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Another undeserved Melksham drive-by. He ain’t keeping your boy out. Not any of your boys (generally waving at the rest of Demonland). Literally just played the worst role for the first two weeks that there is in the team; come on for 25 minutes to make an impact in a blowout, and… replace our generational AA ruckman and Captain… I have had my own critique of selection the last two years - but Jake doesn’t rate a mention in the Table of (dis)Contents…

Did you make it?

We will see. Frankly, I didn’t want to rude about Schache but he has never played ruck well at all and has only had glimpses of form in the backline. We have two kid rucks in reserve, and JVR who would be best avoiding that baptism, Brown can’t do it, who else is left? Which all leads to one statement: Thank Thor for Brodie Grundy…

Schache would be behind TMac as a ruck option.

It’s all about effort and mindset in any endeavour. Those that predict comfortable wins every week should keep that caveat in mind. And don’t give me the Gawn excuse. I am sorry, it didn’t make Clarry blast away or Langdon miss handballs or or or… They need to mentally show up - that’s a prerequisite to competitiveness - and they didn’t. Deal with it.

What I pieced together was that we put a timer on it as it was late in the piece and then we nixed it when it didn’t come together quick enough.

So many excuses and a lot of hand wringing. Personnel doesn’t lead to a performance like that. Smashed in the clearances meant we were on the back foot all the time and Oliver and Viney kicking out of contest like it’s 2019 didn’t help. Angus at least won the footy and that kick to Brown that set up a Bowey-Chandler-Fritsch ‘3 second drill’ was great. Aside from Bowey, had little dare back there.

He didn’t want to go. We can we do.

Camaraderie?

I smell a late change with May not being risked… No insider info, just a faint whiff of footy dept nonsense. 31. Tight calf. Friday night in Brisbane in March.

They stole that from the Champion Data bloke that went on Sportsday with Gerard and Kane the night before. Crazy stat. Such a front runner.

‘RESPECTFULLY, he is a PLODDER’

Maybe. Depends if @AzzKikA gets a life and stops attending games or not…

Werridee:

In my ‘Demonland as a pub’ narrative - this is like someone at 9pm on a random Tuesday just yelling this out across the bar at the front. It’s a good point, mate. Totally. But where did that come from?

And for us to do it! This is Melbourne!

The problem with Raynor fwd is that it’s too attacking to have Cameron, McCarthy, and Raynor there. We have ANB or Spargo that get up to the defensive side of the ground and then run hard forward. Neither of the Lions three do that so they are probably looking for balance and only Raynor is a chance to be a good HBF.

My son was born in 2020. He will never know pain and suffering.

Yeah, bring back those that have done most of the PS and aren’t the best FB we have ever had with a tight calf. Viney and Fritsch in.

And that is with the season starting earlier than usual…

He is a definite upgrade on Tommy Toothless but that shouldn’t surprise based on what we are paying him. I still think he is underdone after an injury ruined 2022 and if he stays injury free - he will just get better and better. His [censored] just looks too big for what his body wants to do. Exciting times!

This post is effing catnip for this place. If it were a powder, I’d wait hours to do a Ginnivan in the Demonland toilets… Ah, there’s wyl going back for secondsies!