Jump to content

Why we beat St.Kilda

Roost it far
Roost it far
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

Posted

As most of you have already soiled yourselves over next week I thought I’d let you know why we’ll win.

1. Our back 6 will own their forward 6

2. With Viney back our midfield can comfortably match theirs

3. With TMac finding form and if Jackson can continue his Q4 form with Spargo and Kozzie running around our forward line can kick a winning score.

4. Gawn and the mids will work better together

5. Petracca

6. Oliver

7. May and Lever

enjoy your week

  • Quote
    • Like 8
    • Thanks 3
     

    Superior coiffure?

    Edited by Tarax Club

  • Quote
    • Haha 2

    I actually give us more of a chance to beat GWS and Geelong than St Kilda.

    After 12 months of denial, I’ve come to the realisation that St Kilda are a high quality side that is well coached and has significant depth. I expect to them to finish top 4.

     

     

  • Quote
    • Like 5
     

    Saints and Dogs have the speed that always worries me, but i think we can take the Sainters for one of the reasons R.I.F. lists.

    Our backline is like a brick wall.

    Some extra speed down back would be handy, and their small could do some damage, but right now i have so much confidence in May and Lever in particular that i am backing us for the win.

    Saints are a good team so it should be a great game.

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    The Saints have:

    - Had a hard fight in the last to win;

    - One day less recovery;

    - Return travel; and

    - They ran a combined 294.8 km vs our 275 km (nearly 1 km per player extra).

     

    I'm not sure how much this matters in round 1. Are the players fresh so it doesn't matter? Or is the first hit out tough to recover from?

     

     

  • Quote
    • Like 2
    • Shocked 1
      On 21/03/2021 at 10:49, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    I actually give us more of a chance to beat GWS and Geelong than St Kilda.

    After 12 months of denial, I’ve come to the realisation that St Kilda are a high quality side that is well coached and has significant depth. I expect to them to finish top 4.

     

     

    Unfortunately I agree.

    Only way I see us beating them is through the benefit of an extra days rest, after a solid game on a heavy 10 graded Flemington track, interstate.

    Hoping I’m wrong and the boys turn it on next week.

     

  • Quote
    •  

    We can go 5 zip before our game against Richmond. GO DEES

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Love 1

    Saints lost contested possessions by 30. Lost inside 50’s by 10. If GWS kick straight, they win 

    we can handle them easily on the inside. How clever can we be converting that to clearances and inside 50’s? Let’s see what we’ve learnt this week

    I back us to win

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    They will be heavy legged after today's slogfest with BWS, we have had an extra day and a half to recover, slept in their own beds. 

    Need to get off to a fast start like Saturday, dominate the center clearances and expose their biggest weakness which is their defence.

    Toby Green and Himmelberg in particular caused Saints all sorts of problems today, hopefully our defensive structure stands up to their quick ball movement and forward mobility.

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    Beau Maister to kick a bag this weekend. Saints by 38 points. 

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Haha 1
    • Shocked 1
      On 21/03/2021 at 10:34, Roost it far said:

    As most of you have already soiled yourselves over next week I thought I’d let you know why we’ll win.

    1. Our back 6 will own their forward 6

    2. With Viney back our midfield can comfortably match theirs

    3. With TMac finding form and if Jackson can continue his Q4 form with Spargo and Kozzie running around our forward line can kick a winning score.

    4. Gawn and the mids will work better together

    5. Petracca

    6. Oliver

    7. May and Lever

    enjoy your week

    I am , and I shall relate the story about how hard it is for us to win two in a row, see yu....

  • Quote
    • Like 1
    • Haha 1

    No-one is saying Rich, Haw and Stkilda would have lost if they had played better opposition .

    Why all the acolades for a club that has won only one flag and that by a miserable point in 120 years.

    Stkilda magnus.

    Good  grief.I need a stiff drink.

     

     

     

  • Quote

      On 21/03/2021 at 10:54, ding said:

    Saints and Dogs have the speed that always worries me, but i think we can take the Sainters for one of the reasons R.I.F. lists.

    Our backline is like a brick wall.

    Some extra speed down back would be handy, and their small could do some damage, but right now i have so much confidence in May and Lever in particular that i am backing us for the win.

    Saints are a good team so it should be a great game.

    Dogs have an excellent midfield, Saints are miles below them

  • Quote
      On 21/03/2021 at 12:04, Sir Why You Little said:

    Huge game next week. 
    It’s on 2-0 on the line

    Goal Kicking Practice please lads

    1. Don't stop in the 3rd q 

    2. Fix the goal kicking, then we win.

  • Quote
    • Like 1

    Think we might put another 4 points in the bank.

    The Saints were hot and cold with pressure efforts and they could have been shut out of it if bws didn’t miss the sitter to make it a 3 kick game. Conditions were atrocious hitting their legs hard and they have some big outs.  Their speedsters are a concern, but our defensive wall needs a few fast smalls to stick tight, we need to play pressure all day and more than halve the contests and we win.

    do this and we take the chokkies.

  • Quote
    • Like 1

      On 21/03/2021 at 10:49, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    I actually give us more of a chance to beat GWS and Geelong than St Kilda.

    After 12 months of denial, I’ve come to the realisation that St Kilda are a high quality side that is well coached and has significant depth. I expect to them to finish top 4.

     

     

    A very good point.  I fear the saints small forwards and their coach Brett Ratten to really test the Dees this week.

  • Quote
    • Like 2

    Looking for an improved midfield performance, especially with Viney likely back in. If we do this, we are a good chance.

  • Quote
    • Like 1
      On 21/03/2021 at 10:34, Roost it far said:

    As most of you have already soiled yourselves over next week I thought I’d let you know why we’ll win.

    1. Our back 6 will own their forward 6

    2. With Viney back our midfield can comfortably match theirs

    3. With TMac finding form and if Jackson can continue his Q4 form with Spargo and Kozzie running around our forward line can kick a winning score.

    4. Gawn and the mids will work better together

    5. Petracca

    6. Oliver

    7. May and Lever

    enjoy your week

    tell me please who will stop Tim Membry?

  • Quote
    • Shocked 1
     
      On 21/03/2021 at 22:13, Kent said:

    tell me please who will stop Tim Membry?

    May?

  • Quote
    • Like 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

    • REPORT: Hawthorn

      Melbourne and Hawthorn who face off against each other this week have more in common than having once almost merged and about to wear a blue jumper with a red v triangle and an embroidered picture of a bird on the front.  They also share the MCG as their main home ground, their supporters are associated with the leafy suburbs of Melbourne and in recent times, James Frawley graced the colours of both teams. Even more recently, both have bounced back from disastrous five game losing streaks to start off a season. Of course, the Hawks turned their bounce into a successful leap from the bottom of the ladder into a finals appearance, making it to the semifinals in 2024 and this year, they’re riding high in third place on the AFL table. The Demons are just three games into their 2025 bounce back, and are yet to climb their way out of the bottom four although they are sitting a game and percentage out of the top eight. However, with the current sportsbet odds of $3.90 to win this week’s encounter, it seems a forlorn hope that their upward progression will continue much longer.

        • Thumb Down
        • Clap
        • Thanks
      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PODCAST: Harvey Langford Interview

      On Wednesday I'll be interviewing the Melbourne Football Club's first pick in the 2024 National Draft and pick number 6 overall Harvey Langford. If you have any questions you want asked let me know. I will release the interview on Wednesday afternoon.

        • Clap
        • Love
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 24 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • REPORT: West Coast

      On a night of counting, Melbourne captain Max Gawn made sure that his contribution counted. He was at his best and superb in the the ruck from the very start of the election night game against the West Coast Eagles at Optus Stadium, but after watching his dominance of the first quarter and a half of the clash evaporate into nothing as the Eagles booted four goals in the last ten minutes of the opening half, he turned the game on its head, with a ruckman’s masterclass in the second half.  No superlatives would be sufficient to describe the enormity of the skipper’s performance starting with his 47 hit outs, a career-high 35 possessions (22 of them contested), nine clearances, 12 score involvements and, after messing up an attempt or two, finally capping off one of the greatest rucking performances of all time, with a goal of own in the final quarter not long after he delivered a right angled pass into the arms of Daniel Turner who also goaled from a pocket (will we ever know if the pass is what was intended). That was enough to overturn a 12 point deficit after the Eagles scored the first goal of the second half into a 29 point lead at the last break and a winning final quarter (at last) for the Demons who decided not to rest their champion ruckman at the end this time around. 

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: Hawthorn

      The Demons return to the MCG to take on the High Flying Hawks on Saturday Afternoon. Hawthorn will be aiming to consolidate a position in the Top 4 whilst the Dees will be looking to take a scalp and make it four wins in a row. Who comes in and who goes out?

        • Thanks
      • 151 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PODCAST: West Coast

      The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 5th May @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we analyse the Demons 3rd win row for the season against the Eagles.
      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.

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 25 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • POSTGAME: West Coast

      Following a disastrous 0–5 start to the season, the Demons have now made it three wins in a row, cruising past a lacklustre West Coast side on their own turf. Skipper Max Gawn was once again at his dominant best, delivering another ruck masterclass to lead the way.

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 215 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland
    View All