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AFL 360 reporting tonight that all of our players will be wearing gloves in Saturday nights game against Melbourne in Darwin. From the footage, looks like most of the guys wore them at training.

What's the over/under on them being off by quarter time?
 

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AFL 360 reporting tonight that all of our players will be wearing gloves in Saturday nights game against Melbourne in Darwin. From the footage, looks like most of the guys wore them at training.

What's the over/under on them being off by quarter time?

I think the most surprising thing is that someone with ~3800 posts on BigFooty watches AFL360 before looking at the Freo website or social media. way to get your news third hand grampa!
 

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I think the most surprising thing is that someone with ~3800 posts on BigFooty watches AFL360 before looking at the Freo website or social media. way to get your news third hand grampa!
I happened to be watching it and started a discussion, hardly ground breaking news...

There was no reason for me to look at the Freo website or social media. :rolleyes:
 

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I happened to be watching it and started a discussion, hardly ground breaking news...

There was no reason for me to look at the Freo website or social media. :rolleyes:
I was only giving you a little bit of light hearted ribbing mate, we all have things we're ashamed of :)
 

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Surely they're not wearing gloves because of humidity? Its the dry season. 29 degrees every day, 19 at night, dry as a bone: Beautifull. Would have to be for dew...
 

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Surely they're not wearing gloves because of humidity? Its the dry season. 29 degrees every day, 19 at night, dry as a bone: Beautifull. Would have to be for dew...
Bit of both in a way. You're associating humidity with heat (which is how we tend to feel it), but it also impacts dew formation - it's different side of the same coin really.

I've never been to Darwin, so I'm just looking at the numbers from BOM; looks like the day's pretty warm and relatively dry, but by evening time the humidity comes up quite a bit - the Dew Point relative to air temp is high (and Delta T is thus very low). In plain language, that means very very dewy on the ground yes, but also they will start to feel the humidity on their body once they start generating body heat, even though it wont be overly hot. Low 20's high teens by game start time ....


... they will be very sweaty is what I'm trying to say.
 
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Bit of both in a way. You're associating humidity with heat (which is how we tend to feel it), but it also impacts dew formation - it's different side of the same coin really.

I've never been to Darwin, so I'm just looking at the numbers from BOM; looks like the day's pretty warm and relatively dry, but by evening time the humidity comes up quite a bit - the Dew Point relative to air temp is high (and Delta T is thus very low). In plain language, that means very very dewy on the ground yes, but also they will start to feel the humidity on their body once they start generating body heat, even though it wont be overly hot. Low 20's high teens by game start time ....


... they will be very sweaty is what I'm trying to say.
I have been to Darwin in the dry season and it didn't feel humid in the evening under normal circumstances or when I went for a run. Can't see how it would be much different from playing footy here on a warmish night in late Spring or early Autumn with a breeze carrying moist air in from the Ocean.

For the record, I understand how the dew point works, RH + apparent temperature.
 

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I will be interested to see how Danyle Pearce goes with gloves.
This... to a point.

I think the reason he fumbles is also the reason he is good at getting the ball forward. Hits the pack at a million miles an hour. If he gets the ball he's out of there before anyone can catch him, but sometimes he's going too fast to collect the ball securely resulting in the fumbly hands.
 

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I have been to Darwin in the dry season and it didn't feel humid in the evening under normal circumstances or when I went for a run. Can't see how it would be much different from playing footy here on a warmish night in late Spring or early Autumn with a breeze carrying moist air in from the Ocean.
Yeah, that makes sense, thought the same thing actually - ISTR a game earlier in the year at Subi where the ground was really wet - it was like a wet weather game, but it was a still dry night, it was simply the high relative humidity etc. forming a heap of dew on the ground and, because of the high humidity, it not evaporating easily. Probably wont be much different up there.
 

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This... to a point.

I think the reason he fumbles is also the reason he is good at getting the ball forward. Hits the pack at a million miles an hour. If he gets the ball he's out of there before anyone can catch him, but sometimes he's going too fast to collect the ball securely resulting in the fumbly hands.
I'd like to see him knock it to space a bit more and run onto it. Instead of just trying to pluck it from the middle of a pack.
 

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I'd like to see him knock it to space a bit more and run onto it. Instead of just trying to pluck it from the middle of a pack.
Yep, definitely.

I think soccer-ing the ball is quite the under-used tactic. Always think it's silly to try and pick up the ball when an opponent is only one step behind you ready to tackle.
 

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