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Demonland Player of the Year - Round 8

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It’s always so different watching it on tv rather than at the ground...close games but this was WAY more stressful and worse to watch than the Hawks bumsqueak last week...

6: Salem
5: Jones
4: Oliver
3: Melksham
2: Harmes
1: Gawn

Apologies to Frost, Petracca, and Lockhart in particular 

We have a serious footballer in Lockhart I think

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    3 hours ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    6. Salem

    5. Jones

    4. Harmes

    3. Petracca

    2. Frost

    1. Lockhart

    Oliver 38 possies & 15 TACKLES!!!

    not enough?

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    1. Oliver

    2. Salem

    3. Melksham

    4. Jones

    5. Frost

    6. Harmes

     

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    6. Salem

    5. Oliver

    4. Jones

    3. Melksham

    2. Harmes

    1. T-Mac

    Hunt pivotal, Lockhart can play, Fritsch uses it well, Frost playing with confidence. 

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    2 hours ago, Rusty Nails said:

    6.  Salem

    5.  Clarry (some very ordinary turnovers of which two were direct goals otherwise No. 1 comfortably)

    4.  Harmes

    3.  The Jones Boy

    2.  Frosty (see Clint's comment above!)

    1.  Milkshake

    HMs ... Hibb (playing a cracker prior to his unfortunate gutsy injury), Viney (up & down but had his moments), T-Mac (effort and the winning point!), FritschKreig, Hunt, Lockhart (starting to find his mojo at this level..footy smarts!) and Hore (mostly for that amazing finish for a backman to help win at the end).

    Marty Hore's goal. Neil Crompton in 64 GF?

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    6. Clayton Oliver 

    5. Nathan Jones 

    4. Jake Melksham 

    3. Christian Salem 

    2. James Harmes 

    1. Sam Frost  

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    [ 10: Marty Hore; you can give an emotional 10 can't you?]

    6. Oliver 

    5. Salem 

    4. Jake Melksham 

    3. Jones

    2. Harmes 

    1. Sam Frost 

    Tmac very unlucky but found his mojo again and worked hard for the win

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    6 - Oliver

    5 - Salem

    4 - Frost

    3 - Jones

    2 - TMac

    1 - Hore

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    12 hours ago, Bobby McKenzie said:

    Marty Hore's goal. Neil Crompton in 64 GF?

    One against team rules for the win, Hore's was probably part of a trained instinctive play Bobby (i'm guessing).

    Either way they both resulted in wins for the club.

    In only his 6th game, that goal was one of the greats for this club.  He is young and will no doubt have a few downs here and there but we've uncovered a beauty in Marty.

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    3 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

    One against team rules for the win, Hore's was probably part of a trained instinctive play Bobby (i'm guessing).

    Either way they both resulted in wins for the club.

    In only his 6th game, that goal was one of the greats for this club.  He is young and will no doubt have a few downs here and there but we've uncovered a beauty in Marty.

    If Marty does the same thing in the last minute of the last game of the year, then we will all be happy ... ?

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    6 Harmes - he's really got back to his end of 2018 level and was inspired in the last quarter.

    5 Oliver - the other member of the gang-tackling middlemen society. Sent it forward a bit more this week.

    4 Salem - our silk out of defence.

    3 Frost - seemed to be reading the play better than normal.

    2 Jones - kept working his butt off. His wing/midfield switch with Angus has helped, although Gussie is now not so prominent.

    1 Fritsch - I was critical of him last week but he intercepted well once Hibberd went off and provided run out of defence.

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    The lead seesaws again -

    Progressive 

    77. Clayton Oliver
    72. Max Gawn Christian Salem  
    58. James Harmes     
    57. Angus Brayshaw   
    31. Jake Melksham     
    29. Nathan Jones  
    26. Sam Frost 
    18. Marty Hore  
    15. Jack Viney     
    12. Jayden Hunt    
    10. Michael Hibberd   
    6. Jay Lockhart   
    4. Bayley Fritsch Tom McDonald Braydon Preuss           
    3. Corey Wagner     
    2. Alex Neal-Bullen Christian Petracca      
    1. Neville Jetta Billy Stretch        

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    Hunt very stiff to poll so low this round. He was good all night except for the last 2 minutes where he bought his game to a new level and won us the game. He spots up Hore who kicks the goal to get us level.

    Then when Gawn boots and up and under with about 14 seconds left on to the cusp of out 50, Hunt smashes through two of them and the ball spills to Harmes. We win.

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    6 - Oliver

    5 - Frost (underrated game imo)

    4 - Salem

    3 - Hunt

    2 - Jones

    1 - Gawn

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    6: Salem

    5: Frost

    4: Gawn

    3; Melksham

    2: Oliver

    1:Jones

    Petracca,Fritsch, Hunt, Tom McDonald, Stretch honorable mentions

     

    Edited by dieter

  • Quote

    6 Oliver

    5 Salem

    4 Jones

    3 Hunt. The move to the forward line has reinvigorated Jayden

    2 Gawn

    1 Frost

    Edited by The Swimming Dee

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    7 Oliver

    5 Harmes

    4 Frost

    3 Salems ( Lot) 

    2 Jones

    1 T Mac

    Honourable mention HUNT, BILLY STRETCH, HORE , MELKSHAM

    Edited by picket fence

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    1.  Oliver

    2. Jones

    3.Petracca

    4.Salem

    5.Melksham

    6.Harmes        

    Missing out  Frosty and Gawn  could have picked all of them in any order.

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