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I didn't see a lot of the game but I thought that we weren't too far off the pace.  I think that we would have to be in with a decent chance when we next play Melbourne ... or North.

Forward, back, ruck with or without weitering.... its all irrelevant.

Young is a confidence player. When his confidence is high, he can do what you need him too.
When his confidence is shot, he's a witches hat.

Right now is high. Enjoy it while it lasts.

I'm thinking with Amartey coming in Harry McKay will play the role Young was doing.

Quote from: kruddler – on September 14, 2026, 05:00:10 pm

Watch the game. You'll get your answer. Its got nothing to do with the coach

Yes, it was poor and inconsistent umpiring that I'm sure both teams found frustrating.

There seemed to be little communication between the umpires ... except when they had a pow wow to determine a lasso free.  Something as inconsequential as an out of bounds seems to be more important than whether a player gets taken out of a marking contest or ducks into a tackle 

Quote from: Micky0 – on September 13, 2026, 11:22:52 pm

Absolutely and I understand they are giving everyone more leeway to keep the game moving but not multiple times constantly… at one stage both teams’ Players stopped and looked at the umpire waiting for a whistle. It was way too long and ugly to watch tbh.

How much of this is officials, and how much of it is a coach?

I'm sure there are coaches who will happily burn the sport to secure a win, I suspect Norp AFLW is doing just that, while many of the other teams are doing the best they can to play a more attractive style. Norp will play attractive when the game is on the terms they accept, but when it isn't going to plan they turn it into a pile of sludge.

Think of the comments over the last season of so from both Voss and Fraser about not just wanting success but also to play an attractive brand. That is what gets +95K to the MCG, not just the chance of a win!

See, Clarkson Sacked!

Which do you think is the AFL and AFL Club priority, 95K watching a potential win or 50k watching a certainty?

Quote from: kruddler – on September 14, 2026, 09:59:31 am

Come drive some roads in the Northern suburbs where you play pot hole roulette and tell me how the end navigate that.
There will be a long line of cars pulled over on the side of the road with flats and no drivers to change them.

Just heard on the news a man just died after his motorbike hit a pothole on the western hwy. 

I could say more but you have all heard it before.....

It's hard to see 100% public trust in self-driving cars, but they are inevitable, and of course EVs are the natural delivery method for this technology.

No matter how good we think we are, how well we think we can focus and concentrate, compared to just about any working machine we are rubbish.

The vast majority of accidents, minor or major, are caused by driver distraction, inattention or fatigue regardless of other contributing causes. Much like the weight of evidence in favour of vaccines, the data is now building that in general full self-driving is safer than human driving, as uncomfortable as that may be for some it's a harsh reality of human versus machine. I travel a lot, and almost daily I see people driving on the freeway, usually in a Tesla, while doing their makeup or reading a document, it's disturbing but keep this in mind, the people who you see doing this don't stop behaving this way when they haven't access to some form of self-driving mode. Cruising down the highway at 100kph doing your makeup is not a new phenomenon, it didn't just appear with the invention of self-driving.

Another thing EVs have made worse, getting cut off on the freeway and people taking your braking space. They have so much available torque at freeway speed they can just accelerate relative to the cars around them like never before, and duck through the smallest spaces. Anyone who runs a car with radar cruise control will know what havoc this causes, truckies must be going crazy, some drivers cut through spaces many couldn't even make a park in!

The girls had their opportunities but I must say the umpiring for the first 3/4’s was annoying - letting the scraps roll on and on and no reward for tackling and they were holding us before we even got the ball!

Then yes technically the HTB against us was there in the last when 20 went to play on rather than take the set shot but the umpires had let so
Many other infringements go thru time and again , but not that one.  It was irritating but her doing that and the umpire calling it.

I think the umpires are doing a disservice to the game by letting play roll on so much. Not a great spectacle.

I thought we were a real shot against North and i think having Sophie who is the firecracker in the forward line, and Darcy, who is the calm experienced head, wouldve had us win that one. Next time

First game I tuned in for the season and the last.