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It's time to recognise how great this current team is
When looking at the achievements of the team in the past 12 months their achievements are starting to stack up into what represents an era of greatness. The framing around the team has made the response to this team feel Luke-warm at best. Former players in particular have been slamming the... -
How has Marcus Stoinis continued to be picked?
PS I'm not going to claim this myself; I saw it posted on social media, it was on the Cricket Stats Scholar FB page. I've worded it myself here aside from the stats. In his first 2 yrs (8) ODIs he averaged 86 with the bat with a 146* and another 50 for a total of 345 runs, with 4 not outs... -
Toast Carlton Bigfooty Board Player of The Year
I've been tracking the autopsy threads through the season and marked down the top 5 players in the votes after each game to find out our player of the year. I did it mostly as a fun way to analyse how we all viewed the players across the season round-by-round. Maybe it will change your... -
Grandfathering players into the test team through ODI cricket
Why is this something we're seemingly not doing anymore? Picking a young up and comer in the ODI team to get some international exposure and a taste of the highest level of competition before being thrown into test cricket. It isn't really done anymore, seemingly now young players are going... -
Opinion Bonus points
Obviously a big topic for years is how to open the game up. Ideas often get brought up like interchange caps, starting positions and things like that. In my opinion it ultimately it comes down to the coaches wanting to play defensively and mitigate risk at all times. An idea I have to...- Coops93
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Hi all. I'm sure I'm not the only one who enjoys a dram now and then, so let's share our experiences and recommendations or ask questions about something you might be interested in buying. If this thread does generate interest I might do more with the OP, like how scotch is made or some...- Coops93
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We need to have a talk about Nathan Lyon taking 500 test wickets
What's going on with him? Since Birmingham where he took his last 5-for he's taken 14 wickets at an average 51.42 with a strike rate of 107 through 6 matches (12 innings). England noticeably played him differently after the first test, playing on the back foot as much as possible and very... -
Prediction Players on our list who will play in our next Grand Final
Derm was talking about this on AFL 360, basically asking who do you look at on our list and think "I can see you on the stage after the Grand Final". I think this could be a good exercise in examining how close our list is to being settled and able to develop the cohesion Judd was talking about... -
Opinion Carlton and the Long Sleeve Guernsey
On the weekend apparently 7 Carlton players wore a long sleeve Guernsey, this drew the ire of a couple in the media. Most notably Howard Kotton and Dave Hughes Is it really that big a deal? I don’t understand what the “bad message” is? On top of that, who actually cares? Surely it’s down to... -
Play Nice Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin retrospectively awarded 2012 Brownlow Medal
Now that Jobe Watson has handed back the medal who should it be awarded to, if anyone? Should it simply go to the runners up? Should it be vacated and have no winner in 2012? Another option worth looking at imo is that it should be recounted with each Essendon game being a "bye" with all stats...- Coops93
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Equalisation in the AFL
This thought occurred to me during Hawthorns previous match. I've heard this said many times before, but it generally goes something like this: "There domination is even more impressive in the day and age. As the league is set up in a way that is supposed to stop 1 team from dominating over a...