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Great win , kick straight it’s a 5 goal win! They jumped us with 3 and we dominated the rest of the game, other than last 3 mins where umps changed rules! As mentioned by others Tomlinson very solid game, looked close to his early 2021 form, and backline looks better with him in it!

A loss would be disappointing today, but not season ending, just that we have a lot of work to do before the finals. A win today would be fantastic because we all hate the Pies! Giving us a better chance of top 4 and some hope for top 2, but flags are still won in September (most years 😃)! Whatever the outcome we have a lot to do this season, staying injury free being number 1. Go Demons!!!!!!!!!

Irrespective of what win or loss for the season means, would be great to beat the blxxdy Pies! The greater the margin the better!!

Fallback scenarios: - West Coast Eagles 2018 (We are the Eagles) - Swans prelim lose last year - Giants prelim lose 2017 - Demons 2021

One big difference between GF and today. The 60k Magpies criminal supporters will sway the umpires! But we will still prevail! GF day only 12k of the criminals get in and anti Pies sentiments and generally having best umpires means they don’t get an extra player via supporters influencing umpires like during H& A! Demons by 5 goals today!

Just wait till we sort it out!!

He was a genius, if Demons had played more finals and won a flag while he was playing, he would get much greater external recognition. A few of the state games highlighted his skill and superb play! The only reason to go to see the Demons fir about 5 years!

Binman do you work for TheRoar on the side, looks like your dialogue they are running with in this article??

Favourite recent Pies game, 2018 GF, even if I got head butted and another mate got punched in the train on the way home! it was okay though, we knew the guy and had given it to him for 5 hours after game finished! The best bit was telling him at lunch pre game after attending GF breakfast, Pies to lose with kick after siren as most desired result! Favourite GF after Demons 2021 glory!!

Would be great time for Demons to have a win against the Pies without Oliver! Sidebottom and De Goey are big outs for Pies as are Oliver & Petty for Dees. Hoping that Pickett sticks with younger Daicos whenever he is in our forward half. Demons need high pressure, tackle hard, honour the leads of our forwards and to kick accurately at goal!

Reeks of playing politics! Wonder who was the Hawk president at the time?

Could we potentially swap Yze and Stafford roles? Stafford the ruckman work with the midfield and Yze the goal sneak work with forwards?

Thanks for your terrific podcast, you do a fantastic job! I missed the game but am assuming we lost by a good 10-15 goals from the responses on Demonland! We must be out of the finals race! Looks like the following were problem areas: - key forwards - ball movement into forward line with dumping kicks versus what was happening earlier in the year - goal kicking - disposal generally ordinary - a number of players down on form - selfishness Interested on your thoughts re: - key forwards particularly TMac form and possible replacements? - ball movement into forward line - selfishness vs selflessness While sensing the frustration after two close losses, can’t the supporter base see what happens to clubs that fire coaches mid-season- it rarely works and they usually go backwards! Stable clubs have more success.

The aim is top 4 and hit the finals in form and almost injury free, particularly to your best 6-8 players! Pies out in front at the moment, lose Moore or Daicos will look very different! Then Lions, Demons, Port, Dogs all close. Melbourne will account for Port in Melb, all the stars aligned for Port Friday and it took terrible umpiring to get them over the line! Then Cats and maybe Freo, but both need lots to go right from here! Realistically we are well placed for top 4 if we win 2or 3 of our next 4, assuming 16 wins gets top 4 position! While we need improvement from key forwards and centre clearances, the rest is pretty close particularly when you think we have been experimenting and resting our guns to have them fresher for finals! We might not win the flag but with a little luck will have the opportunity to have a real crack!

We were bog average against Port, played 20 mins, and it still took the umpires to get them over the line! Be realistic.

When it comes to aggression and standing up for teammates the Pies are terrific and have been for as long as I can remember! They have owned Melbourne for far to long and the Demons need to stand up for themselves as a team. Pies have some very average players, but are playing as a team and coached to go for it no regrets, like Bazball in cricket! Markov, Cox, Noble, Lipinski are just players, pressure their weaker players and under the pump they will falter! Port niggled hassled Gawn all night, Butters was on fire did the Demons bump him every opportunity make tackles really stick! We have “A” grade talent but feels like we need to step it up as a team. Petty and Sparrow both go hard and we’re missed on Friday night, but lots of players went missing. While I’m far from giving up on the Demons this year, be very happy to see a bit more mongrel, and someone step up and own FF/CHF in partnership with JVR!

Kossie was quiet on Friday night. Butters on fire. Why not throw Kossie onto Butters and say go beat him one on one! Particularly when Oliver hamstring issue late in the 3rd.

There are 16 players who have plenty of room to lift 25-90% each!

Agree, a few improvements can make a big difference. At least the FD are trying new things. If one of BBB, TMac, Joel Smith or Schache can step up and hold down a key forward position will make a big difference to our game! The odd rest for the likes of chandler, ANB, Sparrow, Spargo, McVee and roll someone else in doesn’t hurt them, provides opportunities for the guys pushing up in the VFL. Oliver twangs hamstring late in the 3rd, fully fit maybe he makes the difference. Round 10 Pies and Lions look best, but a long way to go!

So that umpire should be dropped! Unbelievably bad decision.

Re key forwards it’s not all the coach/FD fault! One of BBB, TMac, Scache(can’t get my head around spelling his name🤪), or Joel Smith needs to step up and make FF/CHF their position. JVR is in second season so if he can just be competitive week to week is about all you can expect, and he will through in the odd really bad game. Max/Grundy kicking some goals and creating some pressure should be a bonus! Friday night was shocking conditions for tall timber and Max gets absolutely nothing from the umpires in SA! Even less than in Victoria where he gets sweet FA! I take that back on reflection he got two frees re over the top blocking, but nothing in any making contest, nor Lycett smashing him front on! Personally I’d give Schache 5 weeks at full forward, he is an accurate kick, let BbB get to 100% fitness and come in after the bye for the run home if Schache doesn’t make the most of his opportunity!

Hunter could have cleaned Rozee up if he was trying to hurt him, compare it to Lycett hitting Gawn - Lycett intent was punch ball while smashing into Gawn!

100% Hunter gets there first, Rozee is late and reckless of his own safety! What is Hunter meant to do step back and say take the ball!

No, Port deserved the win. Melbourne had plenty of areas where they could have made the difference, a little bit more from 16-17 players for a start! Umpires were terrible. Typically you expect umpires to favour home team, but hope they don’t impact result! But it’s still up to the Demon players on the field and how they are coached! In fact I’m really surprised we got within four points after only playing 20 minutes football, if you said rate each team, I’d give Melbourne 5/10 and Port 9/10, so believe we have a massive upside!

The good, the bad, the ugly and the why!! The Good! Credit to Port they came to play and over four quarters were terrific, played tough, unrelenting footy, Butters brilliant and almost everyone contributed from their team, half a dozen players really hot!! For the demons to only lose by 4 points when only May, Rivers, Oliver, Trac for a qtr, and Hunter played well, rest of team down! Demons to tall for conditions. Of the Port goals at least half came from frees or incorrect non decisions - look in particular at last 4 or 5, Butters free 3/4 time, Finlayson acting free, Max smashed in middle nothing, TMac smashed on wing nothing, Viney head taken off nothing, mark that hit the ground, Lever 2nd non 50 paid, frees 9-2 last qtr. The Demons led by Trac played 20 brilliant minutes of football, so we can do it, just needed more effort over other 3.5 quarters. The Bad Only 5 players showed up, so team preparation not great. TMac & JVR both poor, JVR only game5/6 so will learn. Max left to his own devices, who else ran in to remonstrate as he was bumped, and blocked all match long. How are we getting so smashed out of the middle? Umpiring enough said above, but impact was in order of 5 goals the difference! Plus Clarry called for 3 throws, maybe right, but JHF did a great one handed throw while other hand pinned, blindingly obvious, Powell Pepper double handed throw over head, different rules for the teams! Free against Fritsch going for a mark side on, versus Lycett smashing Gawn! Ugly Only 20 mins effort out of four quarters. Butters let run free all night! Umpiring just hopeless even a number of Demon frees in the 3rd hard to fathom. Umpires heavily influenced result, when their job is to go unnoticed. Zero protection for Max!” Channel 7 commentary & commentators pathetic! The Why Demons not up for the game! Why! Why not move Pickett onto Butters, he was ineffective up forward, get Butters to take him to the ball, and Kossie has speed and can tackle! Play wet weather football! Pick a team for wet weather football! Give Salem one week in the VFL to get some touch and match fitness before playing AFL! Petty was missed. One of BBB, TMac, Joel Smith need to lift to fill the void. Manage JVR carefully! Final comments Port played their best, umpires favoured them re scoreboard impact, and even though they deserved to win they were lucky to win! Demons had very few contributors on the night, but nearly got home! We really need one of JVR, BbB, TMac, Joel Smith, Scasche to lift and play FF. If Petty gets back and is fit, think he can hold down CHF! Win next bl**dy week!