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@0bungler Its literally called A League. Not The League. Hardly demands your attention

Am I enjoying the World Cup? Definitely. Will I ever watch A League? Absolutely not

@SaintJackington No other names available unfortunately. Funny that Socceroos and All Whites run the full gambit of aussie/kiwi kitsch

I do wish the Kiwi soccer team weren't called that to be honest

@EmlynBreese Can't believe it was an score pisser

Ben’s visuals as always are top notch. Encourage any Australians getting into soccer for the next few weeks to follow him.

@wheelreinvent Fun thing to do with your buds

@WineGlassTatt @ajajahahahjaaj George hit him in the face with the ball and he couldn't come back from it

@ajajahahahjaaj Tbf Harley fell off the face of the earth after that so it worked 😂

I’m actually sick to my stomach They have 3 out of their 5 best players out with 2 injured players Fucking fold the club 😂 Chom and spargo you stupid cunts Ldu getting into Harley’s face When he’s getting dominated

@JoeyFortune What if Jakey Melksham hasn't been in the AFL system since 2009? What then?

@SaintJackington Our nation turns it's lonely eyes to you, and by lonely eyes we mean only very lonely people are watching

Cameron Green if there has ever been a moment (it isn't now because approximately 23 people are watching this game and 4 will remember it)

@Power_32 A great tool, thanks for your work

Over the last 24 hours I’ve speed run the development of 23-0.com. It’s simple — pick 5 players from the 90s, 00s, 10s and 20s, and simulate how they’d go leading a side through a 23 game season. Give it a go, see if you can find the perfect mix to go perfect!

@BootsRiley I was upset I couldn't watch it already but now I see you were just saving it for my birthday. Thank you Boots

October!

@rickm18 Hopefully the Spurs get you a big win to help you just forget about north for a week

🚨 The following is what passes as a Shinboner post (for now) from North's loss to Fremantle: ----- Was catching up on the North game late last night (San Antonio time 🎺) and kept thinking, 'well they'll goal to end the run at some point' ... 'this is when the goal comes' ... 'surely it'll come soon' ... and then it just didn't happen. So that was fun! Although there's no excuse for losing any game by 842 points, from a slightly detached viewpoint it was a case study of what happens when the best team currently in it - Freo's highest level of play in their history? - systematically takes away every option North have to defend and attack. You could see it from the early stages. First North progressively couldn't move from stoppage. Then they had fewer options after turnover, and then the corridor disappeared. Freo poked and prodded to find gaps in North's forward half defence, exploited them ruthlessly, and then North's back six/seven had, understandably, no other ways to stop incoming ball swept in on a magic carpet. This is normally the point where video appears to illustrate the point, but I'm on the other side of the world typing between sets at a gig, and I mean, the margin. It'd just be an unwanted horror movie. Anyway, North players would have looked around at some point and thought something along the lines of, 'we have nothing left in our kit to even remotely challenge them'. Maybe a little less eloquently than that, but still. Once everything you're capable of doing gets taken away like that it's very easy to feel useless and drop your head. Again, in caps this time so no one gets the wrong conclusion - IT DOESN'T EXCUSE losing by 124 instead of maybe half that. My general team level takeaway was North desperately need to have something in their skill set for damage limitation. Not a 'Plan B', or anything like that. Instead, something where there's a realisation of 'nothing is working right now, how can we shut this game down for a period/5 minutes/10 minutes to reset?' Just the most boring passage imaginable. Then as you get better as a collective, that time period becomes shorter and shorter, followed by introducing elements to go back at the opposition, ending with different gears in your game. That last part is very advanced, it also all sounds very easy written out like this, and to be honest there already should be something like a basic version of the reset passage in North's game ... but there's not. Which is a whole other discussion. But in the meantime those wildly bad quarters (2+4 v Freo, 2 v Adelaide, 4 v Geelong) to pop up recently are worrying. Losing these quarters are fine, relatively speaking. Getting historically blown off the park shouldn't be a recurring feature by now. Hopefully it's just a bug and not a mindset malaise.

@rickm18 Seeing the Cooper Trembath of the NBA in person. Jealous

Greetings from (the very back row of) San Antonio 🏆

@EmlynBreese The fact that it's anti American is the only good thing about that song. Otherwise gets in the way of a banger album

Putting out an interview to let everyone know exactly how fucking stupid I am, good shit

@EmlynBreese There are so many stats against so many teams at so many grounds that there will always be some sort of streak like this, and they are also constantly being broken and replaced with new ones

Or, hear me out, if he legitimately had no idea and he has the highest home and away win rate of anyone who has coached more than 57 games, maybe you need to reevaluate how important that stat grab actually is

@NickWalters1 @kayosports Must be a W watcher to de-stress by watching North

@kayosports Poor Maddie…burnt toast, keys locked in car, dropped coffee, outta milk and to top it all off, she’s a North Melbourne supporter!!!

Don’t miss a moment! Catch every game of every round with no ad-breaks during live play on @KayoSports

@SaintJackington We are all trapped on the golden path foreseen by the muad'dib

goddamnit

@SaintJackington @friendlykitties I'm sure you learned a lesson from that incident and never put yourself in a similar situation again

@friendlykitties yeah when i was like 6 i ate shit on concrete attempting to do a 720 down a small flight of stairs and completely busted my lip and did irreparable nerve damage to the tooth that went straight through it lol

A couple of years ago the crown on my front tooth completely snapped off while I waa eating a rice crisp, and my dentist just glued it back on as a "temporary fix" to save me some money and it is somehow still in place

@AuntyDonnaBoys #IStandWithMark

🚨 Breaking news: President Mark Bonanno has been charged with corruption due to the misuse of ‘Sweety Room’ funds. More to come…

@JoeyFortune The thin yellow line

@JoeyFortune Why couldn't they have let north get away with it in 2023 though

@onepercentas @Canyoudigglet Whoops misread this as physio lol

@onepercentas @Canyoudigglet Interested in both the week to week and insights into player longevity. On the week to week side, how much does professional management and drugs do vs how much are players just in pain a lot of the time

I've enjoyed the in-depth features where I've spoken to "Bailey" (analytics in player evaluation), "Darcy" (analytics in team/oppo assessment), and "Alex" (list management). I think readers have enjoyed them, too. What other club-affiliated figures should I try to interview?