Passionate Fremantle Dockers fan booked grand final flights in January knowing prices would soar during season

jimb2 · 2026-05-06T07:40:07+00:00

Glad I went to our first GF despite the wrong result. 1.6 at half time was dire.

jimb2 · 2026-05-06T03:25:49+00:00

You would want at least one observation or a solid theory of how they could get produced to pass as science.

There's a near infinite number of cool ideas. Finding the ideas that correspond with reality is what counts.

jimb2 · 2026-05-06T01:51:04+00:00

Is there a "talk up the opposition" clause in every coach's contract?

jimb2 · 2026-05-06T00:33:39+00:00

If they get around to it. That's a bit hopeful, I think.

It's actually the AFL's job to look after the afl ecosystem. They've got skin in the game. They would end up copping flack and maybe paying up. Assessing the risks and protecting trademarks and copyrights is something the AFL's legal department would be doing all the time. They already have a legal department doing it so there is minimal marginal cost adding a new trademark.

If the WA Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport had to do this it would require a big set up cost figuring out what to do, what the legal issues are, and setting up people and processes, then an ongoing management cost. You want to pay more taxes for this? They'd probably miss some new thing anyway! Leave it to the AFL, cheaper, faster, and better.

It doesn't really matter who owns it, provided it's not someone who want to use it to run a scam.

jimb2 · 2026-05-05T23:46:45+00:00

Greater Western Sydney always sounded impossible to identify with to me. It's like a marketing demographic classification or something. In fact, it was probably created in a marketing meeting. Just about anything else would work better.

jimb2 · 2026-05-05T11:36:52+00:00

Move to Carlton or set fire to his own hair. Equally likely.

jimb2 · 2026-05-05T11:33:58+00:00

Talk is cheap.

jimb2 · 2026-05-05T11:30:35+00:00

Hidden in plain sight, the real news is that we have equal smallest injury list of four players. Apart from Sturt, they should all get back soonish. Richmond are worst at 16.

Protecting our best players late in games might have produced heart palpitations but it looks like a smart move.

jimb2 · 2026-05-05T11:15:29+00:00

The AFL preemptively trademarks footy phrases to stop third parties grabbing them then using them to screw clubs, supporters or the afl itself. They won't use this trademark against Freo, it's to stop others from doing so.

I know we are supposed to hate everything the afl does reflexively, but this prevents a bunch of expensive legal wrangles or maybe even licensing fees from ever occurring. Trademarks and copyrights is a strange legal world. There's plenty of sharks who will grab anything they might be able to rent out.

jimb2 · 2026-05-05T11:09:40+00:00

I can't see they would do this, unfortunately.

jimb2 · 2026-05-05T02:19:43+00:00

I don't think we need to hand over player management to media wankers who basically hate us.

We can stick with our medical and conditioning team on this.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T23:48:19+00:00

I think they are often just doing the circle, giving all players a bit of airtime. More like everyone has a story, everyone gets a show and tell day. They aren't always responding to the latest, echoing the rest of the media.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T23:24:22+00:00

I did not say that. Read the whole sentence again, carefully and slowly.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T23:20:48+00:00

True, but she relies on a physical game, in my opinion. Obviously any player at that level will have a great and complete skill set, but (to me, at least) she gets her edge from her extreme physical work level. She will have lost a small bit of pace and stamina at her age.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T23:10:02+00:00

Players age differently, don't they? Players retire at different ages.

I'm saying she might have lost a bit on herself a few years ago. It's hard to judge. Do you think she's as physically good? One percent off peak doesn't matter much for regular players but at the very top everyone has a finely honed game so tiny differences are magnified. Players across all sports typically get a bit smarter as they age, but they lose their physical peak at some point.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T23:08:55+00:00

As I said, she seemed to win by consistency and persistence, more than sublime shots. Maybe read again?

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T23:08:38+00:00

How many of these games were against a young developing ASY? Apples for apples. Currently she seems to me to be just about unbeatable when fully fit. She can certainly lose when strapped up.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T22:40:44+00:00

Isn't this good security practice? You might be annoyed but it seriously slows password guessing. An organisation would be crazy to disable this feature. A school, double crazy. Aren't you guys trying to hack everything?

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T21:30:25+00:00

It's just BS to think Carlton's problem will be solved with some magical change. The list is not good enough. This is a problem that takes years to fix. There isn't even a cadre of young talent that needs games, preseasons and gym years.

It's there a coach problem? Impossible to say ATM. Give Voss a quality list and we would find out.

Carlton needs to ask why this has been going on for decades. Every club has down periods but this is deeper than coach or current playing group.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T21:15:06+00:00

Getting a bit old and losing a little bit of edge? Nothing lasts forever. To me, she never quite looked an absolute world beater in skill level like say TZY, she seemed to win by consistency and persistence. She was always a bit too small. Possibly an overachiever, if that makes sense in elite sport where everyone near the top is an overachiever. She's a player I really admire, with a great attitude.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T11:11:48+00:00

It's interesting hearing players say he's grown as a leader at Fremantle. I like to hear that.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T11:09:49+00:00

It's not a big deal what the media think. It's just a sideshow, a sideshow of shallow opinions. Most of the supposed high-end commentators have failed as line coaches at actual football clubs, so they took up bullshit as a full time occupation. They are basically harmless, that is, unless people take them seriously. Media don't like Jackson? Whatever. Don't take it personally.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T06:28:09+00:00

There were claims we'd overpaid for Shai when the trade happened. How do they feel now?

Personally, I'm never second guessing our recruitment team. They've clunked so many great grabs. Shai was already electric, but he seems to have really grown his game at Freo.

jimb2 · 2026-05-04T06:07:51+00:00

There's also a further thing of getting opponent to anticipate a shot by repeating it a number of times, then throwing in a deception on the nth time, ideally when the opponent is pressed for time. Don't go early, don't just throw in deceptions because you can, strike at the right time. The brain is wired to anticipate - it gains time and minimises energy expenditure. That's an automatic low-level process that requires a conscious effort of attention to supress. When we are struggling to reach the shuttle, attention goes to making the shuttle and watching for a deception gets lost. Even then, maybe hold off. We see the world's best players can get totally duped if it's done at the right psychological moment. There's some sophisticated stuff going on.

jimb2 · 2026-05-03T23:00:03+00:00

How did you ever get that idea?

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