Reckon that GF performance might have convinced King to retain Petracca

Geelong absolutely monstered at the contest in the last qtr and a half

6 minutes ago, demoncat said:

Reckon that GF performance might have convinced King to retain Petracca

Geelong absolutely monstered at the contest in the last qtr and a half

Why?

Just now, GawnOfTheDead said:

Why?

Contest is still king in big finals.

Those big body beasts just get more and more valuable.

Pies found out, so did the cats, so did the hawks when danger turned the clock back.

1 minute ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Why?

Just now, Ted Lasso said:

Contest is still king in big finals.

Those big body beasts just get more and more valuable.

Pies found out, so did the cats, so did the hawks when danger turned the clock back.

This ^

Just now, Ted Lasso said:

Contest is still king in big finals.

Those big body beasts just get more and more valuable.

Pies found out, so did the cats, so did the hawks when danger turned the clock back.

Oh, I get that. Fully.

Why Trac?

His ball use is still horrid.

Is that not something we would find in picks or Flanders if Trac left?

Surely we wouldn’t lose a whole lot with a dude who has such poor ball use, but yeh he’s also a midfield beast.. I get your point too.

Edit: Not to mention, he’s also played forward a lot, or was under Goody. That would have to be altered.

Edited September 27, 2025Sep 27 by GawnOfTheDead

5 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Oh, I get that. Fully.

Why Trac?

His ball use is still horrid.

Is that not something we would find in picks or Flanders if Trac left?

Surely we wouldn’t lose a whole lot with a dude who has such poor ball use, but yeh he’s also a midfield beast.. I get your point too.

Edit: Not to mention, he’s also played forward a lot, or was under Goody. That would have to be altered.

I think in an ideal world you have the bulls who win it and feed it out to the better outside players. we've just built around too many bulls and so Trac has had to play a role that doesn't completely suit him.

His best talent has always been winning the ball and using his power to burst out of stoppage.

1 minute ago, Ted Lasso said:

I think in an ideal world you have the bulls who win it and feed it out to the better outside players. we've just built around too many bulls and so Trac has had to play a role that doesn't completely suit him.

His best talent has always been winning the ball and using his power to burst out of stoppage.

Yeh that’s true.

Clarry is a ball winner, gets it out, and Viney too.

We need to have other players who actually are the ball users. Langford is one for sure.

Not sure who else really.

2 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Yeh that’s true.

Clarry is a ball winner, gets it out, and Viney too.

We need to have other players who actually are the ball users. Langford is one for sure.

Not sure who else really.

Windsor, Kozzie, Rivers. we want the ball winners to flick it out so they can use their speed and break lines for us.

Lindsay and Langford are beautiful ball users

1 minute ago, Ted Lasso said:

Windsor, Kozzie, Rivers. we want the ball winners to flick it out so they can use their speed and break lines for us.

Lindsay and Langford are beautiful ball users

Hopefully Lindsay gets super fit this year, he was gassed, understandably after coming in off an injury. Langford looked like he had been playing for years.

Two bloody brilliant picks, got to give the club that.

You wonder how they do that after putting a broken bodied McAdam on a three year contract. Blows my mind.

2 minutes ago, GawnOfTheDead said:

Hopefully Lindsay gets super fit this year, he was gassed, understandably after coming in off an injury. Langford looked like he had been playing for years.

Two bloody brilliant picks, got to give the club that.

You wonder how they do that after putting a broken bodied McAdam on a three year contract. Blows my mind.

Tell you what though, pre-injury before the season started McAdam looked set for a massive year, it's just a bit of bad luck for him i reckon

The 'inside bulls who feed it to the users' conception is a trap.

The lesson of Terry Wallace's Tigers struck me deep - his 'types' became pigeon holes and the moment any cog in the machine wasn't in its exact place, the whole thing [censored] up.

Neither Petracca nor Oliver nor Viney are excellent users outside of the clearance chaos, but we've seen the power that can come even from a 'clumsy' but direct and dominant set of clearances.

Also worth noting that our big run to glory rode a wave where Petracca and Oliver both had significantly good form on their disposal efficiency - whether because the team systems worked or because they just had their eye in for that time, I won't say.

But, putting it all together - Petracca is a powerful inside midfield extractor who also drives the ball forward effectively, whether or not it looks pretty every time. That is tactically invaluable for any team, and any coach.

On 24/09/2025 at 20:26, At the break of Gawn said:

I hope Steven King has already asked Selwyn to get a high performance program going like this.

That stat is just plain crazy.

Must be more than endurance type fitness. How about psychology?

Don’t work too well today though.

On 25/09/2025 at 11:27, Bowserpower said:

Agree you need luck with any trade

We have had some good ones as well.

Names please Other than Melksham May Lever Langdon?? 🤗

2 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Please confirm you’re being sarcastic.

Mods - we seriously need a tongue in cheek emoji.

As well as the thinking one and the facepalm that we had a few years back. Thanks.

Ok Steven, you've had your fun. Now get to work.

A new day has dawned.

Arise from the ashes that was the 2025 GF Cats like a phoenix reborn, for a demon you are now my King.

Edited September 27, 2025Sep 27 by Demon Disciple

Welcome King 👑

Just mimic the Clarkson/fagen game plan… no need reinvent the wheel. This is a proven formula to success.

42 minutes ago, Oxdee said:

Just mimic the Clarkson/fagen game plan… no need reinvent the wheel. This is a proven formula to success.

Yes, but do imitators surpass who they imitate? Brisbane will always be more practised than those now imitating. Even if still effective next year what's to say next year's premier upgrades the strategy with a couple of tweaks that gets them ahead of the curve? While pre-seasons, bench rotations and the phasing out of drop kicks may be permanent for many more decades other things will change - even if spectators barely realise the tweaks.

9 hours ago, Adam The God said:

Now Kingy is officially Melbourne.

Looking forward to the next 2-3 weeks.

It could be that come siren King hugged and consoled everyone, sat in on the aftermatch meeting with the players and then a bit later walked out of the changing rooms and off into the sunset. The silly thing is if he conferred with Scott (and the other coaches) today (or next week ) what went wrong in the GF that both parties counterintuitively would have learnt a lot and gone into next just that little bit better. I guess this won't happen though.

29 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

Yes, but do imitators surpass who they imitate? Brisbane will always be more practised than those now imitating. Even if still effective next year what's to say next year's premier upgrades the strategy with a couple of tweaks that gets them ahead of the curve? While pre-seasons, bench rotations and the phasing out of drop kicks may be permanent for many more decades other things will change - even if spectators barely realise the tweaks.

Brisbane has been using the same Clarkson game plan for the past 7 years. Not too many tweaks

4 minutes ago, Oxdee said:

Brisbane has been using the same Clarkson game plan for the past 7 years. Not too many tweaks

Yes, but surely AFL will evolve again and just copying the Lions/Clarkson won't be enough. Surely in 20 years time the game have changed at some stage. While tactics wouldn't be the only thing considered I can't help but think that regularly/ yearly each club will see how their teams can play better and get an advantage on their rivals. I'll be very disappointed if King just follows Goody's or Fagan's game plan next year without even a little experimentation.

Well … it’s almost time for Steven King to get down to work.

6 minutes ago, Spirit of the Demon said:

Well … it’s almost time for Steven King to get down to work.

Huh? Is this about our small forwards or our love of snow (and skiing)?

49 minutes ago, Spirit of the Demon said:

Well … it’s almost time for Steven King to get down to work.

Except the lyrics to this song are "... it's home from work we go".

Mr King, your time starts now, good luck

14 hours ago, Demonstone said:

Except the lyrics to this song are "... it's home from work we go".

I think these days it should be "it's work from home we know"