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    Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach (Part 3) - Re-Signed to 2027...

    Unless teams 1-4 used to get an advantage out of coasting/resting players in the last round while 5-8 couldn't afford to do that, but now that advantage is gone? Feels like a stretch
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    Review Season 2025 a mixed bag

    Overall I think it was a great year. At the end of last year it felt like we were like 8 players short of being a contender, whereas now I feel like we're only one player short (being an A-grade mid, I'm of the 'rucks don't matter too much' mentality). I also think that "losing a semi-final" is...
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    Review Semi final vs Hawthorn - Ugly, Historically Embarrassing and Pathetic

    That's a really good point, were we too timid or was it that the intensity was higher and suddenly oppo players were that much harder to shrug off? Seems crazy that a professional footballer would suddenly become twice as fierce at tackling in a final but I could believe it - still it seems way...
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    Player Watch Izak Rankine Part II

    It certainly does, it comes under "general deterrence". A court might decide that lots of people doing something = greater penalty required.
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    Player Watch Izak Rankine Part II

    It makes perfect sense for the media to report more about Rankine than the others - one of the top team's best players coming into finals. What frustrates me is that it seems like everybody is handling this incident perfectly reasonably but the engagement/ragebait-driven media and social media...
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    Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach (Part 3) - Re-Signed to 2027...

    Because sometimes we learn more when time passes
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    Opinion Matthew Nicks: Adelaide's Coach (Part 3) - Re-Signed to 2027...

    Looking at our player changes from last year to this year and factoring TT's injury, I wonder if we really underachieved in 2024 or we just overachieved in 2023. Our team this year is so much better and I feel like if injuries reduced us to 2024-quality we would go out in straight sets and...
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    Review R21: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Hawthorn

    Obviously corruption is possible especially with all the gambling money around. I'm talking about thinking a professional umpire just hates your team and wants them to lose. It's like thinking an assistant coach who used to play for essendon will go and deliberately tank carlton or something...
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    Review R21: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Hawthorn

    Man, watching Garry Lyon looking with such longing and envy towards Tex you really got the sense of a man who feels his best years are behind him. They need more commentators with eg major depressive disorder or other mental health conditions on just to bring some rawness and emotional chaos to...
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    Review R21: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Hawthorn

    Good Dawson's second quarter Rankine as the deepest forward in the last quarter and in the forward line in general Berry played a great game Bond and Zac Taylor played well again, love Taylor his handballs under pressure are always good, got a 2v1 aerial contest mid second quarter and got the...
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    Review R18: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly vs. Western Bulldogs

    I just watched the replay: Good Players winning the ball where you just don't think they can, especially the young players. Curtin, michelanny, Zac Taylor all had a few. Was really impressed with Taylor he had a hand in a few goals and did well when outnumbered a couple of times. I'm glad he's...
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    The destruction of our forward line pillars

    Guys how are you not seeing this? Pretending to be unable to drop Tex, targeting him with a majority of our forward entries ... Nicks is emulating the great crazy man and getting ready to pull a Blight/Modra 1998. Tex will be a late omission the day before we win an away QF on our way to the...
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    Player Watch Wayne Milera

    Is there a way for supporters to complain to the club about throwing the players under the bus? I would be so much happier seeing them stick by the players more at least publicly. Same for Rachelle last year
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    Premiership medal for players who have contributed during the year

    People forget that sport is about entertainment, narrative, excitement, escapism ... not justice! Bob Murphy not getting a medal might be "unfair", but so what? It gave us the really A+ moment of Bevo inviting Murphy up on the stage, which probably heaps of dogs fans will remember for the rest...
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    Do you find the commentary over dramatic?

    It's probably happening to every sport, and it's not just commentary but live as well. I watched part of an ODI between Australia and India from 2003 on youtube and it was funny comparing it to today. The commentary is mainly a couple of old guys watching the game and chiming in every now and...
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