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Yeah i don't dispute that there are cheap offerings and they may become the number one ruck for their team. Honestly though, out of those listed how many have come close to Gawn or Grundy output over the years. Personally i don't rate many/any of those mentioned above, they have all got some pretty big flaws within their games. If we get Grundy i am sure many will change their tune when it comes to appreciating him. We apparently overpaid Lever/May/Langdon IIRC going by many on this site. If Max was up for trade would he be worth 700-800k a season? i am glad supporters are not the ones recruiting, wildly under-rating players from opposition teams apparently is a thing we do!

Bowey needs to come into the team for his clean hands, good decision making and creativity. After last weeks second half you could raffle him for Rivers/Hunt or Hibberd. Honestly we had one bloke that did not panic when the heat is on, and that was Salem....We need more! Watched Joel Smith really closely last game for Casey. He presented pretty well at the ball, laid a huge tackle when way out of the contest. That tackle is the type of pressure we need in our forward line. He was so quick to get there and the tackle really hurt the opposition player. I would take the risk and insert him into the team.

Currently our 2nd ruck option is Weid... We are screwed if Max goes down! For 700k a season which would be less that LJ's contract, we will get more out of Grundy. Rucks often go fine into their Mid 30's. The talk of all these other promising young rucks is twaddle....Most are not available, and most won't be good for years. Even Preuss still looks pretty hopeless....Good ruckman there are not many in the league....We would have the 2 best in the league going by recent AA selections. Would be a fearsome prospect for any team to come up against. *We will still be trying to recruit a good forward regardless of what happens in this space.

Yeah i totally get that because we generally keep teams to low scores. The difference would be much larger if we actually hit up the easy targets. We are not taking many marks, we hold it in there for long periods and get very little reward for our entries. I know we can be so much better than we currently are showing...the 2nd half fadeouts are in part happening because we are getting not enough rewards for all the forward half dominance....We play with so little trust at times, way too many safe/gameplan options of slow and wide, then into the pocket. Most of the top teams seem to have a field day intercept marking then rebounding from there. i stand by the we look amateur compared to many other teams in this regard! Our forward craft is below what i see at local footy at times. Makes me wonder what the forward group do together at training! *Do we train to simply bomb it to the pocket for repeat entries? It should be a last resort if nothing else is on. Unfortunately it seems to be our go to play. Would love to see a heat map of our forward entries and the position the ball is kicked to. Would almost put money on that we would be tracking close to 50% bombed to that little area deep in the left forward pocket

Langdon and Amon on either wing would be awesome....Really rate him, elite field kick, has pace and skills, works really hard both ways.

If he is willing to take a dump in pay to around 750-800k i think he actually makes a lot of sense. We were going to pay LJ upto 800k on potential. Grundy is actually the better footballer in the ruck by a country mile. If we want a tilt at repeated flags over next 2-5 years, Grundy would work. Currently 3rd in line for ruck duties at Melbourne is Weid.....Max will need the help after LJ goes!

We should have multiple ideas on how to go forward. Plan A should be to hit up the obvious free targets, Plan B or even C or D should be to kick it to that pocket, but definitely not plan A. We look amateur in this regard to many teams.

i think Laurie has shown enough to warrant a few more years in the system. Reasonably high draft pick with some class, nice distributor of the ball, shows poise and good decision making, also kicks goals. To me he looks like a much classier version of ANB or Spago.....We need connectors and i am sure we will look better in following years with guys like Bowey and Laurie actually showing some care in delivery. Poise and class is something we severely lack....Last week it felt like we had one bloke that did not panic with ball in hand....Salem.

If our gameplan is to burn teammates in better positions we are going nowhere. Selfish, predictable, boring, lazy, vomitworthy. I am sure the instructions are if there are no options on....kick it to "that" pocket...surely you take the easy options if they are on though. Too many are not even looking, just blazing.. At training they are constantly hitting up players from 15-40 metres. It is our plan so we are predictable to each other.....But it has become even more predictable to the opposition. i can't remember the last time someone like Kozzie/Spargo or ANB took a mark on a lead into space....there has to be plenty around as generally we have 10 players in that hot spot. Cut out the predictability going forward and actually start pressuring the ball carrier we can still win the whole thing. If we continue to be lax in these 2 areas we will look back on this season as one we let slip. Get it right players/coaches ffs.

Well i saw Sydney have had an average pressure rating of 201 over a 6 week period......The highest recorded over that period. We generally look ok when we are pressuring the ball carrier.....Unfortunately this has been sadly lacking most games this year even our 10 in a row period. We do run back hard though like vs Collingwood.... Just all seems pretty ineffectual when you got no pressure on the guy delivering the ball. Adversely we crumbled with this mysterious pressure the ball carrier at all costs tactic in the 2nd half applied by Collingwood. Our tactic lately seems to flood everyone back and let them waltz up the field, easily picking through the zone.

Collingwood to get smashed tonight in the cold and wet. Beaten badly enough they lose next week also. Go Demons....[censored] em up!

Love that he has added a bit more spice to the game. We are going to be brutal this week, we want Collingwood to go hard at us, we need the test. Who goes harder for longer? I predict we are going to beat then by around 50 points. Now is the time to get in opponents head...FInals are coming!

Going to get ugly tonight...For Freo! . Demon pressure through the roof. We find our ruthless side again, and Freo have no answers. Dees by 48.

Should just rename it the "Tactical super sub" which can be implemented at anytime during game once.....Should be able to be used if someone is tired/sore/injured/whatever. Farcical rule atm.

We got Midfielders hitting 1 in every 50 passes into our forward line and we worrying when Fritsch burns an occasional teammate. I get it but the reactions are so overblown...we have many other issues that have been there for most of the year.

Demons to relish a dry track. Thinking they will be relaxed, focused and ready to show Port that they are not close to a top 4 team. We find connection forward and score over 120. Port will be lucky to get half that. Really confident today for some reason! Go Demons!!!

HSun reported Port are interested and that he will not be playing at Collingwood next year. There is hopefully no chance he is with us next year!

Would highly doubt it. His value probably only gone up since he moved to backline recently. There are some overpaid players at GWS, so there is a possibility i guess!

Do you think he realised he was being filmed? The oral sex sign FOR the camera ffs! Bloke is a meathead despite it being blown out of proportion. It seems you condone this type behaviour 100% by your responses in this thread. DO you understand remotely why certain groups, ie women, people with mental health issues may get offended? It is pretty clear there are genuine groups of people upset for real reasons, don't try and belittle their responses with jargon about outrage for a player who "thinks" he is being persecuted. Have seen worse things but no way does it condone his behaviour. i think you you are actually trolling people to get reactions fwiw. You "want" disproportionate reactions so you can try and shoot them down with dribble about who should actually be offended. You should apply to be his spokesperson, he would never play another game lol.

Harry Himmelberg would take in a heartbeat...He is far from ordinary..... super talented player, forward and back.

May to repay the faith with a B.O.G. performance....then goes down late in the last quarter with a Hammy or Quad injury after running himself into the ground We win by 2 goals, but our defensive structure is majorly compromised for the remainder of season. The last 3 weeks my MFCSS is back in full swing. Go Demons, regain your mojo!!

Why defend the meathead. He has come back at Social Media saying it is a witch-hunt. He now says he has mental health issues and tried to put off his masquerades into the i recently discovered i have ADHD category....This is an utter insult to anyone with mental health issues or ADHD, let alone the fairly obvious disrespect of women that seems to "gravitate" towards him. He is a young man that by now should know much better. I wonder what the women's teams think about it? How about teammates wives? How about all the sponsors? How about most of the decent blokes out there not doing this dumb sort of stuff?. You can add to all that with the fact that Collingwood don't trust him to answer questions from the Media as he just does not quite "get it". And despite all that he will still get his 800K a year with a bunch of teams. Just maybe not Collingwood now, this is far from his first slip up, He does not deserve sympathy, it is all manifested by himself.

Time to switch the script from being the hunted to being the hunters. We have been way too accommodating lately playing a slow predictable brand. Manic pressure, a constantly moving forward line and we should still win enough games to play finals. The switch needs to get flicked on with this mob, we can't cruise to finals without playing a finals type brand in regular season games now. Needs to be a lift from the entire team....Don't let this opportunity slip Demons!

Switch Neal Bullen into Boweys role at half back....He is not kicking goals and would be more damaging there. Switch Bowey to half forward....we need a link in the chain, he would be more damaging there. Play Bedford for run of weeks. He probably deserved the spot more than Spargo or ANB lately. He at least looks like he wants to have a ping within range. He is only one i seen recently with a great run from behind tackle. Too many players getting picked on GF deeds of last year, selection needs to be earned. Iffy selections are screwing us....We have Langdon out, with Baker in reasonably good form at Casey and end up putting Spargo on a wing. We have our defenders patched together, ie injured or beaten up and they put emergency small forwards as replacements. Our game style/plan has sorta gone out the window....In the first 10 weeks we found many different ways to win and overcome adversity. Now teams are just waltzing it to the wing or further before we have any sort of defensive accountability....Everyone is falling back but there is no real pressure on the ball carrier. We have made all 3 teams look good in this regard, too little pressure means they execute their skills. On the upside we have shown 3 possible opponents in finals nothing of our tenacious game style.... If they think we'll dish up these type performances come finals, we will lull them into false sense of security. A lot needs to change if we are to challenge again this year. We need team performances where everyone plays their roles....lately too much is left to too few, our bottom 6 is hard to pick when there are a dozen or so vying for it. Our opposition has been far hungrier. We sit 2nd on the ladder. The season has a fair bit to play out yet....Surely it is an upward curve from here!!

Last 2 weeks Turner has looked outstanding in the VFL...actually looks a bit like a May clone,...Sure hands in marking, outbodies opponents, great spoil when behind. I would be swapping Tomlinson for him this week. Deserves a chance sooner rather than later imo...you can't have enough good big guys. He is a very neat disposal of the ball also, definitely one to keep an eye on! Looks ready.