Demonland

The Demons return to the Gabba 7 months after defeating Brisbane in the final round of the 2022 Season by 58 points. The Dees will be looking to consolidate on their strong start to the season whilst the Lions need to atone for their terrible start to the 2023 Season. Follow all the action LIVE at the Gabba in the Game Day thread.

Father Time.

Out of Bounce on the Full

Here is the evidence. Surely this is a [censored] take and will be fixed in a patch.

Who are you tipping this week?

As a team you're not going to have possession of the ball 100% of the time. Pressure is absolutely critical. It's a big reason I have a replica Premiership cup sitting on my desk.

Here is the Fox Footy Pressure gauge measurements

Whilst Pressure Acts might make up a stat they are also subjective as to whether the stat actually had a positive or zero effect. Just because you are chasing someone doesn't necessarily mean you are applying pressure. There might even be a case to make that that player was second to the footy and has just been chasing tail all day. I'm not suggesting that this is always the case. The points system above helps in weighting the pressure as higher the closer the player gets to the target. Whilst pressure is very important and absolutely has to be applied when you don't have the footy but I would prefer to be the ones with footy in hand.

Thank you. I'm pretty sure we have discussed this in the past and even had stats and charts but my memory is a sieve these days unless it relates to random Dees players that played for 5 minutes in the late 80s and early to mid 90s.

They were trying to get Clarry on for awhile but as you said the ball was on the other side of the ground for a long time. The rule limiting the times that the runner can come onto the ground costs you in those situations. The couple of runners who couldn't keep themselves out of the action really spoiled it for everyone.

I’ve watched it no less than 37 times since I posted it.

Depends if they were off to conserve them. Not just for this match but through a long season. No point sprinting in the first Km of the marathon.

A news report of a barefoot TMac getting scan on his troublesome foot surely requires panic and attention given the wheels of our season last year fell off when he was out. The good news is that in the vision from today’s training he looks to be running very well. From about 0:58 seconds.

He must have heard Viney was coming back.

I saw a post on the Brisbane Big Footy board that said they heard on Brisbane sports radio that he is definitely playing. It has to be true in a Friends, Uncles, Brothers, Priest's dog kind of way.

^^^^^^ Just as aside to the above clip. How the hell was the kick from Kozzy to Spargo not 15m and called play on when all night the Bulldogs were chipping the ball 5 to 7 meters and it was paid a mark.