I love your enthusiasm, but if Fantasia comes in and has another 25pt rating game it's over for him the moment other players get fit.
If we are going to carry a player getting single digit disposals and having little game influence, it may as well be a longer term project. That's just how I see it.
Generally, you have some senior types around the club on the fringes, it is so they can come in and do a job having an immediate impact without the need to learn the ropes. As horrible as this sounds, we got more out of Tutt, Lang, Smedts maybe even Clem Smith than we have out of Fantasia for a similar number of games.
It's a marathon not a sprint. Binns ain't the second coming of Eddie betts. Come finals time if orazio gets up and running he'll be a difference maker. Binns is on L plates. He isn't Sam Walsh, he's in his second year and I'd rather we get orazio up to pace and see if it works. We aren't flushed for outside run either way so they should both be in the mix.
I'd be happy either way regarding binns but truth be told he isn't vying with fantasia for the same role and binns doesn't bring afl experience to the table.
^^ Sure fire way for that to be put to bed. The ultimate mozz is grasping at this sort of straw for why we can win this game. We now have a 20% chance of winning.
All of our defenders and our defensive structures stood up very well to intense pressure last week. Apart from Petracca, all of the Melbourne forwards were well beaten.
I would be inclined to go with the same seven this week unless there’s a compelling match up for Williams AND he’s completely fit.
I reckon he is straight back in for indigenous round.
Until the 'heat' arrived in the 2nd half. Those of us who are critical of Ollie are not critical of his endeavour and effort. And we're not saying he's no good, or should not be out there. Simply observations of his inexperience in tight and physical situations. He's a ripper... with things to clean up on, especially hurting the opposition with his disposal, strengthening his body to stick tackles, surety by hand and foot in pressure situations... they'll come in time. But they're real shortcomings at present.
And everyone looked amazing in our first half, until the Go Dees brought the heat, then the wheat was sorted from the chaff.
He wasn't the lone ranger and a couple of errors shouldn't eclipse a rather important role he played in us having a 5 to 0 headstart at quarter time. Even his caught in possession moments it was facing his opposition and getting caught by third man in from behind. That's on his teamates not letting him know he's hot IMHO.
One thing I think the umps stuffed up. Mcgovern juggled a mark, had two hands on it, and Petty knocked it out of his hands. Play on the call.
That's a mark every week, and there was a few of those last night. Wet weather footy, you can't make players hold it with an opponent punching it out. Melbourne scored on the back of one of those. Must have been 3rd quarter as it was the non punt road end.
I think there is a fair bit of hindsight going on, 3 Leos. At the time, we just didn't know. Worst case scenario seemed plausible and frightening. Science and pollies were all on the back foot and unsure, and most were doing their best. I don't recall any vaccine manufacturer claiming 100% safety; they spoke of the potential -- albeit low -- risk for some people, hence staying in surgeries/pharmacies for 15 minutes after the innoculation before leaving. But as troubling as it was to know, there was a low risk for some folks, as there is with every medication/vaccine. In hindsight some pollies overreacted and some under-reacted. Few got it right - in hindsight.
Not really Baggers. By the time the vaccines came around we had a much better view of the virus and its potential to cause harm. The worst case scenario wasn't happening. That much was obvious in health care.
There are very few areas in life that don't involve a risk to benefit comparison. Apparently, 2 or 3 per 100,000 people vaccinated with AZ ended up with TTS. Granted, nobody wants to be one of those 2 or 3, but all things considered, there are a great many people who reaped the benefits of having an AZ vaccination (not to mention their close associates and loved ones) and very few that did not.
The issue is that the data used to support both sets of numbers were used to paint a picture.
The adverse reactions to the vaccines under reported as coincidences. Likewise the number of people significantly impacted by covid were over stated.
The vaccine companies (all) made wide sweeping shonky claims afmbout efficacy to go with it and you end up with a scenario where most people questioned what the best outcome was going to be.
When you strip it all bare, covid was no walk in the park. It isn't the killer it was made out to be either but it left the general public questioning what was the lesser of two evils and real doctors were silenced on the matter and it became politicised.
Where you sit in any of it is subjective and largely determined by personal choices but I saw some extremely autocratic behaviour which I'm hoping never gets repeated.