The Maggots were so bad they actually got sick of ways to give Adelaide free kicks in the last.

If i was an umpire's advocate attending that game i would be very embarrassed.

Seems to be the same nos in the twenties every time.... totally inconsistent and sneeky and very disorganized.

Great win. Love having to work the next day and all that jazz.

Enjoy it peeps, sweet dreams.

The Tex mark over Clarry, where May was being held out of the contest? Doesn't the player at least have to pretend he's going to mark the ball?

5 hours ago, greenwaves said:

Two from two.  Not "2 from 2".  Poor English.

4 1 2 complain about that is poor 4m, I think.

3 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Max held around the waste / pulled away from the ruck comtest by the guernsey on at least 3 to 4 occasions and nada zilch ignored!

Was it Howes pushed square in the back in the square for Dawson's goal in the last?

That was an amazing win given the bias of the yellow fellows tonight.

I reckon Max had an arm wrapped around him at 80 percent of ruck contests tonight. He was held consistently at rucks. Yet, there were two holding free kicks paid to forwards (one to us and one to them) for lesser holds.

It does my head in how he's allowed to be scragged week in week out.

It was Rivers that was shoved in the back for that mark. They didn't even have the guts to show a replay of the mark and goal to Adelaide.

It was a big night for Melbourne with a win in the NRL for Melbourne Storm in a thriller by two points over the Brisbane Broncos 34 - 32.

And a big pointer for next Thursday night’s game in the AFL between Melbourne and Brisbane. 

Next week we get the advantage of the fixture in our favour.

5 hours ago, mpc said:

I've started watching on mute this year also, and I find it a lot less stressful. The ideal TV option would be just crowd noise with no commentary.

Yes please, commentary is just to keep eyeballs tuned in, zero analysis. Bring back Our Daisy. Selwood is a sleeping tablet. The rest apologists for the AFL. All the [censored] about players ‘ learning’ , prep for the tsunami of damages claims…

Fritta would have to be the best and most balanced player in the comp. So glad he plays for us.

For mine it’s not how we’re playing, the game plan or any of that, it’s the resolve. The sense that the group realises in their bones what a waste last year was. That the only redemption available to them is a flag

Gee it's stressful listening to it on the radio coming home from work & catching the last 15 minutes & all you hear is adelaide kicking goals, Melbourne missing & van rooyen dropping marks.

Watched the match highlights before. It's been a great week & walking away from adelaide with 8 points.

33 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Fritta would have to be the best and most balanced player in the comp. So glad he plays for us.

Didn't touch the ball in the 1st half and his efforts were lame but when he's on he's on 

9 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Didn't touch the ball in the 1st half and his efforts were lame but when he's on he's on 

Looks totally disinterested in defending at times but it is fundamentally how he plays. Take the good with the bad. 

8 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Didn't touch the ball in the 1st half and his efforts were lame but when he's on he's on 

That happens with forwards sometimes, especially when we lose the inside 50 count so comprehensively in the first half. 
What is amazing is how big of an impact that man has on a match off so few possessions. He can have a 3 minute burst in a game and kill the opposition. Like Kosi, give him an inch and he will take a mile and 3 goals. 

7 hours ago, Binmans PA said:

I'm just loving how we are defending the ground and setting up to defend space. It's going to become very difficult to play against.

It's very noticeable that we block outlets by hand and then sag our zone back to our half back (when defending from our own half forwardline), which creates space in behind for us and enables us to turn the ball over, usually in the corridor.

This means we're starting attacks from in the corridor in the centre square, and then moving the ball either to our forwards running back into space towards our goal, or to leading forwards with much more space in front and around them to work in.

You can see the result of this tonight. We were devastating on turnover, and most chains seemed to start through the middle of the ground. 

Being happy to lose the territory battle can mean we are defending from quite deep inside our own D50, but it eases our forward connection, because we're not kicking to a crowded A50.

I'm loving the coaching and the discipline from the players to execute this.

I think it's a bit of an evolution of how we tried to play Collingwood on KB last year. We sat deeper and allowed Collingwood to run into our zone, and then closed in around them. 

Well done, Goody and team.

Interestingly though, in his presser Goody said we need to improve and the only star he cited as example of why is inside 50s - he said we have lost that count a few times this year and we aren’t going to keep winning if we keep losing on the inside 50 count. 

5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

That happens with forwards sometimes, especially when we lose the inside 50 count so comprehensively in the first half. 
What is amazing is how big of an impact that man has on a match off so few possessions. He can have a 3 minute burst in a game and kill the opposition. Like Kosi, give him an inch and he will take a mile and 3 goals. 

It’s interesting though, whilst they play different roles and have different runs on the board, compare the Demonland responses to Fritsch and Billings. 

Fritsch kicks his three and his first half is forgiven/ignored.

Billings misses his three and he’s been absolutely slammed on here.

 

Great start to the year. our performances speak for themselves culture wise. exactly what we needed to change the narrative

thankfully won't be reading anymore guff about our supposedly suspect culture for a while at least.

9 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

Demons 4, Adelaide Umpires 0.

Holding the ball didn’t seem to apply for the Crows, lots of 360’s then a handball or just let ball drop for no frees!!

Still happy, if we had those umpires against Port we would have lost!

 

11 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

It’s interesting though, whilst they play different roles and have different runs on the board, compare the Demonland responses to Fritsch and Billings. 

Fritsch kicks his three and his first half is forgiven/ignored.

Billings misses his three and he’s been absolutely slammed on here.

Billings plays a different role. I’m less annoyed about the goal kicking, Petty had a stinker too, and more annoyed about the number of missed tackles to be honest. 
 

Sparrow played a really good game. 98% midfield,  huge pressure stats and a brilliant desperate smother resulting in the Tracc goal

Key grunt worker

3 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Billings plays a different role. I’m less annoyed about the goal kicking, Petty had a stinker too, and more annoyed about the number of missed tackles to be honest. 
 

Missed tackles were infuriating.  

5 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Missed tackles were infuriating.  

Billings wasn't alone in that but he was a repeat offender.

8 hours ago, Brownie said:

I think you're thinking of Divine.

If you check at the 1min 44 sec mark, that's Tex gazing into her eyes.

 

Much appreciated but I was thinking of the advertisement that they’ve been playing constantly during breaks in the footy where a woman boasts about having been part of an iconic girl band but nobody recognizes her. It’s very off putting and makes me very happy that next week, I can actually enjoy the game in person and not have to watch it on television because, thanks to the AFL, my team has played three of the first five games of the season in another state, including twice within five days. There should be a law against this.

I never blame the umps but last night was the worst i have seen

8 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Next time we have a 5 day break, Goodwin needs to consider more players to rotate.  Chandler looked 50% but soldiered on. Billings could have been subbed out.  I think AMW or Tholstrup could have got the debut game tonight.  

I think fresh legs and from a first gamer would have added a bit more run at the end when we looked pretty tired.