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3 Things we can bank on next year


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I’m bored, away for work and there is nothing but the Queens funeral on the ****ty hotel TV.

There a few things that keep coming to mind about things we can bank on for next year. Be creative, semi serious or whatever tickles your fancy. I’ll get the ball rolling:

1. We will get an even shorter break after the bye round.

2. Every double game we play will be against top 6 sides (inc the 2 outside the 8, which will have Collingwoodesque improvements in form, whilst Geelong will have an even easier draw.

3. One positive - we will finally win the free kick count against Footscray.

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1. We will be fitter. We won't suffer so many injuries to key players, touch wood*

2. We will tinker with our method, I refuse to believe our coaches won't change things. They know our stars are in the window for 4 years and won't take any year for granted from now on.

3. We will blood youth

 

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51 minutes ago, Deenooos_ said:

1. We will be fitter. We won't suffer so many injuries to key players, touch wood*

2. We will tinker with our method, I refuse to believe our coaches won't change things. They know our stars are in the window for 4 years and won't take any year for granted from now on.

3. We will blood youth

 

Tbh, at some point, the board will look at the coaching staff and expect innovation

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2 hours ago, KingDingAling said:

I’ll play it safe and say I’m confident you’ll see us continuously bomb the ball inside 50 without lowering our eyes.

I reckon our recruitment of Grundy all but confirms that we do plan to do this, but do it far more often from clearances and stoppages than currently we did with LJ. And therefore make up the 2-3 goal margin we are behind all top 4 teams this year :laugh: Improve goal kicking accuracy and add in a few key forwards and hopefully that adds the 5+ goals that puts us ahead of the pack. The old carpet bombing method.

Hoping for a little more tweaking/innovation/positional changes and yes lowering the eyes more!... Or it will probably come back to bite.. again.

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12 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

Pickett Fence becoming Charlie Spargo’s number 1 fan

Drysdale Demon becoming all soft and cuddly

No negativity on Demonland.

What have you been smoking?

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all summer there will be the usual suspects on Demonland bemoaning the fact that we draft incompetently, our coaching team is stubborn and wont tweak our game plan, our medical and conditioning team is second rate since Burgess went to Adelaide, Kosi is going to Port next year, and our premiership window has already closed.

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10 minutes ago, spalding said:

all summer there will be the usual suspects on Demonland bemoaning the fact that we draft incompetently, our coaching team is stubborn and wont tweak our game plan, our medical and conditioning team is second rate since Burgess went to Adelaide, Kosi is going to Port next year, and our premiership window has already closed.

Exactly, can't wait for it!

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6 hours ago, KingDingAling said:

I’ll play it safe and say I’m confident you’ll see us continuously bomb the ball inside 50 without lowering our eyes.

Let’s hope so. Maybe that’ll work next year

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