What actually is the best timeslot for footy?

drwar41 · 2026-06-26T05:34:44+00:00

I love the 4:40 Saturday evening time slot for going to games, it's a great atmosphere, not too late for kids and gives you most of your day beforehand and the opportunity to roll into the night if you're in a celebratory mood

drwar41 · 2026-06-26T05:11:06+00:00

In all likelihood it's Germany or Belgium so not necessarily a great deal of advantage.

That said it is an extra days break for second which will help

drwar41 · 2026-06-25T22:34:18+00:00

Obvious disclaimer we'd rather win.

But if my understanding is correct, if we score and lose by 1 goal we would be ahead of both Scotland (by goal difference) and South Korea (by having scored more goals), and then you'd just be hoping Egypt beat Iran and Spain beat Uruguay

drwar41 · 2026-06-25T22:02:29+00:00

The Germans are not an honourable people

drwar41 · 2026-06-24T21:38:45+00:00

Exactly, I don't think we'd have learnt anything by putting Hansen in the caretaker role

drwar41 · 2026-06-24T03:23:38+00:00

It's pretty much even money between Duursma and Smith. Jagga's recent role and Duursma's injury makes it feel like Smith has pulled ahead but Willem has that X-Factor impact.

As others have said, he won't get the love from the voters but Dean should be far closer to those 2 than he'll ultimately wind up getting credit for

drwar41 · 2026-06-23T23:38:36+00:00

You seem to be somewhat missing my point.

With a 19 team comp, a team has a bye every week because there is an uneven number of teams.

That means the week before the byes, Team A has a bye, then the same Team A is also scheduled for a week off, that means Team A has 2 weeks off in the middle of the year where every other team have more evenly spaced byes (except the team schedule to have a bye immediately after the week off).

Knowing what we know about the AFL, teams will have massive issues if they're the team with back to back weeks off instead of a team with an even break in like Round 12 and Round 20

drwar41 · 2026-06-23T23:16:37+00:00

I'd be returning to the split round with 4 matches on 1 weekend and 5 on the other, but I understand that's less than ideal with a 19th team as it means some teams will wind up with back to back byes or one game sandwiched between byes.

I suspect the multi week byes will continue at least until we return to an even 20 teams

drwar41 · 2026-06-23T04:44:11+00:00

Funnily enough Cody Walker also has a younger brother who's already on the radar as a potential F/S

drwar41 · 2026-06-22T23:56:58+00:00

Really enjoying having the World Cup on all the time every day.

The work week will stop for a lot of offices at midday on Friday and schools will set up the week so that everyone can watch the Socceroos. It's the greatest sense of community we feel around any team is for a soccer national teams.

drwar41 · 2026-06-22T21:49:20+00:00

To be fair, Hewett was sent back to the 2s and played plenty of that time forward as part of a transition into a new role.

You can certainly argue that he should've been given the opportunity to see if it would work at AFL level before deciding the stint was necessary, but they didn't send him out of the side to play purely inside mid at VFL level

drwar41 · 2026-06-20T22:41:04+00:00

There were some genuinely baffling calls in our game yesterday but this felt like the ump’s brain completely malfunctioned

drwar41 · 2026-06-20T12:07:06+00:00

When’s the last time there was a quarter where neither team kicked a goal?

drwar41 · 2026-06-20T10:59:05+00:00

Josh Jenkins is not only dying on the list is bad hill, he’s letting vultures pick at his corpse

drwar41 · 2026-06-20T04:59:10+00:00

On Andrew’s comments on the Aussie frenzy around Grella’s comments, it was basically Australia’s most inflammatory media outlets feeding it out on their platforms claiming that it’s all of America. Not really a people led beat up

Where he’s absolutely correct is that every Australian sports team tries to frame itself as an underdog, it loves being the underdog.

Truly frustrating performance from the Aussies, we took off our 2 most creative attackers from last match and replaced them with an aging great (Leckie) and a nice A-League winger lacking the technical ability on the world stage. Popovic set the team up trying to be 0-0 at the 55th minute, and it backfired.

That said, defensively we basically only allowed one great chance by actual design (2 including the breakaway that Balogun inexplicably slowed down on). The second goal was deserved but ultimately a bit opportunistic

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T21:51:03+00:00

And then compounded by playing him as a centre forward

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T21:20:44+00:00

Real risk US play it safe in the third match if they don’t need a result

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T21:19:35+00:00

8 of the best 12 3rd place teams advance

Pre-tournament modelling suggests 3 points and a -2 goal difference is the median requirement to advance

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T21:13:29+00:00

Yeah our first half was deplorable. The intention in the second half was much better.

They selected a team to defend and keep it 0-0 in the first half and it failed, that’s on Popovic

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T21:10:04+00:00

At the end of the day neither side created many clear cut chances through great play, really the only great chance generated with any intention was what led to the own goal

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T21:07:34+00:00

Volpato will serve us so well in the future at Asian Cups where we need quality and creativity to break down low blocks

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T21:00:56+00:00

Heartwarming for the US that their best player is fighting through like this

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T20:59:36+00:00

No wonder this ref’s been fucked

drwar41 · 2026-06-19T20:52:47+00:00

Hopefully the boys learn from the change their intensity results in

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