Jump to content


Recommended Posts

Posted (edited)

I have a couple of Tiger friends and went to a number of games with them when Richo was playing.

He used to get ragged for being a poor kick and he was not one of the best however

One thing was glaringly obvious to me.

For most of the time he played with poor sides, their delivery was terrible.

If he led right they kicked behind him, if he led left they kicked behind him.

On a straight lead they either kicked over his head or at his laces.

He would be remember as a much better player had he played in a better side.

He would have had way better delivery and from way more chances he would have kicked a lot more goals.

Yeah but it wouldn't have ben as much fun; watching him spit the dummy when he didn't get it lace out was the highlight of the week.

I remember once the kick missed him, was on the ground just near him but he threw a hissy fit and wouldn't bend down and pick the ball up. Priceless.

Edited by RobbieF

Posted (edited)

Juice Newton is the best forward prospect we have had in the last 25 years.

Yeah, of course......a better prospect than Ox, Neitz, Jakovich, even briefly Cook, and Jurrah, Clark, Dawes, Hogan...all cut down by injury, not, as was Juice, by lack of thirst for a contest.

Sorry Mono, Juice has all of these beaten with his record!

Nick Smith? I remember watching him in a final, I felt sorry that he was thrown to the wolves as we had no one else at the time!

I wasn't suggesting that they were better choices than Juice, and I apologise if that is how you interpreted my post. I was really highlighting the fact that we have drafted a lot of prospective big forwards who never made the grade, for various reasons. And those reasons were not the same reasons that are keeping our current trio off the field - nobody in their right mind would suggest that the current absentees aren't hard, angry, competitive beasts.

Edited by monoccular

Posted

Yeah, of course......a better prospect than Ox, Neitz, Jakovich, even briefly Cook, and Clark, Dawes, Hogan...all cut down by injury, not, as was Juice, by lack of thirst for a contest.

I wasn't suggesting that they were better choices than Juice, and I apologise if that is how you interpreted my post. I was really highlighting the fact that we have drafted a lot of prospective big forwards who never made the grade, for various reasons. And those reasons were not the same reasons that are keeping our current trio off the field - nobody in their right mind would suggest that the current absentees aren't hard, angry, competitive beasts.

Thanks Mono understand and agree with your second paragraph.

Fence

Posted

GET LYNDEN DUNN TO FULL FORWARD!!

IF it didn't upset what is becoming a well settled part of our structure, our defence, it may be a good and necessary move given our big man forward injury woes. Either Lynden, or Garland when he returns, especially if Georgiou continues to perform above expectations.

Posted

Interesting hearing Grimes on SEN, Frawley's been begging Roos to go forward apparently.

Interesting I noticed Frawley at yesterday's training having numerous shots at goal everytime the group came backin for a water stop. He was slotting a few too from well outside 50. He was then going one on one with MacDonald at the end with the coach kicking the ball up high to them. I wondered at the time whether MacDonald was an option to play forward.

Has Frawley played forward in his pre AFL career?

Posted

Might turn into an absolute stroke of genius, he might settle really well into the role as a forward and it gives the backs a chance to get used to life without Chip just incase he does go

i'm all for the idea of him to start at CHF


Posted (edited)

Interesting I noticed Frawley at yesterday's training having numerous shots at goal everytime the group came backin for a water stop. He was slotting a few too from well outside 50. He was then going one on one with MacDonald at the end with the coach kicking the ball up high to them. I wondered at the time whether MacDonald was an option to play forward.

Has Frawley played forward in his pre AFL career?

Wouldn't read much into that. He was doing goal kicking practice back at training last year. It would be an interesting experiment but it goes against Roos' "know your role" mantra.

But with Georgiou impressing, Garland soon to return and MacDonald down back as usual (with Dunn in the mix), I wonder if it's an experiment worth trying in lieu of Clark being able to play?

Edited by Lamashtu

Posted

A thread on Lucas Cook is a clear indication that the weekend cannot come quick enough. I'm more interested in the price of pints in the members. It has more currency.

  • Like 1
Posted

clearly the perfect former demon here would be Jurrah.... Jeez Cook? Newton? Farout...

Farout? Interesting idea, but he was more a flanker than a key forward.

Posted

Also, following up on the Fitzpatrick talk;

In 2013 he was our leading goals-per-game player, admittedly with only 1.4 per game.

And, perhaps surprisingly, he's got a reasonably accurate record of 18 goals 11 behinds for his career, with most of that being 15.9 from his 11 games in 2013.

For a young forward, he goes alright, just saying.

Posted

Farout? Interesting idea, but he was more a flanker than a key forward.

are you saying that you would recruit Newton or cook over Jurrah?

Regardless... Recruiting any of them at the end of the year, won't solve our current forward dilemma...

Posted

A thread on Lucas Cook is a clear indication that the weekend cannot come quick enough. I'm more interested in the price of pints in the members. It has more currency.

Forget Lucas. I am making inquiries as to if James Cook is still playing! He did his ankle the game after kicking 6 goals for us, he may have recovered and be ready for another shot at glory. I will keep you in the loop.

  • Like 1

Posted

Forget Lucas. I am making inquiries as to if James Cook is still playing! He did his ankle the game after kicking 6 goals for us, he may have recovered and be ready for another shot at glory. I will keep you in the loop.

He would probably be injured as well.

As I have said before, he too was a casualty of the Norm Smith curse - an exciting KPP forward cut down by injury just as he was leading the goal kicking.

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
  • Demonland Forums  

  • Match Previews, Reports & Articles  

    TRAINING: Wednesday 22nd January 2025

    Demonland Trackwatchers were out in force for training at Gosch's Paddock on Wednesday morning for the MFC's School Holidays Open Training Session. DEMONLAND'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS REHAB: TMac, Chandler, McVee, Tholstrup, Brown, Spargo Brown might have passed his fitness test as he’s back out with the main group.  Sparrow not present. Kozzy not present either.  Mini Rehab group has broken off from the match sim (contact) group: Max, Trac, Lever, Fullarton

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports

    TRAINING: Monday 20th January 2025

    Demonland Trackwatcher Gator attended training out at Casey Fields to bring you the following observations from Preseason Training. GATOR'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS There were 5 in the main rehab group, namely Gawn, Petracca, Fullarton, Woewodin and Lever.  Laurie was running laps by himself, as was Jefferson.  Chandler, as has been reported, had his arm in a sling.  Lindsay did a bit of lap running later on. Some of the ''rehab 5'' participated in non contact drills and b

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports

    TRAINING: Wednesday 15th January 2025

    There were a number of Demonland Trackwatchers at Gosch's Paddock this morning to bring you their observations from Preseason Training. KEV MARTIN'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS They were going hard at each other. The sims were in two 15 minute blocks. The second block finished a few minutes early, they gathered and had another 7 minutes at it. I think they were asked to compete, as they would play against an opposition. There was plenty of niggle, between some of them. At the end o

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports

    TRAINING: Monday 13th January 2025

    Better late than never … and quite frankly, there’s very little to report other than that training took place at Casey Fields this morning, that Tracc was there nursing his rib injury and that some photographs are on the club’s social media including this one of Clarrie in Raging Bull stance that gives rise for confidence. The other news is that the club has a new train on player in 185cm Dandenong Stingrays midfielder Noah Hibbins-Hargreaves (love the hyphenated name which is just so fitti

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports

    TRAINING: Thursday 9th January 2025

    Welcome back to Demonland for those like me who have been on vacation. I’m posting this with some trepidation because of a certain amount of uncertainty surrounding the return of preseason training in 2025 after a flurry of weddings including those of our coach, one of our superstar players and a former premiership champion player and bloke, not to mention the recent mysterious incident that occurred on the Mornington Peninsula.  I believe that the team reassembles this morning at Casey Fie

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports

    TRAINING: Wednesday 18th December 2024

    It was the final session of 2024 before the Christmas/New Years break and the Demonland Trackwatchers were out in force to bring you the following preseason training observations from Wednesday's session at Gosch's Paddock. DEMONLAND'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS TRAINING: Petracca, Oliver, Melksham, Woewodin, Langdon, Rivers, Billings, Sestan, Viney, Fullarton, Adams, Langford, Lever, Petty, Spargo, Fritsch, Bowey, Laurie, Kozzy, Mentha, George, May, Gawn, Turner Tholstrup, Kentfi

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports

    TRAINING: Monday 16th December 2024

    Demonland Trackwatchers braved the sweltering heat to bring you their Preseason Training observations from Gosch's Paddock on Monday morning. SCOOP JUNIOR'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS I went down today in what were pretty ordinary conditions - hot and windy. When I got there, they were doing repeat simulations of a stoppage on the wing and then moving the ball inside 50. There seemed to be an emphasis on handballing out of the stoppage, usually there were 3 or 4 handballs to

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports 1

    TRAINING: Friday 13th December 2024

    With only a few sessions left before the Christmas break a number of Demonlander Trackwatchers headed down to Gosch's Paddock to bring you their observations from this morning's preseason training session. DEMONLAND'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS PLAYERS IN ATTENDANCE: JVR, Salem, McVee, Petracca, Windsor, Viney, Lever, Spargo, Turner, Gawn, Tholstrup, Oliver, Billings, Langdon, Laurie, Bowey, Melksham, Langford, Lindsay, Jefferson, Howes, McAdam, Rivers, TMac, Adams, Hore, Verrall,

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports

    TRAINING: Wednesday 11th December 2024

    A few new faces joined our veteran Demonland Trackwatchers on a beautiful morning out at Gosch's Paddock for another Preseason Training Session. BLWNBA'S PRESEASON TRAINING OBSERVATIONS I arrived at around 1015 and the squad was already out on the track. The rehab group consisted of XL, McAdam, Melksham, Spargo and Sestan. Lever was also on restricted duties and appeared to be in runners.  The main group was doing end-to-end transition work in a simulated match situation. Ball mov

    Demonland
    Demonland |
    Training Reports
  • Tell a friend

    Love Demonland? Tell a friend!

×
×
  • Create New...