "resting" is arrogant or a bad thing.

In the modern game The cumulative loads the players build up over a season often mean that after 6-7 games in a row they are running at 85%-90%. Every team has lulls throughout a season, Port are the fittest team in the league-Running wise- and they fell off a cliff last year when their loads became too much. Howlett for us is another who when 100% is a great player but he slowly reduces in output as he struggles to run out games. Our team is yet to prove it can run out a full season. Why then should the competition just expect these lulls that all teams have to continue? Most of the time the answer is, oh we will just train them harder or for longer. Why not just be smarter with the loads they take on?

There is nothing wrong with trying to balance those loads, especially through the midfield, it also gives games to our 2nd tier players and allows for a more well rounded, healthy list. Kav looks like he might be ready to maybe become an AFL player, whats wrong with after 2-3 heavy games taking howlett out and putting him in and getting some games in. Same with the two merrets, or rest chappy and play goddard more forward. Fletch has been getting rested for years without a really suitable replacement, but now we have Gwilt.

Resting is not a bad thing, as long as its not wholesale changes.

Look at the top teams - They don't rest players after 2 or 3 games - They may rest some older or younger players in the second half of the season,especially if they well positioned in the competition.

This is a discussion you have in the second half of the year.

 

[hurlygurdy]

Winderlich

http://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2014/5/ess-v-stk

Interesting game to look at based on the stats. Our defensive pressure must have been non existent and our ball use terrible. On the stat sheet almost no one had a bad game other than Heppell! With the amount of ball we had we should have kicked double that score... With the massive quality of the four In's that week it really was a surprising result. Thankfully i have completely eradicated the game from my memory

 

[vaughany]

I made a mistake - Should be - Should not be on an AFL list if you are unable to play 5 consecutive games - Look at the top teams - Are they resting players after 2 or 3 games ?

No, the top teams aren't not resting after a couple of rounds.

Put it this way I'd rather Cooney and Chappy both play 14 quality games each this season through a combination of resting and subbing. Rather than push themselves to try and play 20 games and get injured/burnt out and play average games as a result.

The two are silky skilled good decision makers whose experience we want out out on the field. For this to happen they need to rotated/rested every now and then

 

[hurlygurdy]

Can i just say that aside from all this meaningless and ignorant conversation about whether players either get rested or should get rested (because seriously, like anyone here can know one way or the other!), i sincerely hope that Cooney is pulling up from games like any other 29 year old would! There is the distinct possibility that his body is failing as we speak (or not), but we wont know the truth until the day he is declared injured...

 

[bombers21]

Fairly confident Chappy or Cooney will be "managed" this week.

 

[Mercurial89]

Look at the top teams - They don't rest players after 2 or 3 games - They may rest some older or younger players in the second half of the season,especially if they well positioned in the competition.

This is a discussion you have in the second half of the year.

My point was more related to a shift in thinking of how an AFL list should be used over a season. However since one mention of resting incites a massive debate on arrogance/complacency and that we should just play the same team most weeks and only drop players on form because thats what has been done for 15 years I will leave the point for another time. Its not worth derailing the thread further.


On the game, has anyone ever been this tentative going into a game? Going into a game not only wondering which Essendon is going to show up but also which Carlton is an odd feeling.

 

[Zephyr Effekt]

Resting, sounds promising WSPHU.

 

[Kaiser Powser]

I made a mistake - Should be - Should not be on an AFL list if you are unable to play 5 consecutive games - Look at the top teams - Are they resting players after 2 or 3 games ?

Geelong had a good record at resting players to ensure they didn't burn out and were right for finals. They managed to still win the games though.
I don't have a problem with it if we have a good replacement ready to go. But I don't want to see us dropping games to bottom four teams again this year, so if that means less resting players, then I am for that.

 

[Barry Roundhouse]

just realised this game is delayed on Saturday.. ****ing criminal!
my first season in ages without foxtell and I've always just assumed that they didn't delay games due to how much C7 harp on about "live and free"

not happy