Posts posted by whatwhat say what
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7 hours ago, dpositive said: We do not need a white silver or grey border
this
we're red and blue, not red, blue, and silver
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21 minutes ago, demoncat said: Agree with your points @whatwhat say what , but Bont is already a left footed version of Bont!
very true!
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17 minutes ago, Sydee said: Agree but with the likely retirement of TMac it leaves us very thin in tall backs
get o mac back - he'll be a free agent at the end of this season, i think
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2 hours ago, GawnOfTheDead said: How does one learn the midfield on a wing, maybe I don’t understand but they’re too different roles.
You understand how it’s possible and can explain?
teaching him defensive running patterns i'd imagine, as well as discipline to perform a role on ongoing basis
from memory, the bont started out primarily as an outside mid who became an inside mid once he'd built a tank
if langford can become a left-footed version of bontempelli, we'll be ecstatic
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29 minutes ago, deelusions from afar said: Not doubting the intel but seems a bit unfair that they say he was dropped and he's carrying something . Doesn't that impact his standing / reputation? Or is it more that they don't want opposition to know (surely they can work it out if that were the case)?
king on the pre-game on one of the radio stations said rivers was having a 'grumble' in his knee, and that part of him going out of the side was to enable him to 'reset' as he he would be playing behind the ball upon his return to the side
he strikes as a player who will be a half-back for the foreseeable future, not part of the regular midfield rotation
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5 hours ago, DutchDemons said: Nothing would be lost by locking this thread IMO.
second this
he's been farewelled
move on
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pickett's ability to play inside / outside is extraordinary
he's going to be an incredible player for a long time
can't wait to see how much more he can develop
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6 minutes ago, JOHNNY DEE said: Hey Splinters I might not always agree with you ,but us AMO boys who have a premiership to their name got to stick together .Clayton Oliver is a Premiership Demon and he will always be a Demon ,so all you Demonlanders who feel the need to go on about Clayton in a negative way not good !
he was a great player and vital to the premiership
but he's not a player for us anymore
who cares what he does or doesn't do for gw$
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Just now, Roost it far said: Cripps would be great in a good side but the days of him carrying that rabble are done. He’s been a fantastic footballer who deserved a lot better than being selected by carlton.
i honestly don't know who would want cripps in the modern football environment
very few teams at the pointy end need a player of his type - perhaps the crom is the one exception, who really lack a big bulky contested clearance beast (which assuredly is why they have expressed interest in oliver and petracca in past off-seasons)
cripps will finish his career as a carlton great, but it's hard to see him having much success in his career - their side is just not set up for finals footy in the way the modern game is played
their best bet to have success was the year they knocked us off due to our inaccuracy; easy to forget their were 5 goals up on the bears in the prelim in 2023 before going down by about 3 goals
since 2024, the game has been markedly different, which is why our old system and style of play fizzled from that year on
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5 minutes ago, darkhorse72 said: The question is, did we improve our ball movement once Cj went off injured. Watching on TV Sunday we often linked through CJ early in the game and then his kicks were not good even to teammates he hit up.
Is there a correlation of his absence and our ability to transition the ball better. Or was it simply the blues falling into their hole after 1/4 time. Hard to tell from the limited screen to seeing the game live.cj going down meant kolt went to the back flank role, where he was pretty calm, and careful with ball usage
removing him from his tag on cripps opened up our midfield in the third term
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14 hours ago, Lefty said: How bloody good is our Captain Max Gawn? 17 years, 250 games, 116 goals, 8349 Hit Outs, 8 All-Australians and a Premiership as Captain. He is still carving teams up at 34 and I am positive he will still end up in the 300 game club.
for recent comparisons...
aaron sandilands (4 all oztrayan selections) retired at 36, about to turn 37, with 271 afl games across 17 seasons, plus a further 22 in 2 at east fremantle before he was rookie listed by flagmantle - he lost a lot of games to injury
dean cox (6 all oztrayan selections) retired having recently turned 33 with 290 afl games in 14 seasons, plus a premiership with east perth prior to being drafted by meth coke, where he played 26 games across 2 seasons - his durability was amazing
i have full faith that gawn can - with nothing unforseen curtailing him - continue to perform at an elite level for at least another two, possibly three seasons
if dogga jackson had stayed with us perhaps it may have actually curtailed his career; cox retired as they thought nic nat was ready to take over (when in reality scott lycett was their real succession plan)
speaking of which, he also retired at 33, with 213 games played across 14 seasons, earning 3 all oztrayan selections in that time
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6 minutes ago, Dee Boys said: Clarry was supposed to be a part of the Gawn party yesterday. He stayed in Melbourne after the GWS game and a few things had been smoothed out between Clarry and people in the footy department. The club were looking forward to welcoming him back albeit in an unofficial capacity.
Sadly Clarry was a no show. Nobody at the game at the time knew why. Max found out later it was because Clarry had been out at Circus the night before til 6am.
Didn’t even have the decency to let Max know. Sadly sums up the type of person Clarry has turned into, and why the club made the only responsible decision they could’ve in letting him go.
Just a desperately sad situation, the bloke should’ve retired as the greatest MFC player in history.
very sad
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7 minutes ago, Roost it far said: Latrell looked pretty fine post that knock. I actually thought he showed a fair bit of why he went at 12. He’s going to be a very very good footballer imo.
he's not getting a huge amount of football at the moment but his presence around the contest has been very impressibve imo
he's 'buzzy' for want of a better term
similarly, jvr didn't hit the scoreboard again but his presence hitting packs and using his hands to bring others into the game was very good
i'll say...
OUT: cj [calf]
IN: rivers-
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tbh, it's much less relevant these days with the changes to the rules and the points required to select a stand-out player
take the pear as an example - dougie cochrane is supposed to be the best tall forward in this year's draft crop, but it's going to take a big accumulation of points gathered through trades of the likes of butters for them to claim him
it's not the 'freebie' that it was for the likes of the bears, gc17, or the filth in years gone by
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In the prematch King said Rivers needed a rest for his grumbly knee and a reset - will play behind the ball when he returns to the side https://pca.st/episode/ff81ccbf-7476-44a8-afcb-9a72ea572084
Presumably will replace CJ
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12 minutes ago, Gator said: If don't give K. Pickett your 6 votes I question your sanity.
if you don't give max it in his 250th i question your heart
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CJ going off and Kolt going from inside mid tagger to half back was the catalyst
Best second half footy we’ve played in quite some time
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Peptides last ‘won’ the spoon when they were using all the top up players (and still beat us) in Oliver’s debut season
Parish was fantastic for them that day
From memory the only teams they beat were us and the baggers
They then were gifted #1 pick in the draft and used it on their now skipper, Andy McGrath, in what in retrospect looks like a pretty weak draft year, although McLuggage at #3 is an out and out superstar and Tom Stewart at #40 is the best player picked
Make an outlandish prediction for 2026
in Melbourne Demons
i thought the whole point of this was making outlandish predictions, i.e. things that you didn't expect to happen?
as such, this is looking good:
as she got shifted sideways yesterday