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I find your constant haranguing of our only living premiership coach a bit ludicrous PF Simon Goodwin had a Development team in charge of the younger players ( David Neitz Academy) who’s role was to strengthen and fast track our youngsters through the process to AFL, on the whole they were very successful, unfortunately some players take a lot longer or just can’t make the next step. To constantly blame the Senior Coach for that failure is quite unusual, every year every team has to jettison 6-10 players that can’t make the grade, the coaching group have provide Mathew Jefferson extra time to find his way. And if you go back to finals in 2022 we ran out of Forwards leading into the finals and Harrison Petty was thrown forward to provide a target, he has been used in this fill in role due to our lack of tall competent forwards, that is no longer the case and Petty can return to defense which is his best spot. Also as mentioned by other posters it is time for us all to move forward with the New coaching team and Improved young playing group and look to 2026 and beyond, I believe there is a lot to look forward to.

Big thanks to Demonland, Ghostwriter, WayneWussell, Ditcha, PaulR, Startifastbart, Harvey Wallbanger, Fritta and Turner, all posters and special comments for another excellent training day thread yesterday. Sounded like a lot going on and appreciate the ongoing reports on our injured and rehab’rs.

Dry funny TC.

I really like the sound of the revamped GOF as our walk out song NC, could really get the crowd involved.

Another great reporting day down at Gosh’s yesterday unfortunately overshadowed by Jake Bowey’s serious injury news, but bolstered by a number of new contributors so big thanks to - Ghostwriter, Harvey Wallbanger, Demonland, old55, Melbournepotter, Beelzebub, Hellfire Dub, Melborn4vr, all posters and special comments and as mentioned on the thread every injury creates an opportunity for another player to step up, Petty replaced Tomlinson, Bowey replaced Hunt in our Premiership year. Who steps up for Bowsa?

That is a cruel injury indeed for Jake Bowey, the Lis Franc foot injury has ended a number of careers and seems to take a full year to overcome. Jack Trengrove was never the same after he sustained his. Good Luck Bowsa.🥲

At the end of ‘25 Oliver was ranked 2 and Tracc 4, McVee 18th. So without those 3 our top 10 would have been. 1 - Gawn, 2 - Salem. 3 - Bowey, 4 - May, 5 - Rivers, 6 - Kozzie, 7 - Culley, 8 - Viney, 9 - Langdon, 10 - TMac. For ‘26 I am going for Top 12 - Max, Rivers, Kozzie, Langford, Culley, Bowey, Salem, Langford, Chin, Turner, Fritsch, Steele 13-24 Mihocek, Lindsay, Lever, Windsor, Sparrow, Vines, Langdon, Tholstrup, Taylor, Pickett, TMac, Heath.

That was my thought also Go Ds, competitiveness that “will to win” ,”hate being beaten” is ingrained into every winning group each doing their bit to get the win regardless of the cost. Hopefully our coaching group can find the way to ignite the passion in each of their charges to find that level of desire to succeed. There are very few like Robbie Flower he was the graceful Gazelle amidst the Lions, he loved to take them on and win.

Agree NC the ability to sway the game our way, that last kick is so crucial, we need more Bisons on the park.

Well kallangurdemon, for a lot of us here on Demonland we only have to go back to 1997 when we finished stone motherless Last, 4 wins, 18 losses 66%. Come 1998 - Enter Neale Daniher, Jeff White, Travis Johnstone and quite a few other youngsters and their more mature teammates and guess what happened K. We won 14, lost 8 and finished 4th. Not that I am expecting such a turnaround But the Neeld days are over and long gone our level of leadership and talent is superior and our Want is greater. Try not to be so pessimistic or you will miss the Fun of the Chase, along with the rest of us.❤️💙

There are a lot of variables that have been raised and countered whether we rise or fall further, winning 7 and losing 6 by less than 10 points in ‘25. The loss of Tracc, Clarry and Fudd have been countered to a high degree CJ = Fudd, Steele/Culley/Langford = Clarry Rivers/Windsor/Vines/Kolt = Tracc? Mihocek and Heath immediately improve our list, XT, Trelly, Mathews, White and Onley provide upgrades to our list as well. Tracc is the 5th highest ranked player for score involvements in the league and difficult to replace, so we need to rely on game plan to help negate his loss. Also a lot of our youngsters were a bit in awe of our two former champs with good reason, however with them no longer here, I expect that a number of players will now be given the responsibility to step up and replace them. I personally expect Dees to be a better side in ‘26, barring serious injuries winning 9-12 games. We top up again at the end of ‘26 and hit the ground running in ‘27 and beyond.

Another huge thanks to Demonland, W_J, Ghostwriter, George_On_The_Outer, Kev all posters and special comments on another great Training Day thread, jeez hope we can minimise the collateral damage going forward, thanks for the nicknames GW. Also thanks Dees03512 for the tip on Training Day 1 - The Amazing Race on Utube I just watched it and great to see all the boys and coaches tearing around Bright.👍😁

Rankine plays for Crows Cranky.

Jeez a hundred pages for young Judd we really rated the kid, shame we didn’t get a much better return on our investment.

Hmmmn and in No. Order no less But where is Taylor? lol.! Demonland Note - list updated

Interested in our three young fwd’s, JvR, Jeffo and Luker. Thanks.

Huge thanks to Ghostwriter, Demon Jack, DeeSpencer, Demonland, waynewussell, Harvey Wallbanger all posters and I special comments, it has been a smorgasbord the last two days. Great reading.😁👍

Funny story but when I left the real world and joined the Telstra Dome security team, Ian Collins was running the Stadium Management Group and long story short they decided to cut the costs and outsourced security to a mob called ACG, by this time we became Etihad Stadium. Several years later ACG were under investigation for superannuation under payments, Ghosting, Tax fraud, and several other issues. We then were taken over by Spotless but they do everything above board including paying penalty rates etc and the Stadium then went into business with other cheaper options. aFL House was under our Security jurisdiction we monitored their site and responded to any alarms. We had Mr Nixon as a tenant at that time as well but they do everything less said the better.

Loved Our Holy Grail, brilliant six6Six.👍

Where did Six6Six Training gallery and Video Go.???

I think Tom will do well with the seagulls, he played pretty well at Casey but didn’t handle the AFL expectations well, he can focus on his footy at Williamstown and I hope he enjoys the change.

Thanks mairiesy AFL haven’t updated them yet hopefully by Xmas.😁👍