Binnsy on the sidelines saying plan was to hold them in Q3 and comeat them in the last. Not going to plan so far, but at least we've got value for our forward entries the quarter.
What a load of rubbish our VFL is. Looks like Binns and Akui not playing and neither us Lord.
It seems one of those accepted truths in AFL that a whole-of-club positive trajectory is an important component of success for the seniors. If so, we've got a way to go with the VFL team. They seem to be going backwards.
Having thought about it a little more, Goldstein v Pittonet and De Koning v Wright could work well. Two lumbering rucks going head to head and two mobile, hybrid ruck / forwards doing the same. Looking forward to this one probably more than any game thus far.
EDIT : a couple of days extra rest and Essendon traveling back from the Gold Coast should also help us.
Sam Draper is still out for a few weeks with his knee injury, so I guess the case for 2 rucks becomes more 50/50. If he and Peter Wright were both playing, I'd say 2 rucks for sure.
The worst you can say about Orazio is that he adds to our depth, and if players of his caliber are being kept out of the side by others, surely that bodes well for us as a legitimate top 4 / flag chance ?
Possibly, but then there is the other 7 games Fantasia played when Cottrell was in the squad.
We don't know how he is coached, but he's having 1/2 the impact of Owies and Cottrell despite having 10 more years of experience.
We also don't know what his role specifically is. I suspect his biggest issue is inaccuracy. He's kicked 2.6 this season, which is low for such an excellent finisher. I'd hazard a guess that with such a long time out of the game, that it's taking a while for him to regain his touch. Just a little off IMO. I think his confidence will increase once he jags a few goals.
I do understand that, but it's not an exemption from the call, if you're a courier in the great war and you unfortunately run into a platoon of enemy with no chance for escape, you've no choice but to fight!
Pat, leave aside whatever it is you witnessed all those years ago. Just think through the implications for a second. Fantasia supposedly has a reputation for being soft. He's been in the system since 2014, so is a known quantity. Voss himself has been in the system for decades, was his assistant coach at Port, so they know each other personally and professionally. Voss was the toughest and most uncompromising player of his era. If we believe that these things are true, then Voss is either incompetent (no ability to recognize softness) or corrupt (recognizes this softness but ignores it), or both. And if that's true, then we are wasting our time with Voss and he should be sacked.
There is the additional issue of Fantasia winning the approval and trust of his team mates, and he does this by......... pack skirting ?
Any chance we could let this "player x is soft" nonsense just die ? Surely this has to be the laziest fan trope in sporting history ?
Suffice to say, I have no idea what tasks / roles the coaches assign to Orazio, so I have no idea whether he's meeting his KPI's etc. I can only speculate based on what I see and hear, limited as that is. Even if he is Motlop's understudy, he could still be doing everything the coaches ask. I have no way of knowing, and I'd be wary of becoming like one of the characters in Plato's Allegory Of The Cave.
Trump's only ideology is Trump. But focusing on him is part of the spectacle, to divert your attention away from the real problems and the real power brokers. The Republicans have moved so far to the right (with Democrats closely in tow) that they have become insane. They have become so extremist that IMO, they can't actually govern : protect business, protect their version of Christianity (the most un Christian variant) and support a strong, ridiculously over resourced military.
It tells you something that the polices of Nixon and Carter, neither of whom were in any way progressive, were closer to the policies of the American Greens than they are to their own respective parties.