John Demonic

A win tonight and we're even on points to West Coast only percentage out of the 8. OH WAIT WE SOLD TWO HOME GAMES AND PLAYED HOME AT ETIHAD V STK. OOPS

If we're offering half as much as we offered PD (1.5m?) then it deserves a 100 pages.

What's the latest on Son of Smith? How's he tracking, training and Caseying? What position is he likely to be developing into?

Hawkins reminds me of Cloke. Game has passed him by, all he can do is wrestle and trip over and play for a free.

How is Son of Smith (Joel) tracking?

We need Majak Jordan to do Nic Nat leaps 20m in front of the goal and tap the ball mid-air to Garlett and Kennedy

Hawthorn play like they're all on meth, absolute hyper-mode. No team stands a chance when they're at their best.

They have our ex-players to thank for all of those flags! I consider those premierships to be a like a Melbourne guernsey with a velcro Hawk

I can't wait for Petracca vs Hodge. I reckon they've got perfectly matched body-types. Beasts of the G. Let's hope Christian survives though. Hawthorn will be a brutal opponent.

Anyone see Eberts fall to the ground and Mitchell possibly "spoiling" but cupping his hand on eberts shoulder and pulling down on it to increase the weight on his fall? Eberts in hospital spitting blood and no commentator said a word about it. Long bow to draw, due to how well Mitchell disguises his brutal little snipes though. Brutal.

Should we have given him one more year? His kicking and possession out of half back would have been pretty valuable this year, but I guess we could not have foresaw the injuries to Lamumba and Salem (which is clearly the answer to my own question)

Let's offer the Dogs pick 27 and give Jong a 4 year 400k a year contract and give him a years holiday to freshen up. we're in desperate need of a mediocre backman to run the ball out of defence

And we were stupid enough to offer up pick 25 for a player worth pick 40 max to sit out a year, without even getting to the stage of negotiating and bluffing. Essendon fans laugh at us for that one because they have been frustratingly watching Melkshams inconsistency all of his career. And we just straight up offer overs. Goodwin mates rates corruption

He has a bit of work to do yet.

I reckon Frost has been told this. Roos might be over-comitting to the running out of 50 defender tactic. We don't need to do it EVERYTIME and have 4 defenders that do it. What we need to do is assess how far one can run out of defence, rather than just running and then assessing what to do when you've run too far into the oncoming opponents area and can't get a clean possession. And Lamumba will come back and do the same thing. Need to cut back on it a bit.

Was our last line contested marker and prevented many goals.

Grimes is primed to have a big last two months if the list management strategy is to withhold him to give him hunger and make sure he really wants it when he gets his chance. It's a shame we haven't done it with more players instead of having a constant rotation of players who lose form after 1 or 2 (at most) solid games before falling out of form injury and extended vfl time might have also been a positive factor for Lamumba and Brayshaw to come back in the squad and have a big effect. Who knows, maybe having them in all year and having patchy form cold have really set them on a course of acceptance of that inconsistency like the others. They'll come back and earn it

Is Viney in i heard he had hamstring tightness?? i'm not sure whether to take a punt on a weekend of good overcoming evil with my voted party in election + dees

How about we just move the AFL to China. Clearly market growth has a higher ceiling over there. 10,000,000 members coming up.

Wake up deeple!! Roos is in control of your minds

My mistake, confusion there. But I meant the pick we get this year for where we finish is already gone and likely pick 9. I don't think GCS will want a similar (or way worse) future pick for the following year for Prestia.

You mean 2018 first round pick? We traded 2017 1st round to GCS last year.

OFF TOPIC!!!!!

I don't think a 30 point loss is misleading, I instantly know we were in the game until three quarter time when I see that kind of margin. If anything, it's a good indication of how if you can't play four quarters then you will record a minimum 4 or 5 goal loss no matter how well you've played.

Oh yeah, those A-graders flocked to us after our grand final year in 2000, what a dynasty we created, taking it up to the Lions every year after.