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To be honest I think it's pretty clear in the piece there's no performing veterans on North's list, and not just 'get some old blokes and everything will be fine'.

https://theshinboner.com/2024/04/23/what-minutes-played-by-age-says-about-every-afl-team-list-analysis-demographics/ This piece isn't all about North, or even mostly about North, but there are relevant parts. Those who read the non-North stuff regularly know about the minutes played by age...

Funny you mention that cause at the start of the year I got a call from one of the membership staff asking if I wanted to upgrade my membership from the standard adult GA for home and away. I was like, nah all good. I prefer to sit close to the front of level 3 so I can see everything going on...

Alright, Hawthorn post up: https://theshinboner.com/2024/04/22/trust-on-a-football-field-round-6-2024-north-melbourne-v-hawthorn-marvel-stadium-match-review/ This could have been about 8,000 words to be honest but it's all about trust. I didn't see any of it yesterday. From players to their...

It's been going on for a few weeks to be fair, I just didn't want to go with it until I was 100% confident it was genuinely a thing instead of just some errors here and there. I could have had a bunch more examples from previous weeks, but then it would have been about 10,000 words and 20 clips...

We are live with the Geelong post: https://theshinboner.com/2024/04/15/minimising-strengths-maximising-weaknesses-north-melbourne-round-5-2024-v-geelong/ There's been a bit of chat on it over the last few pages here and elsewhere, and it's been bugging me for a while but now I think there's...

Only part of this post is about North, but it's a project I've been working on for months: https://theshinboner.com/2024/04/10/introducing-every-team-structures-on-the-shinboner-afl-best-22-setups-analysis/ Backstory: I think the best 22 format is basically useless these days for figuring out...

Re the stats discussion, it's all about coming into their regular segments, on whatever platform, with a couple of grabs that create a headline, then retrofit the chat to suit. For example, last week you could have said, 'In 2024, North Melbourne is a significantly more efficient side at...

Whether anyone believes this or not may vary, but it actually helps me enjoy things more when I watch North. Backstory is that as a kid/teenager watching games I used to get super angry whenever bad things happened. Then actually roughly when I started working at North I realised that anger...

We are live with the Brisbane post: https://theshinboner.com/2024/04/06/midfield-movement-lessons-round-4-2024-north-melbourne-v-brisbane-lachie-neale-wardlaw-comben-mckercher-norwood/ A pretty simple one, focusing on what happened in the first half. Then some odds and ends on McKercher...

My first draft actually had a part about this to be honest. But the tl;dr was basically 'mistakes made in list build and development, can't fast track time now' so I binned it. No one needs to be reminded about that again :sweatsmile:

We are live with the Carlton post: https://theshinboner.com/2024/03/30/going-too-quick-round-3-2024-north-melbourne-v-carlton-mckay-curnow-clarkson-good-friday-turnovers-defence/ Four topics in this one: 'Going too quick' and what that actually looks like illustrated (with video) Unexpected...

Everything! :sweatsmile: The extra part of that as it relates to today is a lot of those North turnovers result in Carlton scores because the Blues players hadn't caught up with the play yet and were behind it. Once the turnover comes, those Blues players are suddenly in lots of space ahead of...

I was going to reply, but... ...covers it all really and saves me some time ha. I think it's an equal mix of part inevitable, part coaching, part on-field leadership, which is a cop out answer, but... Inevitability comes from a group needing to experience these types of things sometimes...

Lots of video to go through in the Fremantle post: https://theshinboner.com/2024/03/24/the-study-of-a-quarter-round-2-2024-north-melbourne-v-fremantle-marvel-stadium-luke-jackson-andrew-brayshaw-team-defence-tom-powell-dawson-davies-uniacke/ Instead of the normal full game focus, I wanted to...

We are live with the GWS post: https://theshinboner.com/2024/03/17/round-1-2024-north-melbourne-v-gws-starting-again-kallan-dawson-josh-goater-midfield-rotations-transition-defence/ A few of the topics, with accompanying video for most of it: Why it's so tricky to use as a guide of North's...

Somehow I got blown away and also burnt at the ground today, but either way here's the post for the St Kilda game: https://theshinboner.com/2024/03/03/2024-north-melbourne-pre-season-v-st-kilda-wind-wardlaw-team-defence-simpkin-forwards-duursma/ We have video and (poorly drawn) diagrams today...

There kind of is, but sits behind the Champion Data paywall: "Metres Gained (Assisted): Total metres gained by a teammate that receives an uncontested possession from your disposal." From memory Cunners was usually really high in this stat back when he was up and running.

I'm all for it, personal opinion is I love any creativity from stoppages. Mainly because it's the easiest part of the game to analyse given it's a set play but that's a bit of selfishness coming through haha. I didn't actually think of that element with Xerri basically being able to protect...

Friends, we are back. The link to the Match Sim post: https://theshinboner.com/2024/02/21/2024-match-simulation-v-collingwood-north-melbournes-fresh-start-simpkin-mckercher-fisher-sheezel-northball/ Used the semi-regular jump around format because there were a few different things I wanted to...

Well the above has saved me posting it myself so that is very handy. In the meantime, North relevant stuff I've done so far: https://theshinboner.com/2024/02/05/the-2024-afl-continuity-rankings/ This one is free for all, tracks every team based on how many minutes from their 2023 list is back...

I'm in, last year's team name Saved by Ziebell and overall rank 15,463. This year's team name is 76th Interchange

I wish it could be but with the way it clashes with 7cricket/general work responsibilities I can't watch enough of it to do it justice. For instance I didn't get to watch the Melbourne final until the Wednesday after and I still haven't watched all of the Adelaide game. Turns out I have to do...

A top 50 league! Congrats all.

Okely doke, post up after the Gold Coast game: Round 24, 2023 v Gold Coast: Summing up the season It's more of a season/list wrap than going too much in depth about the win. So we've got contract statuses, depth charts, minutes played by age, list demographics, all the fancy stuff really...

Unfortunately not, travelling around the country for work (poor me hey) meant no time at home to write between Saturday aftenoon and about right now. Back to normal service this weekend though with a post-game/season thingo after the GC game.