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That's the first academy game I've watched this year, and I thought it was an impressive performance. But it was based on team cohesion and even contribution rather than standout performances by any individual. I thought the team collectively showed a good understanding of space and angles...

This is my gut feeling - it probably is testable but I haven't tried to gather the data and am not sure how you'd go about it - but I reckon the amount of marketing Heeney (and Mills) has been used for has remained around the same. We know that Buddy got a large chunk of the marketing budget in...

Was that the 20 mins in the first quarter, third quarter or fourth quarter?

Except he didn’t play in the 2005 GF. I think you’re thinking of his goal in the 2012 GF. And it was definitely in the side, not the back, and more of a nudge than an outright push.

Your thoughts echo mine. Like you, I don't place much stock in how the media rates us (except to the extent it influences the amount of coverage we get in the Vic-centric media). So I was amused by this week's assessment rather than annoyed by it. But amused I was. A week ago the big...

That’s a shame. I didn’t see the incident watching live so hard to comment. Does anyone know if this is just a VFLW ban or does it carry through to the AFLW? We only have two more VFLW matches this year, so if it’s just VFLW, does it carry forward to next year? If she has to serve the remainder...

The Blakey one is outstanding (and especially from a four year old). The other one I really like is Rampe's, because it captures something of his essence, rather than looking as if it could be anyone.

There's going to be some decent players struggling to get a game for our AFLW team. Pretty much everyone playing today is miles ahead of anyone who played in our debut season - obviously a lot of those players have improved significantly since then. But even compared to last season the likes...

So we could have Harley Reid playing for us in due course.

I realise the opposition isn't AFL standard, but that was some remarkable footy the Swans played in that first quarter. So slick, cohesive, so accurate. If our AFLW B&F was a three woman race last year (at least until Morphett got injured), it will be at least a four woman race this year. Ham...

So if you don't subscribe to the Hun you can't watch...? At least that means I don't have to choose between the boys and the women!

Was this game streamed? Had a quick look but couldn't find anything. And how about the upcoming boys' academy game? Is that streamed, even if the girls' game wasn't? I've found the match in the fixture list in the Coates Talent League app but there wasn't an obvious link to a stream. Not...

No King?

I wouldn't be surprised if it's already a done deal, and they're just waiting for the perfect time to announce it. I have an image in my brain that I can't shed - Logan, Errol, Chad, Tommy Mac, Jimmy R, possibly Ollie and a few others sitting in a circle on stools, crooning some a cappella Al...

I mostly agree with this. I think there's an element of the media in general (and King in particular) shouting our praises too loudly based off the limited evidence of the first couple of weeks, and now swinging the pendulum too far the other way. Our last two matches haven't been great, but...

I read assertive suggestions that Weddle made his preference to stay in Victoria pretty clear to recruiters. If this is true, dismay over us not selecting him is as pointless as dismay over not picking Cyril Rioli.

If we're poor on defending turnover, that's likely related to our attacking mindset prowess. It's very hard to defend turnover when you do so in the middle of the ground, trying to pinpoint a pass that is then intercepted. The team is in attack mode and so the defence is out of shape, and the...

I agree our team is letting in too many goals but I’m not convinced that is solely (or even mostly) attributable to the back six (or seven).

References to 'rounds' of picks is silly (as I commented in another context, in another thread). I don't have an issue with a slight recalibration of the cost of matching bids, but if they are going to designate a certain pick has to be used as part of the match, it makes sense to make it a...

https://www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/1105895/risk-v-reward-aflw-clubs-state-league-dilemma This article from Bastiani somewhat addresses the question we've been pondering about the role of the VFLW in preparing (or not) AFLW players.

Only four? Which GF do we lose?

In all likelihood he’ll be shy of 200. Most games he can play in a season is 27 (though that’s a hard way to win or even play in GFs). He’s on 72 games now, with the potential of 22 more for the rest of this season. So (if my arithmetic is correct) the maximum he could be on at the end of this...

It is weird that a Perth based station, intent on luring players “home” wouldn’t bother to get their names correct. Particularly when both players have fairly uncommon names.

And Brandon Jack standing next to Towers. Is that Jake Brown in the bottom left hand corner?

Thanks for posting TW. You may be more clued in than we Swans supporters given your club has been involved in the AFLW and VFLW for much longer. How do most of the AFLW listed players of the big clubs spend the 35 weeks that the AFLW doesn’t run if they don’t, as a rule, play state level...

So I’m finding this VFLW / AFLW thing a bit confusing. With the men it’s clear it serves as a reserves competition for the AFL clubs as the seasons run (nearly) concurrently. But for the women it seems like a second AFLW competition (but without the WA and SA teams. I had kinda a xpected there...

Any discussion about “first round picks” is daft because there’s a huge difference between pick 1 and pick 18 yet both are first round picks. That’s just a general observation, not specific to King and Cornes’s discussion, which I’ve not listened to (yet).

A "work invested" lens was once applied to a Northern Academy product when GWS were denied access to Todd Marshall. I don't recall the exact details, but I think he'd spent some time overseas in his teens, maybe pursuing cricket, and although his parents' residence was in the Giants' zone for...

On which SEN shows did they talk about this? I listened to the first minute or so of Phil Davis (on Whately, I think, though Whately wasn’t on today) because I was alerted by the article quoting Phil saying Errol’s made a mistake by not signing for three. Was it on other shows too?

kinda?