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Yes we need to throw money at a key forward (like Logan McDonald), a start up midfielder (like Luke Davies-Uniacle, a small forward (like Tyson Stengle) and maybe a few coaches, but we also need solid depth who can play a role. Look at Collingwood. Get Will Brodie as midfield depth. Played for Gold Coast now Fremantle but has fallen out of favor and tearing it up in the WAFL. 26 years old. Reminds me of Luke Dunstan. https://wafl.com.au/player/will-brodie Get Rory Lobb as ruck depth if doggies will pay some of his salary. 31 years old. Played for GWS then Fremantle now Bulldogs but has fallen out of favor (admittedly poor form AFL but good form VFL and appears better than what we have in the cupboard currently). https://vfl.aflmstats.com/player/Rory_Lobb

Probably should have interviewed all parties involved before publicly releasing the findings of an internal review. Reckon a lot of people are going to get sued for defamation over this Hawthorn saga. Also entirely unclear if the actions did occur whether it was race based as the media is making it out to be some quasi stolen generation or if it was the general approach to all football players at the club or those who had scally wag mates who could get them into trouble.

I've been driving my car around South Perth all morning with the windows down, volume on max playing Grand Old Flag - Dees plates and scarves also on display. The buzz is alive!

I've been driving my car around South Perth all morning with the windows down, volume on max playing Grand Old Flag - Dees plates and scarves also on display. The buzz is alive!

Great job by City of Perth putting on the People's Parade. Great turnout by the demon faithful in Perth. Highlight was seeing Karl Langdon introduce Alan Javovich as a Dees and Dogs player with both teams scarves only to have him take off the dogs scarf and say he was Dees through and through. Also good seeing Wowee and him still clearly as passionate and invested in the result.

Everyone will be at the Camfield

I was there at the prelim in 2018, sitting by myself in a sea of blue and yellow, clapping for our mob until the final siren. Last night I was at the prelim sitting with my red and blue family, clapping for our mob until the final siren. On another thread you'll see me and Byron Pickett after last nights game. My heart beats red and blue. I've got a grand final guarantee but only for myself. If anyone has a spare so I can secure one for my mrs (who I've now bought her all the gear and she lost her voice last night too) I'd really appreciate it.

Fellow WA Dees, where are we all meeting for beers before the game???

It was about an hour. Fired me up. Hopefully the boys read it too and it fires them up to stick it to spex.

You've missed the point on this in your first sentence.

No but there's an expectation they give credit where credit is due. We were minor premiers and all this bloke frothed about all year was Richmond Essendon the Bont and Geelong

Equally as mindless. His working know of Melbourne is Gawn, Oliver and Petracca are good players and we haven't won a flag for a long time. A chimpanzee could write what he writes. Where's the insight. At least make an effort.

Is Damien Barrett the laziest ever ‘journalist’? This is everything he said in his Sliding Doors column this year. I’ll let you be the judge. If you read the rest of the teams week to week you see who his darling teams are *cough* Bulldogs *cough* Geelong *cough* Richmond *cough* Essendon. 1. IF ...his first season as a Demon was a good one ...THEN ...Ed Langdon's second year in the red and the blue is looming as outstanding. One of the hardest runners in the comp, beginning to use the ball very well. 2. IF ...it was Matt De Boer last weekend until he suffered an injury ...THEN ...for Clayton Oliver on Sunday at the MCG it will be Mark O'Connor attempting to shut him down. On a beautiful roll at the moment, the Dees and Oliver. Tipping it to continue. 3. IF ...Trac, Clarry, Maysie, Maxxy, Kossy, Jakey and Fritta have been rightly getting the headlines for the stunning beginning to 2021 ...THEN ...Burgo deserves plenty, too. Darren Burgess that is, head of high performance at the Demons, who has this group humming. 4. IF ...the comparisons with Dusty have been coming fortnightly if not weekly for a season and five matches now ...THEN ...no better way for Trac to make it a daily consideration than a massive performance in the Anzac Day eve match. Backing him in. 5. IF ...the Dees have extraordinarily got themselves to 6-0 without Ben Brown ...THEN ...look out from here. A new dimension. 6. IF ...Trac is now contracted on massive coin through to the end of 2029 ...THEN ...I hope the Dees have been able to set some cash aside to also keep Kozzy on the books. His is the long-term signature they really need. With Pickett, we’re witnessing the emergence of something we may have never seen before. 7. IF ...all the pre-season plans had big Ben Brown and Sam Weideman in the key forward posts ...THEN ...it's yet another massive positive for the Demons that they boast an 8-0 scoreline before getting the chance to unleash this combo. Weideman in for the injured Jackson for Sunday's game against Carlton. 8. IF ...the focus, albeit understandably, is subconsciously on what could be the match of the year on Friday week against Western Bulldogs ...THEN ...that might pose a small problem on Saturday at Adelaide Oval, against the Crows. 9. IF ...Maxxy Gawn is already a four-time All-Australian ...THEN ...he's tracking beautifully to add a fifth. Looms alongside Bont as the most important player heading into this week's Friday night lights. 10. IF ...there are definitely bigger headline-grabbing names at the Demons than Ed Langdon in this history-shaping start to 2021...THEN ...it is arguable that there have been too many more impactful players in this startling run. Unfortunately missing with concussion for Friday night lights against the Lions. 11. IF ..the Dees have handled the Western Bulldogs and Brisbane in the past fortnight ...THEN ...Collingwood on Monday at the SCG won't pose a problem. 12. IF ...in the off-season Ben Brown was viewed as a key to what was to unfold in 2021 ...THEN ...it's time to unleash him. Injury, then form, ruined his first half of the season. Could still emerge as an X-factor. 13. IF ...Harmes got the job on Libba and Hibberd the task on Dusty ...THEN ...I wonder who will be sent to the Package on Saturday night at the MCG. If Stringer maintains the form he displayed last weekend, both will be required. 14. IF ...it's Trac and Clarrie getting all the Demons mentions in Brownlow conversations ...THEN ...I don't know why big Maxxy is being left out. Finished equal fourth in 2018, and is quite possibly compiling the best of his 11 AFL seasons, which has already seen him earn four All-Australian jackets. 15. IF ...I thought Tomlinson going down was catastrophic ...THEN ...it was merely a blip on the radar. For it has unleashed Harrison Petty. 16. IF ...Maxxy Gawn has responded to every single challenge he's faced in an extraordinary AFL career ...THEN ...there is no doubt he will do so, again, in his latest threat, that of being the game's best ruckman via Sean Darcy's surge. All-Australian jacket No.5 coming up. 17. IF ...Bont in my eyes is THE standout player of 2021 ...THEN ...Trac is second to him. And Trac still has five matches to catch him, beginning Saturday night when he lines up inside the MCG square against him. After that moment, Bont will go one way, Trac the other, as they both inevitably go about controlling their team's fortunes in this fascinating 1 v 2 ladder clash. Cannot wait. 18. IF ...the one downer in the pool in Tokyo this week were the questions which flew over the best combination in the women's 4 x 200m freestyle ...THEN ...the Demons can relate to that as they continue to try to get their forward line to gel. 19. IF ...there may have been mitigating circumstances ...THEN ...there was still no justifiable rationale for Jack Viney's sustained forearm/elbow on Sam Collins' jaw/neck. Lucky to escape with a two-week ban, not three. 20. IF ...you miss one week with a back injury ...THEN ...that's not cause for alarm. But when you miss a second, that is. Dees need Tom McDonald to fix that back. 21. IF ...there are Demons supporters obsessed by omens ...THEN ...Saturday night's one-versus-two match against Geelong at the Cattery carries great importance. A win means the minor premiership. The last time that happened. 1964. 22. IF Melbourne was to win the 2021 Toyota AFL Premiership and Nathan Jones doesn't play ... Then more proof that footy fairytales are rare. This one would be a hard luck story for the ages. 23. IF Jake Bowey is channelling anyone as he begins his AFL career ... THEN it could be Tiger Jack Graham. Bowey made his debut in round 20, game No.5 was a qualifying final win. Tracking beautifully to be part of a premiership in his seventh match. For Graham in 2017, it was his fifth, after being given his first in round 22.

I know someone involved high up in the fitness at that club. 2 sets of rules for certain players but will not name names (but just look at particular physiques and its obvious). The coaches have tried and tried to get them fit with gym and diet but those players wont be told and staff have given up.