John Demonic

I reckon JVR should focus on athleticism and endurance in the off season. Be top 5 in time trials and be able to work your way up the ground and find some space to mark it. The way the game is played, contested marks in the forward line are rare, it's not a sustainable approach to have that as your major strength by bulking up and trying to be a physical beast to the exclusion of endurance. His ferocious attack on the ball will never leave him, no matter how many kg's he takes off. We need a creative Jeremy Cameron/Harry Himmelberg type of dynamic forward more then we need a Tom Hawkins/Harry McKay clunk it type imo. Although we could try our hand at recruiting Harry Himmelberg if we can clear the cap space.

Absolutely echo this thought. I was just thinking about how every win or loss is becoming a referendum on whether you can win the flag or are making up the numbers by the media/fans - It's a pendulum flipping from the extremes of Happiness and Hope to Stress and Despair. And it doesn't reflect the reality of the season at all right now, with almost every club bar North and WCE competing hard in every contest and match from week to week. It might be that Collingwood and Brisbane are separating themselves as 'dominant' teams, but its round 11 and we still wait to see whether they are going to sustain it too. There might be a massive logjam of 10-12 teams in the last month of the season, all vying not only for finals, but positioning in the top 4 and 8, And yeah we'll probably be one of them (unfortunately for those that want a stable top 2 position)

Opened the ladder this morning thinking we'd be 7th or 8th and we're actually still 4th and will stay there given everyone below us lost lmao. As I said yesterday. It really only appears that Collingwood and maybe Brisbane and/or Port Adelaide right now are the three clubs that are impervious to the week to week contender/pretender referendums over their form. And will all now have a significant 2/3 game gap on us. The season aint over no matter what some may think. Its a marathon not a sprint. There are obviously some issues we need to work on, and have come up against two very tough 210+ pressure gauge teams this fortnight. We desperately need a break to refresh and I still think we should take care of business v Carlton to get there. Then we're STILL in the top 4 going into the 2nd half of the year. Not the crisis many are making it out to be, given we will have time to iron out our deficiencies and refresh

Mate im relieved we actually have two decent forwards to focus our efforts on. Will work to our advantage given that's all they focus on when they bomb it up forward.

Would rather they just take the tackle for a ball up/htb risk or punt it to the boundary for deliberate and worsen the angle. Dump snapping it to 30-40m out directly in front in a panic and hoping we'll have a player there, is costing us massively. Just want to get my 1 knee jerk post-loss reaction post for the year out of the way. This drives me up the wall. Along with Healys grumpy commentary.

Sounds like @Die Hard Demon is the one with the soft underbelly. Time to go on holidays and forget about watching the Dees again, if you think the season is over.

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It's not like anything has changed. In 2021 we drew with Hawthorn late in the year, and the questions were asked about our capacity to beat a top 8 team all year. It's 2023. The competition is fairly even and it seems 12 teams are in it with maybe 1 or 2 standouts currently. The weekly referendums on whether you're a Contender or Pretender are going to be asked of you all year, unless you're a dominant team. And if Collingwood go 21/2, then they're the only team that won't be asking that question.

The media loves a weekly referendum.

Exactly. Some DL posters think a loss to Freo ends our season, but fail to take into account that WE ARE CAPABLE OF UPSET WINS AWAY or as UNDERDOGS too.

The most important thing is cap space. I'm pretty sure we don't have much to lure anyone? Unless we lose some players (Jordon, Harmes, another) and find another club to take the last year of the contract of Tmac or BBB ? Although I'm just guessing.

I can see us losing both.....and then beating Collingwood and Geelong. Demonland will be box office for a month. But seriously, there's absolutely no way we are losing to Carlton.

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If they'd made the academy bid rules Pick 20+ in 2015, Gold Coast would've drafted Hopper instead and traded him for Richmond's 1st this year, and would be in the best position to land Harley Reid. And we'd have Callum Mills in our midfield instead of Clarry

HARRY HIMMEL BERG

Roy and Sylvie Pearce are Mummy's Boys, because we're going to draft them in 2036 under the Mother Son rule

You're right. I need to stop booing my ex-wife whenever I see her.

Have the Chasers ever done a sketch of a footy fan in their jumper walking around the supermarket or shopping mall 'booing' loudly at things he finds disagreeable ?

Pick 4-5 seems worth the deathriding effort. 6-12 I'm assuming a negligible difference, and a 'what will be will be' feeling 🤷‍♂️

I bet there's a Cat fan over on their forum that said the same thing last week. Which would be crazy. They're 2 wins and percentage behind us, and they're still equal with us in flag betting markets and interestingly on the same points as Freo. So I don't see how an upset victory by a Fremantle gaining form, completely rules us out for the year - We want the club to rarely drop games, but the reality is we will. If we bounce back and beat the Blues, and one of the Pies or Geelong, we'd still be in the top 4 and we'll still be right in the mix. 4 points Is 4 points, wherever you get it. Guarantee we will get a few 'upset' wins in the next few months too. Its a moot point because we'll beat them this week anyway.

I think you mean burnt tofu. It's TMAC that's burnt steak.

I think it was Caro a month back saying he would be a likely replacement for Dew at the Suns, who she still seems adamant will lose his job at the end of the year 🤷‍♀️ Wouldn't surprise me if the AFL has already stamped his cards and is telling Hardwick to reset and take a break for 5 months before returning, if he wants the job.

He'll have Serong and Brayshaw hanging off each leg and still fire off a handball to a free player

The affair with the Richmond staffer was inappropriate. Blokes not only a bully and a thug, but a deceitful one at that. Good riddance to him.

We're in the Temple of Doom. Every loss is being lowered into the fire pit. And every win, Goodwin retakes the lever and pulls us back up. But 2019-2020 was easily the worse time to be on here imo. And most of us contributed to that.