leave it to deever

Oozes self confidence for someone his age and experience.

Leading in young talent article. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/melbourne-demons/afl-news-2021-22under22-40man-squad-best-afl-players-under-22-years-old-nominees-team-by-team-how-to-vote/news-story/bb3c915f9fbdd0d189291876ea4fd7f8 Add Jake Bowey into the mix and its even sweeter.

I wish Nicholls would pack it in. Ist qrt five frees to wc ...one to us. Second...four frees to wc ...one to us including a howler against rivers for pushing out darling in front of goal....rivers pinkie may have touched him. And a strange insufficient intent. Second half he wasn't so bad (maybe looked at his stats at halftime)with only a couple more frees to wc but they were pretty much accurate. His first half was poor....missing a couple of in the backs and htm to us and not paying marks.

You forgot the third essential....the cheese.

We wouldnt be faves.

Very true. It seems every week someone different puts their hand up for the votes. The upside lately is players like Rivers, nibbler and Jacko have returned to prime. Just need Fritta, Langdon and Sparticus to do the same moving into finals and the planets will align.

I think their team has become more that way. They always seemed much more physically intimidating. The prelim seemed to highlight that. Maybe it us who have hardened up. Great that we have beaten them over there. It holds such horrible memories (except when Tmac kicked that wining goal in 2018} Either way Eagles seem to be heading in the opposite direction of our trajectory. They had a good run.

Sorry not the correct forum but Im just musing out loud if a fit Tomlinson pushes Petty out next year. I think Petty has been great and is growing in each game. From what I can tell he looks like he has all the makings of a good forward so that's always handy.

Speaking of which...I think I said Melksham was done.

This guy is going to be a star and a huge part of our success. I don't think there are many players one can compare him with. Such a great addition. Well done MFC. Hope to see many years of him and Kozzie up forward kicking bags of goals. I wonder if he will bulk up as he's so young. But I guess its always a fine line bw speed and bulk. Sometimes when he gathers the ball up I forget how tall he is. Great to see him holding his marks and slotting majors now too

Greta post BoBo. You can see the pain in the faces of players that have spoken about this issue. It is obviously incredibly hurtful and disrespectful to them. Some of them look gutted. The only positive is I do believe as bad as it has been at times, things are improving a little bit. Maybe I am wrong and just live in a different world. Sad to say back in the 70s and 80s going to the footy as a teenager and then a young adult I heard some bad stuff on too many occasions. But while I don't get to as many games anymore I don't hear any negative comments at all. Obviously its still happening, but I'm buoyed by the fact that its shouted down in this day and age and rightfully so. Lets hope we can continue to educate people on the pain this causes but I guess there will never be a cure for total irrationality.

I was thinking why eagles fans and port and crows fans are so vocal. Im guessing that as that both SA and WA only have a couple of teams in the comp each, it is more of a them against us feeling. its much more parochial than Melb and probably more like how it used to be a long time ago with suburb v suburb.,

Thanks Wadda. Could not agree more. I'm sure its not the whole crowd but sure sounds like a lot of them. I mean who goes to the footy and openly jeers a player to miss a shot on goal? Not us. One may quietly hope they miss but doesn't actively boo so as to put them off their kick. Bunch of ferrals as far as I'm concerned and it just makes the win so much sweeter. As for being un -Australian, I hope they all drove home soaked to the bone only to find their homes burnt down by the lightening strikes that didn't turn up at Optus stadium. Cheers.

It makes the win just so much sweeter. No wait...deliberately giving them hope and a look in after the lightening break and then running out the clock made it better. Maybe wrecking their finals dreams. Or maybe they all went home soaked. I dont know.... but I loved it.

Petty was lucky but to be fair we were unlucky with a lot of other non decisions. Despite being lucky it was great tatics. I think eagles fans are just too used to getting the rub of the green over there.

Weagles are in the plus...no surprises there.

I wish we had footy every night like last year. I reckon it will happen one day.

Used to be a big fan of him but thought his laat ywo years have been well below. At his best, three years ago he was an elite athelete and very fast for his size. He use of ball was excellent. If Jake gets back to three qrts of his old form and intensity it coyld be a big factor in our remaining games and finals. Great to see a few growing in form and the introduction of Bowey late in the season. Could all the planets be aligning?

Eagles are well and truly an aging team compared to us. I think they had about 10 players in the over 150 game zone compared to us with about 3. Their reign is over and ours is starting to begin. We had about ten outs from the prelim game and some wonderful new young ins. No wonder eagles fans are frustrated.

On a wet night he held seven marks(our highest) bought the ball to ground which resulted directly in two goals...kicked 3 himself, laid two very solid tackles and also rucked. Was our best forward by far.

Yep. No brainer.

1......Bb just pushed out Rivers 2.Anb 3. Harmes 4. Trac 5. Oliver 6. Dogga...marking on a wet night was sublime.

Actually Bowey looks like a crimsoned version of spargo with a cookie crumb catcher.

I guess hes ok for a fanta pants. Will be a big part of future success.

Did anyone count the number of frees Nicholls gave eagles compared to us. Hes a shocker. Id guestimate it was about 14 to seven. He was a shocker in the cats v swans game i watched this year as well. And i agreed with a review of his work of that game that stated...Forward Jeremy Cameron wasnt paid a mark close to goal as umpire Nicholls adjudged the kick had not travelled the required distance, which it did as the AFL accepted the next day. In another piece of play, James Rowbottom should have been penalised for holding the ball from a tackle by Geelong skipper Joel Selwood. Nicholls was again the officiating umpire but he ruled thesiren had saved the Swans. I think he showed constant poor judgement again last night and gave eagles way too many softies close to goal. Obviously hes a lot closer😁 but aside from the sheer number of dubious ones paid it was the lack of holding the man calls he made. Watching the replay, a lot of our players were held off the ball and a couple of the insufficuent intents on a wet night were not in the spirit of the rule or hes adept in mind reading. Time to put him out to pasture.