It’s really promising.

But as a I said for a few weeks - we will get absolutely torn in half by the best teams.

And that’s ok if you live on a plane of reality as a Dees fan.

15 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

They lost Curnow when we kept Clarry and Trac,

??? All three players left during the 2025 trade period.

4 minutes ago, rpfc said:

It’s really promising.

But as a I said for a few weeks - we will get absolutely torn in half by the best teams.

And that’s ok if you live on a plane of reality as a Dees fan.

Turner, Bowey and a fit Rivers along with Lever, Turner and Petty is where I see us landing once everyone is fit. You’ve then got XTaylor and Lindsay as well as Kolt to add defensive/mid running, along with what appears as a very fit midfield group. I think we can attack and defend within the parameters of what we’re currently seeing. Tomorrow we will learn more as GC have serious talent across the board.

One other thing I reckon is this side has a bit of the John Northey’s about them. There’s a bit of us against them vibe and they’ll fight it out to the end and that’s a fantastic trait to in-still into a team. Hats off to King thus far.

30 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

??? All three players left during the 2025 trade period.

We let Clarry and Trac go a year later in the timeline. We could have gotten rid of them at the end of 2024.

As I said, they've been 12-18 months behind us, but with Curnow they went early in comparison to us, but we've still got a head start on them as we've sacked our coach and now completely cleared the decks. They've still got Cripps and Walsh toddling around.

As a long suffering Demons fan, I’ve always felt we’ve been a better team moving the ball faster!

Many times as a Demon supporter over the years I’ve called out run, so I’m feeling encouraged by seeing us running and moving the ball quickly this year!

Steven Kings playing style is enjoyable and as the players get used to it just might take us close to finals which I wasn’t expecting this year!

1 hour ago, rpfc said:

It’s really promising.

But as a I said for a few weeks - we will get absolutely torn in half by the best teams.

And that’s ok if you live on a plane of reality as a Dees fan.

Interestingly after the first quarter against Freo it was 10 goals to 9 goals.

We made the appropriate adjustments. We're not that far off the good teams

Shout out to Big Rick too

1 hour ago, rpfc said:

It’s really promising.

But as a I said for a few weeks - we will get absolutely torn in half by the best teams.

And that’s ok if you live on a plane of reality as a Dees fan.

I'm not sure about that.

I was really impressed by our defensive system against the Blues.

And even more impressed with our pressure, intensity and contest- suggests to me that we're not just an outside team.

Amd I'm not the only one.

I heard Simpson say on SEN that before the blues game he had us pegged as an outside team that would score heavily against bottom teams but get beaten up by the top teams because we couldn't match their contest work.

He said that he was super impressed with our contest, pressure and ability to match the blues at the contest and stoppages. Said we clearly more than the one trick pony he thought we were.

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1 hour ago, Adam The God said:

We let Clarry and Trac go a year later in the timeline. We could have gotten rid of them at the end of 2024.

As I said, they've been 12-18 months behind us, but with Curnow they went early in comparison to us, but we've still got a head start on them as we've sacked our coach and now completely cleared the decks. They've still got Cripps and Walsh toddling around.

Cripps and Walsh are our claz and tracc.

Great ball winners, contested beasts, rack up huge disposal numbers and metres gained by foot - but slow and average kicks. Very blunt instruments not particularly suited to thevway the game is being played atm.

Every team still needs some blunt Instruments- I just wonder whether, unlike say 5 years ago, clubs want their highest paid players being blunt instruments.

35 minutes ago, binman said:

I'm not sure about that.

I was really impressed by our defensive system against the Blues.

And even more impressed with our pressure, intensity and contest- suggests to me that we're not just an outside team.

Amd I'm not the only one.

I heard Simpson say on SEN that before the blues game he had us pegged as an outside team that would score heavily against bottom teams but get beaten up by the top teams because we couldn't match their contest work.

He said that he was super impressed with our contest, pressure and ability to match the blues at the contest and stoppages. Said we clearly more than the one trick pony he thought we were.

I agree we definitely outpressured and outhunted the Blues from about halfway through the 2nd quarter, I still think our midfield has a bit of the Hawthorns about it: an intense group of hard running players who don’t rely on a couple of big names to get it done….Koz maybe being the exception if he keeps playing in the midfield like last week!

1 hour ago, binman said:

I'm not sure about that.

I was really impressed by our defensive system against the Blues.

And even more impressed with our pressure, intensity and contest- suggests to me that we're not just an outside team.

Amd I'm not the only one.

I heard Simpson say on SEN that before the blues game he had us pegged as an outside team that would score heavily against bottom teams but get beaten up by the top teams because we couldn't match their contest work.

He said that he was super impressed with our contest, pressure and ability to match the blues at the contest and stoppages. Said we clearly more than the one trick pony he thought we were.

Yes I heard that, damned with faint praise. Essentially, he was amazed Gawn and Steele were able to adapt to making the stoppage bigger and have our half forwards roll up and exploit our ‘speed of gameplan’ advantage. I think that can be neutralised and brutalised by the best teams as we make errors.

I can see it being great to watch and give us a chance to kick goals against anyone but it is essentially a desire to open the game up - almost by definition we are going to have more A1-D1 contests (1-1 contests) to win and execute well from. I just think that we are not there yet and we can expect the best teams to have more than enough opportunities to get a hold of us.

2 hours ago, Roost it far said:

Turner, Bowey and a fit Rivers along with Lever, Turner and Petty is where I see us landing once everyone is fit. You’ve then got XTaylor and Lindsay as well as Kolt to add defensive/mid running, along with what appears as a very fit midfield group. I think we can attack and defend within the parameters of what we’re currently seeing. Tomorrow we will learn more as GC have serious talent across the board.

One other thing I reckon is this side has a bit of the John Northey’s about them. There’s a bit of us against them vibe and they’ll fight it out to the end and that’s a fantastic trait to in-still into a team. Hats off to King thus far.

Yes hats off. It’s been great to watch. And we may be the baby bombers.

But more accurately I think we are trying to find the balance of a gameplan that we are completely committed to from the jump. And that advantage will ease as we give more teams an opportunity to see what we are doing.

And I am not so much worried about ‘the defence’ - it is the over committing of the mids, a turnover and an easy hit up to defenders with zero pressure on the ball.

It’s expected, I am comfortable with it, but I can genuinely see Dees supporters getting there eyes bigger than their stomachs here.