It was an ugly affair on the Big Stage at the MCG on Friday night but the Demon's defence held strong holding Carlton to six goals to grind out a win and keep their spot on the Top Four for another week.

BURN THE TAPES

Was good to record a win.

It will be good for our players to see a ruthless team in Collingwood up close next week.

They should learn a lot.

Yeesh. Thank God that’s over.

We played terribly.  We won because Carlton were more terrible than us

It wasn't great !

It wasn't pretty !

..... but we did what we had to do - we put put away the pretenders!

 

We may have given Voss a send off also !

Let’s take the 4 points and never speak of this game again. 

Really good game from our perspective. Got that solidity behind the ball back. Really good signs.

Contested possession +29.

inside 50s +20.

clearances +9.

Smashed them all over the ground. I don’t know what most people want from the team. Without looking, I assume it’s just groupthink from the Gameday thread.

Edited June 2, 20232 yr by Axis of Bob

Bye couldn't come quick enough 

Amusingly, that one was a percentage booster for us. I'll take it. 😀

Before everyone goes Tomlinson there is nothing he can do when the ball comes in lace out. I thought he was ok ish

God, that felt like pre-2021. Hard to watch, shot ourselves in the foot but a wins a win

Should have won by 10 goals

We're going to get [censored] thumped next week

Petracca, Sparrow, Bowey, May, Lever, Salem, McVee, Brayshaw and Spargo superb tonight.

We've got another chance to put things right against them this year. She'll be right 

Is this the end of the Smith/Petty experiment

Take the win, onto next week.

I hope for all our sake that we can find an extra 5-10% in our skills

McVee is the find of the year, he’s a smooth mover, doesn’t ever seem panicked and lands in the right spot all the time

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We are definitely loading. Happy we managed to win but holy [censored] we can barely move out there. 
 

as long as we don’t [censored] up the program we should be alot better later in the year.

Salem was awesome tonight.

Was great to see him in full flight running through the middle in the third quarter.

Bowey was also great before he was concussed.

But on the positive side, we won the clearances!

We were on a hiding to nothing. Playing Carlton at the moment is a little tricky. We'll run Collingwood very close. Mark my words sunny Jim.

Please no more Harmes or Smith.

Great signs from JVR and McVee

Curnow and Cripps had little influence 

credit where due

where is it due?

 

Trac we know Carlton are a great side 😳.