They had something like 20 more hit outs than us but we had one more than them to advantage. says a lot about our rucks and more so our contested ball set ups. we're still elite there.
Not really, thought it was Harry's best ruck heavy type game by some margin.
The things she hears primary school kids talking about these days is horrifying. It's not easy to protect lives, prevent crimes and enforce laws these days because the crims (mainly young ones) simply dont give a fark about anything.
That issue with younger ones you have the chance to sort out, but only if you stop releasing the teens.
I know some Vicpol people who can predict the crimes coming over the next week or two by who was bailed this week, it's a merry-go-round.
They arrest these kids so often, they now know who it was just from the description of the event, they do not even need a description of the perpetrator, it's just rinse and repeat.
If we don't jump up and down about it now. What is stopping the club from doing it again next time.....and again....and again.
There is a difference between 'moving on' and 'holding the club accountable'.
Whether its the right decision or the wrong decision, time will tell. Even if it was the wrong decision, it may end up working. Even if it was the right decision, it mey not end up working.
I don't get why some fans have blind faith and think change is good, when change has been the one thing we've been doing consistently for the last 20 years. We are like a staggering drunk who keeps falling down the stairs and thinking, I'll be right next time!
The one thing we haven't done since the days of Parkin, is stick fat, and Wayne Brittain warned us about it!
But look at our history, we sack coaches after they win flags!
@crashlander I hope I didn't put some off voting, the Jim Park tally sort of acts like a lie detector, shows what people thought back when versus what they say now!
What's the trend of these little turds getting arrested, released with a feather duster on the wrist (not even a slap these days) and re-offending?
It's a legitimate question, but I'd assert the wrong people are being asked the question.
It's almost like the courts which are full of lawyers spend all day finding loopholes in the laws to set the multiple offending teens free!
I know of one person working on the inside that will tell you it's deliberate, because they think the evidence is clear, the more time the worst kids spend inside the system the more likely it is they become career criminals. But I'm not sure this isn't a confusion of cause and effect, and a consequence of lawyers, welfare and other legal types talking themselves into a corner.
Australia is a big place, maybe it's time to have some sort of remote national service camp for these kids, and put their natural talents to work in Iran or Afghanistan! Of course some will be horrified at the suggestion, but the there there there it'll all be right you are forgiven is clearly failing.
The captain couldn't get a kick, couldn't run out a game, couldn't lay a tackle under Voss, wouldn't commit to the club but suddenly is in brownlow form under Fraser? Weitering has played crape all year, Hewett dropped.
Walsh and Cripps, effectively our two most senior players, are 1st and 2nd in the Jim Park!
Now I realise that is consensus and the overall rating might not indicate how you have voted, but I'm sure Cripps didn't get to 2nd place off the back of not firing a shot!
I'm expecting the opposite with Hird. Media pumping up his tyres, largely,
Not that I trust them, but the media pumping up Hird sort of makes sense if what Caro and Cornes report is true.
Caro and Cornes asserted Hird had been labelled by The Big House as never to coach again, and that would automatically put the media on the side of being Hird boosters because it brings controversy and conflict and that is profitable.
The AFL bang on about integrity, ............................., the media do not care about it!
It's pretty despicable by the media to cause trouble by framing a negative narrative around Voss, then once he's gone they pivot and give him considerable credit. Shameful.
They earn maximum money from controversy and conflict, why would they oppose a war with any genuine evidence to the contrary?
It was obvious the team was on the improve way before Voss resigned.
I'll say it again, we blinked, and I fear in the process our club will eventually undo all or a lot of the progress that was being made in changing our game style, simply due to impatience, fear and uncertainty.
I have no idea what games some people are watching, or what they see when they watch, but it was clear our game style was changing but failing in execution, we could not do it for long enough or well enough. Maybe Voss resigning was the pressure release, but the game style has not changed even a miniscule over the last couple of weeks! They just got better at it which has enabled the team to execute it for longer.
It's obvious the club panicked, and it's not the first time!
Even if we finish 2026 strongly I expect the next coach to wipe the board sending us back to square one, after another 3 or 4 years we'll panic again and give them the ar5e, because that is what we've been doing for 20 years.
In the meantime, the AFL media and Commentary will probably just keep laughing at us, and we deserve it!
Point 3. Players are being given time to dispose of the ball now which helps us.
That seems to be more of an umpiring issue than anything else, which from what I can tell is an AFL reaction to recent commentary coming from the various blessed ones about the unsustainable nature of the current season.
I've think silver goes much better with navy blue.
I thought Pendles jumper number was polished brass or copper, straight from the Smith St recyclers, anyone working as a plumber or electrician in Collingwood will know exactly what I mean!
There's a level of equivocation and contradiction in a piece like this that really gives me the s h i t s :
Fans think the people writing that media gibberish actually watch the game, the reader and listener see and hear what they want to see and hear.
I'm seeing the same as I have seen since Rnd 1, the difference is the percentage of game time we execute the plan, doing it longer with less waste and more sacrifice than we had in previous games. The reality is, the less waste the greater the longevity of the tactic. When we struggled it's a negative feedback loop, when we succeed it's a positive feedback loop, the tipping point is measured in a few percent one way or the other.
For some if things turn sour next week, the same critics will be claiming the potential appointment of Fraser would be a failure of due diligence.
