Jump to content

POSTGAME: Rd 1 vs Port Adelaide

Demonland
Demonland
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

  On 26/03/2019 at 07:52, jnrmac said:

This 100%.

They made this blue a few times last year. They need to review their selection policies.

But will they.

Given known issues with certain players

Given the condition of any players recovering from a procedural hospital stay ( including a general )

Given relative match fitness of some

Given matchups known or ( intelligently ) presumed 

Given form going into the game you might have thought a better team sheet ..you might !!

I wonder what they'll f up going into Kittyland.

  • Quote
    •  

    I'll say it again. This mob who purport to run the AFL along with their jackals,  Fox, MRP and the soapbox media, together with several maggots, NOT including Razor and the GF group have got it in for the MFC.  

  • Quote
      On 26/03/2019 at 08:13, willmoy said:

    I'll say it again. This mob who purport to run the AFL along with their jackals,  Fox, MRP and the soapbox media, together with several maggots, NOT including Razor and the GF group have got it in for the MFC.  

    Possibly...wrong thread ? ?

  • Quote
    •  
      On 26/03/2019 at 08:13, willmoy said:

    I'll say it again. This mob who purport to run the AFL along with their jackals,  Fox, MRP and the soapbox media, together with several maggots, NOT including Razor and the GF group have got it in for the MFC.  

    What,  you didn't enjoy CEO Gillon McLachlan sitting in the box Saturday night cheering for the Bulldogs with those Hollywood clowns?

  • Quote

    I can’t believe what Jordan Lewis just said on 360.

    He basically inferred that there wasn’t enough effort from the players on Saturday.

    How can you go into a new season, round one after playing finals the previous year and being fancied as a real premiership chance and not give any effort in round one???

    Im dumbfounded.

    Ill never understand what goes through these blokes heads.

    Edited by DeeZee

  • Quote
    • Thanks 1
    • Angry 1

      On 26/03/2019 at 09:08, DeeZee said:

    I can’t believe what Jordan Lewis just said on 360.

    He basically inferred that there wasn’t enough effort from the players on Saturday.

    How can you go into a new season, round one after playing finals the previous year and being fancied as a real premiership chance and not give any effort in round one???

    Im dumbfounded.

    Ill never understand what goes through these blokes heads.

    But he's true isn't he?

    bloody oath he's right 

     it also was the underdone crew on the ball and elsewhere 

  • Quote
    • Like 1
      On 25/03/2019 at 12:09, old dee said:

    So we compounded the problem of taking in players with low preparations by taking in one Ruckman who spent 3 days in hospital and was under the weather from GA . Sounds we blew the game at the selection table.

    but what is the alternative?  play Pruess, not match fit or in form

    play Jordon, Keilty, Stretch instead of Viney, Jones?

    I think they picked the best team available.

  • Quote
      On 26/03/2019 at 11:02, DubDee said:

    but what is the alternative?  play Pruess, not match fit or in form

    play Jordon, Keilty, Stretch instead of Viney, Jones?

    I think they picked the best team available.

    How match fit exactly was Max days out from hospital having had a general ?

  • Quote
    •  
      On 26/03/2019 at 11:06, beelzebub said:

    How match fit exactly was Max days out from hospital having had a general ?

    dunno, possibly 80%.  

    still better than a unfit/out of form Preuss

  • Quote
      On 26/03/2019 at 11:02, DubDee said:

    but what is the alternative?  play Pruess, not match fit or in form

    play Jordon, Keilty, Stretch instead of Viney, Jones?

    I think they picked the best team available.

    I find it hard to believe that Keilty or Stretch would have contributed less than Viney and Jones as for Pruess he played in the Casey game and it would seem held his own in a winning team.

    If Gawn was less than 100% as his performance showed why not play a second Ruckman seemed to work ok for the Power. 

    The simple fact is we picked half fit players and paid the ultimate price I.e. A loss

    Edited by old dee

  • Quote
    • Love 1

    I don’t like it.

    No sir, I don’t like it one bit.

  • Quote
      On 26/03/2019 at 11:08, DubDee said:

    dunno, possibly 80%.  

    still better than a unfit/out of form Preuss

    That same attitude was applied to Jack Trengove.  and that payed of for him, and us.

  • Quote
      On 26/03/2019 at 11:08, DubDee said:

    dunno, possibly 80%.  

    still better than a unfit/out of form Preuss

    You're correct. You don't know.

    Neither do I.

    I did however observe he was absolutely f'd at QTR time.

    Thanks Max...but.....

    Preuss held his own.

    Logic.. something lacking at Melbourne apparently... would suggest easing Max's load with our only other a grade ruck.

    Unfit..a no no ?  ..oh

    Hello Jones..Hello Viney..hello Tmac !

    A shout out to Trac also...sack of spuds FFS.

    We still aren't a smart club.

    Much pain ahead of this anything to gauge by.

  • Quote
      On 26/03/2019 at 08:26, Petraccattack said:

    What,  you didn't enjoy CEO Gillon McLachlan sitting in the box Saturday night cheering for the Bulldogs with those Hollywood clowns?

    Why would they be out here looking for jobs?

  • Quote

    Too much hysteria for me. I’ll come back after we’ve won a few 

  • Quote

      On 26/03/2019 at 06:17, america de cali said:

    If that is the case we have achieved some serious over achieving last season. 

    This is quite possibly correct.

      On 26/03/2019 at 07:56, jnrmac said:

    Its not necessarily that. It's that our experienced players were terrible. Their young players were the cream unlike us where we were relying on young players to do the job. 

    Jones, Viney, Gawn, Hibberd, Jetta et al were well down on form. Frost & OMac were disgraceful

    Viney hasn't played 100 games yet. Gawn just played his 100th game. Frost has played 70, OMac 63.

    That's the point I'm making: our key players aren't in the same age/experience bracket as Port's (or most other good sides').

    You're not wrong about the actual experienced players being poor though (Jones and Jetta were terrible, Hibberd did a lot of good things but his kicking was atrocious). But we weren't looking to Jones and Jetta to drive any improvement, we were looking to Oliver, Brayshaw, Viney, Gawn, Salem, Harmes and Petracca and, of those, Gawn is the only 100-game player (with the weekend being the 100th game).

    Our 2018 shows that this isn't the be all and end all. These players, despite their age/inexperience, can get the job done. But I believe it is important for us to keep our list demographic at the forefront of our minds when we look at performances such as this one.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Thanks 1

    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...
    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • PREVIEW: Brisbane

      And just like that, we’re Narrm again. Even though the annual AFL Sir Doug Nicholls Round which commemorates the contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture to our game has been a welcome addition to our calendar for ten years, more lately it has been a portent of tough times ahead for we beleaguered Narrm supporters. Ever since the club broke through for its historic 2021 premiership, this has become a troubling time of the year for the club. For example, it all began when Melbourne rebranded itself as Narrm across the two rounds of the Sir Doug Nicholls Round to become the first club to adopt an Indigenous club name especially for the occasion. It won its first outing under the brand against lowly North Melbourne to go to 10 wins and no losses but not without a struggle or a major injury to  star winger Ed Langdon who broke his ribs and missed several weeks. In the following week, still as Narrm, the team’s 17 game winning streak came to an end at the hands of the Dockers. That came along with more injuries, a plague that remained with them for the remainder of the season until, beset by injuries, the Dees were eliminated from the finals in straight sets. It was even worse last year, when Narrm inexplicably lowered its colours in Perth to the Waalit Marawar Eagles. Oh, the shame of it all! At least this year, if there is a corner to turn around, it has to be in the direction of something better. To that end, I produced a special pre-game chant in the local Narrm language - “nam mi:wi winnamun katjil prolin ambi ngamar thamelin amb” which roughly translated is “every heart beats true for the red and the blue.” >y belief is that if all of the Narrm faithful recite it long enough, then it might prove to be the only way to beat the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba on Sunday. The Lions are coming off a disappointing draw at Marvel Stadium against a North Melbourne team that lacks the ability and know how to win games (except when playing Melbourne). Brisbane are, however, a different kettle of fish at home and have very few positional weaknesses. They are a midfield powerhouse, strong in defence and have plenty of forward options, particularly their small and medium sized players, to kick a winning score this week after the sting of last week’s below par performance.

      • 2 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • REPORT: Hawthorn

      There was a time during the current Melbourne cycle that goes back to before the premiership when the club was the toughest to beat in the fourth quarter. The Demons were not only hard to beat at any time but it was virtually impossible to get the better them when scores were close at three quarter time. It was only three or four years ago but they were fit, strong and resilient in body and mind. Sadly, those days are over. This has been the case since the club fell off its pedestal about 12 months ago after it beat Geelong and then lost to Carlton. In both instances, Melbourne put together strong, stirring final quarters, one that resulted in victory, the other, in defeat. Since then, the drop off has been dramatic to the point where it can neither pull off victory in close matches, nor can it even go down in defeat  gallantly.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Footscray

      At twenty-four minutes into the third term of the game between the Casey Demons and Footscray VFL at Whitten Oval, the visitors were coasting. They were winning all over the ground, had the ascendancy in the ruck battles and held a 26 point lead on a day perfect for football. What could go wrong? Everything. The Bulldogs moved into overdrive in the last five minutes of the term and booted three straight goals to reduce the margin to a highly retrievable eight points at the last break. Bouyed by that effort, their confidence was on a high level during the interval and they ran all over the despondent Demons and kicked another five goals to lead by a comfortable margin of four goals deep into the final term before Paddy Cross kicked a couple of too late goals for a despondent Casey. A testament to their lack of pressure in the latter stages of the game was the fact that Footscray’s last ten scoring shots were nine goals and one rushed behind. Things might have been different for the Demons who went into the game after last week’s bye with 12 AFL listed players. Blake Howes was held over for the AFL game but two others, Jack Billings and Taj Woewodin (not officially listed as injured) were also missing and they could have been handy at the end. Another mystery of the current VFL system.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: Brisbane

      The Demons head back out on the road in Round 10 when they travel to Queensland to take on the reigning Premiers and the top of the table Lions who look very formidable. Can the Dees cause a massive upset? Who comes in and who goes out?

        • Vomit
        • Like
      • 133 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PODCAST: Hawthorn

      The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 12th May @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we dissect the Demons loss to the Hawks. Your questions and comments are a huge part of our podcast so please post anything you want to ask or say below and we'll give you a shout out on the show. If you would like to leave us a voicemail please call 03 9016 3666 and don't worry no body answers so you don't have to talk to a human.

        • Like
      • 52 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • POSTGAME: Hawthorn

      Wayward kicking for goal, dump kicks inside 50 and some baffling umpiring all contributed to the Dees not getting out to an an early lead that may have impacted the result. At the end of the day the Demons were just not good enough and let the Hawks run away with their first win against the Demons in 7 years.

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 375 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland
    View All