I'm going to repeat myself. It's the wrong list for the modern game. No coach out there could help this mob.

I'm going to repeat myself. It's the wrong list for the modern game. No coach out there could help this mob.

i think it's time. it's beyond time. since midway 2024, we knew he wasn't it. doesn't have it.


needs to hit up the public speaking circuit. that's his gift, post playing.

afl need to have a good look at themselves. i'm a sports nut. nba, mlb, prem league. no other competition in the world, has an annual round of rule changes like we do. it's amateur hour at afl HQ

I'm going to repeat myself. It's the wrong list for the modern game. No coach out there could help this mob.

ah Mick ... i got no idea why they're obsessed with speed.


i love the nba - nearly as much as CFC. but viewer numbers at an all time low as most fans are sick of 138-124 scorelines and mindless bombing up and down the court shooting 3's. no defense, their soft tissue - calf, achilles, hammy - injuries are 40% higher than at any other point in the NBA ... and it's all down to this misinterpretation that fans want high scores and speed.


afl is not a well run sport imo. any organisation that feels the need to implement yearly rule changes is just getting lost in itself. there was nothing wrong with the game and since the 6-6-6 rule limited flooding from the centre bounce, the game was in a really healthy spot.

contested footy, chaos ball, run and gun - all of these ways of playing were valid. and watching the different tactical styles come against each other used to be enthralling (for me). where now, if you can't run and gun, you can't compete.

i'd always watch 5 or 6 games a weekend. now i sit thru one carlton game, and that's it.

You mean around the time we were 2nd on the ladder, had just dry humped the Cats and had put 8 goals past GWS in the first quarter? Was it then that you figured out Voss wasn't the man? Or did you wait for the Dimma's Whinge (sounds like dimmer switch, heh) and for the AFL to change the rules to decide he couldn't coach?

the "stand" rule is a joke. players just walk around the man on the mark and the guy on the mark has to wait for a bloke with a whistle to make his mind up that it's play on before moving a muscle! it seems like some players are taking matters in their own hands and moving without waiting for the 'play on' but it's always too late because they had to be a statue until it's too late.

that was 2023 that we looked on top of the world. and again, i sound like a broken record. that was never by design, but due to injuries. most of the 9 game win streak was without a ruck. we played fast, play on at all costs chaos ball. we beat pies at their own game and torched the cats.


then we got tdk back and looked good, still, but not the same. then i think it was against the crows or gws, we got pittonet back and voss rushed him straight into the team at the expense of a runner. and we laid a giant egg.

2023 finals were magical, bcos we played with heart and belief, but we were also outplayed. the 2 lumbering rucks at the cost of a runner took the fast, play on chaos ball and swapped it for the long bombs down the flanks to contest. tedium enused and it hasn't stopped since 2024.

Mate, I don't know why you ever get into arguments around facts & figures because you always get them wrong

https://afltables.com/afl/seas/2024.html

Check it out -

Round 16, 2024 - we pump the Cats by 63 points

Round 17, 2024 - we beat Richmond to go six points clear in 2nd place.

Round 18, we go to Western Sydney and lead the Giants 8.4 to 3.1 at quarter time. Would've been 2.1 for them but Weiters played an arrogant no-look lateral pass into the corridor with seconds left that gave them a goal and probably a bit of wounded pride.

From there: 14 goals conceded in two quarters, 2W 6L to close the h/a season, scraping into 8th and humiliated in the EF.

I don't remember when Dimma's whinge was exactly, nor when the AFL acted on it, but it definitely targeted our strengths.

I reckon Brad Scott might be available soon.