The swans demolition of the lions makes our capitulation last week not looking quite as bad, and the pressure is now on the Saints but Lyon is a media favourite.
The couple metres back is an umpire directive and i cant understand it.
Forever and a day, wherever you take a mark, a player stands on the mark.
This got tricky when a player took a mark on a lead, with the player on the mark asked to come back a bit as his chasing momentum took him over the mark. Fair.
However in the modern game the umpire almost always asks the player to come back off the mark for no reason.
I commented on it in our game. A player took a Mark on the centre square line. The man in the mark was wanted to stand in the 50m arc. Thats a good 3-4m back of not more. This is not an outside 5, or a stand. That's where the umpires marked the line.
Forget who it was but the player kicked a goal, just clearing the players on the goal line.
Agree, but the point was our strong list depth wasn't really strong as soon as the game went to a more precise skilful kicking style.
Thats half the problem though isn't it.
Players edging into an area past their prime and not enough young talent coming in to bridge the gap.
It is not necessarily about ins vs outs player by player.
This has been a big criticism from me over the journey. Each individual player recruitment in itself is not necessarily a bad idea. You can build a good case for every player recruited vs what they cost us.
However, list building is not about getting a clump of individuals together, instead its about building a fully fleshed out list that is not easily defeated by some injuries.
This is why i've been banging on about our 37 small forward recruits over the journey.
All can play football to different degrees. But they do not make our team/list better when half of them are forced to play 2's because we have too many in the 1's already.
At the same time having only 1 AFL capable KPF on the list, and only somewhat better at the other end.
We lived and died by our good players playing well and our form is coinciding with the top dropping off not the bottom.
that might be true but our maturing elderly were in their prime. We've not exactly see our list flourish elsewhere with the exception of Kennedy.
Everyone else is gone from the afl or spare parts player. The wheels had fallen off by the time Charlie, jsos and tdk moved on. Every other player who left us is retired, or cant get a game.
Thats half the problem though isn't it.
Players edging into an area past their prime and not enough young talent coming in to bridge the gap.
It is not necessarily about ins vs outs player by player.
This has been a big criticism from me over the journey. Each individual player recruitment in itself is not necessarily a bad idea. You can build a good case for every player recruited vs what they cost us.
However, list building is not about getting a clump of individuals together, instead its about building a fully fleshed out list that is not easily defeated by some injuries.
This is why i've been banging on about our 37 small forward recruits over the journey.
All can play football to different degrees. But they do not make our team/list better when half of them are forced to play 2's because we have too many in the 1's already.
At the same time having only 1 AFL capable KPF on the list, and only somewhat better at the other end.
The list was stronger a couple of years ago.that might be true but our maturing elderly were in their prime. We've not exactly see our list flourish elsewhere with the exception of Kennedy.
Everyone else is gone from the afl or spare parts player. The wheels had fallen off by the time Charlie, jsos and tdk moved on. Every other player who left us is retired, or cant get a game.
living off past glories IMHO.
I saw that a couple of days ago.
It seems as though the methodology of that survey is not, shall we say, particularly robust. Possible more for sh1ts and giggles than anything else. What is important IMO, is that across a range of different surveys / analyses from different institutions, Melbourne is constantly ranked near the top, as the 2nd half of this article shows.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/11/time-out-melbourne-best-city-world
Perhaps these lists arent what they're cracked up to be.
Operation Epic Fury, or perhaps that should be Epic Foolishness, is a classic clusterf*ck.
No defined justification, no clear objectives, no exit strategy, no consideration of the vulnerability of the Strait of Hormuz, underestimating the capacity and doggedness of the Iranians, taking the pressure off the Russians, weakening South Korea's air defences, screwing the economy ...
Then there's the human toll. Apart from death and injury, it's estimated that between 25% and 75% of military personnel serving in the Middle East will suffer from PTSD - and that includes our Wedgetail crew and support staff.