The Taciturn Demon

Heath McNamara Zanker Hore Fitzsimon Gillard

Thought we might have been fading a bit as the season has continued, but that was a tough win. We've been relying on too few recently, but there were strong Demons performances all over the ground today. Really good to see.

Spending a top 10 pick on a small forward makes me nervous. If Dovaston is the eighth best available player, so be it. If we're picking for need, he'd want to have some tricks.

It's ungracious to talk about umpiring when you're flogging a team, I know, but this is so bad it's dangerous. Just wildly different interpretations of every rule, and zero interest in protecting players from reckless [censored].

Good quarter. Fitzsimon having a superb game. Heath important, as always. Shout out to the absolute sook standing beside the ground mic. Definitely wearing beige chinos. Possibly Tom Petroro himself. I reckon if I was Daniel Harford and I knew six out of the 40 players, I'd try to keep the comedy to a minimum.

Sheesh. Please stop letting the Swans waltz clear out the front.

No.

A lot depends on what happens in the off-season. Who has niggles. Who bursts suddenly into prominence. Who finds a new position. Who fades for one reason or another. But if I was guessing, I think there are very strong indications that King, who has politely said in public he won't throw everything out, will throw almost everything out. For that reason, and because I think we need to do it, I'd be looking at a Round 1 team that looks very different to Goodwin teams of the past 18 months or two years. Salem Petty Howes Jiath Turner Bowey Lindsay Sparrow Windsor Fritsch Kentfield Chandler Viney Mihocek Langford Gawn Pickett Rivers Adams Steele Culley McAdam Heath

Oof. We could be in for a rude shock soon.

A middle aged man in beige chinos chucking a massive tantrum is the most 2025 thing I can imagine.

2019 was a stunner. I've got a feeling 2024 will go close to it.

Bit nervous now. Starting to look a touch shaky. Interesting to see who plays on Molloy.

It's death ride time. Bailey Humphrey. Sleeper agent. You know it makes sense.

Hm. Maybe. I think there's also a VERY compelling case to be made that a team that finished in the bottom five for two years in a row and has now lost two of the midfielders essential to their most recent period of success, one still a strong contributor, will struggle for at least the next little while. Maybe there's a really compelling alternative case. I haven't heard one that doesn't include: a) Our under 20s are simply better than everyone else's (which I would say is wishful at absolute best) b) Oliver and Petracca were always going to take multiple seasons to get back to their best (no longer relevant) I'm enormously excited to see where a completely new coach who obviously wants to go in a completely new direction can get us to. I just don't think it's finals next year. It would be great - it's not impossible - it just strikes me as highly unlikely.

The AFL site only started calling Humphrey "wantaway" after an interview with his manager clearly wasn't the "Nah, nothing to see here" they were expecting.

Gosh. It really took a terrible, terrible toll on Brian Dixon.

How disappointing. Sounds like we've thrown a fair bit at this over a long period of time. Thanks for the updates.

Underwhelming. As always, keen to see what Jason Taylor has in mind.

I posted an AI image of a bottle of perfume. I'm no stranger to the taste and texture of egg.

Zookeeper. Zookeeper. Those two monkeys are killing each other!

I was expecting to hear a complete buffoon. Maybe I'm naive, but that was an excellent interview. He sounds like a bloke you'd want in your corner as a professional footballer. I feel there's a fury simmering beneath the surface. Very unlikely to happen now, but I think a few people who came onto this thread to swagger around and assure everyone they were fools for thinking this was anything other than a mirage look a bit silly now.

But not with COVID, which doesn't exist.

This thread is democracy manifest.

This thread:

Come on. One last pulse before this star collapses in onto itself. Give me something.