Mega Thread 2026 Media & Miscellaneous Thread

[Kapow!!!]

Jeez the bloke played one of the best halves of footy I’ve ever seen a KPD play in that semi last year , give me another example of a KPD ( almost ) dragging a team to victory in a finals game

Doesn’t get talked about because we lost but it was an all time game for key defender in a final

Injuries and kicking sure he has issues but he’s a great backman

That second half from Pearce in the EF was bloody good. Gave us life when we had none.

 

[poshman]

I'm thinking you're maybe using intercept and rebound the same way here?
They're 2 skills in my view that are handy to have together but aren't the same thing.

All 3 of Pearce, Cox and Ryan are good interceptors, and I haven't checked the numbers but I'd suspect they're down in intercept numbers overall over the last year or two because it feels we've restructured to get some more offensive rebound and faster movement up the ground at the expense of the forced rush ball into a well set defensive framework.

Nice to have a good faith discussion with someone.

The intercept defender would ideally have solid disposal at the very least, so he can launch the rebounders or find safe options that let a team get control if that is required.

I am saying Pearce is missing two to three parts of the ingredients required to be an above average intercept defender. He is a very good lock down defender, or was.

The ingredients: Calm under pressure (especially in big games and the start of games - he has admitted this is a weakness), reliable disposal and availability. He also goes a long shot mark once or twice a game that should be a spoil. But that is one I will leave out as the other three are vital.

Cox and Ryan are better interceptors because their disposal is reliable.

 

[poshman]

That second half from Pearce in the EF was bloody good. Gave us life when we had none.

Yes it was, how was his first half?

And the mark from Mac at the death, have you watched the vision again? Pearce played a very good half that would have been exceptional if he made that contest, which he was 1m away from and was his role to make.

I can give people examples and timestamps, but when it comes to Pearce there seems to be a belief that he is an A grader when he is consistently nothing close to it.

As a lock down defender he was once a top three or top five lock down defender in the league. As an interceptor who needs to have reliable disposal and kill contests he is both nervy and unreliable.

 

[mad about it]

A piece of advice for everyone on this board.

Find a partner in life that loves you as much as poshman hates our captain

Hey Dockeroo, poshman couldn’t wait for season to start, to line our captain up again ? Think he mentioned last week he should be dropped ?

 

[PrancingPony]

Really good video from Gorringe here. He has a series where he travels to each club to tour and rank their facilities in comparison, only difference was our boys were down in Bunbury when this was filmed (right before Origin) so Dan and his team got the place to themselves.

He reckons of all the clubs he's visited so far ours was probably the best, reckons it had the best vibes for culture.

 

[estibador]

I'm surprised they still have communal showers, I thought those had gone out of fashion. 90's boarding school vibes.

 

[Minz]

Really good video from Gorringe here. He has a series where he travels to each club to tour and rank their facilities in comparison, only difference was our boys were down in Bunbury when this was filmed (right before Origin) so Dan and his team got the place to themselves.

He reckons of all the clubs he's visited so far ours was probably the best, reckons it had the best vibes for culture.

Never heard of Gorringe before, but automatically biased against him (assume he was that one) with that horrid t-shirt. And then spending like 20% of a 10 minute vid going through your own goals?

 

[PrancingPony]

Never heard of Gorringe before, but automatically biased against him (assume he was that one) with that horrid t-shirt. And then spending like 20% of a 10 minute vid going through your own goals?

Watching his own goals is a running joke on the DDF Cribs series where each club "stitches him up" by playing his highlights on the big screen or putting a big photo of him up, but he's pretty self aware about the fact he didn't have a great career, I suppose that bit is more for people who are already familiar with DDF though.

 

[anchor man]

Is this the room where we see the media outlets comments on the games!
I have looked for them, but no luck.

 

[Farrand]

Watching footy classified. Good to see that nothing changed in 25 years away and Freo hardly gets a mention.

 

[Minz]

Watching footy classified. Good to see that nothing changed in 25 years away and Freo hardly gets a mention.

Like all of those AFL or Kayo ads. See Freo? Yeah nah

 

[Farrand]

That was also noted. Living in bloody WA and I hardly see Freo.

 

[Minz]

That was also noted. Living in bloody WA and I hardly see Freo.

Gives me the s**ts every time I see an ad. Like a little bit of eggshell in your scrambled eggs; just a tiny irritation, a microaggression from the AFL saying “pssst, hey you, yeah, you… you don’t count”.

Bastards

 

[Quazar2]

Watching footy classified. Good to see that nothing changed in 25 years away and Freo hardly gets a mention.

Gives me the s**ts every time I see an ad. Like a little bit of eggshell in your scrambled eggs; just a tiny irritation, a microaggression from the AFL saying “pssst, hey you, yeah, you… you don’t count”.

Bastards

I get it's annoying, but I've personally become apathetic and avoid those types of shows like the plague. Your mental health will thank you, it's hard enough

 

[Minz]

I get it's annoying, but I've personally become apathetic and avoid those types of shows like the plague. Your mental health will thank you, it's hard enough

Oh, heck, I never watch the shows! It's ads that come on when I'm watching other things.

 

[freo84]

Never heard of Gorringe before, but automatically biased against him (assume he was that one) with that horrid t-shirt. And then spending like 20% of a 10 minute vid going through your own goals?

Hes hilarious.

He takes the piss and isn't shy when he makes a bad call. I genuinely enjoy his content.

But I understand that he's not for everyone and that's okay.

 

[swanny1234]

Hes hilarious.

He takes the piss and isn't shy when he makes a bad call. I genuinely enjoy his content.

But I understand that he's not for everyone and that's okay.

I think he’s great, particularly how he trolls the mainstream footy media that get so wound up by him and take him so seriously.

 

[Vimal Anand]

 

[Vimal Anand]

 

[Lach72]

 

[Andy Brennan]

Reckon Lyon is talking shit. He could have brought in players that would have helped our flag push but didn't? Why not? Did he noy want to win? Reeks of Accepting Mediocrity™

 

[Quazar2]

wow. Better get me some red cordial

 

[Jezzitizle]

Nice stats. Will probably really struggle to maintain it as teams go to work on it.

 

[Stevooo3940]

Watching footy classified. Good to see that nothing changed in 25 years away and Freo hardly gets a mention.

I watched 360 last night and Gerard literally went through this weeks fixture and gave a quirky stat on each one and literally just skipped the dockers v tigers game. Every other gamer got one. Its like they do it on purpose and i dont mind it. Talk about us in 10 weeks when we are 11-1

 

[Barnabus]

Nice stats. Will probably really struggle to maintain it as teams go to work on it.

Geelong managed to counter it from the second quarter onwards. I love the game plan so far but hopefully we can also develop an attacking switch backup (Hawthorn do this particularly well). Allows us to manoeuvre the opposition defence when they block up the handball game.