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With the bye rounds behind us, I thought it would be a good time to have a deeper look at how the top eight…
I've observed and participated in many discussions about how bad AFL attendances have supposedly been this year. Critics will usually cite a specific game…
Drawing inspiration from Peter King, one of my favourite American sportswriters, I welcome you to what I'm hoping is a regular weekly feature of…
I'll bring you all the ins and outs from Round 7 of this year's AFL premiership, as well as look at who's going to…
After six round of the AFL season, here are some tough questions that need to be asked. Chris Judd's injury woes, Match Review Panel…
Prior to the commencement of the 2014 AFL season, most pundits had three teams ahead of daylight: Hawthorn, Sydney and Fremantle. The season is…
Flag favourite is the most useless title. It changes week to week anyway. A lot of weeks to go. A lot will change. All a team can do is bank the points to get themselves in the best position they can when the inevitable flat patch comes. Geelong is doing that. Will it take them to a cup? No one knows, that’s why the games get played to find out who wins (and why draws are stupid and need to go but that’s a different article).
Footy Fix: The Cats are inevitable - and they're smarter, clutcher, quicker, and scarier than ever
Geelong has been brilliant every week this season regardless who we’ve faced. It wasn’t a once off. Blues should have known that’s what the cats were going to do. Yet they didn’t come with a plan to stop it.
Footy Fix: The Cats are inevitable - and they're smarter, clutcher, quicker, and scarier than ever
Every side has difficulty if balls are served on a platter for the forwards. That’s a nothing analysis. Why did it happen time and time again despite Carlton supposedly having the far superior midfield and ruck? Tactics and strategy.
Footy Fix: The Cats are inevitable - and they're smarter, clutcher, quicker, and scarier than ever
Teams make mistakes due to pressure – implied or real. Plenty of things Geelong could clean up and improve on also. As for who took the field that’s just part of sports. Had blues had different players available Scott would have undoubtedly spun his magnets a different way.
The thing Scott and Geelong don’t get credit for is nearly every player is versatile and can play multiple positions. If one thing doesn’t work Scott isn’t afraid to change it up. Look at Mitch Duncan. He’s played as a half forward, midfielder, winger and halfback flank and has been well above average to elite is every one. Cameron was a star before he came to Geelong but I don’t think many will disagree he has added more strong to his bow since coming to Geelong. Even an unheralded player like Tom atkins had been half forward, mid, stopper and defender. Hawkins became far more dangerous when he added ruck duties inside forward 50. Geelong has more versatility and willingness to use it than any other side in the competition. That’s their real advantage – IMO.
Footy Fix: The Cats are inevitable - and they're smarter, clutcher, quicker, and scarier than ever
So it was a stupid system but victorians fault it got changed. Right ….
Footy Fix: Don't be fooled - the Dogs avoided disaster, but they're still an utter shambles in every way
I think you Richmond people always avoid the actual conversation and try to make it about another side that had nothing at all to do with the topic at hand.
AFL News: Hinkley locked in at last, Riewoldt the retiring type, hobbled Hawks star's career in limbo
Straw man.
AFL News: Hinkley locked in at last, Riewoldt the retiring type, hobbled Hawks star's career in limbo
They certainly get a fair share of the credit. Even Scott has said so.
While Scott’s finals may have no resulted in a cup most years he (and his staff) still had Geelong up there nearly every year – something Hardwick cannot claim.
AFL News: Hinkley locked in at last, Riewoldt the retiring type, hobbled Hawks star's career in limbo
Hardwick won 3 after getting new assistants and won 0 after they left. His record before and after compared to with is pretty telling.
AFL News: Hinkley locked in at last, Riewoldt the retiring type, hobbled Hawks star's career in limbo
It’s not that long ago that Geelong was no where near a ‘power’ club. Players used to routinely decline trades to ‘sleepy hollow’. So it can be done. Saints need to start with not accepting anything less than excellence. Long have they been exceedingly happy with mediocre. If Saints make finals – regardless of what happens during – watch how much the club will over hype the ‘achievement’. Saints always seem to be happy if they aren’t the worst rather than striving to be the best.
Are perennial losers St Kilda set to break supporters' hearts again, or is this team different?
Midfield is by far the easiest part of the ground to regenerate.
AFL News: Hinkley locked in at last, Riewoldt the retiring type, hobbled Hawks star's career in limbo
West Coast is in the position that they can take the best available player. They need to restock everywhere on the ground. No need to prioritise any position when you need them all.
TOM MORRIS: Who your club is eyeing in this year's Trade Period... and how the Eagles will use their prized pick 1
“[Geelong] need to refresh their list in the off-season”
Gee what insightful shallow analysis. Do the Cats have areas to address? Yep, sure do. Three players in the under 22 in 22 recently named plus a number other younger aged players already racking up games (which is far more important than a number on a birth certificate).
Feeling’s biggest need is midfield depth. And hey what’s the easiest position to address? Midfield.
TOM MORRIS: Who your club is eyeing in this year's Trade Period... and how the Eagles will use their prized pick 1
mrl you remind of of the little boys teasing girls on the playground because they can’t admit they like them.
It’s obvious you love Aussie rules else you wouldn’t be here so much.
TOM MORRIS: The AFL's hierarchy is in shambles - and it's nothing less than a failure of governance
The most meaningless stat in AFL: free kick counts. Nufties delude themselves into thing it should somehow be ‘even’. Don’t commit fouls/infringe and you won’t give away so many.
AFL News: Shuey, Cunnington make call on retirement, Swans move on from Buddy era, Port want answers over umpiring
A few teams playing a couple games to qualify for finals that they don’t deserve and won’t go anywhere it doesn’t make the games ‘meaningful’.
More meaningful games, more eyes on screens and more fun: Why 'wildcard weekend' is an absolute no-brainer
Which point are you referring to?
Don't waste the time or money - ruckmen are the most overrated stock in the AFL
And don’t forget beating Geelong in a H&A game is a much bigger deal than playing finals.
Don't waste the time or money - ruckmen are the most overrated stock in the AFL
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Don't waste the time or money - ruckmen are the most overrated stock in the AFL
And who does Carlton shed to make payroll space to pay Gawn’s salary because I guarantee he gets paid a lot more than whoever Pittonet is on?
Don't waste the time or money - ruckmen are the most overrated stock in the AFL
Seperate refuge of floundering argue is blaming umpires – especially in 8 goal loses or when that specific umpire wasn’t even in the stadium on the day he allegedly coat a team a GF.
Don't waste the time or money - ruckmen are the most overrated stock in the AFL
So Freo has had all these elite ruckman and yet Freo’s trophy case remain the home of nothing but cobwebs and dust. Pretty much proves the point.
Don't waste the time or money - ruckmen are the most overrated stock in the AFL
Melbourne is the only side in the top 8 that does not have a single game against anyone else currently in the top 8. Sounds pretty cut and dry that it’s the easiest fixture. I wouldn’t be surprised in the Dees win all 6, the media pump them up on the back of that win streak and come finals when they face a quality sides for the first time in almost two months the go out in straight sets.
Race for the eight: Every run home analysed - here's how your team makes it to September
May want to check the facts because you are incorrect. Only two clubs (pies and port) have a better record against the teams that currently sit inside the 8.
Don’t have to worry about bottom clubs like Freo come finals – they’ve be off having mad Monday.
Race for the eight: Every run home analysed - here's how your team makes it to September
No pressure at all on the Pies. They just won a flag. Sure every fan and team wants to go back to back but if you don’t? The glow from a flag recently won still feels damn good. The real pressure is on teams that haven’t won one in recent memory. Especially teams that have been less than the sum of their parts for years.
Footy Fix: The Cats are inevitable - and they're smarter, clutcher, quicker, and scarier than ever