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AFL should be hammered for letting this happen: - Mummy & Nankervis thugs, opponent beats me oh I’ll hit him in the head - if DeGoey got sent off for a quarter would have a better effect (replay should be used on this type of crap)

Umpire 22 isn’t up to standard, but seems to get game after game. A few shocking decisions, but at the end of the day, three things stood out to me: - Demons just didn’t run, incredibly flat - Our disposal was poor - A few selfish actions cost us goals When you look at how poorly we played, hard to believe we were within two goals with two minutes to go!

Agree, as a few others have previously posted. Demons looked flat and didn’t run. If we’re not willing to run we won’t win many games! If we run we are very hard to beat!

No run nails it, equates to lack of effort! Very disappointing, but still at 11-2. Weideman is a liability at present, hope he can turn things around, but we can’t keep picking him! Limited preseason often bites!

Kossie to kick nine after half time wearing the cape!

I went to VicPark once, behind a happy family, little nugget running down to the fence, Dad telling wife to shut up or he’d smash her, in between trying to pee into his empty cans, lovely atmosphere!

Totally agree, just let them argue with Port supporters about whose right it is to wear the prison bar jumpers, so they can feel at home. No need to call them Bogans or criminals!

Having suffered through 57 years of agony watching the Demons and hoping for our miracle run in 87 to keep going, then in 90 hoping we might have snuck a flag because no team stood out in home & away, then 99 prelim loss to North going close, and either 2004/2005 when we were top with 4-5 games to go and came to a grinding halt, this team is different: - we have star firepower (Max, Clarry, Trac, May, Lever, Salem, Langdon, TMac reborn) the first three are elite! - team first football exemplified by Brayshaw, Viney, Spargo, Jordan, ANB, Hibberd, Harmes, Sparrow - youth & excitement in Pickett, Rivers, Jackson & Petty - class from Fritsch, Even Melksham who is doing his role - Weideman competes just needs to believe, grab those marks and kick straight - very solid defensive unit, protected with team defence (just need to clean up on those roving goals from forward stoppages) - we fight back in games, think Tigers & last night, just fantastic - we RUN and RUN and RUN and RUN and tackle, MFC have never ever done this before! - we can improve and will as the belief in this team continues to build - We can win FLAG, fingers crossed for just a bit of Lady Luck! - As my kids would say, last night was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Weid has to impact when he gets it, because he doesn’t get it often!

I really enjoy your analysis and you have really added to the terrific podcast! Hoping you are spot on tonight, slightly concerned about Langdon missing and still waiting on either Weideman tonight or BBrown to click in the forward half, as neither have made our forward half better with their presence! As always go Dees, am hoping they start same as last week against Dogs, happy to take any winning margin!!

Max gets zero protection from the umpires, and gets targeted every week by opposition. His impact is huge, covers a lot of ground, he is just super Max!!

Good call, would like to see Lockhart get a run, and love Rivers acceleration, it would be great going into forward half.

Agree that Tigers pressure brought Dogs demise! Harmes on Macrae Hibberd on Bont Spargo or ANB on Daniels Hoping Salem is fit

Oliver is awesome - there weren’t any Demonlanders last year willing to trade him re Blues. AWESOME!

I can’t resist, I know we’d like two Tracs, but I think TMac is ok at FF! Be happily surprised if Viney gets up but think Fritsch survives! Agree with rest of your sentiments with one exception Benny FF for Weid!! TMac CHF!

We had forward success with: TMac & Jackson - Tall Spargo & Pickett / ANB Small Fritsch & Melksham - Medium marking You add either of Brown or Weid in and Melksham must go out, as if he stays, we become too big & slow, you lose too much tackling and speed pressure! Against the Dogs I’d bring in Brown and drop Weid & Melksham! Dees will have a significant height advantage in forward line. I’d also be tagging Daniel with Spargo or ANB!

Lever penalised for deliberate, as Crow player shepherded ball out, free and goal. Spargo done for accidentally toe poking ball out in our forward line! Crow player smashes handball out of bounds, throw in! Zero consistency is what supporters hate! Anyway interstate home teams and Geelong where the fans are 95% plus for the home team get a 3-5 goal benefit from the umpires at home, and particularly in last quarters! We wuz robbed! The fact we were very average, is beside the point!

Drop the umpire for six weeks - might help him make the call next time!!

Get out of the blocks fast and cruising to a ten goal victory would be a great way to spend Saturday afternoon! Perfect prep for Dogs!! Spread the goals around, but Weid with 3-4 would be great, final request, kick more goals than points, 18-12 sounds good!

When we played Tigers how dirty they are stood out, Nankervis & Lynch the standouts. Watch what happened to Max every time he took a mark in front of Nsnkervis, got smashed into the ground every time, not one 50. Plus all the other hits in head from Lynch/Riewoldt was why he was so slow against North, he took a battering against Richmond! Until one player takes AFL to court and their lawyer shows all the cheap shots to the head, dropping knees into players back etc. and it costs the AFL $$$$$$$ they won’t clean it up!

Excellent post, nailed it in one!??

The three that bug me are: - throwing the ball (Dogs get away with murder, won a flag doing it!) - dropping the ball in a tackle (Swans last week) - holding the man (rarely paid) Demon special: - how many times does Max get hit in the back of the head, blocked, belted into and rarely gets a free!

Keeping with winning team and minimal changes is a good way to go. If any players have more than a niggle, like Jackson give them a rest. Hence to state the obvious change this week: Out: Jackson In: Weideman Also not knowing exactly what coaches are asking each player to do, it can be difficult to know if they have played well or not! After watching the game on the TV last week, Brayshaw seemed to struggle, multiple out on the full kicks, but did he perform his role satisfactorily? Up to the coach! Similarly Fritsch seemed to have a poor game, but those half forward and pocket roles, it’s hard to play consistently well, week in week out.

I heard Mark Williams on radio a couple of years back re depth, saying one soldier in one soldier out is BS, e.g. Dusty by 24th player on Tiger list. If you lose Gawn, Petracca, May, Kossie, etc. they are very hard to replace, but at least we have reasonable depth across the field, and can protect structure: Key backs: Tomlinson out Petty pretty good replacement, if we lose another maybe Daw can come in Backs: Lockhart or Jetta Middle: covered above, but if we lose another you roll Brayshaw in the middle and perhaps Baker/Chandler/Sparrow on the wing! Key Forwards: Weideman Small Forwards: Chandler and Bedford Ruck: Daw At least we have reasonable depth and I’ve probably missed a few options.

In 2018 Max to Viney or Max to Brayshaw were the breakaway tap outs from the middle that stuck in my mind! He doesn’t seem to put it into Trac and Oliver chest that much! I would like to see Max have two hit outs a quarter where he just smashes it 20-30 metres forward when we’re having a bad centre clearance patch, at least get some territory forward, and put Kossie in the middle a little more often when we’re struggling, just his speed and elusiveness would be good to throw into the mix!