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22 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

I think they might, but it's worth noting GWS kicked a big score with Cadman (5 touches, 1 goal), Gruzewski (9 touches, 2 goals) and Callum Brown (7 touches, 2 goals) and those goal totals outweigh their actual impact on the game.. 

We kicked 11 goals 24 playing a similar style in a lot of the Freo game.

It's a trend across the league now to get your deep fowards as deep as possible to draw defenders and for the scoring to come from the half forwards. In which case we don't need to keep trying key forwards, we need our half forwards to be more dangerous and finish better.

I think we just need to get a greater spread of goalkickers than we did last year.

Every team is different. You can't tell me Carlton will roll Curnow and McKay back to the square and their half forwards will become their leading goalkickers.

35-40 from JVR, 40-45 from Fritta, 35-40 from Kozzy, and then our mids and other forwards kicking 10-20 goals each and we're looking dangerous. 

All perfectly possible if we get our ball movement humming and our contest working.

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    I think therefore I am, I think, Time to throw Jeffo to the wolves play him for 6 games and see, just see, what splendours might lay within!!

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    22 hours ago, picket fence said:

    I think therefore I am, I think, Time to throw Jeffo to the wolves play him for 6 games and see, just see, what splendours might lay within!!

    I agree pf but 4 is enough at this stage. 

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    I struggle with that forward line kicking a winning score against GWS. Looks very similar to what didn’t work for most of last year. If Fritz doesn’t play a reasonable game he should be in the Casey team for week two. He was gifted games for weeks on end last season.

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    20 hours ago, old dee said:

    I struggle with that forward line kicking a winning score against GWS. Looks very similar to what didn’t work for most of last year. If Fritz doesn’t play a reasonable game he should be in the Casey team for week two. He was gifted games for weeks on end last season.

    And replace him with ?

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    33 minutes ago, zoe1617 said:

    And replace him with ?

     

    33 minutes ago, zoe1617 said:

    And replace him with ?

    That’s the problem.

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    On 13/03/2025 at 20:56, old dee said:

    I struggle with that forward line kicking a winning score against GWS. Looks very similar to what didn’t work for most of last year. If Fritz doesn’t play a reasonable game he should be in the Casey team for week two. He was gifted games for weeks on end last season.

    Looks like last year? Johnson, Henderson and Langford don’t even play for us last year

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    20 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

    Looks like last year? Johnson, Henderson and Langford don’t even play for us last year

    Now the team is in, yep a lot of newbies. Looks way better.

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    So we're  all good to go ?

    Fixed the forward line dilemma  ?? 

    Have this odd sense of deja Vu 🤔 

     

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    On 12/03/2025 at 22:20, picket fence said:

    I think therefore I am, I think, Time to throw Jeffo to the wolves play him for 6 games and see, just see, what splendours might lay within!!

    I know you are Jeffos biggest fan and I agree that he needs the opportunity. Selected him in my side.

    My concern is that the few times I have seen him he seems to play a similar style to FRitsch and I perhaps think that is a going to be his role, to give Fritta a chop out. Perhaps Disco is also in the opportunistic forward style.

    Im not sure Jeffo can replace JVR who is a more crash through style. Perhaps AJ is the like for like cover for him.

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    17 hours ago, zoe1617 said:

    And replace him with ?

    see my previous  Ill wait for Picket Fence appraisal but Jeffo looks like the ideal replacement.

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    33 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    So we're  all good to go ?

    Fixed the forward line dilemma  ?? 

    Have this odd sense of deja Vu 🤔 

     

    Haha same old Beelz. Don’t ever change.

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    On 15/03/2025 at 10:21, beelzebub said:

    So we're  all good to go ?

    Fixed the forward line dilemma  ?? 

    Have this odd sense of deja Vu 🤔 

     

    Asked and answered  ...... 

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    11.8 in the wet against perhaps the leagues best backline. With Fritsch held goalless  by the best back pocket in the league and Picket out.

    AJ a useful work horse. Jeffo plenty of promise. Henderson decent depth. 
     

    For the talent available that’s about the best we can do. 

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    Just now, DeeSpencer said:

    11.8 in the wet against perhaps the leagues best backline. With Fritsch held goalless  by the best back pocket in the league and Picket out.

    AJ a useful work horse. Jeffo plenty of promise. Henderson decent depth. 
     

    For the talent available that’s about the best we can do. 

    If that’s our attitude, we’re not going to be anywhere close to top 8 when the whips are cracking.

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    7 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

    If that’s our attitude, we’re not going to be anywhere close to top 8 when the whips are cracking.

    Exactly.  Thankyou...   some rhyme of reason .

    Are we a basket case ? Far from it

    But unless we find form and cohesion in the forward arc we will be irrelevant. 

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    10 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

    If that’s our attitude, we’re not going to be anywhere close to top 8 when the whips are cracking.

    Out of interest, what did @DeeSpencer say which you think is so egregious?

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    6 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

    If that’s our attitude, we’re not going to be anywhere close to top 8 when the whips are cracking.

    Pickett will help, Disco has plenty to offer. But if we do anything in September it will be with a good backline and good inside and outside midfield with a forward line that does the job. 

    Backline took a big step forward today I think. Midfield had dominant patches on the inside and tried more than last year but Langdon on the wing and Riv to half back after Howes subbed suggest we aren’t going to get different results. 

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    3 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    Out of interest, what did @DeeSpencer say which you think is so egregious?

    The last line.

    if our players’ share a similar attitude, then the match is over before it even begins.

    We looked to save the game again in the last, when we should’ve gone on the attack. We have completely lost all our dare. I’d rather lose trying to win the game, than by trying to not lose.

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    20 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

    The last line.

    if our players’ share a similar attitude, then the match is over before it even begins.

    We looked to save the game again in the last, when we should’ve gone on the attack. We have completely lost all our dare. I’d rather lose trying to win the game, than by trying to not lose.

    I got the distinct impression we didn't quite know which way to go in the last. 

    Look there was effort. ...  it was wet.

    Giants just seemed to have a better idea about how to win. 

    We can improve.   

    Elements.. 

    Backline... we patched it up....went ok.

    Mids... not too bad.  

    Feds...  bit lacklustre...

    Weather affected both sides so essentially irrelevant. 

    Umpiring...  whoa mumma..   leave it there.

    It did I must say look like we didn't home in on the pockets.... just didn't quite understand what the alternatives were.

    We can improve.... hopefully 

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    The alarm bells on JUH are ringing louder and louder.  Any suggestion we might look at picking him up seem highly unlikely to me.

    His coach said today that he may not play a senior game this season as he continues to work through personal issues and is training away from the club. 

    He must complete a long training block – and regain the confidence of key figures within the club – before he is deemed fit to play.

    Beveridge said there was no guarantee the athletic forward would be fully back in the fold in the short term. He said Ugle-Hagan would not be selected until senior people at the club believed he had earned his place back in the team, and “I don’t know when that will be”.

    https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/ugle-hagan-may-not-play-at-all-this-season-beveridge-20250318-p5lkco.html

     

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    5 hours ago, layzie said:

    We need more inward and outward movement from our forwards.

    I think we need more key fwds. 

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    3 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    I think we need more key fwds. 

    But NOT JUH, BAD BAD VIBES!

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    I was pleasantly surprised with how well Matthew Jefferson played in his first game for the Demons kicking 2 goals.

    He is still looking very skinny though!

    Jeffo needs to spend any spare moment he has in the gym building those muscles! 💪🏻

     

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