Skuit

Cheers man. I really do appreciate you taking the time to respond and clarify. Who was that bloke running around with the headband then?

Cheers dee-tox. It's nice to get a response from a vetted source. If we didn't miss our season pre-brief I would have probably expressed confidence for the season ahead - and that we can kick winning scores - but with reservations re. our contested marking talls. The on-field to date hasn't done much to allay these concerns. Hopefully Jackson can come one quick-smart.

Crazy-busy emergency-what-not so only got a glancing look at the highlights - but it seemed like Hunt was in everything Elsewhere, May looked super-rusty and Frtitsch seems to be edging toward the super-star status I've been quietly expecting. Jackwho is my new nickname for Bailey. I think he may be about to break the mould - can't think of a ready comparison. My questions for those who did watch - did Petracca follow-up or was he maybe taking it easy? Was May actually [censored]? Also - the TMac-Weid-Jackson-Brown nexus - do we have issues? Can these be overcome by our mid-fleet on a reg basis?

Vanders strikes again! Living out his rehab revenge fantasies.

Although a professional sports journalist should have a better overview of the league, it's likely that most on here would have a far better gauge on our club than this lot (albeit with greater biases). All else being equal, the simple maths can paint a picture. If professional life consists of 40 hours per week, divide that by 18, and a footy journo has a little over two hours to dedicate to each team per week. Most tragics on here would invest more time than that on the Demons per day. Factor the additional time on the weekends, and it's the equivalent of at least a part-time job dedicated to learning about a single club.

My memory - which isn't remotely reliable - was that it was from a big tackle v the Crows, maybe on Jacobs during that famous win in 2017. And demonstrates some of his worth off hb not currently being credited.

Gawn looks like he's demonstrating our lack of premiership trophy to hold up.

I haven't forgotten who Petty is. This bloke right? (Just Josh'n with you 58er - my apologies)

You can delete the irrelevant parts from the quote to shorten the length. So long as you don't drastically alter the meaning I think it's mostly okay.

First you reply curtly toward another poster and now you harry me in response?

Seems a rather harsh assessment of Yung Blood's fairly positive contribution.

Except that he actually seems to have been suspended by Twitter, which based on Drumph's ongoing efforts must take the bigliest immaturity in history for that to ever occur. Although, after scanning the site's guidelines, the suspension of Christian's account may have been due to his Dusty impression on the weekend. Among the Twitter rules: "Impersonation: You may not impersonate individuals, groups, or organizations in a manner that is intended to or does mislead, or confuse others." The Crows seem pretty confused.

To tiers, There's a quote function located on the left-hand side below each post. You can also add an @ symbol before a poster's name to get their attention. Like this @tiers. Yours sincerely, Skuit.

An article floating around somewhere said he had previously deactivated it for a period to focus on footy. Maybe he's gone that way again - via 'suicide-by-cop' to avoid the temptation of returning?

I don't want to be a downer Pates, but so did St Kilda, Western, and Gold Coast - all of which struggled to kick goals for the most part of last year. Meanwhile, last year's two highest scoring teams - Geelong and Brisbane - notched sub-80 scores.

2013: "Sellar bags five as Demons open pre-season account!!!" https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/sellar-bags-five-as-demons-open-preseason-account-20130303-2fely.html

On second thoughts, the original snap is resplendent with inherent religious iconography. I call this new piece, 'The father, the son, and the holy GOAT': Or, 'Gawn's creation of Luke'.

Noticed kid-Pickett was often in good position on the weekend but hardly ever called for the ball, sometimes with his head down or looking in another direction. Was overlooked on a couple of occasions as well (Tomald) despite being the obvious option. If he nailed that second shot I suspect he would have popped up for one or two more. Club needs to find a way to jack up his confidence pronto, and let his natural mojo come to the fore. I have no idea what the immediate solution might be. You can offer someone licence but it doesn't mean they will grab it. Perhaps if we gave him the simple target of taking x number of shots per match or x number of runs? - the threat of an odd sidestep can disrupt the defence even without kicking for goal.

We talking legs or kegs here?

Latest edition of Adobe Creative Suite out of Cambodia actually, but you're forgiven nonetheless.

I did some quick calculations and came up with this handy reference guide below.

I was probably a bit unfair on Tomald, considering the circumstances, and nearly had a small breakdown when I thought I saw him take off his shoe. Like when he was at CHB though, he needs to reminded that being a play-maker isn't a required part of his role. As for Brown - I don't want to be too disparaging, but his goals weren't particularly well-crafted. One was courtesy of a soft free kick (and he gave away a few after that), and another was a fairly ugly dribbler that was lucky to go through. He also missed an easy set-shot. I think he could well be the type of player to quietly contribute a couple goals per game, but I'm not sure if goal average is much of a metric used by footy clubs nowadays. We're crying out for a forward with a strong marking presence, and I'm afraid he's not it. Rather than a 22-gamer as some were declaring early on, I think if he's being selected - as was mentioned at the time of his recruitment - then we probably have some serious problems. Right now I would go with an extra medium ahead of Brown as a second key.

Max Gawn probably the only captain in recent times to joke about drinking his own urine at the press announcement. He's already taking the pizz.

I doubt you would have been impressed had you watched Old Dee. I'd probably be classified as one of themanjordan's happy-clappers but I wasn't particularly buoyed by yesterday's showing, bar Petracca's genuine break-out performance. While the usual pre-season qualifications apply, so many of our recent limitations were still clearly on display, collectively and in regards to certain individuals. This was most apparent with our forward-half play, marked by inefficiency and bombing (the latter which can be a symptom of the forwards as much as the mids). While others would agree in their hearts, I doubt this will be a popular post. Weid to me showed no signs that he's ready to take strong, confident grabs or get himself into space. Tomald was completely absent for the most part and his usual galumphing self when finally involved. Brown's goals were junk against an inexperienced opponent. Melksham was off the pace and uninvolved. As that's at least half of our primary targets, I feel we that may have a problem. Meanwhile, Jackson isn't ready up forward, and if we need him to be, then I feel like we shouldn't be developing him in three positions at once. Pickett was busy in flashes, but still needs to develop his confidence and stamina. And while our renewed forward pressure was pleasing, Goody credited this to ANB and Spargo - who otherwise seem both completely pointless and unlikely to hit the scoreboard themselves. Alongside Gawn, I think we clearly missed Fritsch the most. This to me is a concern. Around half our goals came from Petracca, Jones, Langdon and Sparrow from the middle or half-back. I like their contribution, but not the balance. Our 2018 semi-final win over Hawthorn for example saw at least two thirds of our goals scored by full-time forwards. Let's see what happens in Marsh number 2.

Quite right (and this is exactly the help I was after). I just took KK16's lead in his original post. Anderson makes much more sense (as I overlooked/didn't include him elsewhere). Although it has some value, the previous major Demonland update made it so original posts couldn't be adjusted/edited after a certain time-frame. Consider Anderson at 5, and Robertson down in that group from 13 to 16 - based on him being available at the time of Pickett's selection but still evidently above Rivers. Edit: I was able to adjust the table. Cheers for your catch.