Dodos Demons

Any links for the live stream. They are not appearing in the landing page for the podcast chat on the forum. Thanks

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100% agree. Love how he always has a quick look around before he receives the ball to assess his next move - knows when to tackle and very good and protecting the drop of the ball (whether a handball or kick). Huge fan.

Posted a similar comment in another thread. If you look at other young forwards at other clubs, they take time to develop but generally improve year on year. Sadly I don’t think we can say that about JVR and starting to get a good number of games under his belt so it is a decent body of evidence to draw comparisons.

Don’t want to turn this into a aa JVR pile on but hard to argue that he hasn’t regressed. No idea what his KPI’s are but doesn’t seem to be offering much to the naked eye. A few times today he seemed to hesitate when ball was in dispute. He doesn’t get great delivery but when ball hits deck he seems nowhere to be seen. Defensively, he and Fritsch can be hard ti watch at times. Would love JVR ro prove me wrong but he seems to have plateaued.

Commentators did their best in the first quarter to highlight Daicos getting the same treatment Oliver has received his entire career and never called out. Just crickets. Happens to Daicos and they make sure they have zoomed in footage. Can’t tell me the broadcasters aren’t playing their part to get favourites teams on top. Meanwhile Trac and Oliver just have to cop it.

Well said. Pressers from Goodwin rarely if ever mentions it. As if the kicking is not part of all the coaches’ responsibility. Know as the worst conversion team. Says a lot.

The recent email from the club appears to have (appropriately) edited the random hand from the earlier photo 😉. Screenshot 2025-05-26 172705.jfif

To the untrained eye, the first image appears to show Clarry expressing sheer joy but if you pan down, you will see it is sheer agony. The culprit may wish he wasn't identifiable by the thumb strapping lol.

I was at the game and watched him very closely after the match and there was next to no interaction with teammates. They all huddled on the ground near the race waiting for Langford to come back from seeing fans on the other side of the ground. Fritta was just standing out the back of the players while the rest were joking and celebrating. Didn’t see any players go up to him. Very small sample size but did not seem to be a lot of love towards him from teammates.

Thanks for clarifying.

Apologies if this has been asked and answered before in this thread - do we have to pay out full contract of Goodwin if we terminate before the contracted end date or did the AFL bring in a max payout cap. If the latter, we should be on our bike in the hunt to secure the best replacement before other clubs are in the hunt (eg Carlton, if not already)?

Forwards seem to have very little body work craft. At least 3 occasions in first quarter when one of JVR and Disco had oppo player out positioned under the ball and only needed slightest body contact but zero contact. Simple stuff. How many times did we handball blindly forward. Don’t think it worked once. Look like a complete rabble.

Seems anything goes in the last minute but only if it advantages Collingwood. That was a disgraceful non-call and so obvious. Would love to hear Bevo tee off about the umpires. He must be seething. Don’t think I heard the commentators once mention the free kick count. Probably not allowed to.

Agree with all of this but it was nice (funny) to see another team do some “Benny Hill” moments that are usually saved for the Dees - Hipwoods handball point lol and Dannihers chip pass to Charlie lol.