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On 16/03/2025 at 23:33, Dr. Gonzo said:

In 2 weeks we have the Suns on a Saturday Arvo and no GP. Will we beat today's crowd?

I'm in two minds about this, Demon supporters are champions at making excuses for why we don't go to games. But we also have a smaller fan base playing out of the largest stadium in the country which can make it appear worse than it is. Whether we draw crowds or not shouldn't be on the supporters but unfortunately it is a reality of our sport that failure to draw crowds puts you in the spotlight, either about where games are scheduled (MCG v Docklands) or at the extreme whether you have the support to be viable in a national competition.

I am happy to get stuck into us when we don’t show up. 5k dees supporters rocked up when they normally don’t and instead of eating ourselves alive we should note the progress and move on.

8 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

I agree.

And Kozzy's absence is huge, both through the midfield and in the forward half.

It's hard to get a read on our future forward fortunes off today given the conditions. Even though Marvel is a funny shape, we'll get a better read next week or the week after.

I think we are the goods. I have been wrong before - but we were cleaner than we should have been and we had a plan moving forward. My only worry is commitment to that plan. When we shared with hands and went quick we looked damaging. I would want to see more positive movement from talls and Fritsch but they were either terrible, down, a first gamer that was a competitor for 4 quarters, or a first gamer who was a broken watch - in the right twice…

73 points against that team in those conditions is a fair effort with the above.

Yeah, worked a lot better. But, again, we don’t have many natural forwards. Especially when Fritsch doesn’t exist as a player.

When we didn’t move it into the middle and quickly, it stood out - that’s a good sign to me and we just have to commit - and when CP5 has a 1-1 in the 50 he gets the ball from wherever - no hesitation - but we hesitated…

He is our match winner - feed him.

Don’t have time to read all this - kid about to take phone for flight home. 

We are good, we are trying to be more exciting - Petracca immense and the new boys good especially X Lindsay ( mea culpa) 

Fritsch horrible.

But looking forward to the year!

I was there and considering the virgin lounge has been full of F1 fans we weren’t even on the card for sports fans in the city. 

23k was good and we are way too quiet - that’s my main gripe - we are so nervous and quiet.

34 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

Your outie is calm, kind, and considerate at all times

Well your outie likes to buy the footy record and says ‘dammit’ everytime anything happens ever…

6 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

Grow up

I think it is an irony that in the Luke Jackson thread, the word sobriquet appears…

And it is interesting that the average footballers perspicacious nature explodes when they move home to WA and realise they don’t want to be there.   

2 hours ago, Roost it far said:

Who cares about Josh Carr 

1 hour ago, monoccular said:

Who IS Josh Carr?

WHY is Josh Carr?!

Turner ill makes sense. He is ahead of Jefferson obviously.

Can the Billings hate end? It’s so unbecoming. He is depth. He is not going to affect the result in any meaningful way - if we lose, you will know that our best players didn’t do what they needed to do.

Fritsch is a star forward. Just excellent forward craft and feel for where the ball will be. His lack of defensive intensity is baked into all of that. He is what he is.

A forward that kicks 4 goals in a GF while it’s ‘hot’ is a star.

If he moves up the ground slightly - he will immediately becoming the best kick into the forward line in the league IMO. Will it be a case of robbing one apostle to pay another? I think it will work so well that some teams will try to tag him out of existence and how we then go forward then will be that much more challenging. But looking forward to it.

7 hours ago, Roost it far said:

Oh for ANB to still be with us. He’s exactly the guy we need right now. 

Fair point. Does anyone know if he’s happy?

5 hours ago, Supreme_Demon said:

Cados is pretty decent! 😌🤣

Love a "social media star" being a massive Demons fan! ❤️💙

Good goal kicking practice for both Riv and The Bison (Harvey Langford).

 

Once again ‘star’ is used so liberally it betrays the meaning of the light in the night sky that has travelled so far that by the time the light has reached the Earth it may have already extinguished…

Everyone is happy. So many happy people…

7 hours ago, Roost it far said:

The game may well be built around running it out of the backline. However when you have a very strong midfield as we do and Gawn has no serious opponent against a team that can likely out run us I'd play lock it up football in the front half.

And we will be turned around and beaten.

Dont over commit, use that great backline of ours and win 1-1s in a more open ground that allows slower ball movement and then turn it over and go.

4 hours ago, Dannyz said:

The issue with locking it inside the forward 80 is the game becomes a cluster and the forwards have no space to work in!

Yes, and the game today is built around counter attacking brutally from a congested backline with a series of 1-1s and using running power to turn those 1-1s into 3-1s in seconds.

1 minute ago, Demonland said:

Famous last words but we’ve been testing it the past few days on a cloned version of a week old Demonland. I’ve been having conversations with myself. 

I can name a poster who used to do that for real…

3 hours ago, hardtack said:

I’m not sure that there’s any correlation between the two things… a lot changes in the way of club culture over a period of 20(?) years or so. I hope he gets his chance.

The correlation is that coaches say a lot of things…

1 minute ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I was hoping Turner would take control and rip up the match sim yesterday. 

I don’t recall one training report over summer which Turner was commended, he unfortunately spent at least 2 weeks in rehab and finally his practice match series was very underwhelming aside from 4 goals across the two sets of junk time. 

jVR desperately needs another key forward to help him out this year, and I’m not sure Disco is that man to start the year.

With that being said, he’s a tremendous set shot at goal, possibly our best, so he certainly has something to offer the team.

Turner’s talent won’t allow him to ever ‘rip’ any game apart. He is a third tall and if he plays his role - he can make life easier for JVR and keep defenders accountable.

We have to remember this as fans or we risk setting ourselves up for ignorant disappointment.

9 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

Yeah because a club has never had a public message contrary to what's actually being said behind the scenes.

Trade period is a poker match, with bluffs and gambits aplenty and clubs will leak info to the media as part of the game. Both sides are hoping the other one folds.

Oliver wasn't traded but it was certainly on the cards. It's fine, it's a professional sport, this sort of thing happens every year.

If you're over the conversation you don't have to respond. 

The crux of this asinine conversation was ‘were we keen to offload’ and we just weren’t. How can I tell? 

Oliver is still here.

The rest is the normal amount of noise that trade week brings including agents and players agitating a situation.

The reporters got wind of the agitation but misread our willingness to engage in a trade - they were wrong. 

9 hours ago, old dee said:

I cannot believe there is 8 pages on something that is click bait.

 The non story of 2025.

Land needs no bait. 

We are going to click anyways.

If Freo is any Warner and Pickett they are going to have to loosen some capital - I can see them allowing for Jackson to go to facilitate that.

But he may have other designs - this will be the last generation of players with effective no-trade clauses.

5 hours ago, hardtack said:

I’m pretty sure Goodwin said, just the other day, that Jefferson will be getting games this year.

Neale Daniher assured us that Chris Lamb had a long future at the club - delisted later that year.

On 06/03/2025 at 11:41, greenwaves said:

Yeah spot on.  Looks like Tom Morris and Sam McClure were right all along

I don't read replies or reactions 

 

 

 

Tom? 

I thought this was a mea culpa. 

But if I can’t get an apology then a thread that has them all is something I suppose…

10 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

He didn't play a bad game at all.. but due to Viney, Petracca and Langdon playing more midfield time yesterday this limited Langfords midfield minutes and instead had to waste away up forward where he was barely noticeable. 

That's the reason why he played well against North because he was given more midfield exposure because there was no Petracca, Viney and Langdon playing.

It's not the worse thing in the world that a first year player starts off in the VFL. He'll be able to play more his natural game as a starting midfielder and then when the time is right, then hopefully the club see him best fit to actually slot into our midfield set up at AFL level.

For me, if you are not a star - what’s your role? And if Langford can play a role in that fwd line that gets him exposure at AFL level - I think that will benefit him more. 
Surely we have to play Petracca forward more in the next 3 weeks? Rivers will also need to sure up on the defensive side of the ball sometimes, Oliver should have always spent time at either end learning to get easy (back) and hard but valuable (fwd) footy.

I think there is scope for Langford to play meaningful minutes with this midfield.