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Congrats on 100 for the Dees. Given great service on and off the field. Saw him at the Duke with Roos one evening, seemed like a ripping bloke!

What is he doing now?

Ratten was a great midfield coach for the Demons. Wellman was a brilliant backline coach for the Demons, organised everything we currently struggle with doing: - Don’t all go up for the punch - someone stay near goalsquare - backline hold back six structure rather than getting too high - track the crumbing forwards around ballups & throwins in the forward line He also did the same for Bombers under Hird.

Has AVB improved in the two years he missed?

Cats, Port, Crows, & Eagles get the best umpiring treatment in the land at home! Port game still burns, as we were totally screwed over by the maggots! Anyway back to better topics. Great win Demons, after giving 20 points head start and also off 2 day less break, managed to hang on! Am loving Harmes form, too many posters have wanted to write off young Dees who hadn’t played 50 games, great to see him as an example of many who are getting better and better!!

Unchanged, unless Hogan needs a week out to recover from many problems and I would bring in Weideman. Bloody great win!

Would be great to make the eight this year and win a final. While Dogs & Tigers flags seemed a surprise both had made finals before, not sure the last time a team made finals for first time & went all way to winning GF! Yes I know Tigers 13th in 2016, but made finals the three preceding years. If miracle happens, Dees make finals and keep on winning, will be deliriously happy ?

I would like to see all 18 teams play against one another in the first 17 rounds. Then we would see the positions after an almost even drawer. Then you play your other 5 games in the run home to the finals!

Reading all the negative posts would think we lost by 10 goals at home to a bottom team last week. Same team fronting up again and while I don’t feel particularly confident, they will at least give it a crack, and hopefully hang on this week. Go Dees!!

Thanks for the link radar detector, provides some context. Four points this weekend means more!

Nailed it!

As there is no explanation to what the figures mean or represent it is just numbers, that looks like we’re 2nd best but 60% behind Tigers. what is FMI?

Reward their fans welcoming behaviour!! FMD!

While 12 might get you in, would need to be very very lucky. We aren’t! We are going to need 13 wins plus our strong percentage!

Roos said that one of the major indicators of improvement was Percentage. Personally I like wins, but we are getting better. Max kicks goal round one. Umpires don’t win game for Port. Then Dees beat Saints the following week. Cats miss one shot at goal in last qtr. Demons a clear game on top! Also if my Auntie had balls she’d be my Uncle! But in reality, we’re not that far off it!

1. We are the highest scoring team in the league and everyone on Demonland believes we can improve how our forward line functions. 2. Without Viney and Hibberd who will both hopefully comeback in 3-4 weeks, we only lost to Geelong away after they kicked 16.4. 3. Since the Tigers in round 5, we should have only lost one game vs Pies a schooler, all the rest we should have won. Once the younger stars Oliver, Trac, Brayshaw, Hogan learn how to lift & win the tight ones, Demons will be a force, Viney would have helped against Cats!

1. Add Viney was out of our team to point 1 of Dimmy & Big Red, we are building something special, just have to learn how to win the close ones! Tigers had to take that step and did. 2. I was in the air & missed the game, so didn’t suffer as much as if I watched it live. 3. Tommy Mac just keeps getting better as a forward.

Last year we dropped the two to North, and losses against Freo, Hawks & Pies that we expected to win. But won 3-4 against the odds. This year we’ve been the opposite, flogged most of the weaker teams, except Saints, yet not had an unexpected win. I’m not confident against the Cats away, but hope today is one of this years unexpected wins. It would be a big win for the Dees!

We’ve played far better away than at the G, smaller grounds seem better suited to how we play. Last year we won a number of games I really didn’t expect, Crows & Eagles away automatically spring to mind. We have not done that this year, so we are due to deliver one against the odds win, would be great if it’s today!! Blind faith in the unexpected, Dees by any margin will do!

Poor first half, but positive 2nd half, used the ball well and 8 tackles. Worth another week.

JKH similar to Frost has looked very solid in the VFL over the last 5/6 weeks. Good luck to JKH, bring your best today like Frost did last week.

Your kidding!

Well he ducked when he should have Draked against the Saints, Port & Cats those three losses by a combined 15 points hurt! Still we’ve got to step up and win four more, we are doing a lot right, just need a few things to happen: - minor improvement going into forward 50 - back six stay a bit deeper, with a player almost being a goalkeeper in the square (like the Tigers) - increase two way particular defensive running, so don’t get carved down the wings with teams on a break We do the above and we win four plus of the last seven. Go Dees!

Last year we beat Crows and Eagles away no Max no Hogan and a few others. If we are good enough we win at least four games of the next seven and with our good percentage will play finals. If not, we will have gone backwards this year.

Team looks and definitely is slower than last week. Lets hope JKH brings the best of his VFL form to Saturday against the Dogs. Vince is thereabouts, so okay in for JSmith. We just need to win, 5 plus goals would be good.