D4Life

Daisy - articulate, thoughtful, intelligent & insightful. BT - loud, excitable & inaccurate!

In the finals we absolutely smashed Lions, Cats, Dogs, but to start the season and during last season we had a lot of wins 20-30 points, almost holding the opposition rather than putting them away. Why the difference in approach?

Agree with your comments. The other thing on Demonland is a number expect consistent stats/goals each week - e.g. Fritsch only had one goal 6-7 possessions drop him, next week he kicks 5 goals from 6-7 possessions great game. Very few forwards have a consistent output week to week, as long as they are doing most of the right things FD stick with them and we see the results. Look at Bowey last week against Suns, 30 plus possessions, but as Goodwin stated, he played the same way the week before and things went his way last week.

Mithen plays for frees, but as you say above, Davidson twice her size, put UFC move on her and no free or report. After KKJ in press during the week that no report for rugby tackle was pathetic!! HTB is shocking, out in play take two steps get grabbed ball spills out, your done! However try and take on a few players around or through a pack, get tackled just drop ball or one handed throw like Lions in girls or Dogs in AFL, nothing to see here. Definitely most annoying interpretation. Other one for me is seeing player push someone out of marking contest while ball is 20 metres away and just waved on. Umpiring incredibly tough job, as only see a bit over half the action/vision, but the above and frees in the ruck drive me nuts!

AFL is like cigarette companies saying smoking not related to cancer! They don’t want to spoil the look of the game, while saying we’re protecting the head. Unfortunately unless a player is injured AFL really try ignore any action, unless by players not liked - Toby, Mitch etc. Then you have protected species in Dangerfield, Selwood & Hawkins who can do whatever they want, Hawkins broke May's jaw, could have broken Oliver’s neck, but Cats given free reign.

Goals undervalued, Weideman had to be in top 6 players for the night!

Crows have a lot of very strong girls in their team and more than a few players who handball really well out of packs. They will be hard to beat. Taylor Harris didn’t get much from umpires, seemed to get blocked, held, pushed all game. Hopefully Demons have a day out like against Freo and bring home the chocolates!

While Kissing Cousins is most appropriate with some banjo accompaniment for their theme song, Tassie Convicts with Chains as theme song runs it close!

Jake Bowey has 17 & 13, so he really has 30! Couldn’t resist.

Beat me to the punch! 😃👍

Only one change, Scott seems to have minimal impact again today, maybe does more structurally or off ball or off screen, but doesn’t seem to add much.

One smart footballer, looks destined to play 200 plus games.

Likely Ins: BBB (tall forward) & Lever ( tall defender) Out : TMac (tall forward) & Tomlinson (tall defender moving slowly) or May (looked injured) As highlighted above Port forward line not tall, so can’t see how Hunt is dropped, and he played okay.

I thought TMac hurt his back last year around time BBB came back in and also had a new baby. He struggled rest of year, but as mentioned did play a role, and enabled Fritsch & BBB to get free. To see him just clunk one or two more marks a game will help change the perception.

Big average but still 4 pts. Dogga, Bowey & Kossie 👍👍 Does umpiring get worse every year! Dermy & Dwayne should join the umpires, same quality!

Umpires disgraceful

Chol gets soft one for chopping Max gets hammered all night no frees

Umpiring??????

1. Sticks & stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me - but songs will 🤦🏻‍♂️ - resiliance lacking at the kennel? 2. KISS principle is perfect for footballers

Well & truly puts Carlton game in context.

6 months after the big day and watching momentum gave me goosebumps. Unbelievable final series and GF just fantastic, we had to wait 57 years, but made it worth the wait. Would be incredible to be at G and watch them go back-back in 2022! The goals in the third were just electric, Fritsch, Fritsch, BBB, wait a few minutes Brayshaw amazing courage, then Trac, Sparrow & Clarry, awesome! Go Demons!

If the Demons play anywhere near last week they will win comfortably. But different opponents and ground, kick straight and all will be good!😁

Bont is a gun and I couldn’t see how Daniel got a vote ahead of him in Norm Smith!

The ball movement was a class above anything I’ve seen in the AFLW. Assuming the Demons will gain a lot of confidence from this performance, and build further momentum leading into the finals, have their best chance of winning a flag - Covid willing!

Agree 100%. Small forward or half forward positions, rarely have high stats and when you look at best players have quiet games eg. Papley, Cameron. Kossie still keeps pressure up on his quiet possession days. I don’t think the umpires do him many favours, that missed head high tackle in GF as an example, if he got treated like Selwood would get 3-5 head high frees a week.