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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel
Quote from: Baggers – on
Good to see Weiters making obvious efforts to adapt his usual game to the offensive nuances required in how our defense operates now.
Short memory @Baggers‍.

Forgive me if I am wrong, but wasn't it about this time last year Weiters was lauded for an attacking kick out of D50 that secured us a late win? I think at the time the media describe it as either a kick nobody else was prepared to take on, or nobody else in D50 was capable of executing.

He is often the person who distributes the footy from the HBF, the one of a few with the responsibility for that type of kick, now in addition to Newman he has someone like Florent to share it with!

What stuns me is how people manage to see things so differently subject to the outcome, a win versus a loss. The most important type of analysis in sport is the analysis delivered cold!
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Quote from: Gointocarlton – on
Similar story with clay target shooting glasses. Pilla glasses are upwards of $500.
In trap shooting you swivel your head with the barrel and gun sights, you are always looking down the same line exactly as I describe. For non-prescription types the most important feature is polarisation, as this improves contrast between the target and background.

For any elite sport, if you use glasses (prescription or not) you have to use them all the time through practise and competition, 24x7, day or night, indoor or outdoor, because they change your vision, whether they are prescription or not. Your eyes and vision become the default with the glasses on, sunglasses or prescription.

If you swap them for fashion you are continually adjusting your eyesight, if you are continually being told to upgrade to the latest, usually by some spud connected to the team or sport, you are being duded by associate marketing strategy. Pick a pair, look after them, keep them for as long as you do not need a specific prescription.

So called shooting glasses, trap glasses, are used in a number of sports to permit clear vision over a larger vertical field of view. Which is why they sit high on the bridge of the nose and the lens usually extends above the eyebrow. Also used in a variety of cues sports, curling and bowling, etc. etc., but these are prescription types, not just protective.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel
Quote from: shawny – on

Saad is so predictable and when his ball use dropped off he become a liability.
He is predictable, but that can work both ways, against him from a opposition perspective and for him from the perspective of our forwards.

I'd assert that when he is / was fit, agile and confident his ball use was efficient enough that any benefit to the opposition of being predictable was diminished. Knowing what he is going to do but not stopping it is embarrassing. He could run and spread, create space, just as Daicos, Pendles, Butters and now Smith can run, spread and create space. Either through injury or age he's lost a bit, we saw a VFL game a couple of weeks back that was him at his best, but it's few and far between now.

If had one criticism, it was too many long bombs, they are good to buy the defense time to setup, but not much use for scoring. It's like the soccer goalkeeper who always launches the pill to the other end of the ground, it almost never results in a score, it's a defensive move not an attacking move.
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Quote from: Professer E – on
Sorry but you're talking rubbish. The Oakley glasses are specifically designed for cricket and they have an aspheric lens to prevent distortion.
See the word "lens", any lens is functional only on a specific optical axis, curved sunglasses are not a field lens and even a field lens has a specific functional focal length.

In laser optics "windows" are the term used for flat optics, optics that do not impart any refraction or diffraction at a certain bandwidth, but the key term is "flat" and they must be very flat! If they are slightly wedge shaped or slightly curved they distort the image, and that is a separate issue to being aspherical. The normal unit is angstrom, which is a measure of flatness relative to a wavelength of light, because any optical measurement is wavelength dependant.

As for being aspheric, that is the term used to describe optics minimising optical aberrations, common folk read aberration and think fuzzy distorted, an aspherical lens tries to bring all the colours of the spectrum to the same focal length. A perfect optic would be diffraction limited. The non-technical explanation is the amount of refraction from the lens is similar for a wide range of colours, refraction is that thing that means the fish isn't where you think it is! If a lens isn't aspheric the fish looks blurry, but it's still not where you think it is. You get a clear sharp image, like those fancy fishing googles, but it doesn't mean the image isn't refracted, so you see a sharp image but it doesn't mean the fish you see is really in that position. Whether it's water, air or the plastic of the lens causing the distortion makes no difference, refraction is still present, the lens can't magically remove the effects of the water.

btw., Your next argue will be that the lens is only thin, like the thickness of the water makes a difference, as opposed to the relative positions of the object and observer relative to the focal plane. The medium doing the refraction could be a plane 1 atom thick, and it would have the same effect.

The best lens money can buy with a flat field typically have a flat field measured in just a few degrees, the ones industry make use daily typically start at about $4500 and go up from there, for interferometry that requires a flat reference field, they start at $7500 and go up from there. They only have functional apertures measured in a few millimetres(or a few degrees either side of the prime axis). $450 isn't going to cut it!

For those fancy glasses to be accurate you have to turn your whole head so that you are looking through the same aperture of the lens, if you don't, if you move your eyes instead, the observed object will be move across the field of view non-linear fashion, not much but enough to cause what you saw Webster do yesterday. My suggestion is once you've chosen a type of lens stick with it, train with it, because it affects how you see the world!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel
Quote from: DJC – on
I think that it's time to concede that the new ruck rules, as flawed as they may be, haven't disadvanteaged Pitto and he's probably playing the best footy of his career.
He has adapted well, deserves a lot of kudos, and I'd suggest he has been very well coached because we are seeing now that even if he is beaten to the tap he's capable of creating a clearance by controlling the space around the contest, and that is far far more important.

Getting beaten in taps doesn't mean being beaten in the contest.

He's got Fraser and Kreuzer to feed off, should we expect any less from our rucks?

Even Young and Harry are looking better, both of them compete, especially in F50 and then immediately spread to become a target. In the past they would compete then stand watching.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel
It was a good result, I thought Smith, Cripps and Walsh smashed the Freo Mids, Pitto broke even with Jackson across 4-Qtrs, Jackson probably got the better off him around the ground but wasn't able to dominate stoppages. Our D50 clearly got the better of the Freo forwards.

When you think about the way we are moving the ball, the relative speed of our lot versus Freo, it's a terrific result, Freo won't be happy, you don't flirt with form at this time of year and they should have been favored by the fastest playing surface in the AFL.

Ainsworth's best game?
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Quote from: Professer E – on
The Oakley glasses are specifically designed for fielding and highlight the ball colour so it's easier to track.  Why do I know this? My daughter plays state grade and her last pair cost me $450.
Then test them like I suggested. It's impossible for a curve surface not to cause deflection the moment the object is off axis.

The color shift thing is bogus, simple polarisation does the trick nothing special needed, it's marketing spin and the sales technique is called associate marketing.

A pair of Maui Jim polymer sports lenses will do the same job and if you buy them off a store you can get them for half the price. Of course your daughter will hate you because you've ruined her career, that's the head space issue associate marketing does on kids, FOMO.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 24 2026 In Game Angst Carlton vs Fremantle at Marvel
Ainsworth missed some targets, then went back and fixed things up, that brings something to our side.

Most of Freo's scores have come from our errors, a missed target, a sluggish disposal, guarding grass.

No problem with Cripps dropping Jackson, you can't have him throwing Pitto to the ground freely without retribution.

Sheriff not preared to be be bullied, good to see, Mason Cox can be a North American knob!