for me, win or loss is secondly.
it’s how they go about it. If they somehow fluked a win playing like last week, that to me would prove very little.
If they lose, but play the way they should (ala mimic richmond style of previous years better) that is more promising IMO.
Who are the umpires for tonight?
Wasn’t hosking diabolical last time?
To be fair, that time he hadn’t heard of them either 
looking at the bright side re: our inability to pick the ball up cleanly, at least we wont be pinged under the new stricter HTB interpretation.
Just on the deliberate out of bounds.
Expect a bucketload of them tonight if it’s at all slippery
No such thing as deliberate oob in the Laws Of The Game. It’s up to the umpire to determine whether the last player who touched it “demonstrated sufficient intent to keep the football in play.”
Of course what the laws of the game say and what the umpires actually do won’t necessarily match up nicely.
Park the bus!
Collingwood 1, Essendon 0
Tonight is all about the Learnings.
Never heard of any of them. Good sign.
I still haven’t. 
Mr Squiggle, … yes.
And seriously,… what are they? Are they like Champion data wannabes or something?
If so, … why so fking many, … and again, why do they exist?
There’s almost as many of them as there are Gambling co’s.
Pls don’t tell me AFL stats is that much of a thing that over a Dozen different entities can somehow make a profit from them ffs.
That would leave my flabber totally, & irretrievably, gasted.
stats nerds who like football
As I read your post, I am listening to the great leveller. Heavy rain on the roof .
If you look at all the players we have lost who never got a opportunity to established himself .like TED Richard, Houli and other, do you think players like Zak and Clarke will think about moving on to another club .where they will established himself .you looked at clarke against Carlton he got Brownlow points if you are new player drafted by Essendon .you think worsfold forget about these new players. it take 5 years to get a game with Worsfold philosophy. Sam Draper how many times was named emergency before he did his knee
Apologies for shortening my interpretation of the statutes to match exactly what is said by both players & umpires during the game.
Without the crowd noise it’s pretty easy to hear “Deliberate “.
I’ve yet to hear an umpire say”You failed to demonstrate sufficient intent to keep the football in play Mr Hurley”
Fallen into the trap of not knowing who these bastards are before. We’re going to get slaughtered by them.
Here’s a question for you - are you able to make a username other than a first name followed by a number?
Annoyed they’ve taken our Hawks game off us next week. Off to QLD to play North and the Dogs.
