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Demonland
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Good on Demons major sponsor Zurich for donating $10 for every person attending tonight. If 50,000 attend that's half a million dollars. 

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Jetta - 7 Disposals at 100% efficiency , 4 intercept possessions and 2 score involvements. BOG!

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It's a fantastic standard and a great showcase tonight.  Here's how you sell the sport to new eyes. I really envy what they do up North with the State of Origin Rugby League. It might work i

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It's a fantastic standard and a great showcase tonight.  Here's how you sell the sport to new eyes.

I really envy what they do up North with the State of Origin Rugby League.

It might work in the pre-season (demand-wise) if the game was for a worthy cause.  And there's plenty of worthy causes so that part of the equation is do-able at least.

But Aussie Rules fans are way too rusted on to their teams only. 

Worthy cause,  players being always available,  as part of the pre-season and then embraced by the fans ongoing - big ask but I'd love to see it.

We could at least play these high standard games every now and again (every 3 or 4 years)

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2 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

I don’t care, but seeing the skill level is wonderful, the lack of intensity a much less so. 
 

There's plenty of intensity ... the skill level means less congestion and more open footy

And State footy has always been like that.  Lower skills = congestion,  packs etc.

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It’s all a bit... nice.

Lots of smiles, lots of open space.

Yes, it’s for a very worthy cause, but if it’s to be played again same time next year, it’d be great to see Vics vs WA or SA.

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11 minutes ago, Macca said:

There's plenty of intensity ... the skill level means less congestion and more open footy

And State footy has always been like that.  Lower skills = congestion,  packs etc.

Macca there is zero intensity, seeing players giggling while they have the ball looking for targets shows that. 

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2 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Josh Kelly is a freak too. Wish we could have found a way to make a play for him too. 

Sadly, hindsight tells us we had two chances to take Kelly as he was a close runner-up to Hogan in the 2012 mini-draft.

Oh well!  If we had of taken Cripps at pick 9, we’d now be hailed as geniuses.

The GWS trade was a good move at the time IMHO.

 

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2 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

Might as well put the sheila’s on McQ...

 

The girls have gone harder. 

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1 minute ago, Cards13 said:

Macca there is zero intensity, seeing players giggling while they have the ball looking for targets shows that. 

They look fair dinkum to me ... the sport is basically keepings-off these days so what on earth do you expect if the most highly skilled players are all involved.

A much much better version of keepings-off.  Stands to reason

You put 2 low skilled teams against each other and you're going to see an ugly mess.  Looks more intense but it's a ruse. 

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Anyway,  I'm thoroughly enjoying tonight's game and if others prefer to watch 'scramble-ball',  go right ahead. Ha ha!

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9 minutes ago, Macca said:

They look fair dinkum to me ... the sport is basically keepings-off these days so what on earth do you expect if the most highly skilled players are all involved.

A much much better version of keepings-off.  Stands to reason

You put 2 low skilled teams against each other and you're going to see an ugly mess.  Looks more intense but it's a ruse. 

Even good players play worse when Under pressure

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23 minutes ago, Macca said:

They look fair dinkum to me ... the sport is basically keepings-off these days so what on earth do you expect if the most highly skilled players are all involved.

A much much better version of keepings-off.  Stands to reason

You put 2 low skilled teams against each other and you're going to see an ugly mess.  Looks more intense but it's a ruse. 

The “Mexican wave” wave on the crowd says otherwise to me but each to there own. 
As I said from a skill level stand point I’ve loved it, it has no intensity which totally detracts from the game, it’s a fundraiser.

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