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I thought Cornes on TRSF was fair - he was shocked we did as well as we did given we fielded half a VFL team.

Great question IMO … (1) We have 18 roles on the field. (2) They’re likely broken down into a smaller number of uniquely different roles. For example, the two wing roles may be the same. But let’s ignore that detail for this. (3) Players are trained to fill different roles. For example...

It’s not necessarily him who needed to be versatile. He can still play his role, but (for example) Noble move to the forward line.

So where would Parker play? He’s only been at the club for 3 months, and has been training as a defender, can’t reasonably expect him to play a different role?

Fly said in his presser that he subbed ‘like for like’. Obviously if we have an injury we would need to shuffle our players around to accommodate that, but when there is inexperienced players involved you keep the number of roles they might play to a minimum, and keep it simple, and keep them...

Sure, if you give four people an instruction, it’ll get followed in four subtly different ways. (But that’s not what happened Friday night - what Frampton did was plainly wrong and would get called by 100 umpires out of 100) And we can’t be blind to things when they fall in our favour, but...

+ the nature of his injury (hamstring?) means he’s had limited means to maintain his fitness over quite an extended period. When he’s ready for full contact he’ll be coming from a long way back.

Provocative. OK, I’ll bite. How did you come to that conclusion about Parker? Did you just toss a coin and call heads? Or was there some kind of reasoning involved?

I don’t think we can blame the umpires for that one. For all the challenges umpires have enforcing the complex rules of our game, that one is pretty clear. If an umpire yells “stand” at you, you need to stop where you are. Sure, if it takes a step to stop your momentum, the umpire isn’t going...

Not necessarily. We need to win around 7 of our remaining 11 games to qualify. We’ve got best 23 players of the caliber of Pendlebury, Elliott, JDG, Mitchell, WHE, and Mihocek to come back. And in the last month we’ve unearthed players like Sullivan, Harrison, and Richards who will be...

Three reasons: (1) The rules call for 23 players to be named on a teamsheet. (2) Having somebody is better than having nobody. (3) Sometimes it’s not about making the best decision, it’s about making the least worst decision. And I haven’t seen anything to indicate that - as poor as AJ was -...

I can explain it … We’re all passionate about Collingwood. And we all have totally unrealistic expectations of our players. We elevate our players to superhero status unless they prove otherwise … … like by having the temerity of being one of our bottom players in a game we lose. Last night...

Really? I thought the new HTB guidelines made the game far more watchable. Plus, I thought we generally got the better of the umpire calls last night. Yeah, there were a few that went against us, but IMO there were far more that went in our favour.

He will usually also split one of his own body parts in the process. AJ, for all his faults, actually finished the game last night. Which Krueger, for his talents, doesn’t do very often. Krueger has been subbed out of 4 games in the 9 he’s played. AJ has been subbed out of 4 games in the 27...

Who was going to play Cox’s role if it wasn’t Frampton? Our only other option is 18 years old, has only been with the club 2 days, and has never attended a training session?