Bang Bang Bang

He’d be looking at 10 straight blazers if he didn’t tear his hammy off the bone in ‘17 and if we didn’t try the horrendous Gawndy experiment in ‘23 (he still nearly made it that year too). Wouldn’t surprise me if he gets to 10 for real. King!

Trac turns 30 next year. History and science would say his best days are behind him but he should still have 2-3 properly good years left in him, and 4-5 years left total. Twomey puts his worth at a pick 10-15. Let’s say that’s accurate. It will get pushed out 5 picks or so by the time free agent compo and bids come in. So let’s just be broad and say we would get a pick around 12-20. Let’s take a look at some of our picks in that range in the Jason Taylor era. Jake Bowey, Bailey Laurie, JVR, Matt Jefferson, Koltyn Tholstrup How many of those guys would be worth trading Trac for? I count 1. An ageing, uninvested, inaccurate Christian Petracca is still better option than 80% of those guys listed. Worth noting too that it’s a weak draft. Players of Linday’s caliber aren’t there at 11 every year. Keep Trac. Draft picks are overrated. Glorified lottery tickets!

How can the club be desperate for him to go when we don’t even have a coach? Like, surely Bucks will have an opinion either way, and that opinion would hold some weight. Maybe Ken Hinkley thinks Clarry can get back to his best, maybe Danny Daly thinks his issues outweigh any pros. Maybe, ok you get the picture.

1 touch and It was dead set the worst handball you’ll ever see too. The guy sucks. Sorry but he does. One of the great mysteries how he keeps getting games.

That entire game was more predictable than a Jason Statham movie. Would have loved to [censored] with Collingwood’s season but we all knew that was never going to happen. Whatever. But Bucks has his work cut out - a lot of our players have absolutely no composure when it matters. Langford is one player though who has it in spades. I could name a ton of things I liked, but keeping the ball in at the end in the back half and gaining significant territory was so … I dunno, cool? And not what I’m used to seeing from someone wearing red and blue cloth. Then there was that 50m goal off a step. Geez he’s good, hope he doesn’t [censored] the bed Windsor style next year because he could be our best player very soon. KEEP CLARRY AT ALL COSTS. The last month or so he’s clearly getting back to, not his A grade best, but something not too far off. Please don’t ship him off to Geelong for a second rounder. Trac I’m not quite as invested in but if he wants to buy in to the club, then I’m happy for him to stay too. Congratulations to Max Gawn on 8 blazers. Congratulations to Kosi on (likely) making the squad. Worst season since 2019 but we’ll be back! Go Dees.

I would envisage all those players bar McVee being there next year. May would be a chance to retire, but he’s already signed for ‘26. Maybe TMac?

Sharp retains his spot, just wow.

Stop bringing Sharp back please.

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.