demoniac

Saturday Night Blockbuster. Winner can either stay in 12th position or soar to 12th position. Now that we're officially in a rebuild according to Goody I reckon we'll start to see some youngsters who've been in good form in VFL like Verrall and Mentha get a taste of senior footy. Try the steak!

running half backs area a dime a dozen really....

it would be surprising if some players were not traded out after 4 underachieving seasons since the flag to improve our draft and player trade capital. Issue is what trade value do these players have?

Our 2nd ranked player in the stats player rankings is a tagger, no wonder we've only won 5 games this year.

I suspect they are undroppable....

after Goody revealed at the post match presser after our loss to Crows that we are in a rebuild I am pleased to see young Tom Campbell is a chance to debut for the club...

An important player. If we had a 2025 era game plan structures he'd be an important linebreaker off half back which is one of the key roles in 2025 era game plans.

I think we need to give Goody a few more seasons to bed down a game plan that other sides have been playing since 2022...

I'm just looking to the elite forward entries that don't seem to result in actual goals that often....

took too long to realise to change game plan. now failing to imprint the new game plan he talks about on the team.

Aha, so its ok that in the finals 3 rounds we can't beat teams that will be playing finals. Very low bar that.

If Petracca and Oliver are at the Dees in 2026 lets hope their on field performance matches their contract value given they're payed to be match winners. There are 2 different questions for mine: 1, Do they want to be at the Dees in 2026? 2, Will they be at the Dees in 2026? If the answer to 1 is no then the challenge for the club is how do we maximise player/draft pick return and minimise/eliminate paying part of contract. This may require both players agreeing to lower value contracts at new club. Personally I think the answer to 1 for both will be yes and that it will be in the best interests of the club if they are traded. Clarry is a long way off his best footy, as the game changes can he get fit enough to run with best mids? Can he adjust his decison making to a new game plan. Tracca has misplaced his mojo, more likely to get it back than Clarry, but maybe more likely to rediscover at another club he thinks has more chance of success going into 26. Like Clarry needs to adjust his decision making to game plan de jour.

Its time to go Goody. Goody has failed ti imprint on the players a game plan based on how the game is now played. Until that is fixed its very much deckchairs on the Titanic areas. I think we have good young talent on the list. But unless we have a competitive instinctive game plan nothing changes.

Technically a long kick will carry more distance in a shorter period of time than hitting up a shorter target. Of course if we hit up a shorter target in space there is better chance we retain possession and the player has better chance to hit up another teammate in space. The long bomb down the line has much less chance of retaining possession and leading to a forward 50 entry into 1 on 1 contests or even an outnumber in our favour inside forward 50. Stat I'd like to see is chains of possession off half back that result in a goal.

sometimes I think match committee team selection is not always based on all the facts!