Steve Dore
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How can you ever be wrong if you assign your own secret meanings to common English words?
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The bolded simply isn't enough to score against the best defences in the AFL. Not every score can come from a turnover. If we do turn the ball over, it's easy, we've got a huge numbers and space advantage against a team that isn't set up and we should naturally be able to score.
But sometimes we'll turn the ball over in our D50 against a team that is sitting back on us. The plan can't be to chip our way through as the defence opens up, because the best defences don't open up.
This is how we played in 2017. We freewheeled a bit in attack which worked great against s**t teams we could simply outclass, but was useless against a well organised defence who worked together to stifle us and make us turn the ball over or simply kick to a contest we were naturally outnumbered at because of the opposition +1 or +2.
A good offence will draw players out of position to find space. It's not about seeing a round hole and becoming a round peg, it's about moving the defence around through leading, blocking, dummy runs and mismatches. It's about could of quick kicks to unlock the defence that you can make because you know where your teammates will be leading to, and you can trust that your teammates will be there to support you.
Everything you say about defence, supporting, moving as one to fill holes, pressuring the opposition into making mistakes, sticking to your assignments, has to apply to having the ball in hand as well. You don't react to changes in the defensive shape, you generate changes in the defensive shape by moving players around and moving the ball around. Proactive, not reactive.
If teams know we can't move the ball to save our lives, they'll sit back on us and grind us out week in week out, just like we saw in 2018.
How can you ever be wrong if you assign your own secret meanings to common English words?
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Which is the same as me saying "Jay Schulz was a real spud" and then when someone takes me to task over it to say "In the context that I use spud it means courageous, a strong contested mark and a dead-eye set shot".... I’m defining the word in the context I was using it.
Which is the same as me saying "Jay Schulz was a real spud" and then when someone takes me to task over it to say "In the context that I use spud it means courageous, a strong contested mark and a dead-eye set shot".
If you use words in a context that nobody else uses them in then you are pretty much making up your own meanings.
Which is the same as me saying "Jay Schulz was a real spud" and then when someone takes me to task over it to say "In the context that I use spud it means courageous, a strong contested mark and a dead-eye set shot".
If you use words in a context that nobody else uses them in then you are pretty much making up your own meanings.
Last night i watched our win over reigning premier Richmond at AO on a long w/end night game.We were pretty formless in offence in 2018 and we just had zero answer for a well structured defence. We only cracked the premiership zone 100 point barrier 3 times. That's absolutely disastrous.
AHHHH i get it, the old Formlessness over Functionlessness debate
You're right, saying formless doesn't mean formless is nothing like saying spud doesn't mean potato.It wasn’t that bad. Granted not the default definition but not completely made up either like in your example.
You're right, saying formless doesn't mean formless is nothing like saying spud doesn't mean potato.
A man well known for his command of the English language.I’m using it in the same context as Sun Tzu ....
Correct, you clearly don't understand the words I have used in the context I am using.BREAKING: Same word used in different ways depending on context.
Correct, you clearly don't understand the words I have used in the context I am using.
This has to be one of the best off-season threads in a long while.
This has to be one of the best off-season threads in a long while.
When Wingard does the Norm Smith and Brownlow double next year it'll be all "when I said Wingard I meant Amon and you idiots should have understood that from the context".How can you ever be wrong if you assign your own secret meanings to common English words?
A man well known for his command of the English language.
Round is a shapeFormlessness is the state I've returned from Xmas break in.
You know that quoting Sun Tzu doesn't really make you look like an intellectual, right?You know he didn't translate his words into English himself, right? As long as the person who translated it had a command of both the English and Chinese languages, and knew what the intent and context was, what's the problem?
You know that quoting Sun Tzu doesn't really make you look like an intellectual, right?
You argue that the word formless in the context of a discussion on form in the game of Aussie rules doesn't mean what 99.9% of the English speaking population take it to mean in that context and then to support this you quote something written in the context of battles between armies using lethal force.
I agree with JimmyBeerCans, it's less about context and more about the vibe.