Just watched the replay again.

Yeah he had every right to have the shot, but he had a player in better position, and well ahead of his opponent, to make sure of the goal.

He missed, so what does that tell you about his skills as a forward? If he's such a dead eye shot he should have nailed it. He's been missing shots at goal too much for me to believe he was better placed to have a shot than his team mate.

Team football trumps selfish footy.

He's made his bed, and made himself a reputation. He torched his mate.

Don't be surprised, but like many, I'm still dirty on him. Like Hinkley said "Young in name, young in decision making. He will learn from that".

Hopefully he learns and makes up for it, but I don't think he's going to get much of a chance to redeem. Maybe he will. If not, my hope his team mates learn from it.

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Bondi did you watch it on Kayo?
Do you know what the time stamp was?

Yeah right

It was late in the 3rd quarter. Port kicked their 2nd goal straight after the miss.

After he takes the shot the carlrton player slows down and the Port player looks like he's closing space, but before he takes the kick theres at least a 10m gap between the two opponents closest to goal. All Fynn had to do is lob it ahead of the Carlton player and he would have run onto it.

Who cares. Young isn't the future. Its the act that annoyed most people.

I get why he was entitled to take the shot, but if you miss, it's on you. Bad luck.
At the time, we needed to snuff the game. That miss turned the pressure back on us when it didn't need to be.

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First half good, second half, accuracy and efficacy bad! familiar pattern? At least we had something like 20 F50 entries to ports 5 or something in Q3, otherwise some nerves might have started to fray... fans if not players. All the blues I were with were telling the one Port supporter at our table that we would surely hand it all back at half time. I think we all secretly hoped we've turned that corner but none of us were prepared to voice that with any degree of confidence until deep into Q4!

50x bitten, 100x shy

He'll learn from that. If Coleman medalists can lob it over to a guy running to the goal square then first year players can too. It just looks better from a team spirit perspective etc. But they say we're a very united playing group this year. Good riddance to any player, coach or fan who isn't team first from here on in.

I'll have a look, thanks.
I agree and that has been our problem for a long time, players creating unnecessary pressure from poor skills or poor decision making or both.

It's going to take a while to get the demon out of the players and the supporters head.
All these guys have been told is, they can't play the modern game. Can't kick, run or handball.
Thankfully so far, they are showning they are determined buggers to fight this out and may not need a group of phyco analysis over summer with the new coach.

Even the commentators said that kind of act has been penalised a lot in recent times. not even cited for review, of course, "play on".

One mistake by a young guy Diesel, and we are crucifying the kid. He can't play or kick.

What I loved seeing was the field position of those handball chains from bounces, Cripps to Walsh inside but on the move, to Hewett inside/outside and forward of the bounce to Jagga 20 m ahead of the bounce and streaming goal wards. happened quite a few times in various combos. I said when we were losing games that Jagga has been building nicely game to game and was gonna have a break out game in the second half of the season. He's just getting that bit more time and space each week. And composure, seem like the heavy game reviewing of him has eased off and he's ok to run with the ball for more than one or two steps now.

How the heck can Tasssie just come into the league and expect to be playing deep into finals in a few years? that's what this kind of draft for three years running is offering them, especially with the game favouring speed and agility and the elite older players losing some currency out of all the rule changes. I believe in socialism in sport and in life but it dont think things should be offered on a silver platter on day one either!

How un-socialist of you diesel.
Surely they should be offered the same opportunity as the rest of the AFL, even if it is only their first year.
We've got pokies, if they're smart they'd be setting up NDIS business fronts for some quick easy cash.
Who needs billionaires when you can steal billions from the tax payers.

Exactly. Ison could have 6 goals already but nobody is razing him (admitted the kid has some X-factor and poise with ball in hand, not to mention being in the right spots).

It's not like these first year players dont have to sit in a team review meeting Monday morning and then do a one on one with the forwards coach (I've lost track of who that is these days!) to learn what they "need to go after" this week at training!!

yeah maybe there's some kind of compensation formula at play for being denied justice for the last 30 years when Port, Giants and Suns were given the green light before Tassie? 3 top ten picks per year, per injustice?

I should point out that the Federal Government issues the Australian currency and has the sole authority to do so and has no technical limits to what the spend. As Keynes said, if the resources exist, the (Central) Government can afford them, they just spend the currency into existence. the real limits are what are the available resources to acquire from the private sector to provision the public with infrastructure and services. Taxes are there to create the "fiscal space" as Warren Mosler calls it, cool down activity in the private sector to allow the public sector to expand without inflationary pressures taking hold. Those pressures are usually massively overstated by orthodox economists who aren't even aware every time USA, Aust, UK goes into a surplus position it invariably results in a national recession the net year.

It's a bit like Monopoly in one respect, the (reserve) bank can't extinguish currency from the economy (taxes, bonds are more of a straight asset swap) without first handing it out to players at the start of the game, ad continuing to expand money supply ($200 for passing go) to allow for private wealth creation. Possibly getting off topic a tiny bit at this point.… bring it back, if the AFL wants Tassie playing deep into finals in 2030 then there is absolutely nothing that can stop them making that happen, other than the rest of the clubs raising hell over it, and good luck with that, they'll just invent a new 'tax' to hurt the whinging clubs

I think it's more that the makey uppy AFL just want instant success, but not too much.
They still have to protect the favourites.

Holy s#$t, you've definitely thought about this.
Yes you are correct though, the AFL will make it happen no matter who they crush in their wake.
And it's a bonus if it is us.

yeah win-win-win-win for the in-crowd is tricky

Mind you lots of commentator say they like it when Carlton is up and about, but not too up and about I suspect. Matthew Lloyd and Barrett spent many weeks ending Voss's coaching career… this week not a single play in the Port Carlton game was worthy of a mention. I guess they're hoping Geelong put us to the sword, and nobody intelligent is not expecting they might after their recent run of games. we have matched up well in the past, but missing three traded talls, tough.

At this point I'm reasonably happy about Haywood and Florent plus picks for Curnow, so long as they maintain the form of last two or three weeks. Haywood has been huge both weeks and Florent was awesome against Doggies and backed it up against Port.

I swear Mitch McGovern was playing a KP-wing hybrid marking in both goal squares in the third and fourth quarters. was anybody at the ground? Who was he playing on or what was his pattern of play? Haywood was forced to play extremely high as a HF also. But i think Mitch was starting in the back half at CBs in Q3 & Q4. Dean is improving nicely for a first year kid-KPD, playing way above his years and slowly eliminating the less than excellent acts from his game.

Well we did beat them in the preseason without those talls.
But I think it will be a tough and very different game this time round.
One hopes we win, but as you said it is not likely.
If we didn't screw ourselves in that 3rd quarter with our inaccuracy I'd be a bit more positive.
I think this game is going to go 1 of 2 ways, we either just lose or we get absolutely smashed, 10 goals opening round smashed.

As for Curnow, I'm glad we made the trades to bring in Hayward and Florent, plus picks to acquire Dean and Walker.
We filled some holes and added some A grade talent, we still need more though.
Even though we lost a tall, a conditional one at best, we needed speed more than anything.
Ainsworth was also a great addition to upgrade on Durdin and it showed on the weekend.