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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Lyon V Brownless Stoush
Could it be ratings have slipped because footy season hasn't started yet, and there is no real footy news going on??

They chased all the characters out of the game, and now can't drum up any interest.

I wonder why...
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Lyon V Brownless Stoush
the ratings plummet might have more to do with the time of year than anything else.

The real stuff worth commenting on doesnt start for a week or so, and since the trade/draft/free agency period ended there has been very little going on that they actually talk about.



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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: JLT game 3
the only thing I got out of that, is that Lachie is clearly doing a sterling job as the swingman at the cattery!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: JLT game 3
Quote from: PaulP on
I think players can tolerate a small amount of me me me attitude if they see reward for effort. You can have a great team first player (e.g. Cas or Curnow E), but those turnovers and missed goals must take their toll after a while.

It depends on the composition of the team - some blokes are less resilient and more easily led astray than others.  If by good chance you have a team of mostly resilient types, they could reap the benefits of a talented and slightly selfish player, because they work work around his deficiencies.

A lot of those elite talented players (Fev, Fyfe, Carey etc.) do have a certain arrogance and me first nature - what is super rare are the Judd and Doull types, terrific players that are also team first.

Only a strong team ethos can sort out the me first players.

They need to join it.

We are the opposite.   due to average quality being so low, any half talent with a bad attitude plays for themselves.

Flip it around and you see us of the mid 2000's and there is no end to it until you shock the culture.

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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW - R7 - Carlton vs Brisbane
I'll confess I wasn't paying attention to anyone else's matches and thought it was the usual contrived scenario with the pioneers of women's footy making the grand final and one of them winning.

Why?

Because it's an AFL competition.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: JLT game 3
Quote from: Gointocarlton on
All I am saying is lets draw a line in the sand and move on.
54% of the List is BBs
24% is MMs
15% is Rattens
7% in DPs
Majority of the list is BB's, will be swayed even more his way after this year. Thats enough for me to look fwd instead of back and not hijack every thread with same BS.

One bad apple can spoil the entire barrel.

If we don't have players in it for the team first, then they will spoil some of the others.

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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: JLT game 3
Either way, we won't know.

Just like we don't know that Richardson may have made Ratten look good, and I have little doubt in my mind that in 2012, the group was that fractured Ratten couldn't have stayed.

Had we appointed Richo back then we could be talking differently,  but one thing we didn't do was our due diligence with any appointment going back to Wayne Brittain which sums up why it's taking us so long.

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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Round 5: Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Quote from: DJC on
I thought of the "ageist" angle but decided not to bring it up.  However, I don't really have an issue with encouraging young folk.

Perhaps there should be a "waning star" award to square the ledger ;)

It's probably going to be the equivalent of the brownlow.   Young folk tend to be a bit more inconsistent but brilliant at their best whilst older players tend to keep on keeping on.

For reference kade Simpson.
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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW Round 5: Carlton vs Western Bulldogs
Forgive me for thinking this is quite stupid, but arent they all rising stars??

Its the inaugural season and in the eyes of Joe Average supporter who is only being exposed to proffesional womens AFL footy recently, all of them are rising stars.



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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: JLT game 3
Alex Silvagni and Simon White will give our team similar.

Similar size, and similar ability.

If his name wasn't Silvagni, he may not have even gotten the opportunity.

He will provide valuable experience to a young VFL side, and if required to play in the seniors, he will perform his role to the best of his ability, but lets not pretend that he is going to be a super valuable commodity.

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Ladies Lounge / Re: AFLW injuries
Im no expert, but I think that its all relative.  Are we seeing more injuries because of the demand on the body??

Or, are we seeing it simply because we are exposed to it now?

The incidence of injury at amateur level would never have been public domain knowledge in the past, and whilst I concede that the demands on the bodies have increased, its relative.  The entire competition are doing the same sort of things.  Are we seeing this widespread?  Is it just a bit of bad luck on behalf of the players who have suffered the injuries??

Lets not forget that we picked up a girl who was coming off a reconstruction which is the only reason she didnt end up in the draft.