Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Isn't Walker thier captain WTF? What an embarrassment. What a disgrace. Come on AFL time to step in. No more time for BS excuses and puss weak appologies.

It often more like a 20/80 decision the way holding the ball decisions don't get paid by some umpires. Was often a directive of coaches when I played that you are better to hold onto the ball that bit longer, be prepared to get tackled and dispose of it properly to a good option than to panic and just put the next bloke under pressure or turn it over. I've never really had an issue with it when Jones or Viney get paid holding the ball on that basis alone. Even in recient times when he wasn't racking up huge possession numbers, it was my observation that Jonesy often used the ball so creatively and setup guys in good space within our forward line that we got very good value out of those possessions, precisely because he didn't just pass the ball on like a hot spud.

Seems like Oscars are wipping boys whichever team they play for.

Thinking about the Eagles copping the full brunt of an Optus Stadium booing should be extra motivation for our boys to do a proper job on them. Would be a real highlight of our season if we could make that happen.

So [censored] ropeable right now. The contrasting outcomes between Jack and Lance Franklin is a [censored] disgrace. The only potential upside is that we can now micro manage Jacks training regime in the run-up to finals, get him cherry ripe ready to tear some opposition on-ballers a new one.

Of all our games to stuff-up the replay for, the one we finally put a team to the sword properly! I finally got rid of ripoff Foxtel for Kayo back in March and haven't looked back.

There's a contract with the MCC that has to be honoured doesn't it? The MCC/MFC alliance has to be worth something doesn't it? Sorry, I forgot how this really all works - we'd be screwed over big time, but wouldn't it be even sweeter beating them on the one and only time the GF if played on their dung mound?

Brisbane are puss. Only up there the last two seasons because they had a dream run with injuries and home games. My personal thoughts are that there are only really 3 genuine contenders for the flag this year - us, Bulldogs and Sydney... and I think we can beat them all. Call it a hunch, but I really do hope and expect the wheels to fall off dad's army when the going gets tough deep into finals. All the others are just pretenders.

Puss off for good Jeff. That's the best thing you'd ever do for Victoria.

Spargo has an excuse - he's a short [censored] by birth. Selwood is just a [censored] by birth.

Bloody hell, how is this preparation for finals? [Sarcasm]

KOSSIE!!! ... PILE IT ON DEMONS!!!

Double goals from that pocket and the mouth off with the [censored] Essendon supporter come to mind.

I love ANGRY MAX!!!!

Loving how hungry we are today. We have the taste of blood in our mouths and we like it!

"No community sport, no professional sport for the next three days." I did read that and thought WTF. Equally though, I think the MFC, the Suns and the AFL would be more than happy for our team's to get the [censored] out of Dodge.

A bit disappointed with Ticketek today. Tickets were delivered by sms, surely they could have sent out another sms to let people know the game wasn't going ahead, but nothing. Must say though that Ticketek's online ticketing user interface is tones better than Ticket Master - they are the worst.

Living in South East Queensland, I was originally quite happy when our game Vs the Suns was switched last week, as I'd inadvertently double booked myself with a camping trip. Was stoked when I booked my tickets for today's game on Thursday night. Really flat about things being cancelled this morning. Guess I was really fated not to watch this game in person.

I generally agree, but I actually think the AFL should have bitten the bullet and hubbed all teams in Melbourne. Puss off this Perth Stadium grand final [censored] as well.

Spot on

Yeah, not sure Mitchell would be so happy with that. Do the bosses job, you'd expect the bosses pay. Even with COVID, Hawthorn are a wealthy club, they'll just cop the soft cap tax.

Yeah, that post of mine didn't age well did it! ? I wasn't asserting that were were as good as that three peat team, it was more about highlighting that particular attribute of always being in games, even when we were not on top of ours. While we have lost to a few bottom feeders, I would still say that we have successfully acheived being in almost every game. Against Hawthorn and Adelaide, we were in winning positions until the dying minutes. Against GWS, I felt we were well in it the whole game, just couldn't get them on the scoreboard effectively enough. Only against Collingwood were we really dominated by them in general play for a substantial part of the game, even though the end result was close on the scoreboard, although that's probably still a fairly harsh assessment of our team's performance in that game. It's been a pretty good home and away season to this point. How we finish off the home and away and then perform in finals will really tell what the team is made of and perhaps that's the other enviable aspect to that Hawthorn team.

Lol, not quite sure how to take that. If Goody's not the right guy, then sure as [censored], I'm not ...but perhaps that's the point ?.

I plead with you my fellow Demonlanders, to get over the MFCSSFFS. (Sorry, I partially just wanted to use that huge acronym ??)

Honestly, I reckon the reason we do well against the top 8 teams and not so well against those occupying the lower rungs all comes down to systems. We play a very system based game at the moment and that is one of our main strengths. It's much easier to setup against the better teams, because I think they also play a more predictable system based game that they are less willing to deviate from, because they are disciplined enough to stick to their system as it has worked consistently for them in the past (just as ours has worked very consistently for us this season). The teams that have beaten us like Collingwood, but particularly Adelaide and Hawthorn and to a degree GWS have played an agressive less predictable game style that is harder for us to combat, but which also only works for them every 4 or 5 games as well. That and I reckon particularly Adelaide and Hawthorn had some pretty lucky breaks with free kicks and the ball bouncing the right way in their forward 50. The average loosing margin for the Adelaide and Hawthorn games was half a point and in reality, we should have walked away with two tied games but for an absolute howler of that non-paid deliberate out of bounds against Adelaide. Our other two games we hace lost by an average of around 11 or so points. (Geelong were smashed by Brisbane by around 50 odd points a few rounds back, which could have been much more). Don't get me wrong, I'm personally somewhat frustrated in our in ability to put sides to the sword, when from recollection we had the opportunity to against all of Adelaide, Hawthorn and possibly even GWS and Collingwood after having dominated them for the first period of the game and opening up 20 or so point leads. But on ballance I hardly think it's reading the riot act time. The players are smart enough and motivated enough to realize how their season is poised and I'm tipping they will be whipping themselves pretty hard to turn things around and finish off the season. Perhaps part of what we need is an alternative game plan/style against the lesser teams and that could have been what Goody was hinting at when he stated before the Hawks game that we need to get better at having multiple ways to win games.