Captain Max Gawn leads the now injured Steven May in the Demonland Player of the Year. Christian Petracca, Jack Viney & Trent Rivers round out the Top 5. Your votes please. 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Langdon

JVR

Rivers

McVee

Tmac

Fritsch

Gawn

Rivers 

Langdon

Bowey 

Sparrow 

Fritch 

6 Langdon - busted his gut all night.

5 Gawn - solid all-round performance.

4 Rivers - our only classy midfielder.

3 Fritsch - accurate goalkicking but still lazy.

2 McDonald - mix of good and bad.

1 McVee - seldom rattled under constant pressure.

 

6 - Max Gawn

5 - Trent Rivers

4 - Ed Langdon

3 - Tom Sparrow 

2 - Judd McVee

1 - Jake Bowie

Dogs had most of the guns tonight, played like a well oiled machine, extracted some revenge.

6 - Max Gawn

5 - Trent Rivers

4 - Ed Langdon

3 - Tom Sparrow 

2 - Judd McVee

1 - Alex Neal-Bullen

6. Gawn

5. Langdon

4. Rivers

3. McVee

2. Sparrow

1. McDonald

Just back and watched Gawny go pretty much one out against the Doggies and only lose by 51.

6. Captain Max. Outstanding game, massive hit out to advantage numbers, 9 marks, 12 contested, a goal and did it everywhere.  Schooled last years AA ruck.

5. Langdon put in something resembling an acceptable effort and never stopped running.

4. Rivers had pretty good numbers but was largely irrelevant as the dogs mids did as they pleased. Still, at least he tried.

3. Sparrow appeared a bit interested until the last quarter but was still substantially better than most.

2. McVee was unobtrusive but didn't make many mistakes.

1. Fritsch kicked a couple, took a nice mark.

As for pretty much everyone else, hope you enjoyed watching the game.

The Dogs are a genuinely good team.  Well done to them on the way they have recovered their season.

59 minutes ago, DeeZone said:

6 - Max Gawn

5 - Trent Rivers

4 - Ed Langdon

3 - Tom Sparrow 

2 - Judd McVee

1 - Jake Bowie

Dogs had most of the guns tonight, played like a well oiled machine, extracted some revenge.

They did but I would sooner have the flag.

6. Gawn 

5. Langdon 

4. Rivers 

3. McVee 

2. Sparrow 

… the rest. Meh   Lots just doing bits and pieces.  

6. Gawn

5. Langdon

4. T-Mac

3. Sparrow

2. Rivers

1. Bowey

 

6. Max Gawn 

5. Jake Bowey 

4. Trent Rivers 

3. Tom Sparrow 

2. Ed Langdon 

1. Jacob van Rooyen

6. Gawn

5. Rivers

4. Fritsch 

3. Sparrow

2. Langdon 

1. Van Rooyen

6. Rivers

5. Langdon

4. Gawn

3. Sparrow

2. McVee

1. Fritta

Sadly, none of our boys were in the top half dozen on the ground, but they deserve some recognition on here.
My take on the better Dees:
6.   Rivers  -  did nothing to harm the plaudits he’s earning as a future high quality mid in the competition.  Needed more support.
5.   Gawn  -  on one leg, but attitude and leadership under duress were testament to what we’ve come to expect from Max.
4.   Langdon  -  busted a gut, and ran up and down the wing providing options all night.  We needed more like him. 
3.   McVee   -  again showed plenty of composure and touches of class under pressure.
2.   JVR  -  showed enough to confirm why he’s widely regarded as a future star KPF and back-up ruck.
1.   Sparrow. -  solid return to the ‘big time’.  Dulled the influence the Bont in the second half.

Edited August 3, 20241 yr by Deeoldfart
Typos

6 Gawn - I was a bit worried that his calf injury would render him insipid and when he didn't even jump for the first ball-up my fears seemed reality. But to Maxy's credit he lifted and got on top of English in the centre bounces and he also moved fairly swiftly around the ground and took a beauty and goaled in the second term. Definitely in the best six on ground and definitely still in mix for AA.

5 Bowey - Like many here, I've been really disappointed with Bowzer after a super pre-season. This was the first game that he actually provided run and his confident play up middle in third was our best passage for night. Gees I hope we try him in the middle one day.

4 Rivers - He's still not delivering with his disposal but he really looks the part as a tall midfielder. 

3 Langdon - the running man has had a great few weeks since being allowed to go back to his favoured wing.

2 Van Rooyen - I think it was the second term when May realised JVR was way out on the opposite wing by himself against a smaller opponent and it was just so good to see our man just be so strong in the contest. He's really come a long way this season and is one reason why we don't have to keep looking for the full-forward any more.

1 Sparrow - After being dropped last week he came back and really applied himself with more confidence. Was sent to Bont in the second and worked hard on him but the Bont is the Bont.

On 03/08/2024 at 08:23, Elwood 3184 said:

 

 

6. Max Gawn 

5. Jake Bowey 

4. Trent Rivers 

3. Tom Sparrow 

2. Ed Langdon 

1. Jacob van Rooyen

Roo you must be joking

0 Kossi

10 Maxy for a great game by himself

8 May for half game better than some for whole game

7 Langdon a machine all night

1 for the rest just because they at least turned up

2 hours ago, forever demons said:

0 Kossi

10 Maxy for a great game by himself

8 May for half game better than some for whole game

7 Langdon a machine all night

1 for the rest just because they at least turned up

Harsh on Rivers and McVee.  Definitely showed up and had good games.  Agree and rated others as 2/10 and 3/10.  Lots of passengers 

		PLAYER	VOTES
1		Max Gawn	183
2		Steven May	104
3		Trent Rivers	102
4		Christian Petracca	97
5		Jack Viney	94
6		Alex Neal-Bullen	85
7		Ed Langdon	69
8		Clayton Oliver	65
9		Kysaiah Pickett	60
10		Jacob van Rooyen	56
11		Judd McVee	49
12		Christian Salem	44
13		Jake Lever	43
14		Tom McDonald	35
15		Bayley Fritsch	31
=16		Tom Sparrow	25
=16		Caleb Windsor	25
18		Kade Chandler	19
19		Harry Petty	14
20		Jack Billings	12
=21		Blake Howes	11
=21		Daniel Turner	11
23		Jake Bowey	10
24		Adam Tomlinson	9
=25		Jake Melksham	2
=25		Andy Moniz-Wakefield	2

I believe that means Max can't be passed now. Unless we somehow have a deep September run. Congratulations to him.  Another wonderful season from the legend!