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Football myths and jargon
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Why?#gosaintas wrote:It's 9 years since my cow of a wife walked!
I hope she didn't end up with plugger...
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#gosaintas wrote:It's 9 years since my cow of a wife walked!
It's 12 years since mine walked into my life- you might be the lucky one.
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Please explain. Did she leave you or did she have a terrible accident nine years ago?#gosaintas wrote:It's 9 years since my cow of a wife walked!
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Ahhh...gringo wrote:#gosaintas wrote:It's 9 years since my cow of a wife walked!
It's 12 years since mine walked into my life- you might be the lucky one.
So gosaintas wife was with you on the sly for 3 years
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I realise this is an old thread bumped to embarrass BM (because apparently that's a thing people do). I liked the original sentiment, so I though I'd run with it:
Contested ball is adjudged by a team of statisticians in a booth according to a set criteria. It's never going to be 100% consistent. In fact, they changed the criteria in recent years and pretty much nobody noticed.
You can maintain the ball with an ineffective kick and lose possession from an effective kick. Disposal efficiency is skewed in favour of players making kicks outside attacking fifty.
Tackles only count if they prevent a disposal. Holding the ball is a free, not a tackle. In most situations a tackle isn't the optimal defensive play. Getting enough pressure on the ball carrier to force a turnover is almost always going to be better than a tackle.
The best hitout teams aren't necessarily the best clearance teams, and the best clearance teams don't necessarily make the finals, Richmond.
Collingwood had four players who accounted for a conbined 121 disposals per game. The team averaged 369. Collingwood finished 9th in scoring in the H+A. Anybody think that some Pies may have had a few too many kicks?
Champion Data rankings don't include spoils, so you'll rarely have a decent defender on your SuperCoach team.
A lot of stats are overrated.
Contested ball is adjudged by a team of statisticians in a booth according to a set criteria. It's never going to be 100% consistent. In fact, they changed the criteria in recent years and pretty much nobody noticed.
You can maintain the ball with an ineffective kick and lose possession from an effective kick. Disposal efficiency is skewed in favour of players making kicks outside attacking fifty.
Tackles only count if they prevent a disposal. Holding the ball is a free, not a tackle. In most situations a tackle isn't the optimal defensive play. Getting enough pressure on the ball carrier to force a turnover is almost always going to be better than a tackle.
The best hitout teams aren't necessarily the best clearance teams, and the best clearance teams don't necessarily make the finals, Richmond.
Collingwood had four players who accounted for a conbined 121 disposals per game. The team averaged 369. Collingwood finished 9th in scoring in the H+A. Anybody think that some Pies may have had a few too many kicks?
Champion Data rankings don't include spoils, so you'll rarely have a decent defender on your SuperCoach team.
A lot of stats are overrated.
Yeah nah pleasing positive
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Who are "they"?vacuous space wrote:In fact, they changed the criteria in recent years and pretty much nobody noticed.
Does a coach decide what aspects of the game he needs to be measured and how it is measured?
What if a coach requires a particular aspect of a game to be measured so he can manage a particular aspect of his game plan that isn't otherwise available from where the media obatian their statistics from.
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There are so many phrases that make absolutely no sense or a grammatically awkward that can be only used in footy world.
one the springs to mind is when people say "for mine" after they give an opinion.
Where did that even come from?
one the springs to mind is when people say "for mine" after they give an opinion.
Where did that even come from?
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At what point did you decide she was a cow?#gosaintas wrote:It's 9 years since my cow of a wife walked!
a) before she walked
b) when she walked
c) after she walked?
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does that trick really work?matrix wrote:BigMart wrote:Obvious to who, you???
Go and wash the peanut butter off.....
ive got a dog right here and .. well... i dunno guys...
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Champion DataCairnsman wrote:Who are "they"?
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