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Let's not forget that Voss is debuting as well as Simpson. I understand that the club has written to the AFL seeking permission to start with three on the interchange and two subs.

Nickname? “Homer” or “A” (as in ‘ey?) seem the prime candidates, but I was thinking “Mini” is a possibility too.

Got a source for that? Not arguing you're wrong: far from it. I'm just trying to find some definitive wording. E.g. The CD glossary is frustratingly vague: "Inside 50: Moving the ball from the midfield into the forward zone. Excludes multiple entries within the same chain of possession." The...

Does anyone know if it's registered as an I50 if the oppo intercept marks? I can imagine that accounting for our low I50 numbers.

This thread ended up being a lot more interesting/entertaining than I was expecting from the title.

Yeah, I think his analysis is incomplete in that he identifyies lack of forward half pressure as the problem. When the ball is live, the pressure is good, inside 50 at least. It's when oppo has control from a mark or a kick in that we zone off to allow (or even encourage) a kick to the least...

https://theshinboner.com/2024/04/17/todd-goldstein-v-tim-english-fremantles-ceiling-from-the-notebook-round-5-2024/ Shinboner with a (speculative, rather than analytical) take on our offense.

It’s a good article, and good on Schmook for building a competition-wide story out of access to Freo. But the the thing that worries me is the paragraph that follows Serong’s comment about travel: The proposed solution to the travel inequality is to make it easier for players not to have spend...

Why just have one more on the bench? Between 2011 and 2015, it was three on the bench and one sub. In 2016, the sub was ditched in favour of adding another to the bench. In 2021, we get a medical sub (converted to tactical in 2023) added on top of the 4 on the bench, and now there are calls to...

Sheesh. A bit rough on Brayshaw. He was my pick of the mids. He did some enormous things in the middle. Sure Serong had more of it, and slightly bettered Brayshaw in the clearances but pretty much every one of Andy's was hard earned (14 CP from 18 disposals, and they had more impact overall: 8...

5 Treacy 4 Pearce 3 Ryan 2 Brayshaw 1 Serong

I personally never put much stock in these super specific win-loss records. AO has had football since 2014. We've been a bottom 8 team from 2016 to 2021, with Port better over that period, and Adelaide better for parts of it. HGA to the SA teams and travel for Freo are always going to give the...

Don't know where else to put this, but has anyone else been getting a pop-up video in the corner of the page, that starts with an ad (powered by Ad Choices) for Western Power (screen shot below), and then goes on to one of a dozen or more different video collages of red carpet appearances and...

Seems pretty unfair to say this right after a game where Tabs won a free in the pocket precisely for a chase down tackle. No one’s going to claim he’s at Ballantine levels of forward pressure, but he has massively lifted his efforts in that area this season. I'm optimistic that if he happens...