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We've had substitutes in the AFL for over a decade now, and it just struck me that I can't remember a single memorable performance a player has put on as sub. You'd think by now that someone would have come on and kicked a few goals to turn a match, for example, but I don't ever remember that...

Ugh, the most boring possible winner.

It happens, but it's difficult to say when it happens or what kind of effect it has on teams. Apparently we increased training loads after the bye in 2021 which corresponded with a slump in form, but it obviously worked out well in the end. Fans on another forum were suggesting that our form...

I don't understand why it's even permitted to make a 76th interchange - why doesn't the steward just say that the team has already made 75 and prevent players from coming off? Surely there are going to be situations where it's more valuable to give away a free kick and make an interchange than...

At the end of every season, play a champion's league style tournament for the winners of the state leagues. The winner of that tournament gets a one year promotion into the AFL, before being replaced by the winner of the next tournament the next year. Means that we don't need to worry about the...

"Just needs to think his way through it..." - I don't know when this became such a stock-standard commentary phrase, but I hear it about 3 times every game now and I'm sick of it. "They need to lower their eyes a bit more going forward..." - As if there's always a player standing by himself...

I asked chat GPT to come up with responses to this thread, rendering the rest of you obsolete. Sorry. Post 1: Hey everyone, have you seen the list of the greatest AFL players of all time that ChatGPT put together? It's pretty interesting. According to the AI model, the top five players of all...

I still believe that Jackson has the potential to be a generational talent, but he also currently has pretty clear weaknesses as a player, and the role that he's been given at Freo is just playing to those weaknesses. I've always said that he's a ruck / KPF who can do things that no other ruck /...

I'm a Melbourne supporter, but I'll try to answer this question as objectively as possible. I don't think it's any secret that our biggest strength is our system, particularly our full-team defensive structure. What has made us so difficult to beat in the last two seasons is the fact that our...

Can anyone tell me what he's actually doing wrong as a coach? That's not a troll question, I just genuinely haven't seen enough of Port to know what the problem is. Is he a bad strategist, bad at man management, bad on gameday or what? The PF last year was obviously atrocious (I don't think I've...

From a neutral perspective, there was a lot to like about Carlton last night. Their midfield already looked pretty decent on paper, but if Cripps' body holds up, and Kennedy maintains the form he's showing at the moment (I'm including what I saw in his practice match against Melbourne) then...

What's the criteria for this? I'm guessing that it's based on the ability of the player to accumulate certain stats, which is going to bias the kinds of players who qualify. All the key defenders on that list are intercept players, for example, who are going to be generating bigger numbers than...

lol, yeah they must be pretty fired up to avenge the honour of their defiled karaoke song. Maybe they'll only let us score 15 goals in the last 30 minutes this time round.

There's absolutely no suggestion in those media releases that anything that was reported was actually untrue, which I think should be fairly disconcerting for anyone looking for exoneration. The apology just says that the parties acknowledge that the camp was run in "good faith and with the...

It's amazing to think that people existed 21 years ago. What were they like? What were their joys and fears? We may never know. All that they have left us are indecipherable scribblings on a web forum. I wonder why they did it.

I'm not suggesting that no team could get worse, but rather that any kind of optimism that we feel about one team at this stage (e.g. new recruits, players coming back from injury, new game plan etc.) can pretty easily be applied to each of the other 17 teams as well. If we're talking about...

The trouble with talking about a team's possibility of "improving" is that it's not an absolute judgement ("will we be better than last year?") but a relative judgement ("will we improve more than other teams compared to last year?"). I think at this time of year, every team can look at its list...

Even if it was true that Gold Coast aren't that bothered about keeping Greenwood - that he's a fringe player, or they're better off having him off the books - it still doesn't excuse them not looking to trade him earlier. I mean, they obviously knew going into the trade period that they were...

There always seems to be a presumption that young and good translates into old and good, but form lines are never linear, whether for individual players or teams. Injuries can happen, hunger can drop off, the game can change, others can go psst you. Tell me there was a single person in the world...

You idiots realise that all this bickering and posturing about who the better team is won't have any effect on the actual result, right?

Congrats NicNat on a well-deserved AA interchange berth. :thumbsu:

I like the policy they used to have in the NBA with expansion teams, where every team could nominate 6 players who were off-limits, but the expansion teams were free to poach anyone else on the roster from outside those 6 (provided they were happy to move of course). You could do the same with...

Only have themselves to blame. If they didn't want to be 15 minutes late, they should have left the hotel 15 minutes earlier. That's just logic 101.

6,090 days. They'll hit the 7,000 mark on 4th November, 2023 if they don't win a final before then. They'll need to win a final before the end of the 2031 season to avoid reaching the 10,000. The ignominy of 1,000,000 is fast approaching for the end of the 4742 season. They'd better get cracking.

What was the story with GC letting Lyons go? Would have to go down as one of their biggest list management blunders, surely.

I hate these threads where everybody just floats in to name-drop someone from their own team when they clearly haven't watched any of the other games. :rolleyes: Speaking from a purely neutral and objective perspective, the nomination has to go to Luke Jackson. I haven't heard of any of these...

Next 5 games are: Syd (H) Carl (H) Adel (A) Dogs (A) Bris (N) All are potentially tough matches, and it's going to be a mini transition period where we'll have to rejig our side a bit with Tomlinson out injured, possibly Viney as well, and learn how to best utilise Brown and / or Wiedeman in...

Tough one at the moment, lots of competition for spots. This is what I've gone with: B: Young (Freo) Sweet (WB) Hooker (Ess) HB: Hird (Ess) Shiel (Ess) Neale (Bris) C: Madgen (Coll) Sheed (WC) Swallow (GC) HF: Cox (Coll) Cumming (GWS) Darling (WC) F: Wood (WB) Ryder (St. K) Moore (Coll) Foll...

Nope. Like you said, we got pick 3 as compo for Frawley but we never got a PP after the rules were changed despite a decade of never notching up more than 8 wins in a season. That's why I said Melbourne should serve as the benchmark: until a team performs as badly as we did for that sustained...