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There has been some aggro from publishers of articles in recent months about sites that copypasta their content onto other sites, particularly the paywalled ones, which could lead to fines and whanot for those that do it. Apparently there are copywrite laws for these things. As a result we can no longer have full articles reposted here, so if you come across something then please refrain from nabbing the whole thing and just post the link. Quoting a paragraph or two and linking the source is fine however, just don't get greedy.

Here's the updated site-wide rule: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/please-read-re-copyright-posting-newspaper-articles.1389553/

Here's an example of what you can do:

"If West Coast was the gold standard for how to operate, then Fremantle's arrival into the AFL in 1995 could be viewed as a series of cautionary tales.

Despite eight wins in that debut season, a series of poor recruiting choices meant they didn't play their first final until 2003."

If they believe that us not making finals until 2003 was solely due to "a series of poor recruiting choices" then I have a bridge to sell them.


Thanks for your understanding.
 
Sorry, but stuff like this scares me a lot. Things were going badly so guys deviated from the plan and tried to do more to fix it. So what are the options:

a) Stick to the plan that isn't working, but be harder at the contest, or
b) ???

Maybe the players are trying stuff when things obviously aren't working because the coaching staff aren't?

To me, it looks like the better teams make stuff up on the fly at times to win games. Don't tell me Sicely, the Chad, Toby Green etc don't "try to do more" when things aren't going well or the game is on the line? Maybe if some of our leaders had deviated from the plan a few times we might have won one of our last four games last year.
Yep big alarm bells for me there, the best teams play natural games that stand up under pressure, not ones that require perfectly rehearsed and executed actions that fall apart if things don’t go perfectly
 

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Or a 20m chip that is called play on

That cost us badly because it creates pressure as the guy who has possession needs to quickly kick instead of go back on his mark.

I'm not sure why freo had a different set of distance judgment than Geelong

Also holding the ball calls were different too. Geelong mostly had more time to break tackles
 
That cost us badly because it creates pressure as the guy who has possession needs to quickly kick instead of go back on his mark.

I'm not sure why freo had a different set of distance judgment than Geelong

Also holding the ball calls were different too. Geelong mostly had more time to break tackles
Maybe the umpire was a Freo & is getting sick of this shit like the rest of us 🤣
 

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I haven't paid much attention to the shows this year

Follow snippets on social media here and there.

A lot of talk though i am noticing on socials is there is more footy shows then ever but the quality is at its worse.

Apprantley every show is just repeating the same stuff and its despite having 18 teams you really are only seeing them talk about the same 6 or 7 teams mostly Victorian.

With our start to the year there isnt much positivity anyway.

Kane Cornes for example seems to be on every single platform like how often can you repeat the same opinion before it gets ad nauseating
 
There's been a kind of mitosis that's created two identical football shows on 7 and 9. Only good thing is that Hutchy can't say "Footy Classss" anymore. I put about as much effort into watching "Agenda Setters" (gee, what a catchy name) as Hutchy does with his personal grooming. What a slob.
 


The guess who is Freo. He also talks about us briefly earlier.

So not only do we have one of the worst front half defenses (doesn't mention it here but did last year), we are also terrible 1v1 in defense. It's why we're so vulnerable when we don't dominate stoppage. We can't defend.

Need to change the personnel there. First thoughts are Cox and Ryan need to go, neither of whom are any good 1v1. Or at the very least, it is one or the other.
 

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