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Welcome to Demonland: Steven King

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Reckon that GF performance might have convinced King to retain Petracca

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

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    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?

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    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.

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    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 ^

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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

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    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.

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    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.

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