Deemania since 56

P2J - if you are there, can you PLEASE let us know on DL what is happening during the match? Here in Sth Aust, the promised free to air 7Plus is not producing a broadcast. Only for VIC residents. Deemania since 56

Yes, it would be nice particularly after he has had his run in the big league last week. He seems to play ok against the Hawks - if he runs to space to create the opportunity.

This is what we need; that competition for spots keeps players thinking and striving for betterment. Anything short of this is cushioning reality if success is to be achieved. For Nev, it is sad - as a sunset is for so many - he has been a great contributor to the Club and a rock in the foundations of our difficult years and gradual improvement. Not forgotten and particularly, not overlooked as his skills are still needed at the Club - he's not at the end yet, in other words.

Happy with the 'ins' as well. Also happy to see Daw as an emergency - he could be really useful and unsettling for the Hawks.

We must continously fit players into the team, not let them wilt on the vine because we hesitate with team selection out of little more that conservatism. We are to go places, instead; real depth, not perceive depth, is critical to that aim. Give the talent games, and thus keep game-day performances at a level of competitive excellence. Pay for footballers should not be a series of sinecures.

There was a close link and information flow between the Firsts and the Reserves - and this was explored and scanned closely by the general public (usually across several clubs at a time) before team selections for the game that week. Tens of hundreds of fans assembled at the ground during Reserve game time to observe, support and familiarise with the Reserve players prior to the main match that followed with the Firsts. It put the supporter '...deep inside the Club and the thinking that the Club employed...' that was updated weekly in 'both-teams' performances. Now that was an aspect of football administration that was effective, highly efficient and professionally organised - but it was scrapped ... never to return. Two games for the price of one every week and some weeks, there was a night series played, as well.

Good example. Steven Newport was one of the keys to our ball movement successes in that era; and, game by game, season by season, his skills shone brighter as he locked in on the Coach's requirements and the team cohesion. A highly underrated player, just like some people these days regard Gus Brayshaw.

It was accidental, so it's ok. Doesn't it make you want to spew, though?

We so far seem to lack the killer instinct. A little mongrel, like Vegemite, goes a long way.

That means he's fair dinkum, then. Outside 50s rehearsals, like the sound of that effort. Onyer, Benny!

I have heaps of support for Angus Brayshaw - on song, he is a terrific footballer, capable of really effective excusions into the forward line and finding (almost the only one onfield for us in recent years) that space to do that damage to an opposition. Highly rated but a midfielder he will always be - Clarry and Viney need to realise he has always been the source of our outside run and/or carry solution that we have looked tirelessly for through the draft. One day, the penny will drop.

He is fast. Have you ever looked at his leap? It's good. His reach is powerful and extraordinarily long; in fact, at least as long as BBrown's and Ben is famous for the height his hands reach. I'd play Daw for other reasons, as well. Not a solo performer but very good with a supporting team about him up front, down back and scurrying around the flanks when he is 'relief' rucking.

It is a 'sipping' scotch ... in the best top 7 for nearly 60 years. It will be a new bottle for me but I doubt that I will drink more than half, saving the rest for Richmond and then, the Swans, sometime in the future. Nothing like a few Carltons after a scotch or two.

our match committee is having a drunken orgy and has decided to just leave things how they are - well, are we to look askingly for the best forward line in the League (in a week or two with player returns and big name recruits champing at the bit) or are we to see a static and readable team listing acting out a re-hashed style of footy? By such a time in the very near future, Fritta and May will have returned, as well. That will aid the cause: best backline, best midfield, best forward line and most unpredictable game style(s) with the most difficult number of players for opposition coaches to attempt to cover. Change and readiness is everything and it is geared to widespread (as much as possible) bigtime experience. One man, at present is carrying the torch of enlightenment aloft most strikingly: Kozzie. A perfect example of change for the better.

This doube-header, as an act of some programmer's generosity, is a gift too valuable to actually believe. Particularly for Demon supporters. Bottle of Scotch about to be opened and lotsa ice. My Clan scotch - Talisker - (Isle of Skye) , just perfect. Donald where's your troosers?

It already sounds like a pilgrims' trek between two games; such are our loyalties. 'Carna Red'nBlues!

Heaven help Box Hill, I'd reckon. Hope we can generate and sustain some real mongrel.

Lucky bugger. I am stuck in Adelaide for the w/end ... telecast is on for both games, I think... but a very poor second best. Would love to watch and travel between the two venues, can of beer in hand ....

I'd love to see the return of the 'Reserves' teams playing before the 'Firsts' team at the same ground, same day. The atmospheric build-up to the main game was always a super part of a day '...at the footy...'

Ripper news, this double telecast! We are going to see, in succession, Casey and then the AFL game against the Hawks. Demon supporters have much to glean from both sides - particularly at this point of the season. Recoveries from injuries, depth of form, present and future challenges and potentials, mongrel pride and its contagion across 'our' two teams, all including an opportunity to expand out insights into the team we love - the Mighty Demons! Big weekend, good opposition, both a great chance for sewing the ragged hem of a footy season ahead.

This is how I would tackle the loss of Fritta and May. But, I would add Petty to the mix, decrease the smalls by one 'utility' type, continue to use Jackson across the fwd line as a utility and ruck chop out with Gawn, and Daw up front/back and flanking ruck. MBrown in as ffwd. Jordan and Chandler - or Bedford - across the ground from the bench.

For Jordan, it is his time to shine - he's got the goods.

Sensible, probable, appropriate.

Very big out. Bring in Daw as a forward; if proving to be below form, throw him into the backline and reverse roles with Petty (who should start a fullback. TMac must lift, once again, as a forward. Consider BBrown on the bench at first and then on in short rotations. Forget Weidemann, he ain't going to do it. Mitch Brown could come in - he can mark, lead to space(s), kick 'em; he can rotate with BB if necessary. Game on, carry on.

Long live mongrel. Kozzie has it.