NON-MFC: Rd 21 2023

[demon3165 2,805]

8 minutes ago, BoBo said:

⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️⚓️

Or pick 4....

[Docs Demons 1,792]

Boy I wish we had a Gulden in our side. The kid is a freak. 

[binman 43,813]

45 minutes ago, BoBo said:

DESCENT? Not a thing anymore????

The umps won't fall for that

[BoBo 2,941]

2 minutes ago, demon3165 said:

Or pick 4....

Oh geez, good point.

Split the difference, I’m going for a draw!

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

35 minutes ago, Demonland said:

I’ll need a shower after cheering on the Cats

A bit more than a shower needed me thinks...

[Rod Grinter Riot Squad 5,654]

Currently 4 points seperate 5th from 12th, yes a couple of games to play in the round, but amazing fight for the 8 this year

[Sydney_Demon 1,175]

Great result with Port (& Collingwood) going down. We just need Fremantle to win tomorrow. Could we finish top? We need percentage tomorrow and then the gap to Collingwood will be purely 2 games.

[BoBo 2,941]

6 minutes ago, binman said:

The umps won't fall for that

[Sydney_Demon 1,175]

7 minutes ago, Sydney_Demon said:

Great result with Port (& Collingwood) going down. We just need Fremantle to win tomorrow. Could we finish top? We need percentage tomorrow and then the gap to Collingwood will be purely 2 games.

Sorry, I got a bit ahead of myself. We'd need to win by more than 10 goals tomorrow to top Collingwood's current percentage.

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

39 minutes ago, Chook said:

The Pies can have top spot if it means barracking for Geelong again. That was awful.

[Nascent 9,283]

24 minutes ago, Sydney_Demon said:

Great result with Port (& Collingwood) going down. We just need Fremantle to win tomorrow. Could we finish top? We need percentage tomorrow and then the gap to Collingwood will be purely 2 games.

I'd rather they finish top. They would need to lose at least 2 out of their 3 remaining games and they play both Brisbane and Geelong.

Top 2 guarantees home finals throughout the whole series and is not different to pole position apart from bragging rights.

Edit: as you pointed out on another thread, travel is still possible if the interstate teams win both qualifying finals.

Edited August 5, 2023 by Nascent

[Demon Dynasty 17,109]

37 minutes ago, Satan said:

Can i say go freo

Prefer Flagmantle

[YearOfTheDees 3,266]

43 minutes ago, Sydney_Demon said:

Great result with Port (& Collingwood) going down. We just need Fremantle to win tomorrow. Could we finish top? We need percentage tomorrow and then the gap to Collingwood will be purely 2 games.

If that was the happen it would be two weeks in a row that 1 2 and 3 were beaten.

[Fork 'em 6,991]

Carlton and Dawks with their tails up and then Swans.
The run in doesn't look so cruisy now.
We'll be battle hardened.

 

Edited August 5, 2023 by Fork 'em

[titan_uranus 25,045]

Don't sleep on Sydney for finals. They are under the radar getting closer and closer as each week goes by to their 2022 form. They'll beat GC next week and I wouldn't write them off beating Adelaide in Adelaide the week after. If they win both they'll be 12.5 and that should do it for finals. If they lose to Adelaide, they'll then need to beat us in the final round to make it - huge game.

[John Demonic 5,850]

3 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Don't sleep on Sydney for finals. They are under the radar getting closer and closer as each week goes by to their 2022 form. They'll beat GC next week and I wouldn't write them off beating Adelaide in Adelaide the week after. If they win both they'll be 12.5 and that should do it for finals. If they lose to Adelaide, they'll then need to beat us in the final round to make it - huge game.

Stop scaring everybody! 

[MT64 1,144]

9 hours ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Come on Cats.....

.......oh god i cant say it without throwing up

Fur ball ???

 

[monoccular 17,575]

8 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Prefer Flagmantle

Surely you mean Flogmantle. 

[Kent 2,914]

10 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

There is no doubt that Daicos playing poorly severely reduces the overall quality of the Pies midfield. But Daicos is not an inside mid nor a contested winning bull.
 

This is the main weakness of Collingwood. It’s why they went and got Mitchell. But he’s bog ordinary at using the footy and he’s slow as a wet rag. They keep subbing him off to try and get some more run in last quarters. 

De Goey is the only inside mid they have who can really hurt you on the outside. But he’s inconsistent and mentally soft. 
Their midfield is one dimensional. If you stop them winning the footy then by extension you limit Daicos as he needs the ball fed out to him. 
Butters on the other hand can win his own ball and destroy you with it. He is far more damaging and hard to stop than Daicos IMO. 
The key to beating Pies is to shut down De Goey and Adams. De Goey only had 17 today and Adams 13. Combined they had 7 clearances. Nash had 6 by himself. 

Agree on shutdowns

You also have to have someone halve contests with Sidebottom

[ElDiablo14 5,002]

7 hours ago, Fork 'em said:

Carlton and Dawks with their tails up and then Swans.
The run in doesn't look so cruisy now.
We'll be battle hardened.

 

Better that way, we wouldn't want easy kills before the pointy end of the season.

[Demon17 5,203]

9 hours ago, Sydney_Demon said:

Great result with Port (& Collingwood) going down. We just need Fremantle to win tomorrow. Could we finish top? We need percentage tomorrow and then the gap to Collingwood will be purely 2 games.

Should make up the 1% on Lions today if Freo's defence performs reasonably well and prevents a lions blow away score.

[dazzledavey36 55,360]

13 hours ago, BrisbaneDemon said:

Kicking 18 behinds we didn’t, it will be an absolute fairytale if they drop into a hole and lose games and go out in straight sets

So had we kicked straight then it would have been and easy 30 plus point win?

We smashed them around the contest and stopped their corridor run. We were able to put enormous amount of defensive pressure which saw them crumble under heat.

So what you want, but the credit should be going to Melbourne for showing the rest of the competition in how to stop the pies, not the blues.

[leave it to deever 17,517]

Happy for cats to win. Well as happy as one can be .

But 31 free kicks. Come on.

[Adam The God 30,420]

The commentary on the AFL website has the reason for Collingwood's demise yesterday being they didn't treat Hawthorn with respect. Nothing of sides being able to implement the same blueprint to beat them.

No wonder McRae was twitchy in his post presser. 😉

[layzie 34,013]

Missed all games yesterday might as well have been on Mars. Catching up on minis now, what a performance by the Hawks! Showed composure where other teams have melted like butter this year. 

Got laughed at for tipping West Coast understandably and got pretty close. Underestimate my tipping ability at your peril! 🤣

Edited August 5, 2023 by layzie