i agree add more RUN RUN doesnt matter Gawny always beats our ruck , for F.....k S....e can our defenders or when we go forward do not kick the ball straight to MAXY
Seeing Gawn drop into the space without any fear or trepidation makes me pine for days of Fev, Ablett Snr or Lockett accompanied by their anvil like knees!
The USA hard right want Hanson, are they indirectly funding campaigns? What churches or societal groups does One nation get cash from besides China backed miners? It would be a bit hypocritical for a bunch who will claim election tampering when they eventually lose back home!
Hanson falls in with US Hard Right Christian Fundamentalist ideology, time for a new crusade, bring on the rapture, slaughter the heathen hoard, etc., etc.. Her racist undertones fit right in! Remember, they are just Zionists once removed!
In reality if we focus on crime it is as high or even higher in most other locations, crime is a focus of some / many locals but it would be only a part of the assessment, and compared to most competing international locations we have almost no crime. And we certainly have next to nothing compared to New York, London, Edinburgh and Shanghai.
I've spent a lot of time in Shanghai, and the only people killing more individuals than the crooks would have been the authorities, it a demonstrative case that arbitrary capital punishment fixes nothing. If anything, it just makes the crooks more reactive.
Every side loses the stoppages and clearances at some point but find other ways to win.
It's not just stoppages, you can be down and beaten on any line but still win, in fact I'd argue they are the most important ways to win, when things aren't going your way you find a way to win. What you don't do is surrender to defeat!
Our problem is and Hoyne pointed it out before finals of 2023 is we have to dominate stoppages to win.
The problem for Hoyne was he works off stats and averages, but stats and averages do not account for opposition or personal changes or other real world influences.
If I recall correctly after Hoyne made that declaration we won a couple of games despite being beaten at clearances, and ironically the stats gurus then tried to justify those events with spin.
Of course, Cripps can dominate and we can lose, but then again so could Judd, two very different style of player. The winning stoppages stat in that regard, taken in isolation as some sort of waypoint, is completely useless.
When we had Charlie and McKay in tandem, creating and winning stoppages inside F50 which we did with monotonous regularity gave us nothing, because stoppages inside F50 is the antithesis of creating space.
A friend of mine thinks we are goal post obsessed, we spend all our time defending the goal posts on the last line, or trying to push deep into the goal square in F50. We win stoppages inside both 50m arcs, and either have a unless crack hack at scoring, or a hack out of D50, when we often have an option standing unattended in the clear on the defensive side, often inside range in the F50. Smith is different, he's the first player for a decade that I've seen at our club that isn't goal post obssessed.
Starts as mental IMO, then becomes physical and then it's a vicious circle. I don't think fitness is the issue.
I learned at the high level in a couple of other sports, state level, that victory is like revenge, a dish best served cold. It saves energy and maintains focus, you can be completely clinical and tactical in your attack on the opposition, and compete with a level of efficiency.
The emotional part is the exact opposite, it sucks the life out of you and generates waste, until you can get past it you'll be consigning yourself to suffer from inconsistency and chaos.
At one stage I'm sure I watched Walsh run towards FB like a goalkeeper while we're losing a stoppage on the HBF, that is not fitness. Was it tactics or panic?
On the free kick issue, are we ruining the game when we reward players who stage, it's not a skill but is it cheating? It's becoming a bigger and bigger issue in clutch moments, our game is going like soccer!
They have a sniper as a role model, and over the last decade they've built a game style based on it with smalls going the man in swarms, they are going to suffer a lot more of these small suspensions under the current rules.
Stand back and watch the Carlton hating media now claim it was nothing, and by inference that Weitering is either soft or was staging, hypocrisy given the goals to Green and Lynch.
I fear Moir is going to struggle under our faster game style, he seems best suited to the older stoppage / marking game style where he could be the 3rd man up in the contest.
To persist he really needs to make better use of his ambidextrous capabilities, if anything he seems to have gone backwards in that regard.
