Docs Demons

Agree here. I thought we hit them hard at every opportunity. With Trac I believe he is a confidence player and yesterday's game will do him the world of good. Can excuse some basic errors. Just think he will take a game by the throat very soon and trust it is Friday week.

Fellow Demon Supporters. Have booked flights for myself, 2 Sons and Twin Grand Sons. Coming down from Brisbane. Ex Vic boy however haven't been to the G since late 80's. Before I buy tickets tomorrow what do you think is best position Cat 3 or 4. Your assistance in advance is appreciated. Also any half decent accomodation close to the G ? Thanks again.

Talking old days here dieter. I opened batting for Box Hill against Geelong in a Sub District game at Kardinia Park back then we used to stay over night and make a weekend on the P. Mum used to listen the cricket on 3GL

Very confident we will. Ablett looks for easy balls which he wont get against us, Selwood not like old and Frost will stitch up Hawk which leaves Harmes for Danger and game over. I hope!

Flights booked from Brissie. First final live for me since prelim at VFL park (old Vic boy) when Jimmy gave that penalty. Book tickets for me, Sons and Grand Sons on Tuesday then accomodation. Had to ensure flights first. Go Dees.

How many AFL listed players do Willy have? I assume NONE and we still had 9 but lost by 5 goals!

What we must do is start well. Plenty of pressure and put score on board early to take out crowd which in turn will take out umpires. Weid to assist Gawn with 3 goals between them and plenty of others from Tom Mac etc. and we win. SIMPLE.

Disagree. I think we have a very good chance of winning this and cementing a place in the finals. Weagles, I believe are not that good and definitely not a top 2 team. Our structure without Hogan, as funny as it seems will be better and ensure players deliver with eyes open! We will win plenty of the ball and trust they look for our players for a change. I am confident on this one and we will put all the doubters to bed. I hope!

He has to be selected and give Max a chop out in ruck so Tom Mac can stay up forward. Then it is up to him. He has failed with the opportunities he has had in the past. Must win game for the team and Weid must deliver.

Again I have not or do not want to read all posts on this but my take is it will give someone else a go (maybe Weeds) and you never know it may well make those up the ground to FINALLY lower their eyes and look for someone spare in the forward line in lieu of tossing it up in air at Hogan. As bad as it is for Hogan this maybe a blessing for us and our entries into forward line will be better and forwards work better as a unit.

The delivery at times is ordinary however Jess struggles to get in right position and when he does win the ball his kicking for goal is poor. This holding the ball and moving it left /right etc before kicking is not what should be done. Just hold the ball and run straight at the goals. I hope he can become a first class KPF but must start taking strong pack marks, lead more often and kick bloody straight. Still a youngster so here's hopeing.

OK I'll give you that one.

Does it really matter. Other than Viney and Hibberd the rest of possible ins are not much better than the 6 or so we want out. I believe we have only 15 AFL players and the rest just good , ordinary VFL players. If our top 15 don't play at their best then we are done like today.

Well said Old Dee. JJC and others must take into account they had 20 players from mid way through first quarter and we still found a way to lose. It's just happening all the time and even if we made it to finals will be out in first set. No leaders, no one to drag the team up and follow him. Blokes like Petracca get their ambitions mixed up with their capabilities and most of the rest choke big time when pressure is on.

Concur. Great servant and player but today ran around by himself and never GUT ran to cover the Sydney players. Ran around in middle by himself looking for cheap kicks.

You people all are joking. Can't blame the Umpires. Try blaming those insipid blokes that wore our jumpers today. They were the one's that lost us the game not the Umpires.

That's what happens when you only have 20 players and beat a team with 22. Only the Demons can do that. I am just waiting for the day that we can be arrogant but now 65 and don't know how long I can wait

Even if we do get lucky today showed me we would just chock again in first final so why get us excited to make it. Might as well finish 9th and then get rid of at least 6-8 players that played today to REBUILD again.The skipper is first to go. Sorry I said skipper, I meant Jones as he is no skipper.

I will apologise in advance but ANB along with Pedders, Spargo, Garlett, Hunt should not be in a AFL side. VFL players at best. Again we lost this at selection. Pedders, Hunt in for first games in a while against a desperate Swans outfit did not work. Vince would have been good today with his positioning and kicking. For goodness sake they had 2 down in 1st quarter and we were absolutely useless. I'm sick of it and players that think they are good need to actually show us they can play under pressure. Got 2 games to do it but I doubt it.

He can play on the bloke in the first row

No change for me. Must go in with settled side and trust Hogan is fine. Happy to give Smith and Spargo another chance to show their best.

Exactly however also they had assistance from the midfield plus when the pressure is on Tex, Lynch and Jenkins go missing big time. Just look at Tex in the GF last year. That aside our 2 key backs are holding up OK and when we get Hibberd back to help we could go along way. That was a very very good win to come back from 20 points down and win by 13. Prefer Alice with 90 point win but this will give the team the belief they can win close games. Bring on the last 4 games.

No change for me however a close look at Hogan is required.

Great win and badly needed after Saints and Cats close losses. Now we need to put the peddle down on Suns and come home strong against Swans, Weagles and Giants. Do that and maybe a top 4 finish or at worst 5th and still get a home final. We still have plenty of improvement.

I hope we take a lot out of last night and learn where we went wrong. That aside as long as the players are not down and can get up again I thing we can be a real nuisance come finals time. We showed last night we are as good as anyone in the comp when on. Just need to do more with our forward entries and play for the whole game. The skipper needs to take control when things are tight and I thought he went missing at the end. On a positive we should have and could have beaten Cats on their own ground. Lost by 2 points with Lever, Viney and Hibberd out. Not a bad effort in my opinion.