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15 games each might be hyperbole, but if you pencil in 3-5 games management for each of our veterans next year then that already frees up at least a seasons worth of games to rotate various kids through. Add in the supposed 5 person bench and I think it's fair to expect that we would be able to...

I think that's the kind of thing that's really cool in theory, but if you try to force it then it just feels weird and doesn't quite work. This goofy little song is a part of our heritage, better to work with it than to try and invent an artificial replacement for it imo.

Hit/Miss should only be in relation to what you were aiming for. Ceglar wasn't recruited to be the superstar first choice ruckman, he was recruited to be a solid back-up. I would contend that he fits that bill perfectly. Higgins is definitely more of a miss, unfortunately, because there was a...

You could absolutely do it at a Cats theme park, where the vibe wouldn't be as serious so no-one is really getting slighted. Make the dodgems look like ride on lawnmowers and name the ride after GAS.

It's not far enough that I had to leave as early as I did, but NSW keeps a really weird "train" timetable (noting that all trains are currently buses). I'll be in Melbourne around 7.

I'm unable to sleep on the overnight coach to Melbourne and really hoping that I'm not doing this to myself for the sake of witnessing another vintage Chris Scott final. Let's see something new.

Amateur hour here. This is the actual trailer, not that it's hard to find.

To be honest with how many moving parts a single footy team has, let alone trying to accomodate for the opposition, it's incredible that there are any recognisable game plans/styles that are consistently implemented over the course of the season. Extremely complex systems processing a ridiculous...

There's a documentary that (I think) is still available on Netflix called AlphaGo - this is the trailer. Brilliant movie for a number of reasons, but one of the smaller points it raises is the way that people will intuitively use margin/score as a proxy for how likely win or loss is - and how...

Trying to copy Richmond is an exercise in pointlessness, you won't be a better Richmond than they are. The key to beating them is to understand the way they're playing and why - it has less to do with winning the game themselves and more to do with making the opposition lose. If you let them...

Mike Brady performing to an empty MCG while backup vocals are simultaneously performed in the Gabba is a perfect and almost assuredly unintended metaphor for this season.

Wet weather is huge for Richmond, unfortunately. I feel so little confidence going into this. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves, year after year, in an uncaring universe? Anyway I'll leave this here. Go cats, not sure I'll be online much today.

If you compare to private industries, or even some senior public servant position, AFL coaches are under grossly disproportionate scrutiny relative to that pay packet. And this pressure and scrutiny would also make it harder to tap out at times. It's not an easy thing to publicly humiliate...

Can't wait to look back on this in a decade as that time the US President went on Twitch to stream some games of Among Us.

Wild that Gil has an app with real time updates on everyone's Covid test status. That's enough to drive someone mad with paranoia.

Thanks, I hate it

For a second I didn't realise Fleer was just in front of another umpire and his ears were stressing me out

The unearned confidence is a beautiful thing, and I love the idea of posting with that kind of heedless swagger... But at the same time the sentiment of treating the premiership as if it is already ours makes me physically recoil.

Just offer them Guthrie and omit the fact that it's Zac.

I'm sorry to hear that was your experience. I wouldn't trade having been there for anything personally, but certainly my daughters birth was very idyllic.

In an ideal world we would have one thread for Chris Scott and another for the beard.

Are West Australians okay?

Hasn't been his best year in any sense, but he has been good in the finals. I'm very reluctant to draw anything from immaterial factors, but there's no way in hell he isn't out there to do everything physically possible to drag the team forwards.

If you want a good example of the infinitely fragile Richmond supporter ego in action, this Facebook thread is a good example (also if you use FB the page is worth following, they post good stuff). The page literally has Richmond players as its header image, and if you look over the posts...

Thanks to that fake sounds of the game Maccas ad our forward half work is only the second worst thing I've seen this evening.

It's easy to put the blame on them for kicking in hope, but Richmond were playing a defensive structure with the objective of forcing them into that dilemma. Personally I would rather see them try to set up long range shots on goal in that situation, but that's more from the perspective of what...

How are you getting median next year as mid 28s?

That's part of it, but also older players are able to sustain performance at a higher level than used to be possible. Rehab, injury management, etc. are all improved too. If Ablett and Taylor do in fact finish up at the end of the year it could be a pretty significant drop in the average age of...

The line between 'old teams' and 'young teams' is generally pretty fine, and definitely overstated. All teams have their veterans, all teams have their kids. And the difference in overall composition is very rarely more than a few players.

Gaelic highlights video that was posted around the time he was originally recruited. What a great get he's been.