Red But Mostly Blue

...Technically 'Narrm' lost today. Go Melbourne Demons! The streak continues!

I hope Bowey is ok ☹️

This has been coming for a long time, but ugh, seriously I'm struggling to find anything positive from today's game. It's a loss we need to have, some of the boys need a kick up the pants, and the natural motivation you can only really get when you lose and have to start chasing again. We were hunted tonight. We need to reset, and get back to hunting others, for 4 quarters. It's been a long time since we did that and there are some tough games coming up so we'll need it.

This is embarrassing now. Losing is fine. I have expected it was coming for a while, we really haven't been that good for a while but this is not a proper loss. We've had no answers and there have been a lot of passengers today. This isn't panic stations obviously but other teams will be looking at our lack of response with interest.

Haha I gotta live in a better place than we're in right now! Just hope we make this looks little more respectable.

Yikes. Ok so we're not going to win but I'd like us to at least show some ticker here otherwise we're sending a message to the rest of the comp that we can be beaten. Which I know we are. Everyone is. But this is not a premier's loss.

If there's a side who can pile then on quick, it's us. But we need to start... now!

This would be a good time to kick a goal, to celebrate 200 and keep us in this. Just.

Wow ANB, we are low on confidence. That would have been the perfect start

Even though we got well and truly smoked in that quarter, some of our misses are now coming back to haunt us. Fritters snap miss when we were on a roll, Weid's post, Trac's snap miss, they'd have us about par right now. I have confidence in us running over the Dockers, generally speaking, but aside from a burst in the second quarter, I'm not sure where it's coming to come from today, we look really flat, and it really does feel like it's going to be the loss that we need to have. I think we've been coasting for a long time and many of the guys really need a jolt. Maybe the loss will do that. A reminder that we are good, but need to be on our toes always, anyone can beat anyone on any given day. I think we can win this. But we need to come out breathing fire.

I know we've been winning, but the last few games really haven't been convincing against plodders, and it felt like we've been inching towards a loss we need to have but I really hope it's not against the Dockers because I don't think they're that good, and it has shown in their last few games against fairly ordinary sides. It's time to find something here. Steady, kick a few goals.

We haven't won a third quarter in quite a while? Need to step up NOW, the Dockers are carving us up all over the place.

Cranking the gear here. We're probably in third gear now? Haha. We'll probably save the higher gears for the better teams, but in saying that I hope we continue to respect the Dockers today, and keep our foot down and crush them 😊

ANB is an excellent example. I am still truly amazed at how far he has come over the last 1-2 years. His skills and split second decision-making/creativity has been great to watch. On top of that, he gets in the right places, applies a ton of pressure and generally kicks the goals. Results.

We now boast the best defence this year (per crude stats anyway), by just one point over Freo.

Didn't think I could ever feel this frustrated after a 74 point win over the Eagles. But such is the life of being a Demon haha. Strange to talk about forward entries after such a big win, but I hope they look back and focus on better entries going forward. Still, 9-0. Go Dees! ❤️🔥

Isn't McGovern dissenting?

Great work from the boys today. Destroyed when we needed to, and absorbed the rest. Scoreboard was flattering for the Saints. Wowee Langdon, kept quiet one week and this is what he does? Love it! 3 games and percentage clear of 4th, with the Roos and Eagles coming up. 🔥🔥🔥

The Hawks are always a nuisance against us, I'm just glad we take the points and there were some good positives today (not the covid ones), like Bedford. Another game where we should take the 4 points and move on, hopefully with more of our list available. A little wobbly at times, but we'll get there - definitely by the time we win the flag again this year.

I'm not greedy, that'll do just fine haha

The boys know what they're doing, we'll be fine. We'll be fine. And we'll certainly want to improve on last year's result against the Hawks...

Incidentally, we've now beaten the teams currently placed 11 to 16 on the ladder haha. If we beat the Hawks, they'll be our biggest scalp this year.

Let's take the 4 points and move on. Didn't think I'd be saying this based on last year but we'll need to be a little sharper, or at least shoot a little straighter against the Hawks and Saints. Now, I never want to talk about this game ever again. Petty awesome.

Our delivery inside 50 has been pretty ordinary tonight.

I really hope they don't kick a few and make the scoreline look respectable, because it shouldn't be.