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    Round 6 non MFC games

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    10 minutes ago, monoccular said:

    OMG the commentary is awful.  BT is just inane. Bruce whilst he knows his stuff, is past it.

    BT was fair dinkum dropped at birth, I reckon. 

    How did this guy even get a commentator gig in the first place?!

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    MATCH PREVIEW AND TEAM SELECTION - ROUND 6

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    15 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    I wonder if something 'creative' with the ruck role would be to designate a ruckman for each zone eg Frost/TMac back of centre.  Watts/Pedersen forward of centre.  Maybe Pedersen to take the centre bounce to leave the others free to do their primary role. 

    This would wear out Bellchambers as he would have keep to run all over the ground.  Its Bellchambers' first game in 18 months and he would not be used to the pace of the game so the more we can wear him out the more even the game becomes.  Creating a lot of stoppages will also help wear him out. 

    Great thought LH, that could confuse and unsettle them whilst spreading the load on our guys. 

    I liked Nashers idea of quarter by quarter designated ruck, but this allows guys to also do their roles, as mentioned 

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    MATCH PREVIEW AND TEAM SELECTION - ROUND 6

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    Posted · Edited by Deemented Are Go!

    Selections and injuries aside - what about some fundamental belief that we are NOT going to lose four in a row.

    Or vengence for the last Embarrassing loss? 

    Bit of ol fashioned 'all between the ears' and 'backs to the wall' stuff. I reckon we have improved our mental fortitude so far, bar a few quarters. Let's see if we can hold firm and find something. 

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    POST MATCH DISCUSSION - Round 5

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    As an aside, jeez Talking Footy on CH7 is a shithouse show.

    Sam Clure looks like a chewed up mintie and sounds like Hutchy. Luke Darcy and Carey are vacant brains with little to offer and Tim Watson is a sycophant with the personality of a squeezed lemon. 

    Might watch a rerun of Foreign Correspondent 

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    POST MATCH DISCUSSION - Round 5

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    5 hours ago, A F said:

    THE POSITIVES OVERSHADOW THE ERRORS

    I thought I'd be livid if we lost to Richmond, but for the second time in three weeks, I left the ground feeling extremely optimistic about our future. Yes, we over possessed. Yes, we used the footy poorly going inside 50. Yes, we made stupid errors. eg. Harmes in second term kicking it on the full when he should have just taken it over the line. eg. ANB's brainfade on the half time break that cost us a goal. eg. Vince kicking it on the full in the third when he should have simply taken it over the line. Yes, we lost to a bunch of pretenders. But...

    Oliver is already a top 10 midfielder in the comp. He is insanely good and is statically top 10 in all the key categories. And 19 years old. And has played less than 20 games. Get excited if you're not already.

    Hibberd's return was superb.

    Tom McDonald played his best game since early 2016.

    Frost was terrific.

    Jetta was his usual solid self.

    Hunt was electrifying and could be anything.

    We had 25+ inside 50 tackles - that's what our coaching staff want.

    And as many have already said, they were always going to run over us with two down. We win it with 22 v 22. Almost no doubt.

    In the last, we were sitting near the interchange bench and Harmes wanted to come off, so did Jones, but only Oliver could come off due to rotation limits. So our mids, Jones and Viney in particular, were out on their feet in the last and we just couldn't run.

    Were it not for the injuries, this very young side would have easily accounted for a supposed top 4 team.

    As I said last week, at some stage this year, our team is going to click and it's going to be glorious. We may leave it too late for a finals tilt, but there's still a long way to go this season. I still think we'll get our 12+ wins and I'm looking for Lewis to pay us back for the last 3 weeks, by pulling us over the line in a few games this year. It's gonna happen.

    Our best can match it with just about anyone, but luck hasn't gone our way this year. But it always turns your way eventually and we're doing enough right now for it to swing our way in time. For this reason, I was glad to hear Goody praise our boy's efforts tonight, given it was 20 v 22 out there.

    THE FUTURE & OUR IMMEDIATE SHORT-TERM

    When Oliver, Petracca and Salem build their tanks, watch out. We are going to have a seriously good midfield trio there.

    But I still worry about Bernie, who goes to ground too easily like a veteran - he reminds me of Luke Hodge in that respect.

    I also worry about our midfield short term with Viney clearly still hampered by his hip. Hopefully Lewis' inclusion can provide us with a bit of depth there, as well as leadership in trying times.

    To me, it's obvious that we still lack one other game breaking midfielder. Tyson and Viney are good meat and potatoes footballers and may reach A grade status one day, but at this stage in their development, they both lack that little bit of class. I'm not going to write them off though, as I think both have a much higher ceiling that they're not reaching at the moment.

    Both played 74% TOG this week, which I find interesting, given how out on his feet Jones looked at 88% TOG.

    The other thing that needs to improve is our midfield's two-way-running. We let Richmond score goals way too easily out the back (particularly early on), which was reminiscent of how easily we let Geelong score too. If we can tidy this up (and maybe this only happens with experience and kms in the legs), I think we'll simply dominant contests.

    It'll be interesting to see whether our midfield organisation improves when Lewis comes back in next week too.

    THE RUCK CHALLENGE (RATHER THAN PROBLEM)

    With Spencer going down too, I'm now strangely excited by the challenge we have in front of us in a season we were never going to challenge for the flag. Without our two key rucks, our depth is thoroughly tested. Our game style must develop alternatives and we get to see what we look like when things aren't going our way the whole time on a Gawn-supplied silver platter. 

    We won't then know ourselves when we finally have a fit and firing Max Gawn dominating the hit outs and it'll also give us a plan B for the day when either Max is out or he is being beaten in the ruck. It is the perfect baptism of fire for our mids and whoever has to step up in place of Gawn and Spencer, but all part of the journey that is our continuing development.

    As I side note, I didn't want to write it on here, but I knew Jake would go down with an injury sometime during the 12 Gawn-less games. Was thinking it'd be last week.

    OUR DEFENCE

    I think Frost may well be the answer to our second KPD post, alongside Tommy. They were both terrific in tandem tonight, although their awareness at times, particularly Frost's, is still left a bit wanting - that easy Riewoldt goal out the back in the second quarter, is a prime example.

    However, we now have real speed and offence off half back. Frost, Hunt, Hibberd, Melksham and even McDonald are all attacking, fleet-of-foot players. I think Lewis may well play that sweeper role to cover out the back when our zone plays a little too high. 

    In time, we'll see Joel Smith back there and that will probably release Hunt into the midfield or he'll take Melksham's spot. It'll be interesting to see where Jetts sits with all of this, when we're full strength. Is it Melksham v Smith or is it Smith v Jetta?

    I also felt that we adjusted our zone this week. We played a high line at times, but we look so much better when we have Frost's pace to cover (playing the anchor), because it affords Tom more confidence to leave his man and take intercept marks. He was superb in this respect tonight.

    It's still a work in progress, but as a group, I was really happy with the majority of their work tonight, under extreme pressure. If Jetta was playing at Adelaide he'd be in AA contention. He is rarely beaten and manages to keep the ball in front of himself, outmuscle much larger opponents and be clean when the heat is on. He's a star. Not a perfect game, but only a few errors amongst all that brilliant 1v1 work.

    INSIDE 50s & OUR FORWARD LINE

    We had an insane amount of inside 50s in the first half. I didn't realise quite how many we had until I watched the replay.

    I certainly took issue with our poor entries at the time, which became worse as the game went on. None of this helped our forwards or our forward structure.

    As a side note, I thought by comparison, Richmond's entries for the first 3 quarters were both a credit to our defence and a sign of the insipidness and dumb play by our opposition.

    Despite the forward entries, or perhaps because of them, our entire forward set up tonight seemed dysfunctional. And aside from our own poor ball use, was it simply that Richmond zoned back well or was the problem that our forwards were not working hard enough to create space for each other?

    The inside 50 tackle count was certainly a positive though and I thought we swarmed them at half forward multiple times in the first three quarters. Great to see.

    On this basis, despite some ordinary errors and poor decisions, JKH will get a game next week. He laid 7.

    For this same reason, despite some ordinary errors and poor decisions, ANB will get a game next week. He laid a game high 9 tackles.

    Harmes laid outright second most tackles on the ground with 8.

    These guys are only young players and they need time to show their wares this year and improve their decision making with this experience. I think all these guys offer more than Tom Bugg and they'll keep him out of the team, I would think.

    OUR OPPOSITION

    Richmond'd have to be one of the worst 5-0 teams of all time. Similar to the Roos last year. They will fall hard in the second half of the season. Bookmark it.

    Everything is going right for them at the moment and it won't last. They're propped up by Martin (who is probably the best player in the competition right now), Riewoldt and occasionally Cochin when he turns up. It's certainly not sustainable in the finals and as they come up against better opposition this year, they'll really struggle. So if they even make the 8, they'll go out in straight sets IMO.

    Just also found out that Riewoldt had (before tonight) never kicked more than 3 goals against us, so the fact that he kicked them out of his arse, was probably quite unusual against us. But it was his accurate goalkicking that certainly kept them in it, particularly in the first half. 

    CHANGES FOR NEXT WEEK

    Some Demonlanders may finally get their wish next week and see Pedo in the team, because I can't see them going with just Watts in the ruck. Can't see King playing either, after one VFL game back.

    Lewis will come back in, probably for Smith and Pedo in for Spencer. It'll be interesting to see.

    By midnight I had Demonland hysteria fatigue and felt faint from burst blood vessels. 

    After a reasonable sleep, this was the first post I read. I feel more at one with the world.

    Thank you. 

     

     

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    POST MATCH DISCUSSION - Round 5

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    Posted

    51 minutes ago, John Dee said:

    Statistics say that when it is 22 V 21, the 22 wins. When it is 22 V 20, you have very little chance. We are a better side than Richmond, and I don't know who is going to play in the ruck next week.

    P.E.D.O!

    at least now that there's no option but to play him on Sunday, one selection squabble will be put to bed.

    Casey Demons v North Ballarat

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    Posted

    2 hours ago, hardtack said:

    On the contrary, I would say we have done him (Bugg) a big favour. His dropping has obviously woken him up and he has responded in the best way possible.

    Hmm, I hope you're right hardtack. 

    But it's the great hypothetical conundrum- might he have played a similar out-of-his-skin type game on Monday night if he was given the chance? 

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