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Good for you Perthboy, go start up a MySpace page.
You don’t need to make threads when random s**t enters your mind.
That's it.I aren’t watching After seeing Collingwood get robbed
There is no correlation I think but is it better to come off a hard fought close prelim or cruisy prelim
This is the main reason why its these two teams playing in the Grand Final. There's only so many games that can be won on the back of 1 or 2 star players. Also, odds are that once you get past the first week of finals you're generally playing against teams that have just as many star players. For sustained success across a season and to reach a grand final, eventually the lesser name role players have to perform their role. Throughout the year this has been the ethos that both coaches have consistently driven.Conversely you haven’t shown any reason why it is, either.
Of our current best 22 I would say that Stengle, Hawkins, Cameron, Duncan, Miers - oddly but it’s true - and maybe Dangerfield in every aspect beyond general kicking are what I would call ‘gifted’ players.
Selwood: has great game sense and his skills ARE underrated but his not a talent-reliant player.
Stewart: personally I think he’s a freak but if his natural talent was that ingrained he wouldn’t have slipped through the net for so long.
Atkins: no explanation needed
Close: good hard runner with good game sense and reasonable skills but not a brilliant talent
Holmes: athletically excellent but again not a freak across the board skills wise he’s just matured very quickly and knows his role beautifully
Kolo/Bews: neither are gifted
Tuohy: a beautiful long kick but not blessed with a lot of other physical attributes that make him a gifted player
Stanley: for his size he’s an athletic machine and he DOES have that streak of mercurial football in him that manifests occasionally but he’s not there for his talent
Blicavs: well we all know what you think of him
Rohan: could not have less game sense if he deliberately tried
Jack Henry: thought about putting him in the talented list but he’s not quite that good
O’Connor: no explanation needed
C Guthrie: great contributor but he’s not gifted
Z Guthrie: almost a copy of his brother in that for 3-4 years looked incapable of cementing a spot so unlikely he’s in the talented bracket
Parfitt: makes his name as a tough tackling inside player
I don’t think we suffer from a ‘lack’ of top end talent but it isn’t the standout feature of why we win a lot of games
This has more to do with the AFL Media and the rubbish they spout as well as the in built advantages some Victorian clubs have than anything else. Every August we hear the AFL Media espouse the line that certain Victorian teams can't be overlooked as a flag threat because of their experience playing at the MCG in front of big crowds. I agree that as a business that's job is to make money it makes sense for the AFL to have the bigger Victorian teams that will draw a crowd play in the marquee games and timeslots but it doesn't make it less fair on the other teams. 2 games have been postponed because of covid when featuring Victorian clubs, yet West Coast were required to play. I realise that those were the rules teams agreed to and aren't arguing at the decision just pointing out the double standards that are common in the AFL.Which is weird given Victorian's usually barrack for the interstate club when it's a vic club vs a interstate club. Perhaps the exception to this rule is West Coast. But that would be it.
Interstate clubs think they have a rivalry with Vic clubs when none actually exists. Except with West Coast.
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You can't help getting beaten by a better team on the day. As long as he doesn't coach poorly on the day. He has done an enormous job rebuilding this list to make another GF in such a short space of time.Longmire is 1W 2L in GFs, wouldn't want to make it 3.
Heeney, Papley, Hayward not playing ????Swans wont be able to kick a winning score IMO.
Hawkins and Cameron v Buddy and McDonald
Buddy is shot, McDonald too inexperienced.
There is the game in a nut shell.
I need David King's tip, so I can back the opposition![]()
Will BT really be commentating?My tip....Brian Taylor will be nauseating....Swans in a tight one. Luke Parker to back up the taunting of Dylan Shiel with the match winner and Norm Smith.
Geelong are serial choke artists, and a bit soft.
Sydney grinds them out for a easier than expected win.