Mega Thread Non-Freo AFL Discussion 2023

[MadMundy]

Geelong losing and potentially smashing West Coast today? It's a good day.

 

[Belnakor]

Weller with 29 very impressive coming back after his knee.

 

[mike91]

Did John Raplh just say he expects Newcombe to get a $1500 fine despite Switta getting to 2 weeks last year? Ah yes, the good ol' VFL

 

[royale with cheese]

You don't think it's supposed to be a 50-50 ball? Seriously?

Why do you think the wafl binned it? Commonsense goes a long why here

The point of the bounce is to send the ball to its highest possible elevation. Ball ups don’t do this, and their predictability is a big part of the reason midfield congestion got so bad.

I don’t care what the WAFL does. It’s a third rate league

 

[mike91]

The point of the bounce is to send the ball to its highest possible elevation. Ball ups don’t do this, and their predictability is a big part of the reason midfield congestion got so bad.

I don’t care what the WAFL does. It’s a third rate league

My goodness........

 

[royale with cheese]

My goodness........

Why do you think the bounce exists in the first place? Have you ever rucked?

 

[mike91]

Why do you think the bounce exists in the first place? Have you ever rucked?

Please stop sir. You lost me at chaos ball an hour ago

 

[royale with cheese]

Please stop sir. You lost me at chaos ball an hour ago

You obviously haven’t rucked. You emit 5’9” energy.

 

[Chief Brody]

Weller with 29 very impressive coming back after his knee.

Lots of kick outs, but still was good

 

[Chief Brody]

Would love too see buddy equally criticised for being a dirty grub as much as he is celebrated for being a gun. One of the dirtiest of the current times

 

[FreoRicci]

Van Rooyen with 3?

 

[mike91]

Did John Raplh just say he expects Newcombe to get a $1500 fine despite Switta getting to 2 weeks last year? Ah yes, the good ol' VFL

Yep, $1,500 fine. Vfl in full throttle and the media won't question it

 

[holybishop]

FINALLY! The cliff has come for geelong

Strong 2016 Fremantle vibes. But they pinched one right at the end so they shouldn't feel bad.

 

[Taylor]

Geelong score a total of one point from clearances against GC and lose.

GC near double the Cats centre clearances.

Geelong have to play the game from their defensive fifty.

They come up against a bull ruck in Witts and they get schooled.

We need to get better before we play GC or Miller and Rowell will cut us apart.

 

[freodog]

Van Rooyen with 3?

He would have looked great in Purple

 

[Ge3ks]

Van Rooyen with 3?

'He finished with four score involvements and six tackles to go with his three majors'

Roo beauty: Dees young gun excites as Grundy steps up

After a long wait for his AFL debut, Jacob van Rooyen kicked three goals in Melbourne's big win over Sydney

www.afl.com.au

 

[s_wd6]

'He finished with four score involvements and six tackles to go with his three majors'

Roo beauty: Dees young gun excites as Grundy steps up

After a long wait for his AFL debut, Jacob van Rooyen kicked three goals in Melbourne's big win over Sydney

www.afl.com.au

Four score involvements to go with his 3 goals? So 7? Or 4 score involvements that involve 3 of his goals?

 

[Taylor]

That's the three goals he kicked and one goal assist.

 

[Big Animal]

He would have looked great in Purple

I wanted him badly. Amiss and JVR - tall forwards sewn up for a decade in one draft. Plus a Johnson to replace Mundy.

 

[largebus]

The Easter Monday "blockbuster" will be a cripple fight between the bottom two clubs.

 

[Taylor]

What a difference a day makes though, we sit one win outside the top eight and without that we would be one of only two clubs yet to register a win arguing percentages in the mid 80s for last place on the ladder.

 

[Snuffaluphagus]

The thing that could make a difference this year is Hawkins starting to break down. I'm not sure the next time they have to do a complete Hawks or WC rebuild from the ground up but they are not the top 4 certainties everyone has them out to be.

I dont get to be right often so I'm going to bump myself for actually getting something right.

Hawkins is so underdone he hasnt left the butcher yet and last year was their mountain to climb. They might turn it around a bit but they arent in contention this year IMO

 

[mattis117]

This is why 'who has the hardest draw' is a load of crap, there's so much change between seasons. We may be fortunate to get the cats twice if they truly have fallen right off.

 

[Taylor]

It shouldn't be too difficult to build a little thing that measures where your opponent was on the ladder prior to the round starting, then adapting a scoring system of inverse ladder position and totalling where your side's current position is relative to the rest of the competition based on where each team's opponents have been.

So for Freo, we've been beaten by two teams ahead of us, including the #1 side in the league right now.
We went into round 2 on 14 points against North Melbourne who were on 8 points.
Beaten, then into round three on 17(Stk)+14(Nth) = 31 points against the Eagles on 14(Nth)+9(GWS) = 23 points.

Next round we start 18(Stk)+12(Nth)+7(WC) = 37 points.

Average per week should be about 9 points per week for an even spread of teams, 9x3 is 27 so we are currently +37% difficulty.

Those should balance and settle into an average as more weeks pass, eventually showing which teams are batting above their average and which are beating up on weak sides to look good early.

There's not enough data yet.

 

[freoextra]

Lazy kick by Blakey

What did you think of his game?, genuinely interested and did not watch the game.