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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
Last post by Lods -
Autralian record to Cam Myers in the 1500m at the Diamond League in Paris last night 3.28.00
Australian record in the 800m to Sarah Billings 1.57.01
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The Sports Desk / Re: God help me - the Cricket thread
Last post by ElwoodBlues1 -
Ben Stokes the first victim from the Bazball era to fall on his sword and retire from International cricket. The English are about lose a home series to New Zealand and Id expect there to be more fallout with a couple more big names to follow.
The Stokes/McCullum relationship was strained and there was the recent nightclub incident as well and I think Stokes has decided its all to hard be English Captain despite his good form especially with the ball of late. He did say the last Ashes defeat took a lot out of him but for me its more about the politics and expectations of English cricket weighing him down.
Sad to see such a gun cricketer leave the game and it will be interesting to see if England go with another troubled player in Harry Brook as their next captain given he is the vice captain or they turn back the clock and give Joe Root the job until they find a find a new Stokes.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 16 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Last post by LP -
Personally, AFL 2026 style appears to be a war of attrition, 24 games, smaller lists, it's making it to finals hopefully in the Top 4 in the best possible condition. From there anything can happen, it is potentially more dynamic than the past.

It's only a couple of years back the Lions lost 7 or 8 of the first 9 games and won the flag, fans have a short memory!

This speaks nothing at all to the capabilities of the coach or the coaching group, but it does say something about the MC and Medical team. For me the coach panel must work with what they have got, fit or otherwise, it's the medical team and the MC to manage the list through the season to get it to the pointy end in the best possible state.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Last post by LP -
Quote from: DJC – on
If that's the incident, Guy is just leaning in and drawing her towards him to make a private remark.  The other images of the event seem to show Guy and Deeming getting on like a house on fire  ::)
Apparently, it was a headlock, how misguided of me my full apology! :o

Was it followed up with the People's Elbow and a Rock Bottom?
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 16 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Last post by kruddler -
Quote from: shawny – on
Quote from: kruddler – on
The win/loss column just shows who is in front at the end of the game.
The quarters won/lost columns show how competitive you are in the games.

People fixating on the first and neglecting the 2nd is a recipe for disaster.

Quarters won is a stat that can be interpreted a few ways but W/L stat is ultimately all that matters.

There are no cups in Trophy cabinet awarded for the amount of quarters won.

There isn't any trophies awarded for any amount of wins during the season either.

But if you want to successfully see how well you are going as a group, you want as much data as you can.

Taking your own logic....wins and losses is all that matters. Sure.

So 17 teams will have not won the flag at the end of the year.
Do all 17 go on a rebuild?
They are all losers.
Wins and losses are all that matters. Everyone else lost.

No....they see how many wins/losses they have to help assess their year.
Further to that, teams can see how many quarters won/lost to further assess their year.

As i said, ignoring that is a recipe for disaster. Just like focussing solely on winning the flag (or not) is a recipe for disaster too.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 16 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Last post by shawny -
Quote from: Professer E – on
The reality Shawny is that the form of the midfield group has directly equated to the team's result.  Cripps et al. were awful during rounds 1 to 8 but have been dominant since then.  And that worries me greatly going forwards because going forwards that's the group we need to re-vitalise.  We can rely on George and Paddy to be competitive.
Where I think we've greatly improved as a coaching group is there seems to be a preference to play blokes in their best positions, pick the right role players and in general far less cockamamie MC choices.

Prof, I think its more than all this mostly on the bank of Cripps and Walsh over the last 6 weeks.

Personnel changes, confidence, gameplan tweaks, rapid improvement from our youth, more genuine options in the F50 and better use of the ball going inside 50, holding possession when no clear options and thank god there is no longer the default long bombs to contest - these are some of the reasons i see that are just as important as the midfield improvement.

I know its early days but we seem to be no where near as reliant on individuals as we were in the past. It was blinders from Cripps, Charlie, TDK or bust in previous years.

The winning run we are on this time is different.          
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 16 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs West Coast
Last post by shawny -
Quote from: kruddler – on
The win/loss column just shows who is in front at the end of the game.
The quarters won/lost columns show how competitive you are in the games.

People fixating on the first and neglecting the 2nd is a recipe for disaster.

Quarters won is a stat that can be interpreted a few ways but W/L stat is ultimately all that matters.

There are no cups in Trophy cabinet awarded for the amount of quarters won.