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It goes without saying that football supporters rely on the wisdom, erudition and guidance of the sport's commentators.
Anthony Hudson, Geelong v Sydney, Fox Footy: "The fortunes of footy and sport can swing so quickly, and a little bit of luck goes a long, long way."
To quote King Arthur from the famous historical epic, Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere!".
Pity Huddo held off from including "Fortune favours the bold", or we'd have had an almighty triple-header to kick off the 2015 World Truism Festival.
Brian Taylor, West Coast v Hawthorn, Seven: "West Coast play Fremantle next week. One of these has got to win, one has to lose ... Could be a draw of course."
Jeepers. If this represents the new gold standard of footy analysis, either they're going to have to start nailing down every object in home loungerooms, or make TV screens out of tougher glass.
Speaking of clinical dissection of the game via unimpeachable expertise, an old brain-busting conundrum has reared its ugly head again.
Last Saturday night, on Fox Footy channel studio patrol, Eddie McGuire observed of the Q-Tip, err, Q-Clash game: "Brisbane won on just about every stat, except the one that counts."
Eight days earlier, regarding the second quarter of Adelaide v Richmond, Wayne Carey had found himself musing that it was amazing how often a club would be leading on all statistical categories but not on the scoreboard. It's a puzzler that moseys into Footy Town from time to time.
What's most amazing about it is that nobody ever gets around to drawing the one conclusion that seems fairly obvious there, that is if the stats are spattered around indiscriminately – and they are – then, to borrow the term memorably coined by Spider Everitt on The Footy Show many moons ago, they don't really mean jack-diddley-shit.
There's never been a supporter, player, coach or club who said they didn't mind losing a match so long as they were leading on all the other numbers. And it doesn't matter how high you pile the statistical horse hockey, it still won't turn around and analyse the match for you.
These are statements so obvious that it's conceivable a TV commentator could have come up with them. Moving on to some more finely shaded areas of football analysis, following the Geelong- Swans match, Dermott Brereton noted: "The Geelong crowd were sensitive to [Adam] Goodes and his situation."
Yes, the Kardinia Park crowd has long been famous for the delicacy of its sensibilities in all situations. There's not a man, woman or child among them that couldn't pick the correct asparagus fork out of a cutlery line-up.
Eddie McGuire, following Eagles-Hawthorn: "As the Hawks try to make it a three-peat this year."
Requiem for a hat-trick. Well, someone was always probably bound to fall down the "three-peat" rabbit hole. This will make perfect sense the minute "The Star-Spangled Banner" is adopted as the Australian national anthem.
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