Rodney (Balls) Grinter

With the crazy eyes!

Love them. No issues at all, I think that add great colour to the crowd. I'm sure that someone on here could confirm, but I think they belong to the Demon Army (or were at least instigated by them) and were found to be a great way to include members. On the basis that they are used in the Demon Army, I don't think there'd be any real objections to them from the other people sitting around them ( i.e. other members of the Demon Army ).

Some ridiculous truth in that last part. Ex footballer type comentators trying to concoct a moment of drama to entertain their audience for a few moments, because they can't think of anything actually useful or integent to say, like perhaps just getting on with calling the game. Having watched this incident again a few times, I'm pretty much in total agreement with you. Was so incidental it should not have even been a free kick. Sparrow doesn't elect to bump (he's more back towards him than side on) he barely even shepard's as opposed to just trying to position himself in the area to contest the ball or be in a position to receive it. I'm not even that sure he was aware Rich was there. It's hard to see that it was even judged head high contact as an infringement on Sparrow as it's Rich running into his back.

Totally agree. But there also comes a point with his current form where you need to ask, is it doing the right thing by him and the rest of the team to keep playing him without an appropriate level of performance from him. Personally I thought the noise that we just had to play him due to his VFL form or risk loosing him to another club was pretty overblown. If he wanted to walk to join a weaker team for more money and oppertunity, then best he be gone. I personally didn't and still don't get the impression that was a significant risk on behalf of Weid. I personally think he's more invested in the team and sucess than to shophimself around at this point. And he'd played what 3 or 4 good games at Casey without getting a call up - hardly despiration stakes kind of stuff. Despite his lack of dominance, I also though Ben Brown's performances at both Casey and AFL level were serviceable and at his best, he's an outright gun of a forward, so I'd have no issues with him being promoted back up to senior level. Similarly, I very much get the impression that BBB has the kind of level head and maturity that if he has to improve his game at Casey and bang the door down for the next 6 weeks, that he'd take that on the chin and just get on with it and do whatever he could to get himself right. From seeing what both BBB and Weid are capable of (mainly his solid form last year for Weid), I think it's somewhat just a matter of confidence and the challenge of an injury interupted start to the season that both these guys are struggling with and have reasonable faith they will turn their fortunes around with further game time. Where ever this ends up, I think the MFC is in a great position to have such good depth and competition for key forward spots.

Yeah ok. Fair call Jnr. ...but you know what I meant. ?

Agree, with the minor addition above. Some had us as winning the flag in 2019, but we all know what a false dawn that was. I'm just hoping that we can maintain the rage, stay healthy as a list and get even better throughout the remainder of the season.

Loving his work. I have been really happy and impressed by Petty's efforts to step up and into the role played by Tomlinson. He's not quite a Tomlinson clone, just because of their differing physical attributes, but still contributing to the backline/team defense that's allowed us to maintain such good stability down back. He looked a little shaky for a few weeks and still has the odd brain faid moment where he shanks it out on the full or something, but overall I think he's brought himself back up to backman at AFL level. Starting to take some big strong intercept/contested marks and get involved in good chains of play as well.

I did think it was somewhat ironic that one of the times he did clunck it well last night, was in good goal scoring distance and at a key time of the game in the 3rd qtr (when we would have really valued a goal), it was a touched ball and th mark wasn't paid ?

I think it somewhat depends what you define as improvement. My take is that pretty much all of those mentioned have more or less recovered form to be playing as what is similar to their previous peak levels of performance. The real improvement has come in the across the board collective belief, maturity and consistentcy of the team.

As is Dogga Jackson

Sounds a bit like they are playing a bit of 'bruise free' footy up there at the Lions these days? ?‍♀️

Ooooooozee

Or Chocho

Also noticing that we have turned around our centre square clearances since that horrible game in that respects against Sydney. The combination of Clarry and Gawn were great at winning out of there in the second half and Gawn seems to have got his radar back, with some great knock downs straight into the hands of our on ballers.

Really glad that Harmes is back playing good footy in the guts. Nullifying dangerous opponents, while breaking lines through the centre square and providing some great drive of his own. There were a good number of people who were writing him off as an ordanary player who no longer had a place in the side. Clearly an asset the way he's playing at the moment.

Not sure he's the right guy! ?

So glad the boys turned on a good show for you @It's Time and all the other Sidaney based Demons diaspora. Shouldn't have any voice left after that.

GO the MIGHTY DEMONS!!! I enjoyed that win even more than convincingly putting away the Bulldogs last week. Clarry, Trac, Gawn, T Mac, Spags, Kossie & May were truly awsome in that second half, well supported by many others, as is now the Melbourne way.

Actually I should get on board with the sponsors product and get on the Furphys a bit more often. It's a decient enough drop.

Hey, for a while VB was a popular up here in the land of the banana benders, but I probably prefer Coopers myself these days.

Think it might have been played with a possum skin back then.

Rivers has got that good half back flankers knack of adventuring up the ground to slot through the odd sausage roll. Loved that huge bomb on the run against the Crows.

I think St Kilda are having the equivalent of our 2019 season, except they never showed the same promise as us in 2018 and probably arn't quite as bad as we were in 2019 (yet). I'm actually find it quite satisfying how relatively bad they are going this season compared to the projected performance and expectations on us and then respectively at the start of the season. I personally never rated them particularly highly last year and never rated us so meekly, but that's probably somwhat due to my own supporters bias and lack of objectivity and a jealousy that a reciently struggling opposition team could have overtaken our development. On a similar note, I think it's interesting that Carlton have been rated so lowly this season. Despite not putting the runs on the board win wise, their competitiveness in games suggests to me that they could be much closer to becoming genuinely threatening that the rating given suggests. It's quite possible they cross a threshold in correcting a few deficiencies in the second half of the season and start reversing their fortunes. I haven't really watched enough of them and Harry McKay to from a substantial oppinion, but I was impressed by the gutsy effort of McKay to not only stay on the ground, but make an impact kicking goals against us when clearly significantly injured and in pain. Not that I really want them to do well, it's just a sense that I get. I honestly haven't been that surprised by our performance this season. The building blocks of the players mentioned by Connoly have been there a few seasons now and I'm just a little frustrated we didn't put it together like this last year, when we were pretty compeditive and should have/could have won games against Richmond, Geelong and the Lions, which would have created a much different story for 2020. Still to almost go 11 straight this season is sensational and I'm just hoping that we can continue to get better, dominate the second half of the season in an even more convincing manner and the carry that form, belief and killer instinct all the way to that one day in September.

Would love any of Jack Viney, AVB, Track, Harmesy, Hibbo or May to absolutely nail him in a final in front of a huge crowd at the MCG like 2018 against Hawthorn (Mitchell) and Geelong (Selwood & Danger come to mind). Keep your powder dry boys.

Was at that game as well and the Lions tactics and umpires lack of action were an absolute disgrace. Distinctly remember Charlie Cameron shepherding Max out of moving into position to mark several time in a way that was soo obvious, it's like the umpires were not even on the ground. Bet you they would have seen it if Max had have decked little Charlie though, which it exactly what big Maxy should do if that little runt tries it out again.