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20 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

As long as they give 150%, I’ll be happy. 

Otherwise known in the math world as the Viney percentage 

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We definitely looked full of running tonight! 3-1 to finish the season, 4-2 going back to the Dogs game and both those games we lost we were within a kick with minutes to go.

16-6 for the season, slightly worse than 17-4-1 last year but we still finish with the double chance, possible top 2 and have given ourselves a real shot at defending our crown. Bring on (late August) September, I can smell finals in the air.

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binman-  how prophetic are you?

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4 minutes ago, monoccular said:

binman-  how prophetic are you?

Bin has been kidnapped by Fox footy. He is apparently holding strong and not willing to break his exclusive contract with Demonland. 
 

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It’s all about trying to plan for the squad to be peaking for September 

So far so good. The Club preseason planned for 15 wins (top 4) so we have actually exceeded that one

Now as Goody said, that Season is over

We now start the new one

We can win anywhere….

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9 minutes ago, monoccular said:

binman-  how prophetic are you?

Someone said that to me the other day.

Sorry, misread your post.

Back to the replay.

Awesome performance 

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we’re timing our run perfectly again. And other than TMac we have a pretty healthy list. Its looking really good for us

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I was hoping Binman’s prognostications about loading and player management would come to pass, and wow have they ever. When you are in the midst of winter and the Dees get their regular form slump you do have your doubts. Re-assurance  is provided from the Demonland podcast even though l do have may doubts. But NO MORE, my faith is restored, and l look forward to watching our inevitable march to victory over the next five weeks. Smashing the Cats will be a joy!! 

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2 hours ago, Dees2014 said:

I was hoping Binman’s prognostications about loading and player management would come to pass, and wow have they ever. When you are in the midst of winter and the Dees get their regular form slump you do have your doubts. Re-assurance  is provided from the Demonland podcast even though l do have may doubts. But NO MORE, my faith is restored, and l look forward to watching our inevitable march to victory over the next five weeks. Smashing the Cats will be a joy!! 

Unfortunately winning it all from here isn’t garanteed. I do think however the performance yesterday would have beaten every team in the comp, and if we are truly gonna be peaking for the next 4-5 weeks I’d say lookout competition!

Our kicking inside 50 and efficency for goal was elite, I just wonder if it was a result of a change in method due to higher fitness. It seems there was an active change in Goody’s message to the players to take on some riskier kicks to hotspots. This might be because he knows the players now have the physical endurance and output to be able to defend the turnover if it does happen because they aren’t as fatigued.

We might not see them kicking it to the pockets as much for the remainder of the season which will heavily increase our scoring. And it seems as though the boring i50 entries was just a strategy implemented by Goody to cover for our fatigue in the last 2 months because without the required fitness we were more vulnerable to being scored against on the transition. It’s only conjecture but we looked a completely different team today when moving the ball, very similar to the way we played in finals last year.

 

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3 minutes ago, Deenooos_ said:

Unfortunately winning it all from here isn’t garanteed.

 

No it isn’t but I guarantee some Geelong players felt uncomfortable watching that game. Who can say who will win it .. but it’s the start of the finals and fair to say the dees are right  up to our neck in it now. 

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8 minutes ago, Wells 11 said:

No it isn’t but I guarantee some Geelong players felt uncomfortable watching that game. Who can say who will win it .. but it’s the start of the finals and fair to say the dees are right  up to our neck in it now. 

Be some definite prelim PTSD for cats watching last night. 
 

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4 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

No it isn’t but I guarantee some Geelong players felt uncomfortable watching that game. Who can say who will win it .. but it’s the start of the finals and fair to say the dees are right  up to our neck in it now. 

Absolutely there is no guarantee. 

We got out to $4. 50 this week to win the flag. We are now into 3.30.

Personally, I'd have the true odds at 2.50.

But even at those odds we lose six out of ten times.

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44 minutes ago, binman said:

Absolutely there is no guarantee. 

We got out to $4. 50 tgis week to win the flag. We are now into 3.30.

Personally, I'd have the true odds at 2.50.

But even at those odds we lose six our oud ten times.

In game Injuries, umpiring, critical bounces, critical set shot goals. So many edgey things can send games north or south. But if you said at the start of the year it will 3v4 in the last game of the year and we’ll win by 10 goals. And that we’d go 16-6 in a post premiership year w the hardest draw, I’d be stoked. so Ill happily take those 4 out of 10 odds. Barring last year it’s 4 times more than pretty much any year i’ve known as a dee. 

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Science vs accepted wisdom.:jakovich:

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Conjecture aside It's great to see the lads play with heart and confidence. That come from behind victory against the blues could be a real spring board for us. 

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2 hours ago, The heart beats true said:

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen us have so many options running by.

Everyone was moving in waves. It was so beautiful. 🥹

Exactly. Look at most of the goals in the first half, and in particular the first quarter.

I actually really liked the camera angels last night actually as they had lots of down the ground and high shots that enabled you to see the incredible spread by every single dees player on the ground. Incredible running.

Almost all the goals were a function of our up and down the ground gut running in waves.

A great example was the one involving Langers tapping the ball to kozzie. Watch where those two players started their run from defence. Both had direct opponents who simply could not go with Kozzie or Langers - basically running 100 odd metres at top speed.

And there were multiple other options all running down the ground. And am i right in thinking that goal stared with Brown marking 20 metres out form their goal? 

That swarm running is key to our offence and is the reason why we can generate free players inside our 50 metre arc - particularly against the lions who simply do not have the leg speed to go with us.

That sort of all team wave running is only possible to the level we showed last night when we are near or at optimnal fitness. 

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6 minutes ago, Foopy on the telly said:

Of course it’s not. People who think it is would be very ignorant ngl. Just look at Geelong in 2008 for the perfect example.

The tigers in 2018 is an even better example.

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