Well after reading all the doom and gloom posts I think it's time to step back and think with a clear head. Yes it has been a hard season, hopes were dashed and dreams of finals shot but out of the the train wreck things will change for the better a new coach (hard nosed I hope) and dare say new assistants with a game plan with structures that have to be followed (as much as I liked DB I think that was one of his weaknesses) you will see players learn the art of how to play as a finals team ever week one that never goes down without a fight thats what we all want.

As for wanting to get rid of certain players we have a young list body wise and game wise, I remember people on this site canning Frawley, Garland, Jamar etc and people seem to forget how good Mortan was in his first year one has to remember some players get lost for a while and maybe the role they asked him to play was not for him, look at Leon Davis moved into the backline and he is a different player so there is hope.

While DB introduced new players into the side our body shape has never really changed except for a certain few and I bet whoever takes over will change all that then and then you will see the confidents grow, look at the Cats. Pies, Hawks and even the Saints and if you go back in the past they all had that trait.

As for the troubles that have hit the club, seems the club has put the shutters down and sorting it out like good clubs do and we will again have a united board, so I take this view I don't know all the facts do you? and until I do I cannot blame anyone as there is always two sides to a story.

So yes I am still looking forward to the next season with the same hopes so to all those in despair take a Bex and have a lay down

Well after reading all the doom and gloom posts I think it's time to step back and think with a clear head. Yes it has been a hard season, hopes were dashed and dreams of finals shot but out of the the train wreck things will change for the better a new coach (hard nosed I hope) and dare say new assistants with a game plan with structures that have to be followed (as much as I liked DB I think that was one of his weaknesses) you will see players learn the art of how to play as a finals team ever week one that never goes down without a fight thats what we all want.

As for wanting to get rid of certain players we have a young list body wise and game wise, I remember people on this site canning Frawley, Garland, Jamar etc and people seem to forget how good Mortan was in his first year one has to remember some players get lost for a while and maybe the role they asked him to play was not for him, look at Leon Davis moved into the backline and he is a different player so there is hope.

While DB introduced new players into the side our body shape has never really changed except for a certain few and I bet whoever takes over will change all that then and then you will see the confidents grow, look at the Cats. Pies, Hawks and even the Saints and if you go back in the past they all had that trait.

As for the troubles that have hit the club, seems the club has put the shutters down and sorting it out like good clubs do and we will again have a united board, so I take this view I don't know all the facts do you? and until I do I cannot blame anyone as there is always two sides to a story.

So yes I am still looking forward to the next season with the same hopes so to all those in despair take a Bex and have a lay down

Can people not start a new thread everytime they post. This post fits nicely into many of the existing threads, as do many of the new threads started recently. It makes it hard to keep track.

Can people not start a new thread everytime they post. This post fits nicely into many of the existing threads, as do many of the new threads started recently. It makes it hard to keep track.

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This positive post was a much-needed breath of fresh air,Jack.

It would have been a pity if it was lost at the bottom of some long forgotten,vaguely related thread.

Can people not start a new thread everytime they post. This post fits nicely into many of the existing threads, as do many of the new threads started recently. It makes it hard to keep track.

Agree - Nice Positve Contribution

Maybe you should take his advice about that BEX

Whatever That Is?

Maybe you should take his advice about that BEX

Whatever That Is?

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What a breath of fresh air, there has been so much crap going on about our dismal season that it makes me wonder whether I want to be a Demons supporter and member (a boy of 10 in 1956 meeting senior players from the club when they played in Devonport against the North West Football Union) and being a member of the club since 1990 and eat breath and sleep with any snippet of news from the club and this web amongst others.

Remember what has happened since Jimmy took over the reigns as president, wiping out the huge debt, getting rid of a lot of players that were not up to the standards of being an AFL player or being at the end of their career and not being a part of the future of the club, new sponsors, big and small,

moving from the Junction Oval to AAMI with some of the best facilities of any club re training, and of cause the new squad of players including Watts, Trengove,Frawley, Garland, Grimes,Howe,Martin,Gawn,Mckenzie,Maric,Blease,Tapscott,Nicholson,Petterd and you the readers of this may be able to add more, some of these proved some to prove themselves but none with many games under the belt and once this squad get games behind them (60 to 80) things will improve and improve rapidly. I have not included Scully in the above mentioned younger players and to be quite honest I don't think he will be as good as a Trengove so let him go to the GWS and we will be better off not only in the salary cap but our extra draft choices will be an added benefit to the team.So to all of you doubters take a Bex, Panadol, Panamax or an Aspirin and settle down

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I often have need of a few Becks and a good lie down

I often have need of a few Becks and a good lie down

Clever! Thanks for the laugh.