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Achieves the desired response and one-upmanship should not come into the equation given the team effort. They set the bait to fill air time and you can always bank on their target audience to take it hook, line and sinker. Then it gets shared with others whether by other stations, websites, social media, etc which allows every penny to be squeezed. Gullible audience continually complain or elicit the intended responses and struggle to comprehend why it is such an effective strategy. Will be thoroughly entertaining with Cornes on Channel 7 this season and all the fans imploding.
Preseason and exhibition matches are meaningless and are not indicative of what is in store for the season. Media’s job is to convince you otherwise and is the time of the season where supporters set unrealistic expectations that their team will considerably improve until they eventually return to reality after a few rounds.
Football is an insular industry and always looking for a perceived competitive advantage which is why it is amusing that they believe holding their cards close to their chest will make any meaningful difference in regards to game plan, keeping an injury quiet, late changes destroying opposition plans, etc.
Same old slow ball movement/pace exposed by the opposition but spin it to wait and see that changes are coming not to disillusion the supporter base.
Preseason and exhibition matches are meaningless and are not indicative of what is in store for the season. Media’s job is to convince you otherwise and is the time of the season where supporters set unrealistic expectations that their team will considerably improve until they eventually return to reality after a few rounds.
Football is an insular industry and always looking for a perceived competitive advantage which is why it is amusing that they believe holding their cards close to their chest will make any meaningful difference in regards to game plan, keeping an injury quiet, late changes destroying opposition plans, etc.
Same old slow ball movement/pace exposed by the opposition but spin it to wait and see that changes are coming not to disillusion the supporter base.
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3 sets of goals, 3 terms, rotating each term to a different set of goals. Each team gets 12 players on the ground with 3 at the centre bounce. Wouldn't work very well at Kardinia Park but MCG and GABBA would be ok as they are almost circles anyway. I'd love to see it! My guess would be a very low scoring game.
3 sets of goals, 3 terms, rotating each term to a different set of goals. Each team gets 12 players on the ground with 3 at the centre bounce. Wouldn't work very well at Kardinia Park but MCG and GABBA would be ok as they are almost circles anyway. I'd love to see it! My guess would be a very low scoring game.
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I wouldn't go for that. The comparison is pretty rough, choosing one of the worst kicks in the league and comparing him with one of the best isn't really a fair comparison. You could do that stat all over the field and I'd assume it remains the same gap, Butters is an elite kick and Anderson is terrible and always has been.
Anderson's problem is he's a very poor technical kick, his decision making is actually ok but he just doesn't have the skills to make the kicks that Butters makes, who's not only elite in kicking skill but also in variety of kicks that he can make. Butters is similar to Gryan Miers or Zach Merrett in his ability to hit angled kicks that only a handful of guys can, he's also got exquisite touch on his kicks.
Would be more interested to see how he stacks up against the likes of Oliver or Dangerfield who are more like the division he's in as a kicker.
Anderson's improvement case is pure volume and learning how to play away from home, where he was absolutely dreadful.
Last year he averaged 128 in home games (132 if you remove the two Darwin home games) and 87 in away games, 9 of his top 10 games for the season were at home. I don't know if any player has ever had that kind of home/away split but he was two different players. If he can sustain that home scoring and even boost the away to 100, he becomes viable.
There's really no good explanation for it either, if anything they've got the most unfavourable home ground conditions (especially with the two Darwin games) of any team, maybe being used to them helps a lot but you'd think it would make his role harder and should be easier at other venues.
Early bye just kills him as a starting pick and given his history of highly volatile scoring (a trait of very poor kickers), he screams upgrade target, imo.
Anderson's problem is he's a very poor technical kick, his decision making is actually ok but he just doesn't have the skills to make the kicks that Butters makes, who's not only elite in kicking skill but also in variety of kicks that he can make. Butters is similar to Gryan Miers or Zach Merrett in his ability to hit angled kicks that only a handful of guys can, he's also got exquisite touch on his kicks.
Would be more interested to see how he stacks up against the likes of Oliver or Dangerfield who are more like the division he's in as a kicker.
Anderson's improvement case is pure volume and learning how to play away from home, where he was absolutely dreadful.
Last year he averaged 128 in home games (132 if you remove the two Darwin home games) and 87 in away games, 9 of his top 10 games for the season were at home. I don't know if any player has ever had that kind of home/away split but he was two different players. If he can sustain that home scoring and even boost the away to 100, he becomes viable.
There's really no good explanation for it either, if anything they've got the most unfavourable home ground conditions (especially with the two Darwin games) of any team, maybe being used to them helps a lot but you'd think it would make his role harder and should be easier at other venues.
Early bye just kills him as a starting pick and given his history of highly volatile scoring (a trait of very poor kickers), he screams upgrade target, imo.
I just wish they'd think of us poor plebs out west for the first few rounds with the DLS, especially the first round of fantasy with those god awful 4:30 starting times.
Although I'm pretty sure being in Melbourne for F1 weekend is going to be even worse than stuck at work for picking my round 1 side
Genuinely shocked the AFL has decided to take on the F1s for round 1, might work out but it sure feels like hubris at its finest, maybe they're backing on people there for the race also popping in for a game or two but then they schedule all the games at the same times as the race and qualifying.
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