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I remember the sinking feeling I had when Reid fended off Clarry and Trac in the same play. Just felt so telling when we tried so hard to get him, and how badly I wanted us to pull it off in the pre season.

Caleb has been the brightest spark for us this year though so we did alright, but watching our pride and joy midfield getting decimated by the Eagles stung

Anyone who has been going to the games noticed how nice Tmac’s kicks have been looking? Hits the ball at its lowest point, and its resulting in absolute bullets. 

6 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

So was half the team, lifted in the last cool head.

👍 When Salo's back he might replace Billo though.

I reckon Taj has justified a spot on the wing over Billings next week. Last 2 games have been solid, and he’s not as soft as butter 

Our kicking for goal tonight was elite.

26 minutes ago, Bang Bang Bang said:

One thing that doesn't get mentioned enough: Lever has been [censored] rubbish this season. 

It’s not even that he misses most marks these days, it’s the way he consistently lets the ball go behind him when he misses the mark. Shadow of what he used to be. Can’t blame not having another tall back down  there because hibbo has been brilliant all year as that 3rd tall

23 minutes ago, Billy said:

Are you dropping Hibberd on his very good 2nd half of 2022 season or is it based on his age?

Do you understand ANBs role

Turner holding down CHB after 2 quarters played in 2022?

Not having a crack, just interested in your thoughts with these 3 players 

 

Backing Chandler in to do ANB’s role (and offer more when we are going forward).

Hibbo could be seen as stiff, but Bowey needs to find his way back in the team so we can add some tidy possession coming out of the back.

Turner in so we can see how well Petty could perform that Forward role we’ve desperately been trying to see. Also stiff on Turner - we have 3 Elite Keybacks so it was always going to be hard to find his way in. And his form at Casey has been superb. Backing him in to have a big preseason.

I don’t mind this team.

Ah, forgot about those 2. So realistically our pick may slide to 41. Sucks if we had planned on hijacking another club’s academy pick like Munkara.  

Pick 13 will become pick 14 after Ashcroft, and lions have another f/s mostly likely after our first pick so 37 will at least drop to 39. Are there any other f/s that might drop that pick further? 
 

24 minutes ago, A F said:

I reckon it's too early to say. Let's see what happens with that pick.

I wonder if pies will end up accepting 27. A poster recently put up Bedford and 33 for pick 21, maybe Giants won’t take that,  and now it’s 27 + Bedford for 21?

Hopefully pick 27 will do for Collingwood, and we can play around with whatever we get for Toby toward something else.

On 9/10/2022 at 3:33 PM, mo64 said:

I'd had Turner ahead of Tomlinson. Most of the damaging AFL key forwards are either mobile (Curnow, Cameron, Naughton, Hipwood, Daniher, Riewoldt, McKay) or beasts {Lynch, Hawkins). Tomlinson is a straight ahead player with poor agility. I don't see him as an AFL defender any more.

I’m hoping it’s Turner as well, Tomlinson has lost a fair bit of agility. But Turner is super young, and showed it in patches against the pies. Hopefully he has that injury free super preseason.

I’ve thought the sub should always be who has is fit/stronger VFL form out of Smith and Tomlinson. At least they started to do that late in the season. 

Smith can play both ends and is more athletic, but a worse kick and decision maker. Tomlinson can go back and allow a different KPB to go forward, and can cover wing.

26 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

JVR, Petty and TMac up forward in the AFL please. 

I’d be comfortable with Tomlinson back in. Turner could be one pre season away from exploding as well. He’s looked great all year at VFL. 
 

Geez that forward line does sound refreshing!

58 minutes ago, adonski said:

The Goodwin-Melbourne relationship is at risk of quickly turning into a Luke Beverage situation of a coach clearly out of their depth who will waste years with a good list because of one flag

People give you crap, but besides when you’ve obviously been taking the p*ss you’ve been spot on. 

-Rooter should of been brought in literally months ago

- Gawn stumbled into AA this year, and we desperately need a main ruckman to take the load off - Grundy is obvious quality, and surely wouldn’t have put in two insipid performances like Dogga has this final series (and the whole contract situation has definitely been a distraction for the whole club) 

- VFL players not rewarded. ANB did some great things tonight, but last 2 months has shown his lack of evasive skills in critical attacking moments that then swing the other way, can’t help but wonder what Chandler might have been able to do in that role this year. Salem as well has been mentioned but does have more credits in the bank than ANB. 
 

-Refusal to change any game plan tactics after we were found out post round 10. We as supporters get criticised for our lack of cheering this year, but our dour game plan doesn’t leave much room for excitement unless the ball is in Kossie hands or Hunt in full flight. We ain’t cheering for a cumbersome BBB going slo-mo for a ball while being double teamed, because we know the result. JVR might have given us something fresh and exciting to cheer about. 

-Lack of game day coaching creativity (I get there isn’t much you can do on game day, but ffs could we not have tried some proper corridor footy at any point in the last few months when we have obviously getting rolled in 4th quarters. Petty switch too late, and needed as a result of bad forward selection in the first place)

- One of the most infuriating things for me personally has been the narrative Goody and some of the players had been trying to paint about us finding our best footy the last couple of months. We’ve been the worst f50 pressure team and worst 4th quarter team going around, don’t sell us or yourselves that bullsh*t.

The premiership gives Goody some warranted goodwill going into next year, but we need some serious change next season. Straight sets to inter-state teams, gassed players by final quarters, and an appalling record at the G in front of hopeful fans (the place and people the club talked up as the main incentive for going B2B) doesn’t just hurt, it is a complete embarrassment. And that’s exactly how they should see it going into their season review. 

- let’s hope Goody is more in the calibre of Longmire or Scott, but it really does feel like a Beverage situation. For the love of God prove us wrong!

Out: ANB, Melk, Harmes (suspension)

In: Chandler, JVR, and potentially Dunstan for Harmes 

Can we request the game at the Gabba? We are dead set sh*thouse at the G

Love to see charizard committing 🔥😤

4 hours ago, Deestar9 said:

Gary Lyon also mentioned the exact same information…

Maybe I just thought demonlanders would like even more confirmation from inside the club? Seems to be the case doesn’t it? I don’t know what Gary Lyon said, only what what’s being said within the club. Would of thought the more people posting what they know from contacts inside the club the better. 

Just to add on to this, I’ve got firm mail from inside the club telling me a long contract will be made public next week. Apparently Dogga’s agent is also Jordan Clark’s, so he’s been pretty busy sorting out his contract first. 
I only made my demonland account this year, but I was going to do it around this time last year (but couldn’t be bothered in the end) as my same source told me Hannan was out the door about a week before anyone in the media or demonland had a sniff of it. My mate doesn’t give me much mail, but when he does it’s very solid.
Just to actually add on to that, it was less of Hannan really wanting to leave, and more toward Goody just not really rating him. 

Taj named as a follower for the WA vs SA under 19s tomorrow. Obviously should be taken with a pinch of salt because coaches love flipping the starting magnets around, but pretty sure he’s been consistently named in a wing position/interchange prior to this game.  

Is this the last game to look at him before the draft?

How many years did we sign him for? Does it say anywhere?

45 minutes ago, Grr-owl said:

Just illustrates how important it was for us to tank in 2019...

Got it right the second time around didn’t we!

Geez this has been a trash performance by Casey after quarter time. Smacked in every area of the game 

Anyone remember how bad the commentary was for our round 3 clash with GWS? That game stands out so clearly for me. 
I’ll never forget when Kelli Underwood said “and that’s why they call him slick fritch.”

Stuck in my head so long that I’ve realised she’s actually a genius ? 
 

We need a top 5 for worst commentators. Honestly that could easily be stretched to top 10 

Did anyone catch the fox footy pre game where David king said alir alir would know Ben brown really well (mistaking him for Majak), and then doubled down and said it again after the ad break? Cringe

Can’t remember the second half, but he definitely started the first two quarters in the middle like he normally does.

He only ever does it on the very first bounce of each quarter  though