Jump to content

GAMEDAY: Rd 16 vs Adelaide

Whispering_Jack
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

We aren’t competitive in the air aside from our defenders. Have to change out game plan a bit - as long down the line is killing us.

    • Like 1
     

    Have wanted to trust in him, but Weid offers nothing.  Mauled in the ruck, and cant provide strength in the contest

    • Like 1
    • Love 1
    1 minute ago, david_neitz_is_my_dad said:

    Oliver getting tackled before he even gets the ball

    Been going all year and we say nothing.

    • Like 3
    • Love 1
    • Vomit 1
     

    The umpiring is YET AGAIN A JOKE. 

    Seriously the umps need GLASSES. 

    ABSOLUTELY USELESS just like last year. 

    • Thanks 1
    1 minute ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    Spilling uncontested marks

    He looked gassed about 10 min into that qtr.  No tank


    20 minutes ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

    STOP KICKING IT TO O’BRIEN 

    STOP FRIGGEN BOMBING LONG FFS! PLUS UMPIRES ABSOLUTELY CRUCIFYING US AGAIN IN ADELAIDE

    • Like 1
    • Love 1
    Just now, DemonOX said:

    The umpiring is YET AGAIN A JOKE. 

    Seriously the umps need GLASSES. 

    ABSOLUTELY USELESS just like last year. 

    It is not their eyesight.  They know what is going in. They are downright cheats. 

    • Like 3
    • Love 1
    • Haha 1
     

    WTF. Everytime ball goes in Crows 50 Walker gets a head high tackle. And May needs to stop kicking long to the Crows ruckman. Just dumb.

    • Like 1
    • Love 1

    This game really is going the way of last years. We need to work our butts off this won't be an easy kill, we need to get repeat forward 50 stoppages and more scoring chances and we'll do it.


    Stats Id like to see:

    1 succesful bombs into the square

    2 where free kicks are won and lost

    • Love 1
    7 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    Stop blaming the umps. We need to tackle lower. 3 highs against Walker in row have turned the game 

    Nothing like throwing your head back.

    • Like 2
    • Love 1

    1st half

    X decision making 

    x slow play and kicking to packs 

    x overhandballing to players under more pressure 

    x who’s on Dawson !!! Ffs - put Neal-bullen in him

    x kicking to O’Brien!!!!

    x oliver 2 misses, Harmesy bad miss from 3metres out 

    🤮Weid - outmarked outmuscled outplayed dropped marks poor tackles 

    🤮🤮🤮umps -12 to 6!

    🤮Pickett and Bedford  nowhere near it 

    🤮Goodwin coaching - man up on Dawson  Low kicks to contests  Quick play on footy 

    🤬May on Walker 

    😊 lever petty Brayshaw Trac Clarry … and maybe Jordon 

     

    • Like 1

    I am hoping, and thinking, we'll run over them in the second half (need a change in how we drive the ball forward), but that depends on how much gas the umps have in the tanks. Truly atrocious today.

    • Love 1

    Frees 12-6

    walker has a neck but Demons players don’t 

    crows at least 2 goals from frees

     

    • Like 2
    • Love 1
    • Sad 2

    1 minute ago, gOLLy said:

    Nothing like throwing your head back.

    Knowing you will get a free every time.

    • Like 1
    Just now, DemonOX said:

    The umpiring is YET AGAIN A JOKE. 

    Seriously the umps need GLASSES. 

    ABSOLUTELY USELESS just like last year. 

    They don’t need glasses they are seeing everything. They are choosing which frees to pay. We got none that quarter. Crowd thinks that is too many.

    We have a Captain on the ground and he should be asking why it is happening before they start the second half.

    Also this bombing into the forward line to a one on two or even three is just dumb. Kick it wide or along the ground, to get our small forwards into the game.

    • Like 2
    • Love 1

    Seeing Burgo in the Adelaide rooms makes me sick with rage 

    • Like 1
    • Vomit 1

    Umpiring is a joke. They get crowd frees for nothing.

    • Love 1

    Great tough game of footy, Crows playing some great footy, so are we.

    Unfortunately Weid is trying so hard, 2nd efforts etc... but his lacking of marking ability is killing us. Concrete hands in so many marking contests.

    Actually, we have 1 remaining issue to fix if we want to go all the way this year: contested marking. BBB, Weid, and M Brown are getting to everything but marking nothing. Fritsch is struggling to even get to a marking contest.

     

    • Like 2

    9 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    Stop blaming the umps. We need to tackle lower. 3 highs against Walker in row have turned the game 

    When people throw themselves headfirst and forward deliberately playing for the free it’s difficult to tackle. That last one to Tex wasnt actually high. The umpires should not pay those ones as players endanger themselves leading with their head. 

    • Like 2
    • Love 1

    AFl do not want us to  get too many games ahead..

    need to stop kicking down the line to their talls who are intercepting everything. This is exactly what we want opposition teams to do when max is playing. How dumb, pass it around. Sparrow does some good things but has not idea about moving the ball quickly, he has had multiple opportunities to do a short kick down the line to a free player but holds it up and does a long kick down the line. Must admit the umpiring is pretty poor, tex's ruck free for blocking was a disgrace, we see their ruckman putting their arms around our ruckman and throwing them out of the way but thats ok. Ben Brown is being manhandled as is oliver and they are getting nothing. We have far too many players who have done absolutely nothing they need to lift. the coach needs to remind them that we have players in the VFL that are ready to take their place.

    • Like 1
     

    The lack of quality ruckman huge factor. No Jackson or Gawn any team would struggle. It one of those 4 points games we have to tough out. Crows at home no easy assignment but a loss here will hurt season prospect big time. Damn injuries

    • Like 1

    Anyone ask Bedford what he was thinking!!!
    55 metres out - burning off his opponent - open 50 - open goal square …

    and kicks 40 metres to the pocket where no one is. Really defies any level of thinking ?!?!?!  

    • Like 5

    Guest
    This topic is now closed to further replies.
    Go to topic listing

    Featured Content

    • NON-MFC: Round 15

      As the Demons head into their Bye Round, it's time to turn our attention to the other matches being played. Which teams are you tipping this week? And which results would be most favourable for the Demons if we can manage to turn our season around? Follow all the non-Melbourne games here and join the conversation as the ladder continues to take shape.

        • Haha
      • 3 replies
      Demonland

    • REPORT: Port Adelaide

      Of course, it’s not the backline, you might argue and you would probably be right. It’s the boot studder (do they still have them?), the midfield, the recruiting staff, the forward line, the kicking coach, the Board, the interchange bench, the supporters, the folk at Casey, the head coach and the club psychologist  It’s all of them and all of us for having expectations that were sufficiently high to have believed three weeks ago that a restoration of the Melbourne team to a position where we might still be in contention for a finals berth when the time for the midseason bye arrived. Now let’s look at what happened over the period of time since Melbourne overwhelmed the Sydney Swans at the MCG in late May when it kicked 8.2 to 5.3 in the final quarter (and that was after scoring 3.8 to two straight goals in the second term). 

      • 2 replies
      Demonland

    • CASEY: Essendon

      Casey’s unbeaten run was extended for at least another fortnight after the Demons overran a persistent Essendon line up by 29 points at ETU Stadium in Port Melbourne last night. After conceding the first goal of the evening, Casey went on a scoring spree from about ten minutes in, with five unanswered majors with its fleet of midsized runners headed by the much improved Paddy Cross who kicked two in quick succession and livewire Ricky Mentha who also kicked an early goal. Leading the charge was recruit of the year, Riley Bonner while Bailey Laurie continued his impressive vein of form. With Tom Campbell missing from the lineup, Will Verrall stepped up to the plate demonstrating his improvement under the veteran ruckman’s tutelage. The Demons were looking comfortable for much of the second quarter and held a 25-point lead until the Bombers struck back with two goals in the shadows of half time. On the other side of the main break their revival continued with first three goals of the half. Harry Sharp, who had been quiet scrambled in the Demons’ first score of the third term to bring the margin back to a single point at the 17 minute mark and the game became an arm-wrestle for the remainder of the quarter and into the final moments of the last.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: Gold Coast

      The Demons have the Bye next week but then are on the road once again when they come up against the Gold Coast Suns on the Gold Coast in what could be a last ditch effort to salvage their season. Who comes in and who comes out?

        • Haha
      • 107 replies
      Demonland

    • PODCAST: Port Adelaide

      The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 16th June @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we dissect the Dees disappointing loss to the Power.
      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.
      Listen LIVE: https://demonland.com/

        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 32 replies
      Demonland

    • POSTGAME: Port Adelaide

      The Demons simply did not take their opportunities when they presented themselves and ultimately when down by 25 points effectively ending their finals chances. Goal kicking practice during the Bye?

        • Like
      • 252 replies
      Demonland
    View All