Bang Bang Bang

Young players need time but also every draft has busts so he’s still a concern. He just looks a bit too slow for mine. Langford and Lindsay are slow too but they have tricks that consistently give them time and space to dispose effectively. Haven’t seen that yet from Kolt. He’s good overhead, a reasonable kick and great for morale but he’ll need more than that to get past 100 games.

Wow I can’t believe that, love it though. In fact half of Demonland has been saying this since the Sydney game.

I seem to remember Port Adelaide ended our season last year as well, albeit much later, and Goody continued to play our best side. No eye for the future at all. We still got belted by Collingwood in a dead rubber anyway. I wouldn't be holding my breath about Jeffo coming in to replace Melksham, Adams in for May or Lever, etc. It will still be our best side regardless of age every week. Nevertheless, I'm hopeful that Jefferson comes in maybe for Petty, Tholstrup and Laurie can come in for Sparrow and Rivers, and perhaps Turner can play as a permanent forward. I'd personally have TMac ahead of Lever, but that's never going to happen. Windsor should probably lose his spot too, but I put his second year blues somewhat down to poor coaching and development. It was a [censored] decision to move him in December, a [censored] decision in March and a [censored] one now. Just end it. It's not helping that Windsor suddenly seems allergic to finding the footy and continues to butcher it the 10 times he does find it. One of our most exciting prospects last year suddenly looks all at sea. Concerns???

You can’t just get rid of core players because they aren’t as good as they used to be. Who plays midfield in their place? Are Bailey Laurie and Trent Rivers going to get us out of the doldrums are they? Keep both.

Was ready to throw a brick at the TV when Viney gave away that 50. Absolutely [censored] brain dead, our third one for the day and they were all equally ill disciplined. Absolutely killed any chance we had of winning. As big a momentum killer as the missed shots earlier. Sparrow is normally pretty reliable but FFS Petty, FFS Clarry. And look he was probably our best player again and I don’t want to be Kings Birthday Steven May but there’s no bigger momentum killer than our captain lining up for goal at present. Why hasn’t he tried something different?? Walk, hop skip shank clearly isn’t working!!!

That was not bad umpiring it was just [censored] brain dead from Viney. 4 seconds left and he wants to be a smarty pants. 3rd [censored] time out of 3 they get a goal after the siren. This [censored] team. Don’t get me started on Sparrow, Petty and Oliver. [censored] sake Viney.

Delist Kosi.

Grandpa Boak still regularly tears us a new one. Glad he's resting up this week. Tholstrup is a bit stiff I'd say. He's been a bit underwhelming for a first round talent so far, but he kicked a good goal and was unlucky not to kick the matchwinner. Not sure treating him like a yo-yo is beneficial for his development, nor do I really understand what they're looking for with him. His form at VFL level to begin with wasn't the greatest....

Can someone a little older than me refresh my memory on this guy? I remember him being pretty ordinary for us and yet we shipped him off to Fremantle for pick 19 - which we used on 250 gamer and club president Brad Green! How is that possible? Were Freo just [censored] or did they see something? Would it be like shipping Bailey Laurie off for a firstie or was Longmuir better than that?

Can't see this one happening now. Even if Luke requests a trade I have a high degree of confidence that the moaning hypocrites over in the west will pull a Wade Derksen on us. Absolute guarantee.

People are acting like a 32 year old Kosi will have white hair and be walking out in a wheeled frame in 2034. My guess is he will still be an awesome player at 32. Given he was liking Fremantle's posts and texting Fremantle players a matter of a few months ago locking him away for 9 years is GREAT NEWS!

I generally like the way May plays like he's an enraged Demonlander in a gameday thread, but I think he went too far with that. Gawn is untouchable! Besides, those kinds of rubbish chaos kicks are the ones that can win you games sometimes. The idea was right. Settle the [censored] down May. Unfortunately that entire game was far too predictable. Yes, Daicos is a squib. Yes, the maggots mauled us. Yes, we wasted a chance to win. But Collingwood are damn good and they are simply so much better than us at taking their chances and closing out a game. Seen that movie way too many times.

The irony is we’re going to lose a [censored] load of cash on King’s Birthday now our season is close to cooked. An extra 15,000 would have gone if we’d won today and we would have if it was at the G. Sold our souls for yet another ****ty loss at that ****ty ground. Every other team builds a little fortress, Gold Coast in Darwin. Bulldogs in Ballarat, Hawthorn in Tassie, Port in China, even North are hard to beat in Hobart. But no not the Melbourne Demons. [censored] morons, 7.21 I can’t even.

Not capable of blanketing an opponent either. Has Dan [censored] Butler had a kick since 2020? Jeez

Pickett, Chandler, Gawn, Sharp… ya gotten [censored] kick them.

Am I missing something with May? Every week multiple people come on here and give him a bake. He’s not the AFL’s premier defender anymore but he’s still easily one of the first picked.

[censored] me what a game. Our best win since, well since last week, and incredibly satisfying. I can’t remember us bullying a team like that since the famous month of ‘21. I still had to pop in to the gameday thread at HT because it was shaping up as a classic Melbourne Demons loss and at times in the second half it threatened to go that way, but I’m so glad we flipped the script. That Clarry goal was pretty regulation and the game was iced by then, but how good was that? That’s what footy is all about. I watch a lot of teams and there are definitely some awesome players going around such as Jeremy Cameron, the Bont, Toby Greene etc. But I think 2025 Kosi Pickett isn’t too far behind these guys. Just unstoppable, he could have kicked 10 today. I said after watching him once against North in match sim that Langford would play every game this year (technically I was wrong) but who honestly expected Lindsay to be this good? Essendon’s pick is now at 8 and sliding and they don’t have Lindsay. Suck eggs! I reckon there’s a fair chance we can make the 8 now. Clean bill of health, confidence up, soft draw. That would be an amazing result. Even better if we can win one. [censored] yeah the Dees.

Why am I depressed about a 22 point lead. This [censored] team man.

Wow, I'd argue that 32 year old Tom McDonald currently offers more to this team than 29 year old Jake Lever, the latter of whom has been very patchy since 2021. Very stiff. I understand we're top heavy down there but did not expect this. And look, Sharp tries hard and could be an AFL player with a different skill set, but how many chances does he get? Spargo deadset lucky too. LOST AT SELECTION! (getting in early)

OK I may have posted a little too quickly and full of emotion after the game with some of my comments on page 1. Nevertheless, I regret nothing. That was our best win since we knocked off Port early last year and probably the most surprising one since we knocked off the Crows in 2017 (Goody's first season). I was expecting it to either be a harsh reality check or a game similar to last week and it was shaping up as the latter all afternoon... until all of a sudden it wasn't! Incredible scenes. Even when Trac missed at the end, I was expecting heartbreak. At least a Brissie goal to make us nervous. Enter Harvey Langford, the hero against Freo at one end and the hero against Brisbane at the other! In terms of the season it surely has huge repercussions. 3-7 is basically lights out, but 4-6 makes things interesting. Beating Brisbane at home surely gives the players belief they can beat anyone and I'm sure Goody is driving this notion. We have two winnable games and then could knock off Collingwood, if that happens the lid will well and truly be off. Unfortunately this performance will be cancelled out pretty quickly if Sydney win next week. Either way, I'm pretty pumped that the season is still alive as a fan. Individuals? Well it's all coming together all of a sudden. We're getting our best team on the park. Our old guys are still performing at a really high level (even May looked pretty good yesterday). Trac and Clarry are starting to find form, the younger brigade of Bowey, Rivers and Kosi are starting to hit their prime years and its showing, and role players like AJ and Disco did their part on the day. McVee is starting to find touch after injury and Fritsch played like a man possessed as sub. I absolutely love Xavier Lindsay, was expecting him to be a bit on the vanilla side when we drafted him but he's the complete package, and it wasn't Langford's best game yesterday but he still bobbed up when he was needed. Negatives? The Sharp experiment is surely over. I like his effort but he's a real momentum killer. He is basically Billings-lite. Spargo shouldn't be playing. Windsor was playing some good footy but his kicking is becoming horrendous. He can be so much better than another Jayden Hunt. As a team we're still missing too many chances. Petty, Petracca, Spargo, Pickett and of course Sharp missed easy ones just off the top of my head. That's what made Melksham's game so important. He nailed absolutely everything. I thought Goody was cooked after zero 5 but I reckon he's well on the way to salvaging his coaching career. [censored] yeah the Dees!

AJ > Messi

Jake Melksham is my father.

It’s honestly ridiculous. Windsor scrubbed a simple kick and apparently it was Clarry’s fault for ‘stopping’? Just an easy target for the media at the moment. Haven’t heard it since Jack Watts was out there.

Can’t complain too much with the effort so far. But this is the gameday thread so I need to let all the negativity out. The quicker we can replace Sharp and Spargo with proper AFL players the better. We are wasting Windsor down back who by the way has suddenly become a huge ball butcher. Get him playing in the right spot would be a start. May has been OK but what the hell was that effort on Gardiner? I honestly like AJ. I’m sure his stats suck but he gives us something. Just quietly Clarry is …. back?

Fritsch as the sub could work. For starters he shouldn't really be in the side IMO. He's also the kind of guy that come be injected into a game late and snag an important goal or two. It's more likely to be a behind and an out on the full in his current form. But still, worth a thought.