Sargent Shultz

greetings from Delhi, sadly the match is not on any of the 500 tv stations here. Really hope Mcadam has a great game and adds some more X factor to our sometimes impotent forward line

I fear Van Rooyen is the next Weideman - certainly has the same marking traits, reluctant to chase, prefer to mark from behind. He is however a much better kick

I also had a dream but for some reason it did not involve any footballers

small man syndrome? :)

I beg to differ, In his "Golden Years" at North he had Larkey a 198 cm 45 goal + CHF as his foil, and at his best matches at Melbourne he had TMac. Ben is not a pack marking CHF and needs another big body to take some heat. Who has he had this year? ANB, Jake, Spargo, Kozzie, Fritz, and more recently sometimes Max. We are so underdone in height in the forward half- given our game plan is to simply "bomb it to packs"

A Saturday morning reflection for my fellow Demonlanders. It's not how we wanted the season to end, however, there is a LOT to look forward to: We finished second on the ladder- so our team is pretty good and our top 6 are as good as anyone We are still, for 2 weeks, the reigning premiers :) We have 6 current or nominated All Australians Casey may well end up Premiers - so we have emerging players Back-to-back premierships are F'n hard to achieve This team will compete strongly for the next 4-5 years Goody is a great coach- a team does NOT finish 2nd with a Muppet What to fix? We need a couple of key positional slots filled- centre half forward and probably a ruck to help Max We must find out why, and fix, the last half fade-outs (i think the loss of Burgess is the reason our back half of the season went Kaput We need to change Stafford now, our forward line structure and game plane is Shizenhousen Goody needs to tweak the game plan to more attacking flair and less contested defense These are all tactical issues that should be easy to fix in a preseason. I know we are all hurting this morning but as the late, great, George Harrison reminded us "All things must pass" I

Weistwurst, or steak? The steak won

Off to the 6 pm sitting at Le Petit Bistro with the family. Have a steak Pomme Frites and a couple of Dry Martinis then catch the 7.12 from Kooyong. Should be at the ground just in time for the bounce. Expecting the Swans to put up a good fight until early in the 3rd quarter, and then the Dees will put their foot down and draw away for a nice 5-goal win. Expect the pressure to be on in a few weeks when we face The Filth. Regards The Sarg

Hope its a Swans supporter :)

The reasons why I am not worried. Our last game Vs Swans last game. Saints are hopeless. Brisbane just won a pretty tuff game.

https://apple.news/AhsPCUO3ARgquTOJSZbb-Cg ‘grundy was blown away when he meet with key melbourne figures’

Me too, got stuck into the vodka instead. Cheers everybody. Go dees

mmm mathew scarlett might have something to say about that https://www.geelongcats.com.au/video/378681/fans-finals-moments-the-toepoke?videoId=378681&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1506303153001

FYI When we belted Cats last week they had 1 player 21 YO or younger, Melbourne had 7. Great signs for our future. I think it will be 5+ years until the Cats, potentially, will be a force. Suspect Brian Cook (pretty smart fella) saw the writing on the wall and jumped to a list with huge upside - the big bucks Carlton would have thrown at him helps :) Mind you, he still has to deal with the most disfunctional Board in the AFL

Time to delete the “is Goodwin the right guy” thread. He had a clear vision of the game style he wanted us to play and stuck to it. Last night his vision was on full display

just passed on my 4 to a family in WA who i work with - they are rapt because apparently tickets are hard to come by? Naturally the condition was "yell like hell for the Dees" - being Eagles fans they accepted

Hi Friends Does anyone on Demonlande know where i can place a "Same Match Multi" on the Geelong Vs Melbourne Prelim? Here are my 3 legs; Dangerfield to shirtfront a demon player and not get reported, Selwwod to "accidentally" target Clarry's Head and get away with it, and Hawkins to "magically" somehow send Mazzy off with a head injury The only problem i see with my bet is the odds wont be that great. PS i also tried to get a bet on Selwood to get 3+ frees for ducking his head - but because he is elite at this no Bookie will take the bet- Blue = elite

9 secs left after max missed in 2018 and I think we still had a small opportunity after they kicked it in

Took awhile but finally the coaches agreed with me and guess what -brown goes well and we win

As usual I am in the Confusion Room. In the last 2 matches Tom, Charlie, Kozzie and Bayley have kicked 3 goals. That’s not 3 goals a match that is 3 goals in total. I get Pressure Acts are some sort of God that gets worshipped by the coaches, but can’t we expect Pressure Acts + goals from our forwards? Surely if Ben kicks 5 in a match, albeit VFL, he deserves a chance? He is proven at AFL level and was drafted to kick goals. I’m hoping it’s the weather as most have pointed out

My point was that coaches can and do make mistakes, perhaps persevering with Sam at the xpense of Ben is a mistake? Who knows only time will tell. The message sent to McDonald, loud and clear, was your not wanted at the club. The fact that Tom was able to rise above such a poor decison from the coaching/list management team say much about Tom and a fair bit about the others

Im sitting at my desk working and need a distraction, so lets keep going. Demonland is mostly made up of peoples opinions - not usually facts directly from inside the club. My opinion was that Brown appears to be ready to go now and Weid has not performed over the last 4 weeks- which part do you disagree with? Brown in rounds 7 and 8 kicked 5 goals. Sam in rounds 9,10,11 and 12 kicked 4.3. So, i had the opinion that maybe ther is another reason why Brown is not in the side. It does not appear to be form.

well now that you have brought up the coaches- are you refrerring to the ones that wanted to trade Mc Donald?

Possibly, or maybe they are saving Brown for the back half of the season, maybe they are still unsure about his injury? All i really know is that unless your " inside the tent" all our opinions are just that.