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BT is the worst. But Darcy follows closely, even worse than Ling. Just don’t understand how he has been on TV and radio for such long stints, comes across as an arrogant prat!

I think you’ve nailed it, exciting Dogs win, but high risk and style won’t win a final. Also Lever & BBB out hurts our structure. We seemed to run out of puff in the last qtr, I’m sure hot Alice Springs game and 6.day break didn’t help. Port also ran out of puff and only gave Cats an extra day break advantage.

The morning after, still angry but credit to Dogs, they played well. However without 10 more frees, almost the disposal count of an extra half a player, they lose. Particularly as they were almost 10 frees up after half time. Compare the Jack Viney swing around and kick the ball, to Bontempelli over 360 tackle and throw/drop one handed the ball. Kossie catches Dale in middle of ground vs Demons getting pinged. Across season they have most frees in AFL. Just bloody annoying. Watching the game, minimal umpire whistle, Demons winning. Umpires whistle Dogs get back into game. Same happened last year in same game. Anyway as mentioned by a few, Kossie goals we win.

Umpires - totally bl..dy inconsistent Umpires - killed our momentum

Umpires - best for bulldogs

Screwed by AFL 6 day break vs 8 then screwed by umpire’s

Cheating maggots

Different rules on disposal playing against 25 no whistle demons score

Dogs never get pinged for throwing

Dogs get a dream run with umpires

Bl..Dy Geelong - umpires come through in the end!!

Go Power - did I really write that? Yes, I hate the Cats!!

Not for me. But you’d be looking at Pies wearing 30/40% of his deal!

Fingers & everything crossed Weid watches some video of his Grandad playing & wrestling and brings some grunt tonight. Good luck young fella!

Only seen 5-10 mins but seems like it’s Demons free zone. Dogs get a dream run with frees in maggoos as well!

3 of the games we lost, mid-game we lost 2-3 of our key talls, and Trac was crook so a man down. Then we stopped to a walk in the last quarter in each of those games due to loading. Swans got us with 2 free gift goals in the last 5 mins and 5 free goals for the match, and Pies got away in last 5 mins. Freo ripped us in 2nd half using height mismatch. Geelong got us in their GF at Kardinia Park! While probably only a qtr against Giants and Saints and most of Lions match, we’ve showed something approaching our best. Don’t underestimate last weeks win against Port. We have another gear to find, but we aren’t that far off clicking. When you listen to Goodwin and Yze they are very confident we are on the right track. Dogs might get us tonight, as this is one of the most important games of the season for them, but no Daniels or Duryea, seems like a big advantage to us. Pity BBB missing, but chance for one of our other forwards to step up. Still expecting us to win off the back of much superior defence and better midfield! Go Demons!!

Port were 8-3 prior to last week and had one of their strongest line ups all season, so off the back of a solid Demon win, Dogs one win against flakey Saints and we’re struggling with Petty & Oliver coming back in! Demons to do the business against the Dogs tonight!

Wouldn’t you love to have Jakovich and Lyon/Neitz or the young Schwartz pre knee ops in our team!!

Spoke to Mr Ed. Our stallions don’t like the nags we’re playing against and are going to get home with a little tune ‘freed from desire’ playing in the background. Demons by a very long neck!

Bowey debuted round 19/20 last year 😃

If by strange side you mean line up, it would be surprising if we line up like what was printed. Otherwise Melksham in for TMac and Jordan for Bowser are only changes, plus medi sub from last years GF team. Demons had a good win last week, so did Dogs but they are front runners, don’t put pressure on them and away they go. Dogs injured in Caleb D & Duryea are major outs, Daniels has hurt Demons big time in a number of matches and Duryea is very good and Dogs best at minimising small forwards influence. Bruce just back and not in form only helps their structure, but he has a way to go! Their defence is still ordinary, forward line not much better than last year and midfield the same. I’m confident Demons winning margin closer to 35 points!

Melksham did fumble a couple in first half but was more assured with ball in 2nd half. He obviously did what the FD wanted last week in playing his role, and gets picked again as his reward. Also was much more team focussed with his ball distribution. Personally the more commentary I see and hear on our Forward structure, would be great to see JVR given a crack at it!

And possibly an extra 50 or 100K per annum. If Your in the shoes of Gus with concussion history a longer term deal would be high on wanted list. Going to another Vic team, he might get midfield and a bit more cash, but walks away from his leadership position at Demons, friendships, relationships, success, then has to restart at a new club.

Weid is a tall when it comes to height, but doesn’t play with busting pack aggression or presence, that’s why TMac was preferred. Sounds like JVR plays with aggression and has great hands, might be worth a try. Looks promising from the snippets I’ve seen of the VFL. Re loading, could FD be holding JVR back until loading finished and he comes up fresh round 20 similar to Bowey last year. Brereton wasn’t a tall CHF but was great competitor, aggressive and smart - hoping JVR can be similar! Smith brings something else, not quite big enough, but pretty quick, and his defensive side has improved, so he might be able to offer some of what TMac did. Also his odd brain fade won’t cost a goal in forward line. Agree with your prior comments on Melksham, played role well last week, but we need the 3rd tall for balance! Helps BBB and frees up Fritsch.

While keeping Jackson would be preferable, Hawks after losing Franklin, and Cats - Ablett, managed to win flags and Cats having renewed a list that has made top 4 majority of last 15 years Cats do have a number of massive benefits due to their location that helps with managing list)! If it’s Freo, I’d take Lobb, best ruck/forward replacement, want a first pick this year and next year for our second. Why Lobb, if Jackson leaves you go Max then no Jackson or Daw, so must bring in AFL ready replacement. The two firsts are obvious, to give Taylor enough flexibility to draft or trade for additional forward power! If Freo are paying 1.3m per year, means Demons would have been paying 900k - $1M, so opens up $$$ for Gus, Kossie etc. It is a pity, as LJ, Kossie, Rivers, in 2019 draft were the next generation after Trac/Oliver, but hopefully Taylor can pull a rabbit out of a hat with picks we get for Jackson!