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    AFL Toast RND 5: Vanquishing Demons Whilst Donning Red Shorts

    The interesting part about the chip-mark game plan from yesterday is that I was under the impression we were trying to move away from that. Yesterday seemed more balanced however, with more intent to spread the ground instead of simply retain possession. It was nice to finally see leads...
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    AFL Player 44: Archer Day-Wicks

    The ability to cover the ground and appetite for physicality is a rare mix for us of late. This alone gets him in the team. Plenty of upside.
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    AFL Player 5: Elijah Tsatas - dropped 😱

    It was a reasonable baseline game first-up. A few good moments and a few teachable moments. Disposal was fine, within his means for the most part. It would be interesting to see tap-to numbers compared to VFL. I would guess they would indicate his low clearance numbers. Does need to keep...
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    Game Day Round 24 Pt 2: Gold Campaigners v Essendon, People First Stadium, 27/8/25 7.20pm AEST

    My vote is on Nguyen
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    Game Day Round 24 Pt 2: Gold Campaigners v Essendon, People First Stadium, 27/8/25 7.20pm AEST

    At this stage in his career, you would only let him go if that wanted to (not sure where he ends up next year). For all his faults, you never question his professionalism and prep. You know what you still get each week.
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    Game Day Round 24 Pt 2: Gold Campaigners v Essendon, People First Stadium, 27/8/25 7.20pm AEST

    Our structure consistently looks poor because a player gets sucked into a contest they cant impact. Teams are able to work through that one out of position player and then its uncontested down the field as we scramble. That should be the focus for the preseason. The players need to build that...
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    Game Day Round 24 Pt 2: Gold Campaigners v Essendon, People First Stadium, 27/8/25 7.20pm AEST

    Don't even blame the players. This was an embarrassing fixturing mistake by the AFL. Players know there is less than nothing to play for, away from home, with a bunch of players that wont be in the team next year. Add that its Wednesday and just like any low motivation employee, they would be...
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    Game Day Round 19: Essendon v GWS, Marvel Stadium, 17/7/25 7.30pm AEST

    Make that 3, Durham concussion.
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    Game Day Round 19: Essendon v GWS, Marvel Stadium, 17/7/25 7.30pm AEST

    Laverde has such questionable positioning in aerial contests. Even if Stringer didnt sit on his head he wasnt going to impact the ball.
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    AFL Autopsy RND18: Beaten in a Crap Show

    Its very easy to coach when your players are executing. A real coach makes changes to help his players when they are struggling.
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    AFL Autopsy RND18: Beaten in a Crap Show

    The confusing part to me, and i cant tell if its player ability or player driven, but we make attempts to free up our poor user senior players to receive the ball. We would be a much more coherent team if every time McGrath or Laverde touched the ball it was Johnson or Clarke instead. Tsatas...
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    AFL Autopsy RND18: Beaten in a Crap Show

    This game deserves the full melt. Almost all the young players struggled to touch the ball tonight, and all the senior players butchered it. Unexplainably, there were no positional changes through the night to try and get them into the game. Disgustingly absent coaching and horrific from most...
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    Game Day Round 18: Richmond v Essendon, MCG, 12/7/25 7.35pm AEST

    To be fair, they were mostly out of congestion. The real question is why does he spend so much time on the bench every game in the seniors. Less than 60% and the sub has nearly caught him.
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    AFL Player 1: Andrew "Pidge" McGrath (c)

    The stats that would be most relevant for McGrath are: turnovers into opposition scores forward kick retention rate handballs resulting in next possession turnover (someone elses problem). The problem with listing normals stats are that they dont shoe the consistent disposal issues that dont...
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    AFL Autopsy RND 14: Chewed Up and Spat Out By the Cats

    I feel for Blackiston. Debut of nightmares and it wasnt entirely his fault. Couldn't of been picked for a worse game to debut in. Poor bloke was nowhere near ready and performed as expected.
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