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36 minutes ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Sorry but that was the most insipid performance - one I couldn’t have even predicted. Our midfield is seriously underperforming. 

Piffle. We won comfortably. .  

39 minutes ago, Brownie said:

I thought he just looked a bit buggered. Nothing else. 

You could say the same about a lot of the team. We really seem a little flat after Adelaide.

I found his interview quite good and it was great to see him out there talking.

Didn't really see his finger but the panel remarked how sore it looked and he admitted in the interview, he probably shouldn't have played against the lions.

Playing at that level and that role with a busted hand would wear you down.

The reports on SEN are that it was a fingernail problem only. 

12 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

the top end

Disco is a much-needed shot in the arm. 

Lever & May, our “bickering couple”*, were immense. 

Howes, like McVee last year, is coming along really well. 

Max just generally plays a great game of footy. I don’t know how much he has left in him, but I miss him already. 
 

The midrange 

- Langdon, Pickett, Chandler, JVR, Frisch, Trac, Billings, Windsor, Woewodin and McVee all showed us the full spectrum of their potential. More lighter colours though, please. 
 

the low end

- One of the poorest games I’ve seen from Sparrow. I back him, but he better be down on himself after that one. 

- Can’t believe I’m saying this, but joining Tom down here is ANB, Viney and Oliver. But I know these guys will hate being down here, so I expect to see some frenetic redemption. Oliver clearly has the bigger hurdles though. I swear to god he’s carrying his hand in a strange manner. 
 

- Rivers, Petty & JVR, both MIA. 

And a shout-out to Laurie, for bagging a couple of cheeky ones. Hard to gauge his overall form after such a short (but effective) stint. 
 

I could be wrong about all of this because tonight’s been a bit of a tribute to Laphroig whiskey. 
 

*the only bit of commentary I’ve chuckled at amongst a sea of brain-dead “quips”. The commentary was utterly disgraceful at the beginning of the 3rd quarter. BT and Bradshaw just waffling on one of their tangents-from-Aldi, and completely ignoring the play. They should be pulled up by the network for such slack amateurism. 

What a poor assessment. Were you actually at the game?

59 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

He's listed as omitted Moonie .... but I agree, I thought he was worth another run

Really? What did Jockstrap do? 

Absolutely pathetic, weak performance punctuated with periods of sheer panic-stations football. Zero intensity from many players. Lack of marking skills very evident again in Roo and Petty. Billings can go back to St Kilda. Pickett needs to stop getting suspended. Petracca needs to think before he blasts away with wasted kicks. What’s wrong with Oliver??

Seriously bad umpiring led to the last 3 goals for Carlton. Has the AFL decided to gift Carlton the premiership this year? 

12 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

So umps allowed to talk but player can’t? Double standard if you ask me.

The umpires are officiating the game. Not the players. 

Pendlebury is now officially a thug. Hitting a player in the guts off the play. Loser. 

16 hours ago, Wizard of Koz said:

He's getting dementia and forgets names of players regularly. Speaking of dementia, I am not sure he was captain when he left. I thought it was Ditterich to Robbie to Greg Healy to Lyon

Yes you’re right. I got my Healeys mixed up. However he did win a B&F and leading goalkicker for Melbourne and then more than one B&F for Sydney and a Brownlow for Sydney. And his brother was captain of Melbourne at one stage!

1 hour ago, deegirl said:

Healy’s problem is he’s the Ian Chappell of footy commentary

He was our captain then he left for the bigger money at Sydney just when we were getting into finals. Just when we needed him. 

19 hours ago, DiscoStu17 said:

They didn’t show it live, but did show it after the game. Possibly during the Max and Clarrie interview.

Ok

There was a wonderful moment late in the last quarter where Clarrie ran to the bench after a magnificent goal assist effort. The Demons crowd stood and clapped and cheered him for that and other obvious reasons. Showing him love and respect. Kayo did not show this scene at all. Disgraceful editing. Doesn’t suit their narrative.

Nick Daicos cheating fake high tackle free. But he missed the goal!!!! Hahahah!!!!

De Goey gets tackled with the ball and smashed into the ground. Ball up. 
Tell me the umpires aren’t corrupt. 

On 10/03/2024 at 11:13, Dwight Schrute said:

it's breathtakingly lazy from derm, although not surprising. the real story out of this game is that a swans midfield, minus Mills, Adams, and Parker smashed us at contested ball, clearances and ALL of the stats our mids pride themselves on. I don't see that happening too many times this season and would suggest the dogs mids are going to cop the response. 

Liberatore, Bontempelli and Trevor, fed by English? I don’t think so. They could well beat us on Sunday. 

22 hours ago, Deemania since 56 said:

The more people at selection, the more the variance until a 'tolerated' selection is achieved. We have a balance as a result, based upon individual performances, not credibility; not teamwork combinations and smarts across midlines and flanks. Play-makers and progressions are thus hampered as is the persistency of ad hoc game control, hopeful game planning, game plan execution/alternatives and the depth of player responsibilities/understanding. 

This might always happen if human being were robots, but we have emotions that affect our decisions. Sometimes committees make huge mistakes due to groupthink where the whole committee gets caught up in an idea and once the ball starts rolling down the wrong hill it gathers momentum and can’t be easily stopped by one rational person. 

On 07/03/2024 at 23:24, Docs Demons said:

I would have thought that we also trained etc. in hot and humid weather so no excuses in my mind for the night. Both teams played in the same conditions and Swans were the better, more cleaner team. We missed so many marks under not much pressure. Saw Chandler drop 2/3 marks under minimal pressure. Been on this a while now but I would love a Guilden playing for us. His disposal over 50 metres is brilliant where our blokes couldn't hit the side of a barn.

 Goody needs to get over his love child's. Has to realise that the likes of Spargo and Chandler are just VFL players at best. No way should have Spargo played with no games under his belt. Had a bloke like Billings and put him as sub. His experience and smarts from the start would have been good.

 It's passed now but boy did we stuff up with Grundy . Played him a bit more along with Max including finals and it may have been the best ruck combination ever. Again Goody stuffed this up big time. Grundy gave Max a horrible hiding.

 Let JVR evolve. He is NOT a key forward yet. 

How many chances does Schack get. Just not up to AFL level. No heart. Pity as he was a 2 pick.

Need to improve around 20% to have a chance next week.

 

Selection is done by a committee. Not Goodwin alone.

And will Damian Barrett have something good to say about Goodwin and MFC? He’s very annoying.

7 hours ago, Great Northern Summer said:

Spot on - mostly.

I wouldn't say it's surprising they won - they are one team that finds a way to win games, regardless of the situation of the game and the opposition.

They beat us despite 32 inside 50s less - that never happens. Why? They kept their structure and discipline, despite the fact they were being outplayed. That enabled them to hang on - and our terrible goal kicking.

Likewise against GWS and the Lions. GWS really should have beaten them. They just kept their structure and it got them through. Same today.

Because their structure is so discipline and good, teams are not willing to take the game on and take risks against them. The Lions are generally a free-flowing team. They move the ball rapidly. Today, they couldn't get any of this going because they were too risk adverse. Teams get too risk adverse playing Collingwood, and it plays into Collingwood's hands.

The one positive about Collingwood winning this year - yes, there really isn't a position, but there is one thing - Collingwood will officially be the hunted like any previous premier and coaches will implement full game plans to beat their system. It will involve taking the game on.

 

 

 

 

 

The Lions played equally well. The difference in the end was only 4 points!

10 hours ago, No. 31 said:

Top 4 next season I would say. Voss has actually shown himself to be a better coach than most gave him credit for (me included). The Carlton list is the right age/experience/quality profile to make the next step.

8 hours ago, No. 31 said:

2028 for the Blues Quintuple ... 5-peat Flag 😝 😁

The Blues window is definitely open now, just need to keep working to improve and evolve, but all the right ingredients are there which hasn't been the case for a long time. I am pretty happy how the season panned out after the horror 6 losses in a row. 

I am still bullish on the Dees as well, just need to look at the foward line set up and perhaps adjust some tactical things. Tinkering rather than wholesale refurbishment that some understandably dejected souls here think.

Would be happy to split some silverware with the Dees up to 2028 😊

These sort of comments are uninformed. Look at Essendon after 2000. Look at Geelong and Fremantle this year. There’s absolutely no guarantees in this game. 

34 minutes ago, Nudge said:

Our fwds know how to do this, but our strategy is fwd half game thus ALL we do is about making that happen. 
 

we kick straight we win BOTH finals EASY!!! It’s that simple.

 

Mcadam a good TM’s tart, all else we need is Yze replacement, Brown/Tommo/Harmes/TMac contracts gone & we can rebuild our war chest to go again.

with those funds we need May replacement in 2024-25, ball users on outside & 1 More contested mark/solid finishing fwd.

 

Do this and we’re good for another 4-6 YEARS yet.

 

As for Gerard Healy, anyone whom doesn’t know — we treated his brother really poorly as captain in his eyes and he’ll always hate us for that. The hate is now less obvious ergo under surface as he often tries to be pro-Melb but as his choke quote highlights, inside he still hates us.

Would that be the Gerard Healy that abandoned the Demons for the Swans for the big money in 1985 just when we needed him and his playing abilities heading into 1987-1988?

6 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

On a dry deck FMD 🤦🏻‍♂️

There was a guy with a mop and bucket in the centre square at 3/4 time mopping with water and whatever else in the water. Then two of our players slipped over where he’d been mopping!

11 minutes ago, Red But Mostly Blue said:

This Is why we’re not a big club and we’re not taken seriously and we don’t draw big crowds. 

We can’t be trusted. 

Bunch of chokers. 

Fancy handing a prelim to the blues on a freaking platter. 

 So 96,000 is not a big crowd?

2 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Why dont you stfu with the drama queen bs eh.

Some of us arentvas twinkly eyed as you...then suck it up princess.

Our forward line and forward craft are but non existent presently. Those that were shoring it up are unavailable...but thats justba nithing to you apparently.  Not all would agree.

Others weve come to expect to chime in seem way off form.  ...

We lost...because we choked

Get that in your head.   Other teams are slotting them.... we miss the barn.

It is actually a concern... even during h/a games but here we are facing another inglorious exit.... because we dont have a functioning fwd group.

Im hoping Goody and Co can pull a few rabbits out. That would be good.

Many are struggling to see how.   As previous efforts have been less than successful. 

But by all means.....just a couple of goals

We had ample opportunity....  we struggle currently to convert.

We dont have Petty..We dont have Milky, we wont have up and down Roo boy either.

Whats your answer ??  

 

 

 

 

Petty has been a back. He had one good game as a forward against terrible opposition. Give it a rest. 

3 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

Were gonna need a minor miracle to get past Carlton and Brisbane.

Tell our guys to watch Brisbane on tonight’s replay and copy their forward players!