I was off the site for several months, so not aware of any changes that may have occurred in that time. There was discussion a little while ago about Spanner not being able to look after the site any longer. Has this issue been resolved ? Has anyone taken over his role ?
Hopefully the travelling for Sydney this week (to Perth) plus 1 less day to recover will give us an edge. There seems to be very little separating the top teams at the moment.
Not sure where exactly to put this. For those interested in something a little lighthearted, a chat between Tracey McKay and Jackie De Koning, mums of the McKay and De Koning boys.
Fantastic effort, but in the end we were saved by the bell. Boys were gassed, and Melbourne lived in our D50 in the last 10 minutes or so. Another few minutes and I'm sure they would've rolled us.
It seems a plausible reason IMO. From what I can tell, Voss is not a Teague / Ratten type coach. He doesn't appear to enjoy shoot out footy. Certainly he seemed pretty grumpy about the high scores we have been conceding recently, especially the Geelong game. There are a few plausible options for the sub, and you have to roll the dice and pick one.
I wonder if the MC is worried one of our defenders might be underdone / lacking match fitness / slight injury cloud etc., and they have planned accordingly ?
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.
It would be interesting to compare the Mason Cox / Darcy Cameron combo with Pittonet / De Koning. Cox and Cameron each played 19 games last year, so they were at the coalface for most of the season. I don't know how many of them were together.
I would tend to agree DJC. The idea that stopping Cripps goes a long way to stopping Carlton is hardly new. Collingwood didn’t discover anything new. Cripps has been blocked, tagged and scragged his whole career. For whatever reason, we weren’t able to do anything about it. The coaches’ votes make pretty clear that apart from Nick Daicos, no player on either team had a particularly great game.