- aejix
- Sep 18, 2007
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It's about finding that next group of core players we can win with in the next 6, 8, 10 years. Let's face it, it's hard for 20-, 21-, 22-year-olds to lead an NHL team. Look at the playoffs.
That quote is from fucking 2018. Fuck you Jim
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Monstrous loving bastards.
abc article posted:
It is believed the review was similar in scope to Collingwood's 'Do Better' review of 2021 and will have similarly dramatic ramifications.
Such as? Eddie McGuire giving a snivelling press conference and "resigning" is a loving pathetic excuse for real consequences, and there's no way McGuire isn't still involved in club business even if he's not formally the president anymore, so what dramatic ramifications are they talking about? A brief flurry of negative press that gets ignored or buried in years of "reviews" that will still end up with the same approved members of the old boys club still running things? Oh no, please not that, again
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- aejix
- Sep 18, 2007
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It's about finding that next group of core players we can win with in the next 6, 8, 10 years. Let's face it, it's hard for 20-, 21-, 22-year-olds to lead an NHL team. Look at the playoffs.
That quote is from fucking 2018. Fuck you Jim
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Not that any of these disgusting pricks ever really cared about anyone beyond themselves (if there is a list of industries or job professions that overwhelmingly attract and employ arrogant, violently abusive and narcissistic cunts more than the very top layers of professional sports management & coaching, it would be a very short list once youre past major corps and politics), but I can already hear the cliches they and everyone who enabled them would have used to justify it to themselves if they ever had the briefest flicker of empathy for the victims:
- Nobody asks how, just how many
- Gotta make sacrifices to reach the top
- This is just what it takes for a winning culture
- Have to break a few eggs for an omelette
- If they can't handle that pressure they're not real winners
etc.
Clarkson might be sacrificed, maybe Fagan if that doesnt get it out of the media cycle, but thst will be the end of it, and he or they will be given some wink wink nudge nudge compensation for being "just a good bloke who wanted to win a little too badly, he doesnt deserve to have his life ruined, especially after all he did for the club, hes a family man blah blah blah" then it's straight back to "see we fixed it nothing to see here move on that's already been addressed and we are focusing on the way forward not looking back no further questions".
Hopefully I am wrong and this leads to serious changes (and criminal charges for everyone who perpetrated this poo poo) but hoo boy is it hard to be optimistic with the state of the world in general
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- aejix
- Sep 18, 2007
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It's about finding that next group of core players we can win with in the next 6, 8, 10 years. Let's face it, it's hard for 20-, 21-, 22-year-olds to lead an NHL team. Look at the playoffs.
That quote is from fucking 2018. Fuck you Jim
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As mentioned before, Quarters are shorter because time isn’t called off for stoppages.
Players aren’t as capable for a couple reasons:
- elite women athletes aren’t as strong as male counterparts
-AFLW doesn’t pay a full time wage so players can’t put full time equivalent into skills or physical development
- We still haven’t reached a draft year where the players involved have known right through juniors that an elite pathway is available to them
- School, juniors, and representative programs don’t put as much effort into boys as girls
This then manifests on the field in a number of ways:
The AFLW set shot range for most players is around 25-30 metres, whereas in AFLM most listed players are capable of having a shot from within the 50m arc
This means the area you need to defend is much smaller, and you can create congestion more easily by allowing players relatively free or under zone defence outside 30 or so metres.
It also means there’s an extra disposal required while maintaining possession for most scoring chains, even in the men’s comp this would reduce scoring, but the women’s game has much lower disposal efficiency overall which multiplies this.
Smaller kicker range and lower disposal efficiency also promotes more congestion around the ball. There’s no use staying 60m forward of the ball if your team is extremely unlikely to get it that far without a stoppage. Similarly there’s not much use sitting 50m behind the ball as a goalkeeper. There’s also a lot of missed handballs that would general be hit by most AFLM players which mean instead of the ball getting to the outside in possession, it remains in the contest and potentially another stoppage.
It’s a lot easier to spoil a mark than take it, so in a lower skilled competition you have less marks taken, both from possession and intercept.
The combination of kicking distance and fewer marks is hard to overstate. Most AFLM teams under minimal pressure would take one kick from the midpoint of the ground to having a shot on goal. For AFLW it’s two kicks both of which are more likely to end up as contested ball than marks. If two teams are evenly matched, you need more coin flips in a row to go your way to score.
As someone pretty new to watching the sport frequently, this was cool ty
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