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PREGAME: Rd 07 vs Richmond
May to come back in… no one plays within their shells more than May. Get. The. Ball. Out. Of. His. Hands.
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the future midfield musketeers
Lindsay is making me feel a lot better about not having our top pick this year. They all look like very good players that you can structure your team around.
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What gets you excited about the club?
The post you are quoting says I did see what you see. The reality of the situation is that we are behind a number of teams with how the game is played and Goodwin has only a few months to ensure he can see this evolution through. I have been calling for it since before the end of the 2022 season and I am glad we have some momentum but what do they say about Swallows and Summer? Long way to go before we sleep…
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PREGAME: Rd 07 vs Richmond
People don’t like it when I say it - but JVR doesn’t have natural tall forward tendencies to exploit space and understand how the ball can be attracted to space. We all know Fritsch’s shortcomings… 27 tackles in the forward half and the way we move it with the setup we had today may portent something for this club that is different to the two that were dropped. Long way to go but when you are drastically changing how you play - things happen quickly and some guys are just left behind…
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POSTGAME: Rd 06 vs Fremantle
Mentally reassuring and steeling stuff I hope. Really good perspective that I hope is shared by Howes and the rest of the backs.
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What gets you excited about the club?
I can see what you see, but I am also unsure if Goodwin is the person to bring it about. They are not antithetical concepts.
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The Luke Beveridge Thread
Not a fan of the inclusion of Presidents in that list. CEO, Coaching, admin roles - that is where you want the best of the best and develop in-house under those merited experts. Board members, by definition almost, need to be supporters of the club and have the interests of the club above their professional aspirations in the game. The fact that he played games is immaterial to why Steven Smith is the next President. So Jamar, Jones, etc - they make me nervous but not the Board. And as an aside - Beveridge has done enough in the game to evolve past ‘former Dees player’ to predominate his CV…
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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Geelong
It’s both but a % of 22 in 4 qtrs is beyond staggering. A prognosis of multiple cancers.
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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Geelong
Closest thing I have read on here to my thoughts. We are so uninspired and the senior players seem inert and incapable of inspiring any attention of the younger players to a display a consistent commitment to how Goodwin and Chaplin wants them to play. Who’s fault it is immaterial - this is leading in only one direction… And the fitness aspect (last qtrs) is just maddening and a shock. We should be one of the fitter sides after last year.
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How many players have improved ?
In three words? Not many lately…
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POSTGAME: Rd 03 vs Gold Coast
Oh boy
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The New Look Demonland
Love dark mode. Well done to all. And @Nasher - IT FTW - well done.
- POSTGAME: Rd 02 vs North Melbourne
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Media Madness
This is just pathetic. We have been an irrelevance if anything most of my 40 years on this planet and you people are here thinking these journos just ‘have it in’ for us. We are going to get it when we lose against a team no won has lost to since Trumps first administration, we are going to get it when our coach alludes to the things that can’t be alluded to in our society of stiff upper lips, and we are going to headlong back into indifference unless we can halt the slide next week. Some of may be new here, or too young, or too stupid - there are worse things than being negatively talked about in the media…
- POSTGAME: Rd 02 vs North Melbourne