Being 3rd for minutes led in matches was from an article I read on the 22nd April. We might not be 3rd now, but the Freo game was an aberration in this respect.
In terms of trying to understand our current predicament, simply looking at wins and losses can create a false impression, either of proximity or of distance.
In a way, yes. I was pleased to see equal representation - 3 players each from Freo and Carlton. That hasn't always been the case this season. Shai Bolton is obviously a few years older than in the Richmond premiership years, but is still a threat and can tear it up when he wants to. And Jackson is coming into his own.
Walshy has polled in pretty much every game from memory.
And on a side note, I see Charlie Curnow scored a perfect 10. Lucky us.
When did "inocent until proven guilty" become "innocent until proven guilty but your probably guilty anyway"
IMO it's better to think of the concept as "not guilty until proven guilty." Innocent means you've done nothing wrong. A finding of not guilty means there is insufficient evidence to convict. The fact that he was found not guilty is not the same as him being found innocent.
Other women also gave evidence at the trial, alleging similar abuse. The chances of unrelated women coming out of the woodwork making allegations against some old guy nobody outside football really knows, is pretty slim.
Unusually for a criminal trial, other women who claimed they they had been sexually abused by Mr Cable when they were children gave evidence.
Mr Cable was not on trial for alleged offending against them.
One of those women had launched a civil action against Mr Cable, which resulted in a judge finding in 2023 that he had abused her when she was a child.
Judge Mark Herron awarded her more than $800,000 in damages, but Mr Cable was bankrupt.
If Clarkson was Carlton coach and had the 3 year record I quoted above, it would not make a jot of difference. Folks would still tear the place down, just like they did with Pagan and Malthouse, whose records became irrelevant at the opportune time.
Fact. Both at the start of Voss's tenure and again last off season when all the new assistants came in, the coaching group worked with playing group to workshop and determined how the players wanted to play and their thoughts on the game plan they wanted and where they thought their strengths were. The coaches devised a game plan based on those workshops so to say Voss is not up to it is nonsense because they are all (playing group and coaches) equally complicit in the way they play. This fact is always overlooked in these discussions. It is my opinion and probably the opinion of most footy analysts that we are 16th because as a team/list: - We are slow (leg speed) - We are poor kicks (field and for goal) - We have poor onfield leadership from senior players. Personally, ie my opinion, I think our players seem to have very low footy IQ compared to better teams in the comp. I based this on when I see the way they position relative to their opponents and how slowly they react to what's going on around them. You can changes the coaching group again if you want, after the initial sugar hit it will be back to where we are know whilst our list is composed the way it is.
I always believed this was the case, rather than Moses coming down Mount Sinai with the 10 Commandments.
It reeks of double standards to make excuses for Clarkson at North, but not Voss. If Vossy's first 3 seasons yielded a W/L of 3-10 (plus 10 straight losses under Ratts as fill-in), 3-20 and 5-1-17, folks on here would not give any coach the BOD, whatever their previous records says. They would be screaming blue murder.
Interesting hearing Luke Beveridge after the Geelong game. He said that as coaches, you either mold the game style to the players you have, or you establish a game style that you know will be successful, and you ask everyone to come up to that. He stated he's always tried the latter. It's similar to the old adage of designing / building a house down to a budget, or up to a standard.
Going a little further off topic, these are IMO head space issues. Going back to the second half of 2023 and early 2024 when the team was flying, even Blake Acres looked like an elite kick. Having a lot of money and having a lot of AFL success share one big similarity, which is that once you reach a tipping point, both money and success tend to multiply themselves.
