Recent content by Big Dub

Can't or won't? They take the divide pretty seriously still.

John Who , we might owe you an apology.

As crazy as it sounds, the current system was introduced to REMOVE the need for umpires/ mro to determine intent of infringing players. There still remains the intentional/ careless grading of an offence, but this is in relation to contact not injury. The tribunal did try to half bring back...

Edwards was a half back last year before moving into midfield mid-season-ish. I'd expect him to be played as a mid in SANFL, but probably starts as a half back with stints in the middle at AFL level.

Buckley's comments were made with a positive spin, and he actually named his "no names". This probably just makes the same point as StickerMan . The players who are driving our results/ improvement are up and comers who haven't yet made a name for themselves. Which suggests that the improvement...

When you don't have time to do anything but work off instinct/ react, you do what you have trained yourself/ been trained to do. By setting large (now happening) and consistently applied (not happening) punishments for dangerous techniques, players will train less dangerous techniques. So when...

His best football will be a combination of hard running and marking the ball at its highest point on a lead. Which is fine. He should be using his strengths to maximise his impact. He's also not shirking the contested marking attempts (either taking them or bringing the ball to grounds for...

Well, if Charlie Curnow topped the league last year with 2.58 contested marks per game, surely anything below 7 is below average (checks maths, scratches head)?

This is the list of AFC players who have decided to leave/ left that I am loyal to/ still like:

The AFL needs to know how important the issue is to Vic media before making a decision. Would hate to go too soft or too hard and then face criticism.

At the end of the day, footy is about kicking more goals than the opposition. For an offensive player like Rankine, where he should play primarily rests on whether he creates more goals (ie goals + goal assists) playing midfield or forward. Opposition goal prevention isn't really his main...

Which assumes there is such a thing as a "match winning" ruck . . .

If you look at just stats, Laird was elite in disposals, clearances and tackles and averaged over 300m per game at 73% disposal efficiency. That probably makes him elite, or very near to, for a mid. Using in-game impact*, Stats Insider has Laird ranked as the 26th best mid and 47th best player...

Strachan is a far worse ruck than ROB, but not the worst 2nd ruck rolling around. So it probably just depends on how little impact you think rucks have to winning games (Stachan has been involved in 1 AFL win from 5 games, winning against North in 2021. ROB 39 wins from 100 games)

Did Welsh test? Wasn't he right up there in the 20m sprint at last year's testing?