The Demons have consolidated their position in the Top 4 creating a 2 game and percentage buffer with 5th place by beating the Adelaide Crows by 4 points at the MCG.

So many dumb decisions made in the last. 

Thank God for the siren 

Thank god for Tomlinson, he should dominate for Casey next week.

Got to say, it was a pretty disappointing performance. Need to be a lot better than that. Will take the win and forget about it. Very strange game.

As they used to say in the school report card....

Could do Better

Gonna be no easy games the way we play 

Our backline is a serious concern at the moment. Two big scores kicked against us in the past two weeks.

Trying to look through the stress a bit, I actually thought that was a high standard game. Would have been really good to watch as a neutral.

Most heart warming moment for me was Woey Jr kicking it down ANB’s throat in the third.

Bittersweet.

Thank goodness for Viney.

Good to see Kozzie and Chandler back in the goals.

Bad to see Lever and May play like that.

 

Can’t wait for the podcast to dissect that game. 

Top 4 locked in for 3 years in a row. 

not a sentence i thought i’d ever say

Joel Smith starting out of the Goal square next week thanks. 
 

Too valuable to be wasted as a substitute. 

Good teams win close ones

Just now, Males said:

Can’t wait for the podcast to dissect that game. 

It’s still loading.

WOOF! Banana peel dodged.

I'll take being lucky again. And getting the cash for the line. Freo losing and not going to work tomorrow. Bloody lovely weekend. 

Really hard to explain how we gave up 28 scoring shots

And breathe!

Idiots will say we weren’t good. They’ll also say Pies are going to win the flag because twice they beat Adelaide by under a goal. 
 

Go Dees!

Joel Smith stood up when it's counted, great job son.

Nice little percentage booster 

Don’t love that we had to sweat that out, (and the 50s were sloppy) but the truth is the Crows were pretty good, we were inconsistent (sometimes good and definitely plucky), but they were desperate, with their season on the line and at the end of the game, we were on top. Good teams do that. We just need to make sure we play 4qtrs from here on in because there are no easy games. 

Go Dees!!

Well those last five minutes were like a walking heart attack but thank god we won in the end.

The biggest positive of today's game was our small forwards. Pickett looked very threatening and it was great to see Chandler get his confidence back.

We’re effectively 3 games clear inside the top 4 with 5 games to come. 

With Oliver and Fritsch (and maybe Grundy) to come back. 

Adelaide suck on the road, so it was disappointing to see us give up a 5-goal lead twice and then a 4-goal lead twice in the last quarter, but their best is good so it’s not wholly surprising. 

Big tests to come against Richmond, a resurgent Carlton, and a Sydney who could be playing for finals in Round 24.