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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: The 2014 Fixture
Quote from: madbluboy on
Hilarious how even under the new system to do the draw we still manage to play the pies and bombers twice.

The new 'system' is nothing more than a half-arsed change to an actual fair system.
This one has riders in it that allow them to have a 'fair system' that they can manipulate to gt what they want.

FWIW, if they took out their ability to manipulate the draw so that we could play bombers/pies twice this year they would end up with EXACTLY what i suggested they do....except i said it 5 years ago. The old site is playing up, but i'd link the thread i started.

Meh.

AFL is still dodgy.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: The 2014 Fixture
Quote from: Jofo on
It appears we play the Tigers only once in 2014 on Grand Prix weekend. There are 3 groups of 6 teams based on finishing order last season. We are in the top 6 group and must play the Cats and Power twice. We have Bombers and Pies twice also.

Wrong.

R1 is grand prix weekend. We play Port Adelaide at Etihad on Sunday (race day).
We play Tigers round 2 on the Thursday.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Yarran over a fit of the blues: The Age
Quote from: PassIt2Carrots on
Quote from: tex on
Quote from: kruddler on
Seems Mick did the right thing...who would've thought!
Carrots??? Carrrots where are youuuuuuuu :P :-*

OMG you guys must be seriously dumb to even suggest those comments mean anything. LMAO he was asked the question, can you imagine if he'd come out and said "Yeah fk Mick he's an absolute tosswad knows nothing about player management". Towing the party line.

Lets look at the facts.

1. Mick is a premiership coach.
2. Yarran is still a Carlton player
3. Both Yarran and Mick have said there was an issue, its been resolved and we move on. No harm no foul.

Alternatively...
1. Carrots disliked what Mick said.

Hmmm...I'm happy with my position. ;)
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: No Richmond Rivalry for Round 1
Quote from: Gozza on
The round one game has been skating on thin ice for years anyway. With a couple of exceptions, usually the game gets built up all Summer long by Tigers fans, KB, and the media, and the game, along with Richmond's hopes for the new year, are usually over by half time.

Bollocks.

The best R1 game between us 2 has actually been this year. Albeit we had a loss, but in terms of it actually being a good exciting game with an incredible ending, 2013 is far in advance of the other games, Juddy and Cousins debuts also had a great atmosphere, but crap game.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Formula 1
Yes it does sound like traction control.

Although it also sounds like a very low engine rev, which you'd get from short shifting.

I've been to over a dozen race weekends over the years, including in Austin, and the cars have changed dramatically over that time.

It would've been around 9 years ago when there was a wet qualifying day and i was on turn 5 ? as listening to the cars coming around. It was very clear to me then that the best cars had the best traction control...and they did sound a lot like that. It was also very clear that some stragglers (jordon/jaguar) had some absolutely rediculous traction control systems. It was so bad and sounded so different that the crowd were actually laughing everytime one of their cars came around. It sounded very sick.

Anyway, over the journey you pick up sounds like that and the other time you hear that is when cars are doing their in laps after qualifying, keeping low revs and short shifting on their way back to the pits to conserve their tires and potentially fuel. It is certainly not a sound you hear often on race day, but one you'll here every qualifying day.

So as for Vettel and the traction control...it isn't proof he has it, but it isn't proof he doesn't.

In short the video is very much inconclusive.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Yarran to run in GF Sprint
There are plenty of guys who are fast.

You need good top end speed, obviously, but you also need to be good off the blocks.

Be interesting to see how yazz goes. Wouldn't mind seeing Garlett and Eddy in it too so we can settle it once and for all.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: "Bell Ready For Ringadingdinger" (One For Elwood)
Quote from: Boundaryrider on
he has played a dozen games of footy lets not praise or beat him up to much... One thing for certain we will find out alot about levi, Bell Andy Mac and Menzel today. We wont win the flag this year but we need to build compentency to support our elite players. Finals are the best furnace

Be careful with your words there.

They were CERTAIN that McLean would be coming into the side and almost certain that either Andy Mac or Menzel would be making way.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Match tactic.
Quote from: cimm1979 on
Not ideal?

The truth is we simply could not get our hands on the ball for much of the first half, same against Port.

I'm sure if we're halving the contests we'd would have most likely halved the score.

Absorbing pressure is something you do when you don't have the football, every team does it.

They had double our possessions after the first quarter.

Every team TRIES to absorb pressure. Doing it, and being able to come back later is something that other teams cannot do.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Match tactic.
Quote from: cimm1979 on
Quote from: kruddler on
Quote from: Amers on
Other wise known as rope-a-dope, and yes I agree with you, that has been our game plan for at least the last month or so.

I'm not sure that it would hold up for a full season, I will be interested to see if we try to take it into next season.

Exactly.

Stay cool, calm and collected and let them punch themselves out. Then fight back.

I know Mick has changed the plan since the pre-season and this seems to be our last incarnation. We actually saw it in R1 against the tigers.
First half, defensive, don't get blown out of the water.
Second half, open the floodgates and run all over them.

Obviously, we saw that against the Tigers, twice since then, and Port recently.

I actually think this is a bit of a hybrid between what Mick implemented at Collingwood and what Ratten had here previously. It suits Micks style, our list, and finals football.

In Mick we trust.

What about the 40 points down bit?

Not sure that's part of the plan .

Nothing goes to script 100%.

Its not ideal, but the end result is what was required.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Match tactic.
Quote from: Amers on
Other wise known as rope-a-dope, and yes I agree with you, that has been our game plan for at least the last month or so.

I'm not sure that it would hold up for a full season, I will be interested to see if we try to take it into next season.

Exactly.

Stay cool, calm and collected and let them punch themselves out. Then fight back.

I know Mick has changed the plan since the pre-season and this seems to be our last incarnation. We actually saw it in R1 against the tigers.
First half, defensive, don't get blown out of the water.
Second half, open the floodgates and run all over them.

Obviously, we saw that against the Tigers, twice since then, and Port recently.

I actually think this is a bit of a hybrid between what Mick implemented at Collingwood and what Ratten had here previously. It suits Micks style, our list, and finals football.

In Mick we trust.