Dee Viney Intervention

Was mentioned that his girlfriend Kelsey Browne who is originally from Victoria is moving back to Victoria for work opportunities after retiring as a netballer with the West Coast Fever in our national netball competition.

Which bench????

I absolutely want Kozzie to stay but I have come to terms internally that I don’t think he will be a one club player. Love that Greeny mentioned that there are 2 teams in Perth. If it comes to be then we must get maximum value and if that means a deal or player swap with West Coast then so be it. Not a massive fan of homesick players nominating a specific club.

Going to be a very good player Greeves. On a side note big Tairon suffered a medical episode at Stingrays training a few weeks ago and just collapsed. He has undergone tests to find out the cause and is on very light duties.

Stingrays zone includes Frankston and District Junior Football League, South East Juniors and Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League. All of these leagues are considered to be Country Football Leagues so no Stingrays players don’t have a choice.

Be a bit of a sliding doors moment if we replace someone on a list who has unfortunately just done their ACL with someone coming back from an ACL. Will be an interesting list management decision. Or do we go Roy as a part of operation keep Kossie at Melbourne.

Absolutely shattered for him, looked really set to announce himself as a player. A long road ahead of him. My daughter did her ACL in a very similar incident in her grand final in late August. Wish him nothing but the best in his recovery.

I reckon there is plenty to take away from your first paragraph alone. If we sort out our forward line functionality and improve our ball movement the scoreboard and wins will take care of themselves. We have too much talent for it not to.

Happy hour has started early. Loved that last paragraph. Hope he’s right.

This is music to my ears or should I say eyes. Now that we are starting to assemble more midfield depth I hope to see Kossie spend the bulk of his time forward. He is such a weapon down there and I think the most dangerous small forward in the game. If we do play with more speed on the ball into a relatively open forward line he will be difficult to stop.

Wow rugby has cracked the Las Vegas market. The raiders are that bad that Las Vegans will go and watch anything at Allegiant Stadium because it couldn’t possibly be worse than watching the Raiders. Get your hand off it V’Landy’s

Hope you kept the Duffel Coat. You will need it next year.

If we have sorted out our forward line functionality and play with a more attacking mindset we will be top 6 and will go deep into September. If it’s more of the same gamestyle wise I think we will finish outside the top 8.

He’s not wearing gum boots so I don’t think he’s off to Geelong yet. Best wishes to Gus…. He deserves it.

Interesting article and thanks for posting. Illustrates and highlights to me our method of ball movement and most importantly set up ahead of the ball. Great effort by Sydney who play every second week on small ground and still find space to work in. We play on the biggest ground in the league and mange to find nothing but congestion. Sydney to me have have much better ball users and I have always thought that we would have been better served by moving the ball quicker to an open forward line kicking to the advantage side of our forwards. Even a chaos ball would suit us more than slow and precise ball movement as it hasn’t suited our skill set. Having said that we have drafted better users of the ball which will help us going forward.

Each to their own on the slow and methodical. I will admit it worked for us in the game against Geelong in the wet which surprised me as I personally don’t think slow and methodical suits us as we don’t have enough elite kicks in the team. We are starting to draft a few which is great going forward. I think with faster ball movement, changing the angles and better structure ahead of the ball we will see some success. I get the feeling we will see this in 2025 and I am excited to see it.

I take it as contest, defence and offence which are the “3 phases of the game” that Goodwin often refers to. I am glad he has said we aren’t great in any areas and he is right, fact is we have gone backwards. I think this club review could be the best thing that has happened to the club and may help save Goodwin from himself. Our game plan and style especially our ball movement was slow, boring and borderline unwatchable at times this year.The lack of solution to the mid to forward connection and functionality of our forwardline over the last few years has held us back. Granted we have had some personnel issues but I am firmly of the belief that our issues were more around method because I still think we had enough talent on our list to be better. A few home truths have clearly been told during the reviews and I am incredibly buoyed by the off season moves made so far. I love the move of Chaplin to forwards and also the addition of Bassett and Jones to the coaching group. I think that we have drafted incredibly well with the quality of players and the areas we have drafted for. I am loving the training reports from the Demonland regular track watchers for which I am grateful for that say in match simulation there is a focus on quick ball movement, honouring the switch of play, kicking to advantage of the forwards who are working on their leading and running patterns. Love the addition of Campbell that knows his role is purely as a back up to the Goat in Gawn. It appears that our players are having more clarity around their roles and hopefully we get back to being a more selfless team. We have been too defensively minded and conservative, I don’t want to throw the baby out with the bath water but if we can put more emphasis and focus on putting the ball through the big sticks then defence will take care of itself. I thank Brad Green and Darren Shand for the review because it is the kick in the [censored] that we needed. I have confidence that we will see change and I think we will do some serious damage in September next year because of it.

Might need to change your user name to yellow leg if that’s the case

Thanks WJ, was unaware they have moved from the “Bear Cave”. Genuinely sad that is the case considering the connection to that ground and history with the Caulfield VFL team back in the day.

Used by Caulfield Bears who play in Southern FNL. I think Caulfield Park could be a good solution for Caulfield Grammarians to relocate to but you would have to sweeten the deal for them. Not sure that they would want to relocate but I guess everybody has a price.

In light of the recent sad happenings in Melbourne I am not sure that Mt. Scopus would be keen on shared facilities. One solution is that they take over Glenhuntly Oval which is currently being used by Caulfield Grammarians in the ammo’s which would give any Scopus its own exclusive facility. Council would then need to find a home for Caulfield Grammarians which could possibly be a facility swap with Ajax with some sweeteners involved.

Big fan of Chin and everything he brings to the team. My hope for him is that he is more consistent in his football. The last 2 seasons he has started off the season really well but fades out towards the back half of the year.

Thanks to all reports from the track watchers. It was music to my ears that Chaplin wants constant movement and is working on running patterns and blocks to create separation for our leading forwards as well as smalls getting front and square. Great to see defined roles for our forwards as we have always had the talent down there we were just dis functional. The missing piece of the puzzle is speed of ball movement and holding some forwards in our forward line not pushing so far up the ground. This will also assist with speed of ball movement as we will have a target to kick to. Really happy with our off season moves and drafting / trading. Bring on 2025.

Saw Tairon on Sunday at Stingrays testing day at Seaford. He has a younger brother Corey that is going to be bigger than Tairon. Both big boys but at this stage are gentle giants. Coaches want them to assert themselves a bit more physically.