Brownie
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19 hours ago, Deestar9 said: Fantastic game..have watched this team & been a member since inception. The growth is amazing & exciting. Should have opened the season with the Dees..they showcase the improvement of women’s football. It isn’t the men’s game ..it’s a different game but so exciting because we are now seeing the girls who have played since they’re 6 yrs old transitioning into experienced players. Shocking the timing of our game ..just impossible for me to go to MCG & then out to Mission Oval but the AFL is useless on most things unless you’re the big 4 in Victoria..but get behind our girls..you’re in for a great ride
They're a joy to watch and follow their progression.
That was a fantastic win last night beating a solid team with a stack of key personnel out for us.
I've said it before but I think the club is nuts not using Mick Stinnear to work with the blokes as well.
The women just play for each other. Their culture and passion they show is just fantastic.
It's Something that's faded a lot since 2021 for the men.
He also seems to be a great GameDay coach.
I'd love to see the new mens coach get him in to be part of the men's coaching team at least on a part time basis.
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Just now, Travy14 said: what is a drop punt? I follow Melbourne you see
It is from ancient times. Usually only spoken of in footy folklore
Geez May is copping a pasting so far
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2 hours ago, KozzyCan said: Insurers really are the scum of the earth.
Coming from a village in thenorthern Rivers NSW and seeing over half our town go under fort the first time ever, the majority of people flooded got royally screwed around.
One of our friends who got flooded were told by her insurance company to stump up the $5k excess before they would even send an assessor out.
We had no internet or proper phone coverage to even get the money to them but they still refused to lodge the claim. Her and her son's just had a few bags of clothes.
3 years to get things rebuilt.
Luck you're with xxxx
They're all the same though
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On 13/08/2025 at 17:24, binman said: Fair dinkum, for all manner of reasons I'm so over the AFL.
They are supposed to be the stewards of the game.
They are ruining the men's game, for example refusing to address the appalling standard od umpiring and the joke they call the fix ture.
And their management of the AFLW is even worse. It's a bloody joke.
I live in the West and was super keen to go to this game, one of the few ill be able to make, because it's at Whitten Oval. Twenty minute drive from my place, watch a great game of footy then back home in 20 minutes. Perfect.
But I'm not sure if it's feasible given the men start at 4:15 meaning it won't finish until 7pm.
I'll be on PT so no chance of getting to Whitten Oval from the G By 7:30, and even if I could it's a big ask to expect fans to go to both games - for me it would mean leaving home at 3pm and nor getting home till near midnight (Whitten Oval is in a tricky spot for me PR wise and buses are replacing trains on my line after dark).
It's just flat out pathetic. Do they wNtbthe AFLW to succeed or not?
I guess it's pretty obvious it's all about viewers not fans attending games anymore
It's rubbish. It's lazy. It's ignorant. It's idiotic.
Almost like they're setting the women up to fail.
I love watching the girls play even though the game is played differently.
The AFL keep treating football as a product to sell
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49 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said: Quite possibly Brownie. We seem hell bent on heading boundary far too often although there are times we look to hit up Max in the middle which Adams did superbly at one point yesterday. But that's a set play.
The general instinct (instruction?) seems to be to play everything wide as you say and most players point / move in that general pattern which is sad to witness when you see so much space open in the middle (at times) and a player all on his own that could easily buck the trend and lead there whilst two or three others are all running to the usual skinny side spots and dragging their opponents there as well.
One can only hope the next coach is alot more innovative in this regard amongst other methods / way of playing.
Another example of how the dare / flare appears to have been coached out of some within the group. Turner outpointing Noughton in a 1 v 1 yesterday. Reads the ball beautifully for the intercept at CHB. Has a meter on Noughton after marking, open field and an immediate 'Play on' rebound option ahead of him to take us quickly into 50 and catch the Doggies out on the sling shot. But instead hesitates, takes a number of steps to get back behind Noughton on the mark, then tries to pick out a player on the switch (angle sees ball going backwards!) which he misses, intercept...Doggies goal.
Potentially a draw if we avoid the turnover in that instance in the worst place on the ground and maybe even the win if we take it down and just score a point!!
Players second guessing themselves and hesitant to take the game on is not going to win you many of the close matches imv (ie., going into their shell too early). That needs to be stamped out pronto during the pre-season and 2026 by the next coaching group.
Would much rather see more of them playing with confidence, dare, flare when they win the ball back wherever possible, hopefully resulting in slick quick transition footy, whilst at the same time maintaining some structure and defensive aspects behind the ball as best as possible for when we cough it up in transition. It's def a hard balance to get right but at the moment i feel we are skewed a little too much to the defensive / conservative side in general.
Yep, I'm with ya DD.
And I get the tactic of wide kickouts from the goal square into the flanks to negate risk.
That's playing the percentages but yeah, I think our hand and footskills have erroded and so has our player's confidence to thread the needle and take the game on.
Disco would normally be a great rebounder, our last quarter and going into our shells really cost us dearly against the saints.We've got a pretty solid list, I'm loving the idea of watching our team take the game on next year.
In the words of the wonderful band Cable Ties -
And it might be hopeless but I've gotta try it
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14 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said: He's not alone. Chandler one of the worst offenders here also.
Chandler was also on his own in the middle just off the square during one of McVee's kick ins late in the third.
Instead of leading and calling for the over the top kick into the middle he points and heads straight out to the skinny side where the ball ends up on top of everyone's heads and turns into a 50/50 at ground level.
Luckily Culley ends up with it and runs / handballs our way out of congestion which i think Chin ends up on the end of it giving it to Melk who gets the joe-the-goose goal to Tracc.
Chin is a handy player but alot of his good work is undone by his poor decision making / lack of composure / awareness on occasions.
That's not to say Chin never lowers his vision or hits targets but he should be doing alot less of the bombing / lack of awareness things now given his experience.
Unfortunately they're still happening though and in some cases, costing us opportunities in transition where we have advantage in play and should be punishimg the oppo more often.
I wonder too if the habit of leading through the centre square has been drilled out of them. I.e. why bother calling for it in the middle.
We are a predictable hug the boundary line team as we leave defence almost always.
The only time we went hard and fast was off turnovers off half back which was great to see.
Apart from using turnover opportunities, we just don't seem to use the centre corridor much at all.
Looking forward to a new coaching group
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2 hours ago, Swooper Northey said: Yep, that's a weakness that's crept into his game this year. Very neat and effective in 2024 but has turned the ball over far too often this season.
Liked him playing in the middle though. Plenty of upside.
This is one of the pieces that does my head in.
Salem, sublime user of the ball but not so much anymore.
Windsor was pretty good last year but not so much anymore.
Viney used to be woeful, then learnt to lower his eyes about 3 or 4 seasons ago and is now terrible again.
I still feel like we've let stands and skills slip over the last two years.
Great game, great to see the effort and some more switching up today and faster movement for a good portion of the game.
Our list isn't too bad. Our skills are generally deplorable. Way too many turnovers
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3 minutes ago, BDA said: intent good
execution not good
You probably just summed up the last two seasons
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10 hours ago, Nietaphart said: Happy to be corrected as I didn’t see all of today’s game, but I saw Spargo playing in the midfield and at centre bounces. 22 possessions playing mid/fwd (not sure of the percentage ratio) is not a lot of possessions for a player who has played 100 AFL games
He had a really solid game
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2 hours ago, Tarax Club said: Taylor Whitford can coach, two premierships with North Launceston attest to that. Casey’s last visit to the Bears home base was a shellacking. As was the recent win loss record.
Astute coaching arrested the Lions’ 2nd quarter momentum swing and he gave the Casey boys a rev up at 3/4 time. Love it old time coaching! Put some real lead in the all team defence pencil in the last half. Fortunately the karma bus arrived with McCarthy’s miss post the final siren.
Happy trip on the return flight l’d suggest. A real shot in the arm for Demon supporters after this week’s events.
Those calling for Charlie Spargo’s deecoupling may need to get the Specsavers spray and clean the [censored] off the windscreen. A cut above VFL level on that performance. Was seriously amongst it all match particularly when the game was up for grabs.
It was pleasing to see the Demon younger brigade, Taj Woewodin, Pup Brown, Will Verrall, Luker Kentfield, and Bailey Laurie contribute strongly to the win too.
Of the VFL listed guys plaudits to Tom Freeman and Wardell Lual for their manful efforts in defence. Tom Fullerton played his best game for the season there too.
A high quality effort all round. Apologies to other contributors not mentioned.
It was one of the best games of footy I've watched this year. I'd urge anyone who hasn't seen the game to watch the replay from the start.
And... It was almost the worst game. We were so lucky with that stupid free given to the lions right at the end [censored].
Such a great fight back for the Dees to get that last goal.
Just awesome
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1 minute ago, Brownie said: Sometimes we seem afraid of the goals
And again, we go sideways instead of attacking the goals
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Cam Bruce to Melbourne?
in Melbourne Demons
This comment made me think of the incredible Nev Jetta.
A second tier player that just made himself indispensable and one of my all time favourites. Solid as a rock.
He's development coach at the pies.
I reckon he'd be an awesome replacement for Chocco.
That would be an awesome steal to get him back in some capacity