Red But Mostly Blue

Booyah! Weid just needs some confidence. Hopefully this gives him a buzz to slot a few in the last quarter.

The Weird! He has got to ice this

Maxxy is down on form. Wow.

Rare mess up by Salem, lucky it didn't cost us a goal.

Bradshaw's defensive work has been immense.

Fritter is not a mid-size! With that hair, he's a tall! And he's standing tall.

Lyon is such a [censored]. There's no pleasing him. We're apparently not winning due to pressure, but because the dogs are off and 'spooked'. What the hell? Maybe spooked because of our pressure?! I swear, when we're holding up the cup, I hope he is watching from the stands.

We need a quick response to remind the Doggies that they're not going to catch us.

Loving these deliberate calls against us. Really fitting, almost comical.

I thought he'd get called for sure hahaha

And that's why Melksham is there. Great vision, perfectly executed. Goal assist, huge.

Statement quarter - BOOM The pressure. Intensity. Tackling. Fritter's intercept and goal a joy. Long way to go, but we are ON Let's go! Do what the dogs have been doing to lesser opposition this year.

I'm a little worried tonight: - Playing at Marvel - Doggies red hot - We have had a tendency to start slow - The Doggies are the wrong team to start slow against, or give too much room (we've been guilty of that, too). - Years of letdowns, brittle psyche etc. BUT I've got to build faith from somewhere, and that's what this team is doing - so I'm going to keep faith. I think we'll come out firing. We might not win tonight. We certainly can, and I obviously hope we do, but all I really want is an honorable performance by a team who is the real deal, building towards something huge. The Tigers had heaps of losses as they built towards their flags. A loss is not the end. Whatever happens, we have to show up, bring hell and prove that no matter the result, this is only the beginning. Because it is, go Dees! Pumped!

Tonight we're the hunters again (which I kind of prefer). We need to bring fire from the first bounce to show the Doggies what they're in for. The game against the Blues shows that the Doggies can be exposed. The Blues couldn't finish the job, but we're not the Blues. So if we start early, we send the message and never let go. Kind of like bulldogs when they latch on to something.

This is a good point. It's been a very long time since we've been able to say we have someone of Brown's caliber as depth! Tmac must be feeling that he pretty much has to play out of his skin every week to keep the gig!

Completely agree with this, especially Weideman's role. All communication from the Club seems to indicate they are committing to Weid (he's currently fit, younger, 'the future' etc.), which I am ok with - he needs time to build momentum and confidence at this level. IMO certainly capable. I also think Jackson would make a great tall mid capable of forward stints. A real matchup headache. It causes problems, though. Because we have paid good money for Brown, and we will want a return on that at some point. There's no way we planned for TMac/Jackson's respective efforts this year. So with the push to focus on Weideman, I wonder how they will address Brown going forward.

Great article about the boys buying in. As stated, it was never really a talent issue (although recent recruits in Jackson, Kossie Rivers and Langdon etc. have certainly helped), but one of mindset. Given how long we've been in the wilderness, and associated with poor culture/mindset, it will take some time. We're only really seeing the beginning, which is really exciting! This is the birth of a new club, or at least a renewed club. Part of me was worried that the Crows loss might see us fall into bad habits, but I've seen so many positives this year that I am comfortable that we will come out swinging against the Doggies - they'll have to earn the W.

Ok I've had a good glass of red. Maybe two. I'm still bummed we lost to the Crows. But you know what, let them have it. They'll be nowhere near the action in September. And we'll exact revenge before then. I feel like we've been building up for this loss, maybe the boys have as well. It had to happen so it became a self fulfilling prophecy? Almost everyone looked way off. I'm kind of ok with losing to these guys... ... As long as we bring FIRE next week! Hopefully some important ins next week (Viney would be great, but at the least Salem, and BBB but I'm not sure they'll drop Weideman). Hope Maxxy finds himself soon, he's been pretty average. The Doggies will start favourites next week and rightly so, they haven't been as shakey as us this last month, but for once this year, I'd love us to come out breathing fire. They aren't the Roos, we likely won't be able to play catch-up. The boys need to turn up and play for each other, keep up with structures and avoid the fancy crap. Go Dees, we can beat the Doggies with our best.

It looks like the Demonland server is also disgusted by a loss to the Crows? ?

That was deliberate, not that it matters. We played like trash and deserved to lose that. We would have lost by more if not for Clarry. Fancy losing to those posers. 1v 16. And with Tex kicking the winning goal. I feel sick. No more 'we get the job done despite being sloppy', we need to fix things for next week as the Doggies, and then Lions will not be as forgiving. Maybe it's the loss we needed to have but gee we need to be a lot better.

Umm we need a goal? I don't think I can handle Tex winning the game for these posers.

May was nowhere near him, why!?

Clarry has been HUGE! The difference today, easily.

How did we balls up Clarry's good work!?

In one half, the crows have nearly kicked the average FT score against us this year... Defence has been woeful (Jetta poor, May having a mare, we are missing Salem big time), skills have been sloppy, we're giving too much room and generally look gassed. I know we have to lose at some point, but I'd rather it was not to these posers.