DistrACTION Jackson

The thing I love about him is there is no BS with Gawny and he looks to genuinely care about his teammates. I believe the culture and team first nature at the club is the best it has been since I started barracking back in the late nineties. I think it's just taking time for this to translate onto the field, though hopefully it is starting to now.

I think injury lists are going to play a huge part the rest of this season. Teams with larger lists are going to really struggle to rotate their players to keep them fresh, which may result in additional injuries due to fatigue. Port and Adelaide have similar lists to us, however both North and Collingwood are really struggling on the injury front. We really need to take advantage of this period. Anything less than 3 wins in the next 5 games will be a fail in my mind. Looking through the injury lists of sides we will be playing during this condensed fixture period and they are as follows: Port Adelaide Adelaide North Melbourne Collingwood

The other point to note is I believe we currently have Hawks 2nd round pick. This pick could very possibly start in the 22-25 range.

So glad I claimed that name....

Sicily won't play on Brown or Jackson. He's only 186cm so would get monstered. He typically plays on the 3rd or 4th tall and they use him as a distributor. I'd like to see Melksham go to him in a negating role. I'd say Frawley will get Weideman and Frost will get Brown/Jackson for the majority of the game.

We've really been f'ed around the most so far. Games cancelled, moved to NSW and then to Qld. Hopefully we can still win enough games to make finals and then who knows what will happen given the only teams that will play home finals will likely be Qld, SA and WA based teams.

Hawks will come out hot early on given the criticism. We will need to weather the storm and if we play to our strengths should get up by 4-5 goals.

If he doesn't get up I think we should play Brown. Like for like. Unless they want to give Jackson another taste, which I'm not opposed to.

I've heard that argument and my response is we already have an uneven season, so the concern that weather affects a few games is really a mute point.

I'm all for that as well. I guess the idea is by adding an incentive to score, coaches will focus on the attacking side more than defending.

I think both him and OMac are starting to build the bodies required to compete consistently at AFL level. Let's not forget they are 24 & 23 years old and this is usually when KPPs start to become more dominant.

Let's be honest, Campbell Brown is about as switched on as a Trump supporter. His choices are baffling.

Brayshaw is doing his job. I saw him get a few key takeaways from centre bounces and he plays a bit more on the wing than others. We don't need everyone racking up huge possessions, though it seems some Demonlanders would like 22 players with 30 touches each....

Don't get hung up on possessions, the only thing they are good for is fantasy football. I like to review a player's supercoach score, as this is often a good indicator of their impact on the game. Hannan scored 93 & Pickett 72 from 8 touches each. To put this in context, Melksham had 14 touches and a goal and only scores 66. What this tells me is that they are both having a much greater impact on the game, even though they have less touches.

I brought this up in another thread. Beggars belief really.

If we don't pick both of them this week then I will spew up..... I'd also prefer ANB to Hunt at this point. Incredibly, is probably a better disposer of the ball.

100% agree. WTF is this club doing with it's forward coaching? I am so disappointed in the club as a whole, not just Goodwin. Mahoney and the board need to take more responsibility for this mess.

After thinking about this since the weekend I really feel the FD should do the following: 1. Bring in Weid as full forward/second ruck for Vandenberg who has been pretty much unsighted in 2 games. Please Goody it's now or never for him. I prefer Weid as I think he is more suited to a pack crashing role than Brown who is more a 2nd/3rd tall. 2. Drop Hunt for Bennell. No brainer 3. Rivers out for Jetta. I love what the future may hold for Rivers but he is stuggling a bit at the moment and we need Jetta's experience back. 4. Drop Smith for Omac. Oscar to stand Ben King and May to stand Sam Day. Allows Lever to be the third tall interceptor. B: Jetta O McDonald Hibberd HB: Lever May Salem ? Langdon Viney Tomlinson HF: Hannan T McDonald Bennell F: Pickett Weideman Melksham R: Gawn Harmes Petracca Int: Brayshaw Lockhart Fritsch Oliver Viney - please play within your capabilities and look for smart options. Oliver - please stop hand-balling to players in a worse position. Petracca - please keep doing what you're doing.

I don't think a full rebuild is required, just a few tweaks.

Yeah I agree. Hindsight is always a wonderful thing, but at the end of 2018 we thought we had the best attack, however our defence leaked like a sieve. That campaign wasn't helped by Lever hurting his knee right when he started to hit some form. I understand why the club went and got May after 2018, but unfortunately it has been a fail so far. I think we must make a call on one of Viney, Brayshaw or Oliver. I think we need to inject some more leg speed and skillful ball use into the mix, think a Jared Polec or Brad Hill. I would prefer we keep Brayshaw and Oliver, however I think it's unlikely we get rid of Viney unless he decides to leave.

Surely one of the most important aspects is to get our forwards running patterns that open up the forward line and make it easier to score. Yes our midfield is currently deplorable with their skill level, but also how often do we have 3 guys or standing together blocking up the area and making it almost impossible to score?

So from my understanding we have the following assistant coaches: - Ben Matthews (midfield) - how much skills based training is he doing because it isn't working? - Chaplin (defense) - Can't knock the defence at the moment, however I feel Smith should be back up for Lever and we need to play a second key tall to allow Lever to focus on intercept marking, you know that thing we recruited him for?? - Stafford (Ruck and goalkicking) - tbh our goalkicking is improving, however we do not get enough value out of Gawn's hitouts at the moment. So I don't believe we have a forward coach, is this correct? If that is the case then why is anyone suprised we can hardly score?

100% agree with this. Other Demons mates have been bagging Goody for weeks and I've been trying to back him. He is running out of time though, as we just keep doing the same thing over and over and over. Part of me actually hopes Viney goes with free agency, we need to change up our midfield and I think Harmes is a better player and should be in there full time. Oliver & Salem need to pull their fingers out. Look like a couple of blokes who love their own work. Brayshaw also being wasted as he is the only mid outside of Trac and Harmes who looks half decent.

I'd bring in Jetta and Weideman for Rivers & Vandenberg. Melksham is lucky because he at least hit the scoreboard and we really don't have many other options. During the off season I said I wanted Dan Butler and I think we missed a golden opportunity to inject additional leg speed. I really feel our coaches and recruiting team overrate our existing players. Oh and Bennell is a must have, likely for Hunt.

Wow... but that doesn't support the theories that we paid overs for Lever and he sucks....