John Demonic

Thank your lucky stars you weren't named Tymothi

He looks like a pretty bad kick with that awkward drop of the ball, from those small highlights. Under AFL pressure it gets intensified. You draft him, bring him in and he's a third tall defender or forward initially or in his 2nd year. So then he's not going to add anything elite at ground level in linking up with his team mates, and may be a player thats a liability with ball n hand. He looks like someone that's going to take over 5 years before you get meaningful contribution... That would be my guess as to why we might not take him. We would want to bring in two elite users of the ball that will have an immediate impact while our ageing stars are in their window imo. As for future needs? Well we can shift and transition Petty and Disco into defence as May/TMAC retire, and JVR & MJ hopefully create a tandem going forward. 🤷‍♂️

For old times sake, I saved this classic back cover + headline + photo from 2020

[censored] it lets turn him into Sam Weidering in defence

There has to be a limit to the amount of cuckery we can take from the Pies in a season

I did 100m in 9.58s in my Datsun yesterday and it terrified the beejesus out of me

Laughing at the Stringer trade never being in danger behind the scenes. This bloke Robbie D'Orazior giving off major Biff Tannen energy. You can tell just by looking and listening to him speak, that him and Connors Sports MGMT are the bully's of the AFL trade landscape with Cornes now asking questions of Port Adelaide and being bullied into accepting a lowball offer by threat of their Agency who manage other players at Port.

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Those daily Fox Footy trade shows were a Fail. I Fast Forwarded thru to stop if they were discussing anything interesting and spent less than a minute or two watching each night. They need to recruit an interesting panelist or two next year if they want a pass mark.

Randomly tuned in for the first time and they were discussing an Ivan soldo social media post and then took me to the break on a Luke parker cliffhanger Awful

Probably hasn't had his contract renewed at 7, hence shopping around for opportunities

That's called Prison wardening

I wonder if Brand Petracca whispered in Houston's ear a month ago : we'll see you at the Pies in 2026

At least we can death ride them back. Could be a pick 37-42 if Essendon have the spectacularly bad year we're all waiting for them to have, given their list sucks and Merrett is their only star.

The Salem+Tyson vs Josh Kelly conundrum rears it's ugly head

I'm going to repost this because the intense late night back and forth conversations remind me of a particular tv show.

Did we? Tim Lamb? I must've missed wherever you heard that, I haven't listened to any media this week, Edit: Nor seen anyone bump the TM thread.

Why do you say that? It's the kind trade that gets done on the last day for a bag of chips, when all other business is attended to. And we've been rumoured to have been in talks with him per sam Edmund. https://demonland.com/forums/topic/59295-the-tim-membrey-thread/

Let's see how he goes with a pre-season though. Getting Membrey in also allows us to shift Petty OR Turner down back, as defensive cover. Given we won't have Tomlinson anymore and Tmac and May will be 32/33 years old respectively. It might be something we need cover with. Derkson is an unknown commodity in that regard.

Which one of Petty's 9 goals in the same amount of games as Membrey's 30 goals, impressed you so much?

If rather Stringer on that amount

Starting to feel like these "Dees looking to upgrade", "Dees aggressively pursuing" posts are harbingers of doom. Because every other club has the time and space to also be doing the same. Similar to last year with the Dogs trumping us for GC's pick. I just want a post to pop up one day out of the blue saying a deal has been done for Pick 0-20 from X Club!! Then no getting hopes up. It's just done!

My feeling towards McClure...

Does that sound similar to a player like Brodie Kemp's backstory? He was touted as a top 10 pick, with his own post on demonland (13 pages) but due to injury in his draft year, slid to Carltons pick 17. Thankfully we took Pickett! I wonder if we would have taken him instead of Rivers if he was still available? Also Thankfully he wasn't! Maybe a cautionary tale?