John Demonic

Good on him for retiring and making the league slightly fairer. Hopefully it offsets their drafting of another potential 2nd year norm smith winner. 🤦‍♂️

Ive not but I popped it on my drive home and that was pretty rockin', like old kyuss. My favourite track was Shine, I love an epic song with a long slow build up and an explosive 2nd half. Bands I mentioned are all kind of slow sludge doom mostly instrumental found on the https://www.reddit.com/r/doommetal/ sub. Although Mike Pikes High on Fire is very classic. Bongripper's album Empty was my favorite this year. its brutal!! Maybe when the lads train/play up in a suburban ground, you can pop on orange goblin on full blast from a classic old v8 holden to get them in the physical ruthless mood

Well we've got 10 or so rounds to focus on our game plan and build those valuable selfless habits, should naturally flow into the QB game without giving it much thought into special efforts. Hopefully Neal and Bec Daniher come into the rooms again and get the boys fired up though, as you said, a little bit extra for this one game. Btw Doc, are you into stoner/doom metal with that avatar of yours? Electric Wizard isn't it? I've been listening to doom metal a lot in the past few years and getting into some bands like bongripper, bell witch, ufomammut, ahab, high on fire and sleep of course lol Maybe we can run out to:

Shouldn't we be doing that every game? You team mate is physical and ruthless and you pat him on the back after every stoppage for that effort. The ship has sailed. The players from both clubs are all mates, hell our potential captain in waiting last year wanted to join them, even after their captain put him in hospital. I can understand our fans frustrations and anger and lust for blood, but I just don't see it in the players having a particular hunger for that with Collingwood, it will be a distraction if we make it one. I'm reiterating it, let's have the same physicality and ruthlessness against every club. Particularly in the FIRST QTR/HALF of every round, so we can demoralize our opponents and have them playing catchup/junktime for the rest. The rest will work itself out against any club, not just the Pies. The Lions are the real enemies this year. The plan to beat them is the one we should be putting a smidgen more tactical emphasis on in training, if anything.

How we play against Collingwood is only important in relation to the 8 points that make up how we finish on the ladder. Spend any more time than the 2 weeks of opposition analysis on them, then we will simply be beaten by other clubs instead. They're one of 16 other clubs we have to worry about. They didn't win the flag, they're not the team to beat.

It was Mentha be

Those two words: 'Dan Houston' should be [Censored] on this board

The Nathan Buckley farewell game was embarassing in 2021 but so what?? , iIt doesn't have to be the Dees that inflicts the fatal wounds on them to end their season. We won the flag and lost to them in the same season. No shame in that. Would the Lions have won the flag if they ended up playing the red hot Hawks in the finals at the G last year with everything going right for them? Every bounce of the ball? The Lions have been the Hawks Tassie bunny's for a decade now. (Embarassing right?) One matchup could be all it takes to ruin your flag hopes. And avoiding that matchup can help you go all the way! Best not to think about the Pies too much. Let others sort them out. And if it comes to a final again. We'll be better prepared stylistically this year hopefully. The way our fans make them the be all and end all is just as embarassing. It's an 18 club league. And to put it into perspective: we don't even rate in their top 5 rivalries by fan survey. From memory it was Carl, Ess, Geel, Richmond and Port So QB are bigger blockbusters mainly to us Dees fans, but as the cliche goes, it's only worth 4 points at the end of the day. PS. Wish they'd stop giving us a double up in r23 though!!! Haha

Hit his back on the arm of the sofa after taking a speccy on Kozi? Pinged his hammy evading a tackle while running down the hallway to kick a snag in between the bedroom door? I haven't seen him play outdoors so i can only assume it's indoor footy

The point I'm responding to was to gain the picks to offer West Coast for Harley Reid. They've already turned us down for our offer last year, now we're going to only have a future pick and what we get for Tracc if he wanted out, and wanted out to a big Vic club that won't have that much either. I'm not denying Tracc is worth plenty and will offer a lot. But I don't see a big haul for him that we can offer to WCE and satisfy them! Will Hawthorn give up a top 10 pick or two picks in the teens? Would Essendon give a top 10 pick? Depends how they go next year. It's Debatable. I can't see a very high pick AND a 2nd though ie no big haul Carlton and Coll don't have 1sts. Finishing that low next year and having a top 5 or 10 only accelerates the anxiety about getting in young kids for the future. Slim pickings

If we can win another flag, while clubs like the Dogs, Lions, Suns & Pies have raided the last 5 years highest ranked draftees... Then it will be a monumental effort and would probably supercede the drought breaking flag (Even leaving aside the venue topic) Everything has been and is against us. Probably a pretty uncontroversial opinion Go Dees!!

We'll beat the Saints on grand final day at an empty mcg after bird flu has wiped out most of the animal kingdom

The completed 2025 AFL death riding chart Crazy to see how much death riding goes on these days! Another 5-10 years and no club will have their own pick

Which picks? We have no first, nor do Carlton. He'll be 30. Are the Pies going to give up any more than their first for him? Not if it's a top 10 pick. As for futures, I can't see the Eagles that pleased with those! I wouldn't be expecting much of a haul for Tracc

I recall the ESPN footy pod pointing out the fallacy of many saying Warner was the only standout Swan in the 22 GF, by attributing most of his stats to junk time

And the Richmond list had all packed it in by that stage. Mind you the Geelong game last year was fantastic, so we at least know we can swing him forward if the need arises in-game

Maybe we only recruited him to stop Kosi instinctively attempting a speccy at every contest. ...Although it was more of a reaction to Melkshams ACL and the need to fill the role he'd carved out for himself pre injury.

Loved the previous clash

Troy Chaplin working on the forward line as we speak

That was my thought with the "Who replaces ANBs role?" post too. Everyone! We need to get back to celebrating every chase down, every spoil, every tackle, every effort made to take space and restrict the opposition from slicing thru us. It's a healthy collective enjoying their footy that replaces an ANB! And that's where we need a big improvement. Ok we have to see some speed and fitness to be able to do that two way running as well, but skilled disposal and developing an offensive synergy will eventually lead to less requirement to get back and rely on the defence. Our D should only be a fall back safety net, not an overall primary strategy of restriction. That's the past. We're too old for that. Sydney showed last year in the GF that you can't rely on being a sponge that absorbs attacks and repells. Brisbane murdered them, and put them on the backfoot once the dam wall broke. Geelong did too.

Whichever of our key position forwards is standing next to JVR next season. And If we want to win another flag in the next few seasons, we'll probably need JVR to become 2023 Jesse Hogan. He doesn't personally have the pressure on him to be that break out superstar.... Buuuuut we might need him to be that if the forward line does not develop a collective goal kicking synergy all on its own!

If you've pencilled in that nickname for the rest of next season, maybe in the interest of fairness you can pencil in Clarry as the "[censored] Cat" or "The Fresh Start" too? (to be doubly annoying)

Thankfully you corrected your mistakes and pumped out some more demon memberships

Did you get your mum back on tracc?

I'd only add Lever, JVR & Rivers and take offTrac & Fritta tbh