Bang Bang Bang

His entire footy story doesn’t make any sense to me. Looks really really good. What’s the catch?

Looks like he was trying to hit it to Viney. Terrible idea to be honest.

One of the best games of the season, a lot to like, but we can’t be happy either. Would love an analysis on our close games from 2024-2025, I feel like we never win them. Never. I really enjoyed Fritsch, Melksham, Langford and others kicking snags and reviving the crowd up, was really fun to this game without too much pressure on the result.

Defence has held up well. Adams doesn’t look amazing but has done a couple of nice things. Naughton and Darcy have three goals but none from actually impacting in the air. TMac should play next year. I was actually thinking when Rivers hit up JVR on the lead that I haven’t seen that from us in so long, but it’s been more of the same since then. Not a huge fan of Melksham giving the young guy a spray, but can definitely empathize with him. Should be way further behind TBH and that non deliberate on Busslinger is low key one of the worst decisions I’ve seen. You were right there!

Blind Freddy can see that it’s going to be Bucks now. I know the bloke is arrogant but there’s not a chance he’s sourcing out assistant coaches without clear knowledge of where he stands in the queue. Some people on here are going to hate him right off the bat but I think this is the right choice, especially with Horse out. An untried assistant would be great if we nailed it but is just too risky (it was 14 years ago but I haven’t forgot the Mark Neeld hype), and Adam Simpson is just too uninspiring, in fact keeping Goody would have been preferable to that!

These ex-coaches who all have big egos. Remember Ross Lyon turned down the Blues because he had to go through a process! I feel like Horse and Simpson’s comments show they might be interested in the job, but they don’t want to embarrass themselves if they miss out. So they are deliberately sitting on the fence. What surprises me is how eager Buckley was and it leads me to think he may have been headhunted for the position. Why else would he be so interested on the public record? Not that anyone cares but my personal preferences would be 1. Longmire, 2. Buckley 3. Untried assistant Honestly if we got Horse and became a good H&A side who often choked in Grand Finals but still won one, then that would be fine by me and better than 100% of my life as a Demons fan previously (including the Goodwin era). Not as sold on Bucks but his reckon is pretty good and the aura he’d bring would be enormous.

Logic: The St Kilda game was always going to be hard to come back from. The timing is a little strange, but if anything it came 7 days too late. Doing it this early gives us the jump on Carlton who are in a nearly identical position to us. Emotions: Still really sad news. Goody is a Demons legend for life. Absolutely no question. Breaking the drought on 25/9/21 with THE best football ever seen by any team ever. Doesn’t get much more satisfying than that. The 2017-2020 era was fun at times too. Shame it hasn’t worked out and the right decision was made, forever grateful to him.

We must have kicked more against the Giants in 2013 when Michael Evans went bananas.

First half was pox but the team did what they had to do in the second half. Can’t whinge about 83 points. If Langford can become more of an aerial threat (not seeing it yet) then he could become a Top 5 player in the comp. He’s going to be a gun either way, in fact he already is. Was also not expecting Culley to look that good! And of course who would have thought playing Windsor in the guts would bring out the best in him. Clarry’s best game of the year too. We can’t be expected to win a game from year so it will be interesting if Goody has done enough to save his job. I still say no, but wouldn’t surprise me if it goes the other way.

Pretty much going to script so far. A 4 goal win over this team will do absolutely nothing to benefit the club going forward. Salem and Gawn have been great. That’s about it. Kosi doesn’t seem interested, Trac looks petrified of contact, and Fritsch is playing like a millionaire. Sparrow needs to go to Specsavers. I want a 10 goal win or a loss. This [censored] serves no purpose.

If there was a ladder for “Dumb [censored] 50m penalties that have led to goals” we’d surely be streets ahead of any other team this year.

You can see how starved of success that mob has been with stuff like this. Don’t get me wrong, it was an epic comeback and I’d be going bonkers too for a while, maybe right through to Tuesday, but they’re carrying on now as much as we did in 2021! At the end of the day it was just an H&A game guys and a dead rubber at that.

Bringing back Sharp ought to do the trick! Why didn’t Goody think of that earlier…

I’m honestly wondering what has happened to Clarry in a football sense? He’s obviously had some issues which we all know about, but all signs pointed towards him being over them and on his way to a redemption season in 2025. And yet… he’s still just a bad plodding along like C-grader out there. This was a guy who was close to the best player in the competition for many years and as recently as mid 2023. He only just turned 28, that should be the prime age for an inside mid,is it crazy to hope he could still get back to the Clarry of old? The last thing I bloody want is for Geelong to get him on a discount and have us subside his salary because I know EXACTLY how that movie plays out.

Generally I don’t even read this thread because I’ve been a Goodwin fan, and moreover I thought he was a certainty to coach in 2026. However, Surely it’s hard to survive that. Biggest comeback in history. This was not against Geelong down the highway or Brisbane at the Gabba. No, it was against a team that had lost five straight and twelve out of the last fourteen. A team we somehow let score two goals in the final 8 seconds. Simply inexcusable. Of course, this game alone doesn’t seal his fate but couple it with the failures since 2021 (and let’s be honest, most years prior to 2021 as well) I think the time has come. Yes, thank you for 2021 and forever a Demons legend for that alone. But I think he needs to resign tomorrow.

The most shameful display from this club since 186. So sad.

I hope he stays because it will be hard to get full value for him. He’s always been kinda understated and has had a poor year, so a first rounder is way out of the question. I’ve always been a believer that a proven quantity like McVee is much more valuable than a crappy second rounder that will be pushed out ten more spots on the night. That’s the best we could get too.

Not sure what to make of Jeffo’s game. He could actually be really good if he wasn’t so bad if that makes sense. I’d give him a few more weeks

Worst umpiring I’ve seen in years. No advantage to Moir (Q3), no HTB to Clarry and tiggy touchwood to Curnow. That’s the game. Could name a ton of others. But those three were a [censored] disgrace. Sheer incompetence.

Thanks Dazz. Saves me a listen. Goody never gives much away but he’s always pretty easy to read and reliable regarding Player contracts and whether they’re staying or going. The Jackson comparison is spot on. In 2022 Goody went from being “extremely confident” to “hopeful” to “making the most of the time he has left with us” all in the space of a few months. That quote on McVee is very concerning. I reckon he’s gone for sure after reading that. Sounds like Fritta and Clarry will be there though.

6 Fritsch 5 Salem 4 Petracca 3 Melksham 2 Gawn 1 Langford

Dead rubber in July but still enjoyed that. Spent the first hour bemoaning the fact I didn’t bet on North and another afternoon wasted. Second half was very good though. Demonland’s whipping boys Salem and Fritsch were terrific I thought, Goody’s mate Melksham wasn’t bad either. Langford does not get enough hype. He’s a stud. Jefferson on last chance saloon looked great! North always I repeat always cause nuisance value against us. Zurhaar does it every bloody time and Cooper Harvey kicking 4 was so typical. Good to beat them!

Can we talk about Kolt!

Langford should have been pick 1.

Great quarter from Demonland’s man Salem.