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Ditto, just a brilliant win!

Huge thanks to Andy & co, Demonland is terrific, the podcast has great analysis, and some posters are just funny! I spend more time on Demonland than all other footy sources combined! Go Demonland & mighty Demons!

Most enjoyable thread ranging from: - Try harder - weak forward line - David King statistics highlight xx with little real analysis or any depth - Occasional TV analysis highlighting some specific points - Daisy, Bartels among better analysts - I missed Craig Jennings on the radio as he was pretty astute, this year Brenton Sanderson is okay - Realistically most analysts get a light touch view of the 18 teams across the season, so don’t go into depth on any team - Fortunately at Demonland courtesy of Andy we get Binman and George weekly, supported by Vipercrunch and a few others. They provide really good analysis and look behind what is in plain sight - Friday highlighted that Demons have been loading and started their build towards the finals 6-7 weeks ago. Demons were dynamic, speed of covering the ground, ball movement, skills were just fantastic. At half time Fagan must have just gone it f……. Happened again, they just blitzed us, no way we beat the Demons this year. We head into the finals: - Looking ready to peak in the finals, having torched the 4th team - Fit list with TMac possibly ready by Prelim final - Goodwin having kept a few tricks up his sleeve - Other contenders will have looked at that first half and gone oh crap, we ain’t winning a flag without beating the Demons who just destroyed the Lions in a half, not beat but massacred them - We know Trac, Clarke, Gus, Maxy, Frittata, Viney, Salem, May, Lever, BBB all big game players, look at Rivers, Hunt, Hibberd, Harmes, Langdon, Dogga, Petty, Sparrow all coming into form, Kossie firing on all cylinders, Spargo, Melksham using ball well and defending hard, ANB running till he spews(with a little help), and medi sub options galore - Forward line kicking over a 100 points and really we stopped in the last quarter - When it comes to TACTICS and timing looks like Goody and co. Have timed our September preparation perfectly with a few surprises up our sleeve GO Demons with just a little Lady Luck we are ready to March onto a back-back flag!!

He played well tonight and his drive in last few minutes won us games against Blues! He is definitely in!

Electric first half destroyed Lions! They went for a lot of cheap shots early in the game, we just shook them off and smashed them. Great win by demons!!!!

Lions playing man Demons playing the ball keep going Demons

There are shades of grey!

Opposition have either of interstate travel on same day - or sleep in different bed. 95% Lion supporters- umpire influence. Look at Basketball court same dimension, but major home ground advantage.

If we lose Jackson? Would be great to get Naughton, would be a huge addition to our forward line.

We kick 2 more goals rather than points we win. Pies kicked 15-4 and two rushed, they kick 13-6 and two rushed, still very accurate they lose! Season isn’t over yet!

He is getting the ball a lot, but has limited vision! Basically goes back ignores his first option, hesitates, waits for defenders and Max to roll back, then kicks it long down the line, every time! Perhaps under instruction, but in 50% of cases ignores someone 25-30 metres in front of him on their own. Ignores chance to go quickly and open up opposition. Aside from distance gained, the other stat that would be beneficial is metres gained that goes to a teammate.

If I hadn’t of seen the game and just read the Demonland comments you would think we lost by 6-8 goals! It was 7 points - yes, poor to lose, but not all is lost! Forwards have to tackle all game and we need to kick the easy goals.

Elliott got three goals from frees from good tackles. Ball also went quickly into the defence on too many occasions, so pressure built, and tackling by Pies in forward half was very good! Still they kick 13-8. we win. We miss two less shots, we win! Problems in addition to ordinary backline performance: 2nd half we got overrun! Pies tackling pressure terrific, we need to match next time, particularly in forward half. Jackson has been ordinary. While Melksham has played his role, I can’t see us winning with him in team, I’d like to give JVR a crack!

After half time umpiring all one way!

Credit to Collingwood for getting a win, they have built belief! Agree with your comments above and noticed how dirty Goodwin was in the press conference, could see he felt we blew it! Another day and same stats would result in a 10 goal win. Still we’ve lost games to Pies & Dogs in last few games we should have won! Up to Goodwin and coaching staff to make tweaks to get us back on track.

Binman I know you are very keen on Jordan, but he is so slow kicking the ball forward, always gives other team time to get all players back. If he took first option in front of him, would be significantly more positive and enable us occasionally to get into forward half quickly!

Collingwood player kicked it

Rubbish. Kick straight and we win tonight. Have some faith!!

I think Kossie kicked four in one of the finals last year!!

We had 29 shots at goal - should lead to an over 100 point score. Lack of tackles in forward line is a big problem -leads to ball getting down the other end quickly!!

Yep and the one he got in the 2nd came after Collingwood did fend off got caught in goalsquare, should have been holding the ball. instead ball up and Elliot got free - goal!

In Harmes or JVR Out Melksham We kick straight and win, don’t throw out all the toys yet. Tackling in forward half needs to be more consistent week to week.

Brayshaw said we when Pies kicked a goal at one point!

We had our chances to be well in front, so only ourselves to blame. Pies played hard, with belief, some luck but 65 forward entries to 41 should be a five goal win

Should have been six in front at half time Hard for Demons to get a free second half Pies probably got 6 or 7 goals from frees the last to Johnson unbelievably soft