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I am a fan of it as well. don’t forget the 10 day break to play the Suns R2. if we played a team who didn’t play finals R1, be a big chance we get rolled due to their longer pre-season. positives all round. but do feel for the country members, kids, and anyone who can’t go because of work.

There is nothing un-common or non-believable about this. A standard coaching tactic used all over the world. A key part of a coaches job is to motivate their players :- with a wide variety of methods to choose from. To suggest that Goody is lying about how he motivated the players is just about the most laughable thing I have ever heard from a Demons supporter. The fact that he was going to say “this is us, here we are” in the speech is evidence enough for me, as to how important a theme he feels it was. Bevo used themes from the Pearl Jam song man of the hour

Some people just can’t be pleased. the coach says the themes behind this song were a key driver behind a flag. after all the sh$t goody’s has copped, now he is lying about why and how we won the flag???! give it a spell.

What a ridiculous post on multiple levels.

“There is”

You appear to get easily triggered from differing opinions Maybe a need for more time in your Queensland tropics and less Internet

In fairness it is always challenging to see and value defensive efforts when watching on tv. But, anyone who says kozzie had a poor game, doesn’t understand his role or value to the team. Kozzy, well and truly did his job, despite what the stats sheet says

Oliver’s. was the moment in the game, when I realised we would win. Bang. Bang Bang Bang

The last phase of the Norm Smith curse, is rather than getting a summer to discuss and enjoy the drought breaking flag, the celebrations are partly diluted by Covid, and anti-vax’ers. In more positive news, after our back-to-back flag, the curse will be completely done, and it will be a full summer of pure demons celebrations!

Did some aliens steal us and drop us off at the AO? not sure I could handle missing 2 in a row.

I am going to run with a “monster influence” don’t kick 3 goals in 45 seconds without a ruckman who isn’t doing a few things right.

Given he doesn’t mind a bit of attention, could be an explosive post career book. Diary entry Sat 24th July 2021:- We got another email from Gil this morning. This time, it simply stated “”tonight dogs to beat Dees. Just get it done””

Well that was very entertaining. thought I would be done after 5mins, but watched it all with great interest. Thanks for sharing

Apologies......I thought you were referring to goody loving tough players who can’t kick (may have previously thought this myself)

Bro, we won the flag. It's a new era. There is no need to take cheap shots at our master coach anymore. Plus half the guys we thought couldn't kick, now can.

Guess we will have to settle with 3 in 47 seconds. would love to see a top 10 “one minute of finals footy” to know how it compares to anything else.

It has been eating me up why Trac didn’t have the ability, effort and tenacity to break free of the Bont tackle and kick a goal from 65m out, with 5 seconds to go in the third quarter. should keep him hungry to come back bigger, better and stronger next year! :) :)

Obviously don’t want to put too much pressure on the young fella. But for mine, the day he starts as a 95kg, 198cm, rover, who also takes some hit-outs, will be when he is at the peak of his powers.

Probably a silly question, but was some JD drunk out of the cup?

Limited Ricky Nixon version?

Can you imagine the convo with Jess jess “Max I need to know you are not naming our child after Clayton” Max “ oh, yeah, gee I hadn’t even thought of that. Just really like the name Oliver. It’s a top 10 name these days, so I am not alone” jess “ok, fair enough. Just as long as you promise me” Max conference call to the boys “boys, I got it approved. Junior Clarry her we come!”

Wind it up BT. I remember a game half way through the year, when he was being typically negative Melb :- the other commentator asked, “what will it take for you to believe in the Dees Brian” he replied, “I won’t believe in them until Max is holding up a cup” well, time to admit you were wrong and have a long holiday Brian!

Plus we don’t want to restrict games at our new home away from home - Optus Stadium

He has played some vfl forward, and a handful of his early AFL games were as a forward. showed promise. Natural leading patterns, and could take a mark :- even though he was pretty skinny back then.

Think you may be missing the point. we acknowledge that Petty is likely a better defender than Tomlinson. But Petty potentially has more flexibility to be able to play both back and forward, where as Tomlinson is likely to be significantly better as a backman vs other positions. ie not saying Petty will be a better forward than back :- just saying Petty forward may be best for the team sometime in the future. Hence at some stage, if Tomlinson gets back to his best, the club will most likely trial Petty as a forward :- even if it’s just as a backup, or as knowledge that they can pull that move to gain a match-up advantage. Don’t stress yourself out :- we are talking about a great problem to have, re flexibility and optimising team balance.