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Actually it not simple and any interpretation of "holding the ball" that is officiated with an outcome of more than a tiny fraction of tackles resulting in an actual holding the ball decisions would mean a large increase in free kicks per game: something they have been actively restricting for...

On the contrary I'm expecting a lot of people to continue spinning Corns idiot narrative because now having adopted it as their own it must be defended, rather than confessing to the double sin of both being wrong and being easily influenceable.

Blighty has got a skill that translates instantly to AFL level: Just like your McGoverns, Levers, Weiterings and Ryans he often knows where the opposition player is going to kick the ball before even he has made up his mind himself, and like magic there they are intercepting. Ask me to to say...

It's amazing people don't talk about it more. I mean at least we got a 250 game All Australian out of the Croad trade.

Farmer was still 24 when he played his first game for us and Bell had just turned 25. This is the list of all players that were over 28 when they first played for Freo. Given only one of them is in the last 10 years and only two in the last 15, I don't think we can usefully draw any...

Reads like an attempt specifically to shut down the speculation.

His level of awesome guyness is almost offensive.

I swear I saw Pav say in an interview that 'Warfie Time' around the time was an actual thing inside the club. I.e. it's not made up off the cuff. It's long enough ago though that the interview, if it actually happened, won't be online.

Well it was fun while it lasted.

Well the season is done as a first timer I'd like to be able to say my respect for you all has increased. Except..

MMPR didn't come out in Australia till Pav was a teenager. I'd say he missed that boat.

I often say mean things to people on here and I shouldn't. I try to ration myself at the least. (I wanted to say 'Shut up you stupid see you next Tuesdays and stop clogging the thread'. But resisted)

But the power rangers don't wear capes either? Also I'm pretty sure Pav has done interviews alluding to the incident that didn't involve admitting it that actually; he said Morphin'.

Maybe it needs to be Media & Miscellaneous (in so far as it can be construed to be related to said media)

Surely they'd be thinking outside mids if they are bringing one in. Not a role those two can play.

Ever since the Dogs won a flag while we still hadn't got one, I always find myself hoping that if we don't, no-one wins the flag this year.

Where is the double like button?

Pavs lip cost him at least 50 Browlow votes I reckon. I have no idea when it was (I'm going to say somewhere around the 2008,9,10 period) when in match there was a contest in the square at some point in which Pav was clearly held and he's angrily waving his arms at umpire whilst simultaneously...

Yeah I was only half joking with the Office meme. To me not responding with the same platitudes WC did is tantamount to saying the contract is in the post.

Warner is reasonably easy to accommodate as he spends a fair amount of his time forward and not actually on the ball. I'd even go so far as to say it'd be a forward that drops out of the 22 accommodate a hypothetical Chad, and all extant inside mids have their time on ball cut a little for when...

You wouldn't think there is any prospect of WC trading for Warner in contract. They simply couldn't justify it from a list position. They need to take those multiple picks. (He's still going to cost 2 firsts out of contract too actually, unless he's offered a Buddy contract). If we are...

Wait, Fremantle declined to comment?

I think we got ambushed a bit by WC (I'm not giving us a pass for that btw: I would like to know how much of our opposition analysis is based on anticipating what they might do differently to counter our plan, rather purely about what they have been doing themselves). They seemed to have a plan...

Actually the reason we are relatively low scoring I think, aside from the game plan being still immature, is because of where we zone up. All the teams play more or less the same structure; but the more 'attacking' ones push their zones up high into the opposition's defense looking for turnovers...

Henry seems to playing a sort of Dusty Martin or Petrencca or Warner (Walters did it a fair bit in Lyons last few years. In fact that may be exactly what Ross has in mind) role where they often start in the centre bounce but swap in play to half forward. Dunno what Ross is seeing though as I'm...

He has some limitations and based on them he is never going to graduate off that fat side wing; but equally as a specialist fat side winger its difficult to name 3 or 4 that are better than him in the comp, and they would all be old men. That we got him for free is absurd.

I dunno their form line looks a touch short of certain.

Jesus give the guy a crack.

They are pretty well drilled. The extra 3 or 4 highly inexperienced players they had over their normal side proved problem only at the end when the heat really went on.