DeelightfulPlay

I took you seriously for a moment and was elated... then my brain kicked in 😂

When analysing how our midfield got smashed, can you discuss the connection between Grundy and the midfielders? I was fairly happy with Grundy's game last week and he seemed to be trying against the Lions. But can't tell if I'm just being overly hopeful

6 Lever - stellar defense efforts 5 Hunter - worked hard, particularly second half 4 Ben Brown - great goal efforts 3 Bowey - great disposals 2 Fritta - not his best but still helped with 3 goals (but if only some of those behinds had converted!) 1 Brayshaw - bit meh but did some good work in second half Thommo also was solid-ish given his playing profile. But overall the bottom 2 are just slighr advantages over an uninspiring 18 others

And if you go into the custom stats on the AFL app, you can get the turnovers stat. Unfortunately, Clarry had 12 turnovers, the highest in the game (with Petracca and Rayner next, each with 6 turnovers). Surprisingly, Lions had 77 turnovers to our 65. Wonder if that's the impact of after the lights. Of course, Lions might have had more possessions overall (have not counted yet) or the turnovers might have occurred in less damaging places. Edit: also now I think of it, we were being smashed in the midfield so the fact that our midfielder had such a high turnover rate is telling... Viney had 4, Harmes had 4

I was at the game and I'm not sure they showed it on TV but... they flashed up a picture of Gawn looking in pain and alone, in the dark of the change rooms, multiple times. Psychological warfare...

Good old fashioned human skill! Great stuff, DemonWheels!

Brilliant! Did you make this or is it DallE?

Thanks for that, didn't realise it was a Gate 8 entrance!

WCW and I and the rest of the Demon Army will be down by the goal (near section 211 and 213)! Come join us 😁

The Demon Army website has some info about tickets but you're probs best placed ordering via Ticketmaster (since the Try Booking link to register interest might not be monitored this late). Section 211? 213? are cheersquad zones :)

Since we're going all access, anybody know where they're planning on having dinner? 🤣 WCW's influence on me beginning to show haha

I highly recommend Rex! They have good specials, give you a snack, and have some of the best on time ratings for the past few COVID years. They only do the eastern seaboard really, but very solid service. For example - flew up to Brissy today. I was running late and they helped me get on board and arrived on time!

Yes, this is what makes me a sour puss! There's no soul to it. It's serviceable but not art. Nick Cave puts it very eloquently: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chat-gpt-what-do-you-think/

It's fun to play around with! But tbh it turns me into a bit of a sour puss in reaction to the hype 😅

It's a large language processing model aka conversational AI. It can generate responses, some analysis, middling poetry and prose near instantly

According to BOM it'll be 25 degrees from about 7 pm onwards. Don't know about humidity though!

We're the oldest professional sporting code of football in the world... feel like that would rate a mention, pls and thx ChatGPT!

I don't think I'd ever emotionally recover from losing to the Pies in the Granny with this team!

Agreed, this year we truly seem unbelievable. Like we've somehow surpassed our 2021 selves. I'm trying to be cool about it... It would truly feel like a failure if we didn't at least get to the GF this year.

There are a range of teams I'm relatively neutral on... then there are the teams I hate. Often these are similar to other's hated teams, but for me the Aints hold a special place of hate due to some crappy supporters endured all through my childhood. Now I've moved to Sydney, I've adopted GWS as a soft spot team. Mainly so whenever my colleagues tell me to follow a Sydney team, I can proclaim I'll never follow the Swans and that they should all really be supporting the underdogs, GWS. Plus they now have Toby!

Great info! Thanks, Layzie! I also wonder if it depends on unique instances or consecutive acts? Eg there might a second or two of chasing but then it clearly ends in physical. Would that count as one or two pressure acts, if it is all part of one continuous play?

There's NSW Demons! I only just found out about them from @whatwhat say what, so can't say what their events / pre-game rituals are like. Hopefully something nice!

Hope you make it to the Sydney game, dworship! I'm planning on roping in most of my workmates to come to the game, since they've listened to me prance and rant about the Dees endlessly since I moved to Syd. Time to convert them!

I'm likely to be one of the only strangers there, given I'm a new DA member! But being a stranger means I'm just a friend you haven't formally met yet 😁 I'll swing by the floggers (a term I learnt from the FAQ page on the DA website just last week) and say hi! And maybe try to stifle a laugh at any flogger craft (not that I could do any better)

Can't wait for another beauty like this to kick off Viney's season. Especially sweet for our Jack Viney Made Me Cry thread!