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Feels like the last 4 Anzac day eve games have played out the same way, where they throw the kitchen sink at us for 2-3 quarters, we absorb it, then just roll over the top of them for a relatively comfortable victory: The good: Disco obviously. Don't think I had him becoming our forward...

Obviously you've got to nail the top draft picks to build a team around, and that's going to take time, but you've also got to find some players with lower draft picks to fill the team out, and trade effectively on the basis of needs, and North have failed badly at both of those. Here are the...

In a similar vein, the two lowest possession counts ever recorded are from this North Melbourne vs South Melbourne game in round 1, 1965: https://afltables.com/afl/stats/games/1965/121619650419.html I was thinking there might have been some difference with how stats were recorded in those...

Comfortably the worst game we've played since at least 2020. The only competition would be the Brisbane and Essendon games last year, but I think ths shades them. Good: - Chandler, Langdon, Riv all tried hard. TMac played okay after a shaky start. That's about it. Bad: I think "we didn't...

I think about this game a lot:

Forget the cocaine, lads. Just snort this guy's dandruff:

Don't know how we won that one. It never really felt like we were clearly on top or in control of the game, but we just kept finding the goals when we needed them. I thought both teams were pretty mediocre in the first half, but it turned into a great game in the second half. A lot of our wins...

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We've had substitutes in the AFL for over a decade now, and it just struck me that I can't remember a single memorable performance a player has put on as sub. You'd think by now that someone would have come on and kicked a few goals to turn a match, for example, but I don't ever remember that...

It doesn't matter whether he was contesting for the ball, or bracing for impact, or whatever. I don't think it was his intent to lay Cunnigham out, but he did everything else wrong. He left the ground, he led with his shoulder and elbow, he missed the ball, he made heavy contact to the head and...

Pretty dominant performance all things considered. Hawks had a lot of the play in 2nd and 3rd quarters, but never really looked like challenging us. Conceding only 5 goals with Lever and May down is an incredible result, really. Unbeaten in our last 9 matches versus the Hawks now, which makes a...

In defence of Sparrow, I think he might have been asked to play a negating half forward role which explains why he wasn't used in the midfield much and didn't get many touches. According to someone on DL, he led the game for these esoteric stats like "pressure acts" and "sprints" and I'm sure...

AI, obiously.

Good: Forward connection much better. The forwards seemed to be able to find more space compared to last week, and we were actually able to hit targets in there, which was nice. Part of it is obviously that the Dogs aren't a patch on Sydney defensively and gave us a lot more time and space...

I used to like football, but then they changed what football was, and now what I like isn't football, and what is football seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to YOU!