The Demons return to town fresh off a thumping win over the back-to-back wooden spooners, the West Coast Eagles, played in front of a sparse crowd at Marvel Stadium, the same venue that hosted last week's heartbreaking loss.

Not match winning but Oliver’s best game in many a day.   Ran hard.  Took time to find targets so had good disposal.  Seemed invested.  Delighted for him. More of that in the next few weeks would be nice ❤️💙

JC is back after all these years.

That's a relief !

Max another AA surely

Culley, great debut

Viney a bulldozer

Langford a star of the future.

But ..... [censored] me ..... umpiring and rules !!! I just don't have a clue.

Hard to know how much to take out of this game.

A win is a win so that’s nice. Goal kicking much improved and a solid debut from Culley. Kids are looking pretty good and Oliver looked like he had some of his intent back, I'd really love to see him finish strong this season and carry that into next year.

Did what we needed to do. Great game by some of the kids. JC, Windsor and Langford were great to watch.

WINNING STREAK

Lots to like against a poor opposition. Like Windsor in the middle.

It’s never bad to win by 10+

Meh.

I so much want to rave on after such a great win, with lots of players doing so well. Relief combined with satisfaction. But WCE - a shadow of an AFL standard team.

Langford has the gold touch, cant get enough of his highlights.

Good to see some of the kids shine. Windsor in the last, Culley, Langford ( seriously.. how good is this guy)

Culley with 7 marks & 2 goals was impressive. Why did we have to wait so long before seeing him in the seniors?

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Percentage has somehow climbed up to 95%.

Aided by today and the 6,000 sub 10 point losses we’ve had this year.

It beats losing.

Windsor is a rolls royce, one of the highest ceiling guys on the list

Could only ask for a 4 quarter effort and got it. Thought at half time, given the still raw humiliation from last week and the potential for more this week that nothing would really make me happy in this game, but in the end I am.

Langford is confirmed as an absolute gun. Can’t wait to see him spend more time in the guts in the coming years.

Nice to see Fritta finally getting back to his best.

Hard to know how we couldn’t find a spot for Culley all season. Very impressive aerial game.

Our last games are all against teams with finals aspirations, two of which are far from locked in. My hope for the rest of the season is that we impact the makeup of the finals. Causing Hawthorn to miss would be the best of the best.

Liked the games by McVee, Langford and Chin. Great to see Fritter's form continue

Max must be AA. Has to be.

After the week we've had, I found a lot of pride in seeing someone who was cut from another club but obviously a big Dees fan as a kid go out there and play for the jumper.

He seems like one of us, it would be an understatement to say we needed an act like that today.

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If Langford’s timing was a bit better today he would have kicked a lazy 5 goals. A lot to look forward to in future.

Focusing on the young players, because you expect our senior players to feast on the carcass of this pitiful opponent.

Culley a great debut. Took the opportunity with both hands literally. Love his height and size.

Langford a gun.

Windsor a midfielder. What a shock 🙄

Howes had a fantastic game on a quality opponent.

Chin and Bowey continued their good season.

Kosi is Kosi. A marvel. Pay him more.

Disco safe hands down back and reads the play so so well.

Overall it was nice to see those guys continue to play well and show glimpses of the future.

A real shame we didn’t play Jefferson today, but credit to Petty he was very good.

4 minutes ago, Devil In Disguise said:

Culley with 7 marks & 2 goals was impressive. Why did we have to wait so long before seeing him in the seniors?

A very good question DiD.

Well done Culley. Played a good game on debut for his boyhood club. Great to see Windsor in the middle as well.

Fritta continuing good form. Nice to see Petty clunk a few marks, and would like to see Trac spend more time at HF too.

@Demonland the pod is back 👏👏👏

Lots to talk about

Jack Viney - tough warrior 8 tackles 13 clearances

Caleb Windsor - his run and carry and hitting targets

Clarry13 was good and saw glimpses of his run away from contest

Frittata31 - goal sense and classy goalkicking

Gawn - All Australian 2025 . Calling it now !!

Salem - smart and brave in defence (although still looked slow at times)

Langford - back into rising star contention- has star power quality

JAI CULLEY - looks a player

Accurate goalkicking

💙❤️💙❤️💙❤️

💙💔Forget about the …

Missed tackles Lazy disposal and turnovers Stupid50s Up and under kicks into forward 50

3 minutes ago, adonski said:

Windsor is a rolls royce, one of the highest ceiling guys on the list

Absolutely. I’m still angry that we subbed him off last week.

I didn’t mind trying him at half back, as I can see the logic, but we tried it for too long. He’s clearly a midfielder and his ability to hit the contest at speed is very much something we need.

Was also great to see a different midfield mix at every bounce. Not the usual Viney Trac and Clarry. Viney and Clarry had great games, but we are better off when they are feeding the ball to Kosi or Windsor than we are when they are feeding the ball to each other.