—coach—

Nothing like kids to cheer you up. Said as I’m putting the kids to sleep... My 3yo girl: Why are you grumpy Daddy? Me: Because the Demons lost. Her: Oh that’s ok, the Demons can win next time. ❤️❤️❤️

And we kick it over his head every single time instead of kicking in front of him to lead into

v Geelong 13.16 to 14.13 v Port 9.11 to 11.9 v Geelong 14.14 to 16.4 v Syd 10.18 to 13.9 Why don’t we simply spend more time on learning to kick straight and less time on frantic handball practice? We could be on 16 wins right now.

And we kicked 1.6. Had we gone 6.1 you would think it was pretty even

I hope your crystal ball is accurate!

No they are not, we’re just kicking behinds. Stats also suggest we’re ahead

Vanders has missed every shot so far ?

Demons up by 100 atm, Hogan has 8

Hehe, I found a box of LEGO that I kept from the 80s and unleashed that on the pests... I mean children the other day. Then I jumped on eBay and bought up a few vintage sets that I always wanted as a kid and never had! Did I take it too far good doctor Dee?!

Given we follow the Demons is that a good or bad thing? ??

Just got up with the small people, playing Lego to pass the time (is it weird that I enjoy the Lego more than them?), can’t stop thinking about the game, going slightly ???

Our win loss ratio was the same with and without Gawn last year. We’ll be fine

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! Oh the humanity ???

Despite beating both Adelaide and north when they were in the top 8

Just to bring things back to the original topic for a moment. Heard something which may be of interest here. I can’t reveal the source but you will just have to trust me that it’s solid (if not I don’t really care), it seems that the coach and a number of leadership players from WC have been hounding/niggling Gaff about not making a decision at training and during games for about the last 4 weeks, and Gaff is said to be very uncomfortable about this. So much so that his parents have been traveling to the games to provide support for him as he is said the be really struggling with it. No mention of whether this is making him want to leave or not, so make of it what you will. If I was in the same boat I would be more inclined to leave under those circumstances.

Ahhhhh now I know why I’m so busy! ?

Love a conspiracy theory and I’m neither agreeing or disagreeing with you, but in the majoriy of the close games we’ve lost, we had the chance to win it but threw that opportunity away through silly mistakes/lack of composure, inaccurate goal kicking or poor kicking into our forward 50. Totally agree that farcical umpiring decisions have hurt us, but only because we allowed ourselves to be in a position to lose in the first place. For me, correcting the above will be the next step in our journey, as this year only Rich, Coll and Hawthorn were clearly better than us on the day. All the other games we had our chances and blew them. Richmond were very similar the years leading up to their premiership. The future is bright.

Yes we have, both north and Adelaide were top 8 when we beat them earlier in the season. We haven’t beaten a CURRENT top 8 side though.

Huh I’m here and I think it looks pretty healthy for a Melb v GC game about 25-26k?

Well that’s a pretty darn good start ???

?????? Classic! That is by far and away the best post I’ve ever seen on here ?

??? why would Jones agree to go to a club with no prospect of success in his career when he’s been at Melb through the worst of the worst and we’re just starting to get some success??? You know he has a contract beyond this year?

Interestingly the most scores (goals+behinds) we’ve kicked this year is 41 against GC. The record above is 42 scores, not as big a stretch as one might think ?

Probably will be more like 14G 28B - 112 with the way we’re kicking for goal atm ?

It’s funny how reactionary the media are. early every season we see high scoring free flowing games, then by about round 5 every coach ever has tightened things up defensively with the result games become tough lower scoring contests, then towards the end of the season, everything opens up again and you get ripping contests like the ones this weekend