Everything posted by rpfc
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FINALS 2022: Week 01
Of course dusty is playing. Great point, @binmanaround players getting injured at training in the week off possibly because of the need to do high intensity, sustained training to simulate a game BECAUSE of the week off… And libba out is huge but they keep telling me how good that midfield is and they are about to pay the bloke that wanted to [censored] off to Essendon so let’s see it Bont/Treloar/Dunkley et al.
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ROAD TO THE GRAND FINAL
No offence luci but your table made me MORE confused. The graphic the AFL has is fine or Squiggles is interactive: https://predictor.squiggle.com.au/
- Trade and Free Agency rumours
- Trade and Free Agency rumours
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CHANGES: QF vs Sydney
Yes. So the magnets can just sit there.
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PODCAST: QF Preview vs Sydney
Yes, every Demon should stop and appreciate this before Gawn gets over the hill; we have half a dozen generational talents and three all timers. Wow indeed.
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PODCAST: QF Preview vs Sydney
It certainly does set us apart. And you can do things like this with great mids - it’s conversations like this that give a good indicator of why we have CP5, CO13 and AB10 signed up for so long. That kind of midfield enables you to play any way you want really. And as you imply - when you look at what we have down back - it makes it easy to know how we should play. Pressure forwards, defender push up the ground to ensure territory, mids get it going for territory, outnumber one in defence to intercept. Swans are late to the contested ball party and if we kick straight and deliver well enough into the forward line on quick plays I expect this to be over by HT.
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PODCAST: QF Preview vs Sydney
@binmanyou asked at one point why other teams don’t do the ‘triangle’ extra man in defence that acts as a goalkeeper of sorts. The critical thing is the opponent has to keep their extra in the midfield and not allow 1-1s in our backline so it takes a few things for us to maintain this; 1. Smart, talented defenders who can make this work and organise the team to get the outnumber back. 2. A midfield that can compete with one less at stoppages up the ground. Obviously we have an advantage other teams don’t. 3. Lever and May. Now this is a riff off the first one but these two are so smart that they ensure we pull players from the stoppage to get either Lever if we are pressing up, or May alone into the D50. So a lot of teams can do this but jeez they have to get it right or it will mean easy hit ups all the way up the ground due to the outnumber.
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ROAD TO THE GRAND FINAL
Of course he meant this - he’s a hype man for the finals he is talking up all the teams. Every single team has been talked up this year as a flag chance - it’s a huge final series.
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Farewell Luke Jackson
Logue is not going to upgrade ND14 to ND2. Also I just don’t think this FD cares about draft packages per se, they will have players in mind (both to be drafted and exisiting pros) and they will ask enough from Freo to get their targets. Unless they don’t have good enough targets and we punt forward 12 months with future picks.
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Farewell Luke Jackson
- Farewell Luke Jackson
As DD said - don’t believe GNF. He is simply the worst poster on here. And I include olisik and Dr D in that.- Farewell Luke Jackson
Don’t know about this, if we can afford to keep LJ/take on Grundy we have space… plus the cap goes up $600k next year from a report I heard on Sportsday. Shift Weideman and Tomlinson and you have more.- Trade and Free Agency rumours
- Trade and Free Agency rumours
Both of you - wrong. He is obviously talking about former Pittsburgh Quarterback Terry Bradshaw. But he is turning 74 this year and I just don’t think we want to commit to a short term option at Quarterback especially considering he really plays a different system and also our sport doesn’t have that role within the rules…- Farewell Luke Jackson
No?! Spill.- Angus Brayshaw Re-Signs Until 2028
It will be a dark day when you are removed, but these things happen. Andy reinstates you, but you never return… Sad.- Farewell Luke Jackson
One addendum to this - he can’t say this, for his own sake, if he is just another ‘iron in the fire’ for us that we are looking at. So his management would need to be on the phones a lot…- Farewell Luke Jackson
Yes, if Brodie wants to get to the Dees and we value him appropriately- he simply has to name us and stipulate that he doesn’t care what the terms of the deal are - he is either staying on his current wage or he is going with the $500-$600k MFC is offering and the max ND35 they are providing the Magpies. Now this sentiment goes out the window when we talk about LJ to Freo but there it is - this is the year to get your Dodoro on.- Angus Brayshaw Re-Signs Until 2028
Look at you going around reigniting threads to keep the place ticking over, you are the James McDonald of Demonland. So first things first; we are sorry for removing you from the site a couple years earlier than you were ready, and we really appreciate you not putting a Norm Smith-like curse on the joint when this inevitably happens. Secondly, yeah, no, Gus doing great. Efficiency down but that’s because he gets it so much and in pressure situations.- ROAD TO THE GRAND FINAL
- Farewell Luke Jackson
I would avoid doubling down on a ruck position, yes.- Farewell Luke Jackson
If Gawn is injured, you can’t replace your best players and we are going to struggle. Having a great replacement for Gawn is such a waste of investment. Someone needs to be first ruck and surely the 6 time AA ruckman will be that.- Farewell Sam Weideman
I would get a Meek type to play at Casey in addition to having Weed play 2nd ruck at AFL. And I don’t think we have had a great sample size with Weed as back up ruck with this forward line. I just think it is a cheaper option to mooted alternatives and may mean we can do our search for a tall fwd in a years time when they may be more options. Also bringing money forward for Oliver, Petracca, and Brayshaw that can gives us flexibility in later years. This is the beauty of these long term deals - they provide long term stability and flexibility.- Farewell Oscar McDonald
How dare you talk about @Demonland like that! - Farewell Luke Jackson