JTR

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/round-11-changes-vs-the-now-defeated-demons.1269132/ "Right now Demons have a imbalance in their forward line. It's quite obvious today. Jackson, Weiderman, McDonald, Fritsch, Melksham, are all kpf or play tall and arn't that quick. Crows were able to transition the ball out of defense too easily. Salem out really hurt them on the rebound too. I expect Melksham wont get up to play though" "I don’t think Melbourne’s midfield is that deep really. Oliver and petracca are stars and they likely get viney back but then they drop away in terms of centre square mids. Langdon and brayshaw play wing mostly. Their advantage is the ruck. Even without dunks and treloar we have more depth. Bont - petracca Libba - Oliver Macare - viney Smith - ? Wings Hunter - brayshaw R smith - Langdon They got smacked in clearances by Carlton and smashed in centre clearances by Sydney"

Possibly a Sandra Sully, but Treloar is a confirmed out. I know some Dogs supporters who were hopeful he'd be ok to play, but he's out for a couple of months.

Haha, that too, obviously ? I was meaning (if it wasn't clear) the guy who does the loud "wo-hoo" after the crowd has quietened down a bit after a goal. You can often hear it on the TV broadcast for our games at AO

I wonder if the 'wo-hoo after every goal' guy will be there today? ?

Don't know a thing about Clark, other than I have him in my Ultimate Footy side and does nothing. What's the knock on him?

Unfortunately, they aint saying much! One big thread on BF where they are talking about team selection and whatnot (yawn) and this preview thread that went up a couple of hours ago. Only a few replies so far... https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/face-off-adelaide-crows-vs-melbourne-demons.1268738/

Crows BF....

JT finds the players. JM was the guy who actually did the negotiating and got the deals done. How do you reckon we'd have gone with same recruitment team of JT and co if Dodoro was the front man instead of JM? It'll be interesting to see how we go in the upcoming trade periods.

Merrett please

Has anyone heard anything about Petracca and how he is coming along with the corky? A friend mentioned today that there was some talk about Petracca not playing, but I havent been able to find anything anywhere.

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https://www.carltonsc.com/index.php?topic=5505.0 "I think we can beat Melbourne, more on the law of averages, they are due for a loss and just fell in for a win vs the Swans IMO. Brown and McDonald wont present the same problems as Bruce and Naughton plus Oliver is only half the player the Bont is and Cripps owes us a big one. Blues by 16 points, not because we are great but more because Melbourne are getting ahead of themselves, due for a loss and we can defend them better IMO"

This. Jackson is a couple of players rolled up in to one, so is very hard to replace. Overall we probably gain a bit of goal kicking firepower with Weid coming in, but definitely lose out in the other areas mentioned. I'd like to see Sparrow come in with Weid to fill that midfield/clearance/centre bounce gap, maybe at the expense of Melksham?

Yeah that was really good, especially the little graphic showing where all the players were actually looking and what they were doing when the ball wasn't in play. Great stuff!

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/934703/jackson-to-miss-1-2-weeks

I caught my first train since well before Covid on the weekend and was actually quite surprised that almost everyone was wearing masks. Main exceptions were a couple of the usual 'Facebook certified medical expert' types, and Sydney supporters. The latter I assume were in town for the game, and maybe didn't know the requirements re masks on public transport?

JJ will be on 360 tonight

Looks like its a bit different this week with a change of time for the on-sale window, and the ability to select seats on level 4

Harsh

The way the Filth are going (and also with historical resign/re-sign posts), did anyone else have to open the thread to check before being completely sure what it was about?

Wow, this thread and all the old demonology usernames is a bit of a blast from the past!

M56 for me No issues with ticketing, again. In and done in about 60 seconds.

Its been corrected now, but still... ?

... or Hunt, who we also got with the pick that came back in the trade. Or that Tyson (who was poor but still serviceable) was effectively swapped for Preuss and the later Preuss trade helped us get B.Brown. Kelly trade is the gift that keeps on giving.