Dodos Demons

Looking forward to the next post match press conference where Tom Morris asks Bevo about JUH’s long term future at the Bulldogs. Bevo v Morris round 2 lol. No love lost there. Rumours can only help our chances of prying JUH loose.

I wonder if many players know that once you get to 200 games you can avail yourself of this loophole. Jack Viney can cut loose now.

Did he know those numbers off the top of his head or were they given to him by AFL HQ in the script?

So true - “potential to cause serious injury can be taken into account when grading impact*”. *unless we think you are a great bloke or character witness tell us that we should believe you are a great bloke in which case the inverse applies and we can downgrade the impact in such circumstances. Farcical. It really is. If the AFL did not have so many sycophant reporters - they need to call this out.

Just when we thought the rules had been written in such a way to allow wriggle room for the grading of impact (ie potential to cause serious injury is now relevant to the “impact”) so that the “stars” can be protected, along comes a new contender “the Chairman’s Discretion” as the ultimate power to save the stars when not even the ambiguous rules can. Oh boy, could they be any more transparently biased to the “stars”* if the game. Note those that qualify as a “star” are determined in the AFL’s discretion lol. An indictment on the fairness of the game.

Definitely agree we were beaten by a better team but at the game the players definitely looked flat, slower, fumbly and hesitant. Don’t know if that can all be put down to them being a better team or applying more pressure. We looked a completely different side to the one that played Port only a week or so earlier.

The hypothesis that requires the fewest possible assumptions (without internal intel) is that we were physically cooked from the get go (illness or conditioning, who knows). Time will tell.

Precisely. How can it be that 6 rounds in we are physically exhausted? We did have blooded a number of young guys so can understand forget may need a rest but no idea why the senior player (other than Max) appeared out of petrol tickets from the first quarter. Was it an outlier and if so, still have to wonder why. What happens at the pointy end of the season or even worse, finals. That is was is most concerning. What makes the most sense is that the bulk of the team were suffering some kind of illness but that could also be a convenient narrative to cover over a very weak and flat performance.

Curnow would have to be at the top of the pile in terms of positioning himself to make a free kick more likely thank not. Helps that the umpires fawn all over him.

We win double the hit outs yet get smashed in clearances. Not having a go at Max’s effort and performance but it is so frustrating to have such a dominant ruckman (who trains with his mids for hours during the week on clearance work) have the opposition mids turn up on match day and appear to be reading him better than our mids. I think we had at most 2 clearances in the last that were clean from tap work. The rest went the Lions way or were nullified.

The matrix table which contains the grading of classifiable offences and in particular, the grading of the degree/level of “contact” (ie the force) is open to so much wriggle room (aka for the “stars” of the game) and ambiguity because of one sentence buried in the tribunal guidelines under the definition of impact. That sentence is as follows: “The MRO may however consider the potential to cause injury to upgrade impact from negligible to a higher level of impact.” Wait for the day that a fresh air swing or missed bump that May otherwise have collected an opponent on the head results in a Demons player being suspended. The inclusion of a clause granting the MRO with unfettered discretion to upgrade is an indictment on the tribunal system as a forum for fair and impartial adjudication of these matters.

SEN are advertising a sync feature on their app so you can sync the SEN broadcast to the tv broadcast. Anyone tried it?

Absolute BS. No arms pinned and Rozzee played a dead fish to draw a free. Madness. Should appeal. Opposition player did zero to protect himself and had both arms free. What was rivers to do?

Pies players regularly lead with a dropped shoulder to draw high tackle. Pendlebury and N Daicos the worst offenders. Bad look.

….and a brand that all other serious contenders have worked out and nullify. Oh boy, this could be a long season.

Makes us so hard to watch and support and very emotionally draining (well, for me at least).

Very small (ie the smallest) sample size but if we are serious about being a premiership contender, to perform like that for the first game of the season (on top of straight sets finals exit and off field issues over summer) plants a massive seed of doubt and consequently, it will no doubt embolden opposition teams to no longer fear our contested and defence oriented game style. I hope I am wrong but with the injuries and off field issues, I fear we are on the precipice of asking the cabin boy to start moving the deck chairs on the titanic.

Spare a thought for the Tradio Radio listeners 🤣

Nailed it! The hunt for red October begins in earnest - beg, borrow or steal that elite user!!!!

May need a translator for his post match interviews 😬

True. Maybe the window has passed (boy I hope not). Imagine the 2021 team vs the team last night. Injuries have not helped but not many players are above their 2021 output/contribution.

We have a few off half back. Just be nice to have (or recruit) some forward of centre. My fear is that we are in the premiership window now so don’t have too many years to find and refine. I have faith in our recruiters. Important trade period.

Agree 100%. How do they fix the lack of elite (forward of centre) finishers though?

Spot on - how many times did we fail to take the first option only to hold the ball another 5 or 10 seconds and take that option anyway. The refusal to run and gun! Macrae said when Pies lost to us on KB weekend - they went into their shells and didn’t take the game on and he would rather lose by 10 goals. I love that about Macrae because look at the way they play - fans love it, oppo fear it and it works!!! The grind and hugging the boundary keeps teams in it and enables teams to set up defensively.

How do we improve executing under immense pressure. It is a real problem and near impossible to replicate at training. I just don’t think we have many players with ice running through their veins when the pressure is on. We have a great sample size of 4 pressure finals, the last two the worst in terms of executing. We also have critical games (or moments) during the year when we fail to deliver time after time. Admittedly, there were probably games during the season when players have stepped up at critical times but to actually seal a game with a set shot - I can’t recall many. Even if it is not to seal a game but to bury the hopes of the opposition and stepping up when we have that chance with a set shot and it feels like we fail to execute the vast majority of times. Hate to admit this but players like Walker, Elliot, Gunston (in his prime), Breust (in his prime) etc… How a recruiter identifies that ice - I have no idea but it is a massive issue because it is so deflating to the team collectively to be gassing so many chances and worse, it keeps the opposition weighing striking distance. How many solid and dominating victories have we had this season. For Goodwin to trot out the “it is a tough competition” is an easy out. It maybe a tough completion but when you keep teams in it with poor kicking, it does not have to be. Apologies for the rambling post. Don’t start me on the umpiring or the mi d boggling sub selection (which gave the optics of someone other than Goody selecting the sub and Goody then proving them wrong) - beggars belief.