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beelzebub

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  1. Howe just needs a good solid whack/bumbling He's a cowardly shark He only walks tallon other's shadows 😉
  2. beelzebub posted a post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    It's about have more tools in your belt than a hammer and a screw driver. No point having all your game about pressure.
  3. beelzebub posted a post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    He's on bloody record as saying the plan is to create the maximum amount of scoring opportunities. Shame he hasn't spent as much time think.or developing the abilities to do that last bit. But by all means invent an imagery that suits. A lot of us can see what is plain as day.
  4. beelzebub replied to jnrmac's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Link ( that works ) ? Cheers
  5. beelzebub posted a post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Scoreboard suggests otherwise. We just blaze away. It's all about scoring shots.... not scoring ability for us... Milk, no cream. Cake, no icing.
  6. beelzebub posted a post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    I'm not saying that... I'm saying it's our ONLY tactic. With no commensurate skill to finish it off.
  7. beelzebub posted a post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    My point is... there has been tweaking and some rearranging but the pre-eminent method of play is really just pressure. Pressure is a component of good play but it shouldn't be the be all and end all, and that's my take away. We really have no that many sides to our game. I know he is capable of nuance as his early days with us ( but notably under Roos ) exhibited this. We seem stuck in a rut and just vary our cannoning along said rut up either side but never out. Many I suspect are waiting for this weekends result before putting any lines through the season bit I'm already there. We're just playing out 25....it's how we do it that will determine who and what for 26... and for mine that ought to 'who' in every aspect... FD and List. Go Dees Just go better ;)
  8. Loosely translates as ?? Asking for a friend 😉 😀
  9. beelzebub posted a post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    There has , to this befuddled observer, been most likely one common theme about Goodwins tenure. The prevalence that pressure will see you through. A lot , if not all, of his tactical strategies are reliant on unswerving pressure. There's never been much attention to nuance, to top end skill... just keep at it and the ball somehow goes through the sticks. And there in lies the fault in his 🤔 thinking imho. It doesn't. Yet we still don't seem to give any weight to finishing off our efforts properly. It's very slap dash . We have a game that attempts to have/use the ball more often than our opponents but we're failing. I can.only surmise that we'll struggle continually if we don't change that fundamental of thinking. It seems Simon is either reluctant or inherently incapable of repositioning his approach. This is why , for the most part , I see a need for a change at the helm. We just seem to be going nowhere and doing it the hard way which if nothing else only confers extraordinary wear and tear on the list. Better teams play a much more clever game. We don't really want for effort, just results. That the very essence of the game ( for mine ) seems to sit at the bottom of necessities is the damning commentary. The game is about a better score. Simply that. You win by no other metric. Just the scoreboard. You score most effectively with goals. You score higher if your goal kicking is accurate and often. Kicking points ... just dumb footy. And he we are. Now ponder this for a moment if you would. We do this by design. This is how we play. This has to change. What avenues of change do we have ? How's the pondering going ??
  10. beelzebub replied to jnrmac's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    It's not even an elephant in the room , our goalking is merd !! Why is this not better ? Can only logically be one determination. It doesn't rank of importance. Bizarre really.
  11. Or Tulip.. saw them clean him up at Artic Park one day. An act that changed my perception of footy forever. Absolute [censored] act
  12. Lethal, not called for nothing. He and his Neanderthal brethren , esp Dipper, would oft hunt for victims. Two absolute [censored] examples of almost- humans.
  13. He had mates ...
  14. Always bemused me that the club goes all clandestine at traing , all the secret squirrel stuff. I mean.... who tf would copy us !! 😆😆😆🥴
  15. Biggest test ? It's our Grand Final ( the only one we're getting remotely close to this season ) Do or Die stuff. Let's see if anyone actually takes real pride wearing the jumper. Not expecting miracles ,just decent footy and some semblance of accuracy. Too much ?? Go Dees ( but....tttt... Filth by 50 )
  16. beelzebub replied to jnrmac's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Something I'd agree with him on ..... as I've suggested elsewhere. Two aspects. Technique and Mindfullness It's not rocket science.. Both require application and repetition..
  17. Jnr Jnr Jnr have you not heard . We're in good hands ....... Purely coincidental that our fitness drops after someone leaves and another teams betters when same said person joins. Co- incidence actually means two things happening at the same instance etc. Nowhere does anything dictate they must be mutually independent. ( often a misconception) We haven't been the same have we ....
  18. So here we have an instance of a political football being.... a political football.
  19. beelzebub posted a post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Well, lots of things are worth a try. My thoughts of May forward are I have none really. I'm aware he knows what to dobas he was a fwd once before settling into one of the comps best backs. It's possibly more my reticence of fixing something that ain't particularly broke. Our defence is generally OK. Well it was, before it was 'fixed' . I was a little dubious that bringing a suspect Lever into the team and displacing Tmac would result in a beneficial upgrade. It hasn't. My preference is to have May, Tmac and Disco hold down the big defender roles. No one else really does May's job quite as well as he does. But...let's roll with your idea May up forward.. then begs with whom ? I've really rewritten JVRs card atm as not being quite good enough. Might you want Petty back and Disco fwd ? A backline comprising Petty, Lever, Tmac, and Salem ? Tbh.. I'm past caring. We might as well raffle the magnets. Just to finish this post.... my rationale re Ricky pushing forward is he's out of sorts at back atm. So don't have him there. His forte is reading the flight, picking off the ball and making decisions ( generally very good ) quickly. He can normally find a team mate with a quick disposal. We [censored] around a lot in the f arc. Someone who can get ball, move ball to advantage quickly is what we've missed for a long time. Look at games we've been most dangerous in. The ball moves quickly and fluidly into the 50 and directed to advantage. I.e.. someone sees someone else and ball is relayed quickly without hesitation. What do we do all to often... we prop.. just long enough to kill the ball. We need to break this cycle. But , hey, cast the runes, mix it up and it might all be for nought if no bastard can split the sticks anyway. Go us... Roll on 26
  20. beelzebub posted a post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    Just not a venue
  21. You recently won houses upon a profound belief. Putting any up for this game ?.
  22. beelzebub replied to jnrmac's post in a topic in Melbourne Demons
    A particular #4 was a very nice kick. Well he was
  23. Probably the only joy I will get this weekend regarding us playing the filth. Fond memory. Thanks Jack 👏 ( take note who touched that "almost" goal too 😉 )
  24. That WOULD be a logical approach. ....and obvious. Bizarre really.
  25. Fixed 😉