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Yes, I’m looking forward to the positive three thread. Demons are improving each week. We are not perfect but the signs are positive. Bugg kicks 4 and applies pressure, he deserves to be praised. I don’t like Wagner, but admit he played well, so good on him. At four goals down playing against 25, it looked bad, Demons steadied the ship to go in 13/14 points down, that was positive. All teams have their issues, without Viney and TMac we’re going along pretty well.

Go close to an unchanged team, unless team structure needs to change against the Hawks. ANB and Melksham both on shaky ground, but would give both another game. Wagner, Bugg, Kent & Frost all played pretty well so deserve to stay in. Good to see pressure from Balic,, Weideman, Brayshaw and Pedersen from commentary on the Casey game!

Score?

Who kicked fourth?

Stats are worth a quick look thanks

Max kicks the goal against Geelong we’re 3-0! We beat Brisbane away, that looks good when you see they ran PA to 5points in Adelaide. Beat our hoodoo team in North by 5 goals 7, Fritsch robbed a goal, they had a 4 goal start, could easily of been 10 goals. Look at improvement in: Gawn Hogan Petracca OMac improved (Brown got 4 but two from frees) Salem yesterday showed signs Oliver not best day still 20 pos & 2 goals Garlett goals & great pressure Fritsch highly skilled can make things happen out of not much Still missing: Viney & T Mac 2of our best 6 Jetta, Hibberd, Lever will all get better and defence will gel overtime Melksham, Harmes, ANB can all play better Tyson solid yesterday Vince and Lewis also solid, especially last qtr for Lewis, but they are under pressure to hold their spots which is great. Jones, can see when he lifts makes a big difference to the team. Borderline Wagner played his best game yesterday, same with Bugg, Kent did well just needs to keep going, Frost made a solid contribution. Out of team, putting pressure on the firsts: Hunt will find form Brayshaw is close Pedersen good back up Yesterday was a team effort, a really good win! Once we win a few in a row and the backline settles, confidence will come and we will lift to another level. We are finals bound!

Would love to have actual stat on goals from frees yesterday, looked like 7 of Norths 13 came from frees or down field relays. Brown gets a dream run, elbows someone in the head nothing!

Very good win by the Dees! Umpiring disgraceful. Some incredibly poor decision both ways but North got more than half their goals from frees. Fritsch non Mark mystifying! Lever had a better game and uses the ball well. I’m anti Wagner but he played well today, didn’t run around like a headless chook. Seemed like a really even team effort, with better players previously named by other posters! Happy Day!!

If we want to make the finals it’s important to rack up the wins against the weaker teams and break even against the better teams. It’s also important to win with injuries. North is a weaker team and were missing Viney & TMac, so perfect opportunity to prove we’re up for finals!

Bugg will at least apply pressure. I see him as coming in at 21/22 position into the team, he makes the opposition earn it. Hannan is more skilled but goes totally missing for too long.

Forward pressure is the answer. Hannan floats in and out of games and from game to game. He will play one very good 3 goal game, two ordinary one goal some impact games, another one goal little impact game and two poor hardly touching the ball games. He needs to make it 2 very good games, 2 good, an ordinary and a poor, then he’s worth it!

Hunt has been the same since he knocked himself out! Either give him a rest or hoping he finds confidence in the twos. Still I would have gone Frost in for Wagner, and left Pedo at CHF.

Pedersen can’t afford to have bad games and vs Lions he was poor and just fair against the Cats. still thought he may have got one more week.

Frost for Pedersen, hard to see Frost forward, can provide Ruck backup to Max. Maybe Frost will play back and they play Petracca at FF or CHF! Then Kent for Hunt (who is out of form, but dropped ahead of the headless chook Wagner) I would have given Hunt one more week & dropped Wagner! Hopefully Kent brings his form from last week, but it was against a VFL scratch team! What about Brayshaw, maybe his attitude in the practice game went against him! I get Frost, not so much Kent, but surprised on the outs!

Any small-mid size forward who kicks 40 plus a year and provides tackling pressure is a must. Jeffy G is a gun. Would be great to see any of ANB, Harmes, Melksham, Fritsch kick 40 plus for the Dees.

Kent’s best is good, but I think he needs to do more than play a practice match against the newest VFL scratch team and kick 4. 2/3 good games should be a prerequisite!

I like wearing Dees glasses when watching, but when you watch things the 2nd time or in slow motion you get a good view. Max was getting tackled before he was near the ball and couldn’t get a free. The umpiring seemed one-sided.

I knew someone would come back with they beat us twice last year. We got royally screwed at the “G” by the umpires, I recall Cunnington smashing Vince in the guts in front of the umpire & he got nothing, that was just typical of what happened. We play well and for four quarters we win, wins and percentage across the season are a good indicator of the difference in teams, and we won twice as many games and had a significantly better percentage last year, and I can’t see where they are better, we have Hogan and Petracca who have both stepped up significantly and even OMac. Plus odds are we must eventually beat North!!

North don’t have Ablett or Selwood, that was a key component of why Geelong won, combined with a poor performance from half of the Demons players. If Melbourne front up and play well, we win. If we are asleep for a quarter and have too many players not put in, we lose. North were near the bottom last year for a reason and haven’t recruited any superstars, we should win!

1. Hogan’s continued improvement 2. Jeff G coming good after last week 3. We won, maybe not the greatest win, but we got the 4 points

They played on a flooded ground and Saints were 2.10 @ half time, don’t give them too much credit!

They played on a flooded ground and Saints were 2.10 @ half time, don’t give them too much credit!

I only saw 20 minutes of the game, mostly second half and Martin would tackle Max in the ruck as his first action, was let do it. The umpires don’t seem to like giving Max frees!

Totally different players , Judd was a jet, higher impact and pack escaping speed, Oliver is already a gun, ball magnet, great vision, clean, and Oliver seems to play well every week, can’t remember another Demon who has done that over the last 50 years. I look forward to watching him star for Dees over the next decade. He has a few mates in Petracca, Hogan, Gawn and Viney.

Wagner has one big problem, when he gets the ball he either turns it over or picks the wrong option and puts another player immediately under pressure. I would prefer Frost, who has speed and occasionally breaks the game open, running through the line. He also gets caught and disposal is iffy, but would always pick him in front of Wagner. Would like to see Brayshaw come in, possibly for Hunt who seems injured or restricted in some way at the moment! Only two changes, you need to give guys at least a few weeks to settle into the season. To those who will say Wagner only got two weeks, he played AFLx, 2 by JLT and first two AFL matches, would love to be proved wrong but he looks the same as always to me, NQR!