Fanatique Demon

1 hour ago, binman said:

And, for future reference, binman is not capitalised either. 

Thanks @binman, I hadn’t noticed that.

You might need to have a quiet word with your assistant, @Binmans PA. 😀

18 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Kozzi sprints around all game putting fear into the opposition and manic pressure on every time. He will occasionally slip high while attempting a spoil etc.

He is THE ultimate team player. 

He’s been suspended three times in his last 26 games for pretty much the same thing. We love him, but it’s time to get some discipline. 

38 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Optics = bad = gone 

One day this boy will miss a Grand Final.  He should only get a week as impact is low. But really just unnecessary. 

I take your point, Jaded. But do you think we could refrain from using the word boy? I am sure you mean it as young man, or lad, but it is a word that can offend indigenous people. 

Great to get the win.  We could improve if we stuck the tackles, though. We provided great pressure but we often let them out of tackles, instead of getting a htb free or a ball up.

This might be Oliver’s worst game.

13 minutes ago, Cranky Franky said:

Love Judd's work but a word of advice from an old back pocket 

KEEP YOUR FEET , CORRAL YOUR OPPONENT & PLAY THE PERCENTAGES.

He went for an extravagant spoil against Rioli on Saturday, missed & Rioli waltzed in for an easy goal.

He did the same thing against Carlton in the finals last year.

Too true. With his Rioli error, he stopped looking at the flight of the ball and looked a Rioli. If he had concentrated on the ball with a view to marking or punching it away, Rioli would not have goaled.

12 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

Power supporters are a bunch of tools.

And saw losers!

Just watched the replay. Max was huge, but with six seconds to play at the centre bounce, he hit the ball to a Port player giving them the break forward. Surely the obvious play in the ruck is just to drop it to his own feet or take it out of the ruck and absorb a tackle to force another ball up. I noticed he did the same thing in similar circumstances last year too and I can’t understand why the sensible/defensive play isn’t drummed into him for close finishes or end of quarter contests.

3 minutes ago, rpfc said:

I think we can say we ‘stole’ this one.

Has Hinkley asked the governor of the AFL to find another 8 points?😃

7 hours ago, Demon Dynasty said:

Yes it can as part of the post is behind the goal line.  The goal line runs through the middle of the post yes?

In a word, no.

This topic is all over the internet with people bringing up different scenarios involving wind, spin, bounce, padding, post, flags and line.
But in all of the images I’ve found of AFL goal lines, the back of the goal line is in line with the back of the post. (Not so on junior footy grounds.) Although someone might argue parallax error, a millimeter of paint or padding to promote their own contrary view. 
 

Loved his goal and his Nomination will come. But not for a 4 kick 8 handball game. Watch this space.

1 minute ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Just finished watching the replay.

Can someone tell me if that Fritsch last kick was really not a goal?

They never show if the ball goes through the goal line before hitting the post on the opposite side of goal.

It can’t have gone entirely past the goal line if it hits anywhere on the post. It was a behind.

53 minutes ago, Winners at last said:

PS. I'll be easy to identify ... an old man with a Demons scarf.

We’ve got one of those at our house.

1 hour ago, adonski said:

There's something there

Sadly, it’s well hidden.

Thanks, Jack.

12 hours ago, dpositive said:

did anyone else think that the briefest review i can remember with not multiple angles etc of BBBs goal was incorrect.

The whole ball had passed behind the goal post but not past the padding on the goal post. I think the goal line is only as thick as the post not the padding, If im correct the whole ball was over the line.

Im giving Bennie another goal

Nope, the padding is counted as the post.

The weekend’s footy has started perfectly!

5 Oliver, Billings, Gawn

3 Petracca

2 May

1 Viney

We’re heading to Tassie for a week or two and today we’ll be in Geelong. So I’ll be watching the game at the Sporting Globe. 
🙏Don’t ruin my holiday before it starts, Demons. 🙏

Swans are playing so well, it’s making me feel better about our game last week.

3 hours ago, Earl Hood said:

And the few times we do switch from the full back line, the second and third overlap players aren’t there for it to succeed, instead the first receiver on half back stops and has to identify a target as the opposition floods back. We don’t seem to have a set play for it, where a number of players would know to just run to space as soon as they see the first move. 

When I played in the Amateurs, we had a coach who continually reminded us... “It’s a running game!”

It was then, and it’s even more-so now. Unfortunately our boys don’t yet get it.

Sometimes I read on Demonland that people “didn’t read the article”, or “didn’t see the game”, or “only watched until halftime”, yet they comment anyway. What gives?
 

10 hours ago, WheeloRatings said:

Time in Forward Half

Quarter	For	Against
1	48%	52%
2	55%	45%
3	39%	61%
4	40%	60%
Match	48%	52%

I’m having trouble understanding how those Quarterly numbers could result in the Match numbers.

22 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Out: Bowey (inj), Spargo (suspended, if not then dropped), Schache

I must have missed that. What happened?

6 Viney

5 May

4 Fritsche

3 Bowey

2 McVee

1 Tomlinson