The Jackson FIX

I think you missed my point. I’m not arguing whether it is mental or not, I am suggesting there might be a better game plan than playing all of our cards in the first 10 minutes if there is mourning evidence it doesn’t work for us

One perhaps for Senor @binman: It feels like is we’ve become pretty good at jumping teams early with contested possession and forward thrusts, but with the 5-10 mins of dominance yielding no scoreboard pressure. Is it possible to look at pressure rating for parts of a quarter - i.e first 5 mins - for the Sydney match and then our two pre-season matches? Starting to feel we may well be better off reserving some gas early parts of a match and picking off the opposition like they do us.

I think the view was tough draw (Sydney, Adel and Port away and then Doggies and Bris in there too) + important players still to come back

I’m holding. Our bottom third were poor tonight. Laurie, Schache, chandler, etc. I think Billings sub was an error but only a minor one. Our bottom 1/3 was our strength in the premiership year. Not too concerned about our ability to claw that back in the next few weeks. I’ve heard from a reputable source the club would be VERY happy to be 3/3 after first 6 rounds so buckle in legends .

I hold grave concerns for my neighbours’ eardrums (and the gaggle of beers in my fridge) come 7.30pm this evening.

AFL.com.au’s predicted Sydney backline; Lloyd. McCartin. Rampe Florent. Blakey. Jordon They are tiny. And that is weird. Never been a fan of using a tall as a sub but on a small ground I’d be throwing everything in the height bucket against these smurfs. edit. Looking a bit more closely at their predicted side, it appears the work experience kid might’ve been thrown this one.

I know Ben. He’s more of a ‘vibe’ guy than a ‘data points’ guy

Going to be a mouth-watering contest for the 500 in the crowd

reducing the penalty by 1 week (from the AFL’s requested 8) is the most arbitrary thing I’ve seen for a while.

Selfishly, I’m not looking forward to the drafting and recruiting chaos it will cause. The whole league gets shaken up to introduce a new team and I’m not in love with the idea of doing this for a team that’ll be all of the locals’ “2nd favourite team”. Having said all of that, I think it is a wise choice for future economic benefit in the state and will benefit the next generation. Early years will be strange though.

It does seem odd that they would ‘ask about his availability’ in February, a 23yo premiership player who has just dominated a practice match. What do they expect Melbourne to say “sure, yep, we’ve been thinking about getting rid of him anyway”. Either made up story or Adelaide just leak this stuff to put pressure on Melbourne ahead of contract negotiations, still seeking retribution for the loss of Lever.

I didn’t realise the offer to Petty was so big… and from memory Adelaide were insinuating a Petty-for-McAdam swap would be about right?

Stunned this is still in ‘talks’. Melbourne: “please exempt his salary from our cap or we’ll begin talking about our concerns that the AFL isn’t doing enough to protect our players’ wellbeing” AFL: “sounds fair. Help yourself to some mentos on the way out”

I’ve been on Demonland for quite a few years now and I have no idea what this thread is about? 🤣 Would welcome an explanation (wrong answers also welcome) 🙏

Excuse the naivety but what does ‘being near the bottom of the ladder’ mean? Is it that we have fewer positive results from tests or fewer tests in total?

Yes. Perhaps we could release a dog on the field for Maynard on King’s birthday?

First a pig. Now a snake.

Agree. He will come back in soon though (as he should). Liked the midfield mix last night and felt like they hit targets in almost every spot inside the 50. Hope Clarry was watching…

Tonight King and his iPad were glowing of Melbourne. Maybe you should’ve gone to more than one training session David?

I missed the other post, possibly because my retinas were amidst an acute bout of PTSD caused by our media department

OLD MAN ALERT: The team sheet on the MFC site hurts my eyeballs. Not the players on it - the font, the sizing and the spacing. Took me way longer to figure out who is playing (and where) than is necessary. Hopefully that is my only gripe with the MFC today.

Feel like we say this every year in the first month of footy and are constantly let down.

Chasing AAMI. Petty’s new role in 2024

Genuinely interested to see how they get faster and keen to see how others better expose their backline pressing up the ground when they’re moving it forward.

No words WCW, just an enormous picture of Gus’ helmet with a premiership medal draped on it on the banner and we all know what that means.