Diamond Tim

My ire was raised after the siren of the GWS prelim - Maytard walked around celebrating the win by adopting an uberaggressive body builder closed fisted pose complete with a full baring of the teeth when he crossed paths with some of his mates (ie Cameron) in what appeared to be a well rehearsed gesture. The guy is a moron who seems to have no insight into the legacy he is creating and that the game has moved on ......Do hope the Fitzroy fwds kick an absolute swag on him.

In 1965 I was 7 years old and a rabid Demon's supporter. My grade 1 teacher Jan Dalton and her husband Denis had become family friends and would visit for meals on occasions. One eve in '65 Jan and Denis arrived without a bottle of the usual red but with a brown parcel which was handed to me. Upon opening it I saw a Demons guernsey with the number 5 on the back. Jan said Denis had swapped jumpers post match at the '64 GF but couldn't stand having the red and blue in the house - thought it'd be better off living in a household of D supporters......#5 has always been my fave.

Number 11 Maxy Jimmy Stynes Greg Wells Gary Hardeman (for a season) Legends all

....and Froggy Crompton !!

Giv Each to his own but you don't think Peter Thompson had any global impact ( without choking ) ?

............And Greg Norman is a huge [censored].....

Food for thought re the wingers though I felt Hunter was the more effective of the two throughout the season. My thinking is that our back 3 talls have the role of overhead interception, spoiling opposition fwd talls and feeding it off to our attacking half backs and wingers. For mine May,Lever and Tomlinson are the most reliable and effective combination to fulfill the talls function and they have repeatedly delivered. I think we've had some issues with the smaller backs/runners - Hibbo has been on/off injured and now is gone, Salo has been down with both McVie and Bowey being good to serviceable. We don't appear to need much honing defensively but the delivery into the fwds from the running half backs, wingers and onballers has been way below average and seems to have contributed markedly to our going out in straight sets again. It's no good our onballers being great accumulators but not being able to hit a target either whilst on the run or from a mark/free. Surely elite players can train to improve one of the most fundamental skills of the game...I, as Binman noted on the poddie last night, watched the GWS foot skills and delivery into the fwd line and felt insanely jealous. How come our boys can't kick a footy anywhere near like that? New skills coaches who can rectify this and also help the upfielder's connection with fwds be more sophisticated than a Hail Mary bomb would go a long way to sorting out what is a mess. Our fwds - they, alongside their upfield comrades, all need work on snap & set shots. For mine, the fwds who looked the goods in at least one of the finals included Fritta, Smithy, Nibbler and Kossie ( to a lesser extent ). Spargo worked well upfield and kicked more effectively than most Redleggers . It's clear that we need another fwd tall to replace TMac and BBB - be great if that replacement was fit for purpose,ready to go, not TOO old and competitive in the air. Feel that Chandler and maybe Charlie have left the door open for others - Kossie could do with a clear message on playing to his strengths and be made aware that his weekly selection is not a given.

Could Brad Green be talked into putting some time in with the fwds?

Clarrie is an inspirational leader type

In the COLD light of day I reckon an apology for the manner in which the past 4 finals have transpired from Simon to the supporter base might slightly ease the frustration and disappointment....

"We are one and free........"

16.28 in two final appearances - thing is it is no surprise as it's part of a pattern that has been evident for 2 seasons. My obs on this: * aren't they highly paid, elite players and therefore reasonably expected to be capable of effectively leading, passing and converting shots as goals ( at least 50% of the time / a 50% conversion would have won us both games) * isn't it the role of the coaching staff to id issues and work with the players to rectify them at rraining? How long have they had to sort this out? Are they able to do their job? The last 5 mins of Blues game was akin to watching a train crash in slow mo.

Major coaching fail.

I'm more concerned with the sanity of the board in extending a coaching contract PRIOR to the finals campaign......

I'm going to be interested as to whether Cripps and Pittonet are tasked with going the heavy in the early stages - try and distract the D's who may be on a short fuse or hypervigilant about protecting each other.