Jump to content

GAMEDAY: Rd 05 vs Essendon

Demonland
Demonland
in Melbourne Demons

Featured Replies

Just now, WalkingCivilWar said:

3:40 Adelaide  

4:10 Melb

Pumped WCW?

 
 
2 hours ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Maybe a bit of ruck training for BBB.

I believe it’s called “ruck craft” these days bitters. 

    • Like 2
    • Haha 2

    2 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    I believe it’s called “ruck craft” these days bitters. 

    Off course, thank you Ethan - I'm just not woke up enough.

    • Haha 2
     
    29 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Walking around the mean streets of Adelaide I feel like I’ve seen a lot more Essendon paraphernalia wearing people than Dees. 

    Apparently it is given away in prison.

    • Haha 2
    • Clap 1

    3 hours ago, binman said:

    Agree.

    One of the biggest myths in footy is wet weather is an equaliser.

    Teams with good skills, like we have shown this season, are advantaged in the wet over teams with poor skills because generally good skill is a function of good technique and good technique stands up better in wet condtions (and when windy too for that matter, not to mention pressure).

    I'd add we are a contested ball team, which is another advantage we bring into this match as wet weather usually means lots of ground balls.

    All that said, we could luck out and miss any heavy rain. radar look ok and the heavy rain and thunderstorms are not forecast to hit until the evening

    I reckon the wet weather being an equaliser thing is a throw back to the days when rain would make the ground muddy. Now it just makes the ground an ice rink.

    • Like 1
    17 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

    Off course, thank you Ethan - I'm just not woke up enough.

    Woke is not a term I would associate with you BBB

    • Haha 3
    7 minutes ago, Kozzie4PM said:

    I reckon the wet weather being an equaliser thing is a throw back to the days when rain would make the ground muddy. Now it just makes the ground an ice rink.

    That's an excellent hypothesis- you are probably correct.

    That said I recall many dees losses in the 70s in super muddy conditions.

     

    • Like 1
    5 hours ago, D4Life said:

    What is ruling on late changes?

    Who cares, just do it!
     

    • Haha 1

    Plenty of Dees scarves in evidence by the Torrens. Enjoyed a quick chat with Mitchell Starc and Alyssa Healy who were walking past on their way to Travis Head’s wedding! Good cricketer with a bad choice of footy teams - GWS FFS. 

    • Like 1
    4 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    It would be beyond our control if it's still raining cats and hounds and poor Ben Brown suffers a mild hammy strain during the warm-up and would need to be replaced in the starting 22.

    A sudden tummy upset would provide an improved opportunity for camouflage. We're playing the 'Drugs, so it might also be contagious. Slip JJ into the forward line...


    1 hour ago, Neil Crompton said:

    what time is our game please? I'm confused - is it 4.10 Adelaide time or Melbourne time?

    10 years ago, they're a little bit behind in Adelaide.

    PS. Spoiler alert, we won the 2023-24-25-25-27 premierships breaking the four in a row record.

     
    13 minutes ago, Flower Magic said:

    Plenty of Dees scarves in evidence by the Torrens. Enjoyed a quick chat with Mitchell Starc and Alyssa Healy who were walking past on their way to Travis Head’s wedding! Good cricketer with a bad choice of footy teams - GWS FFS. 

    That would explain why Pat Cummins has been seen in Adelaide. Didn't think it was for the footy even though they did attend 


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

    Featured Content

    • CASEY: Footscray

      At twenty-four minutes into the third term of the game between the Casey Demons and Footscray VFL at Whitten Oval, the visitors were coasting. They were winning all over the ground, had the ascendancy in the ruck battles and held a 26 point lead on a day perfect for football. What could go wrong? Everything. The Bulldogs moved into overdrive in the last five minutes of the term and booted three straight goals to reduce the margin to a highly retrievable eight points at the last break. Bouyed by that effort, their confidence was on a high level during the interval and they ran all over the despondent Demons and kicked another five goals to lead by a comfortable margin of four goals deep into the final term before Paddy Cross kicked a couple of too late goals for a despondent Casey. A testament to their lack of pressure in the latter stages of the game was the fact that Footscray’s last ten scoring shots were nine goals and one rushed behind. Things might have been different for the Demons who went into the game after last week’s bye with 12 AFL listed players. Blake Howes was held over for the AFL game but two others, Jack Billings and Taj Woewodin (not officially listed as injured) were also missing and they could have been handy at the end. Another mystery of the current VFL system.

      • 0 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PREGAME: Brisbane

      The Demons head back out on the road in Round 10 when they travel to Queensland to take on the reigning Premiers and the top of the table Lions who look very formidable. Can the Dees cause a massive upset? Who comes in and who goes out?

        • Like
      • 79 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • PODCAST: Hawthorn

      The Demonland Podcast will air LIVE on Monday, 12th May @ 8:00pm. Join Binman, George & I as we dissect the Demons loss to the Hawks. 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.

        • Haha
        • Love
        • Like
      • 31 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • POSTGAME: Hawthorn

      Wayward kicking for goal, dump kicks inside 50 and some baffling umpiring all contributed to the Dees not getting out to an an early lead that may have impacted the result. At the end of the day the Demons were just not good enough and let the Hawks run away with their first win against the Demons in 7 years.

        • Thumb Down
        • Like
      • 327 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • VOTES: Hawthorn

      After 3 fantastic week Max Gawn has a massive lead in the Demonland Player of the Year award from Jake Bowey, Christian Petracca, Kade Chandler and Ed Langdon who round out the Top Five. Your votes please. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 & 1.

        • Like
      • 32 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland

    • GAMEDAY: Hawthorn

      It’s game day and the Demons are chasing a fourth straight win as we take on the high flying Hawks at the G. After decades of being tormented by the Hawks the Dees will be keen to extend their 7 year dominance over Hawthorn.

        • Love
        • Thanks
        • Like
      • 471 replies
      Demonland
      Demonland
    View All