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Does anyone have the complete list of the Merritt-Murray votes? I want to compare them to our medal to see how good the club is in getting it right>
AFL always had ambitions of becoming an international sport!!Yep, for everyone except the W.A teams lol. Might try to become their own country the way it's going
18 minute quarters is the scuttlebutt, I also hope they cut the time between a goal and the centre bounce and quarter time breaks back to pre Covid.
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Couple of interesting points, you would imagine the match sims would be nowhere near the intensity of a AFL game or especially finals. Also with the best 22-24 playing together for most of the match sims, would imagine the ressie team would struggle a bit. Some of the missed shots because of the situation of the game/s would appear to be psychological. McStay is a good field kick but when he takes a set shot just appears not to be confident.Hear hear.
Such a simple proposition but so difficult in practice for us.
So many H&A games that turned into much closer results on the scoreboard than they should have. Due, almost entirely to us being so wasteful with our opportunities. What should have been comfortable wins often turned into energy sapping last ditch efforts to stave off fast finishing opponents.
The Melbourne, North, Collingwood and Saints games are ones that readily come to mind.
And who could forget the ridiculous scoreline of 10.23 we chalked up against the Crows in Round 4. When somehow Clug and Lachie conspired to kick 1 goal 12 between them. We won that match by 3.19
Even on Saturday night we had chances to claw our way back into it but Hipwood, McStay, Lester and Zorko all fluffed their lines by missing what were easy set shots. Three of those were close to sodas (the most difficult one, the MC Stay attempt was a bit unlucky as it seemed to deviate late to cannon into the post). The most frustrating part of those misses is that it was the three glorious long bomb goals , two by Lachie and one by Cam, that has kept us in the match in the first place.
We almost played Richmond back into the QF after that appalling miss from Berry that would have just about been the sealer.
I don't know whether our problems are psychological or due to insufficient simulation of match conditions during practice,
Whatever, the issue needs some serious attention during the off season.
Believe this will likely occur;
This was something Chris Fagan mentioned and was clearly not happy with during the latest Roar Deal Podcast, spent a good few minutes detailing how it disadvantaged the Qualifying Final winner and was something that he was worried about going into the Preliminary Final at the time(did not mention his thoughts to the players though), also said the the Cats were just too good for us.
I think it's fine the way it is. If we go back to paying free kicks for any hands in the back during a marking contest you get the likes of Grimes diving and flopping all over the place at the slightest touch. I think it forces defenders to keep their feet. I'll agree that a push out should be a free kick, but I'd rather have players using their strength to hold their position.
That’s what god gave us hips for. Why it gradually became “OK” to manhandle your opponent in marking (and ruck) contests is one of the main reasons I became disillusioned with the modern game cue old man yells at cloud memes.
If we are putting Zane and Henrikkson to the Academy then does that mean we wont be involved in the development of the senior players? The could be concerning
A sad reflection of the soft cap cuts across the board unfortunately - we appear to have managed our cuts well so far compared to a number of other clubs with larger footy department spends.
