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Show real commitment celebrate flags 2026-2030 a true dynasty! If we miss any of the years put a line through it!

I think when he suggests to start Kossie in the middle next week, that might let him go a week early as his mind has already moved on! 🤞

Then again perhaps there was a Cinderella clause, if your foot can fit into the boot that matches Jeff White’s face! Can believe our media release didn’t start with according to Wilson, McClure, Barrett & Co. no matter when what how who our process was flawed and that’s how we ended up picking the horror writer Stephen King!

The selection process obviously flawed, should have been a height restriction criteria!

Who else has supposedly dropped out of?

Very good post. Only 15 coaches have won a flag since 2000. When you look at complete list of coaching appointments over that time, new vs experienced is a much better guide! Was Roos a failure at Melbourne? No, we improved each year and he started with a basket case of a team!

Matthew’s has 3 Malthouse 1 Williams Worsfold Roos Clarkson X 4 Hardwick X 3 (going ok at Suns) Goodwin the best flag Thompson 2 Longmire Beveridge Simpson Scott 2 McRae Fagan How many experienced coaches have been appointed in that time vs newbies!

Leigh Matthew’s says hello!

Collingwood Demonlander equivalent is called “Inmates” counting up to 10 is their advanced level of discussion!

Premiership player and a 100 plus games. Played some good ones and a deserving member of 2021 flag. Injuries have sent him backwards since then. Best of luck for future, but creates an opportunity for someone new!

While I was generally a supporter of Goodwin, but felt it was time for a change! He may have spoken clearly, but I recall one of his B&F speeches I would put on when struggling to get to sleep and it always worked a treat!! 😴

Thanks, punctuation has never been a strength! I haven’t found the spellchecker & grammar button in Demonland!! If you measure Roos time comparing each season he coached to the preceding year, there was a substantial improvement each year! If you look at sports team results around the world, any sport, teams have a better record at home, note I’m sure someone will come up with an anomaly! Why: knowledge of the ground, stadium, wind etc! Higher team support, which typically leads to more favourable umpiring decisions. Routine, own bed, less travel etc! Pies & Cats both have significant advantages as clubs: Cats 9 home games at own stadium and not greatly disadvantaged in 7 other games played across MCG/Marvel as they play at each often enough! Also home stadium 95% of home fans due to ticket restrictions! Still benefit from a virtual go home academy, Dangerfield and more as an example! Numerous others I’ve mentioned before, including ex Cats stacked in at the AFL! Pies get 16/17 games at least interstate games of any club year after year, how often do they play at Kardinia Park! Umpiring through crowd number bias! Tribunal through MRO, even if only subconscious bias! It’s a joke that he is allowed to judge Pies players! There is more, but if you have any doubts about AFL trying to even the competition, Pies and Cats both benefit heavily from their treatment by the AFL!

Never in doubt! A football act! Michael Christian still as single person MRO says it all!

Agree on the following: Ump 22 definitely is anti Demons! Caro W definitely hates Demons! Dermie hates the Demons! Not many of Channel 7 commentary team like us either! When Demons won 2021 flag expectations were for multiple flags with the list and domination of that final series! The results got progressively worse each season thereafter! I feel we were unlucky with injuries in 2023! Our forward line and entries into the forward have not improved from 2022-2025, this is a coaching issue! After a shocking start to the season, then many close losses and finally a disastrous 4th quarter loss to the Saints, where the team was in disarray. These issues ultimately stamped Goodwins ticket out! Commercial maybe part of the reason, but not the reason Goodwin was fired!

Agree we have a range of forward challenges! Our most recent quarter of football against Pies and last quarter against the Saints looked like goalkicking and panicking to me!

Whoever is our next coach get a goalkicking coach - and get the players to do what Dunstall, Lockett and the best goal kicking and most accurate would do all the time, practice practice practice, they all were pretty durable, so no BS about too much kicking! That’s everyone midfield and forward - maybe even the defenders! Kick 3 more goals a week instead of 2 points and an out on the full, adds 3 goals a game, would lead to another half a dozen wins per year! Yes it’s not like the AFL would ever let a new team come in with a sub standard stadium to the competition. Demanding Tassie has a roofed stadium will uphold the ground quality traditions of news teams, just like GWS!

Unfortunately your 1st line is 100% correct! 2nd line seems on the money, but refer your first line for Daly! Re Buckley big ego no doubt, Sheedy, Malthouse, Matthews, Clarkson, Hardwick all seem to have healthy egos! Majority if not all AFL coaches go in with the premise - I want to coach and win a flag, irrespective of who they coach! Personally I would prefer Longmire, but expect a few things from Buckley: Elite fitness, perfectionist as a player/preparation so will find the best available in this area. Like him or not, he is respected in the AFL industry. Was a great player and will get respect from Trac, Oliver etc. and hopefully complete turning their careers around back to the champions they have been! As Roos helped bring in some players when we were woeful (worse than woeful) Buckley will draw in 1/2 players and assistants! He will have learned a huge amount in his first coaching stint and also while in the media, and should be better 2nd time round! If Demons grabbed a Mihocek or a Chol type to help straighten us up and let JVR be #2 key forward, that would certainly help! Then snag a good ball user added with some further improvement from Langford, Lindsay and Windsor and 2026 could look very different!

We must have been 3rd quarter kings! Because we dropped off badly in the last early in the season and last few weeks!

Flower (maybe my age bias) Oliver (till 2023 agree) Max Petracca Kozzie (little bit best yet to come and could go higher) Farmer Lyon Neitz Stynes Schwartz & Jakovich both cruel led by injury & could have been anything Notables: Wells, Alves Flower, Kozzie, Farmer, Schwartz & Jakovich could all do the unbelievable, such a pity last two injury challenged! 70’s and onward stars, never saw Barassi play as a Demon!

Hinkley for head of strategy at the Demons perhaps

If we were to lose Petracca you would definitely take Butters!

Awesome! But who what where? What do we trade?

Not necessarily! Need some new blood and improvement from current players. When Fly joined Pies they were supposedly cooked, a change in style, attitude and voice, meant they changed! So it can happen! Yes, before someone states the obvious “Fly took over from Bucks”.

Langford, Lindsay and Windsor have all shown plenty of signs they will make it! One of Kentfield, Jefferson, White turns into a reasonable Key position player and. Two of Mentha, Kolt, AMW or Sinema come through Add a draft pick and trade one player who some through and makes a big difference!

Thanks for the year Andy, Binman & George the time and effort you put into the podcast is greatly appreciated and commendable! While reasonable effort a Disappointing finish! The concerns: poor decision making in last qtr, happened too often last two seasons! Skills when it counts, went missing! Backline too slow, Salem, May & McDonald! Add Lever! Also think Petty! McVee shocking season! How much of a shake up is required? The need for some speed & skill! Forward line Petty not doing enough, Sparrow too many errors, Chandler did he play 2nd half and seems to start season well and gradually go down hill, JVR okay and hopefully better next year! The need for some speed & skill! In the guts also need for some speed and skill - might come in future from Windsor, Lindsay, Langdon & Rivers in mix! Promise: Midfield Max still gold! Rivers needs to learn how to settle when he has the ball! Oliver nearly back, Trac further to go, Kossie can’t do it all the time but still kicks 2! Fritsch showed his class. Langdon looks a ripper! Question: Who can we lose and what do we need? Biggest areas of ground we need to address?