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Hold their spots: Rivers May XX salem Tomlinson Lever Langdon Clarry xx xx brown xx spargo xx xx Gawn, Trac (past glories), xx Fill in the blanks : Lockhart, Baker, VDB, Bennell, Weidemann, Pickett, Viney. Or, invite the local old folks home to run a team out. Couldn’t do worse than that crapola they dished up tonight

I know what you mean...the numbers are frightening. Very very troubling. So many players had mares.

Did you mean Swans?

Wow, that was so poor. Langdon best on for us. Pass marks for Brown, Tomlinson, Gawn, May, Spargo (just) Real issues with OMAC, Melksham, Fritsch, Jones (hos last game in the red and the blue??) The rest - meh. We are absolutely the softest bunch of {xxxxx} getting about. Watch Goody scratch his leg and serve up the bs for 5 minutes. Vomitous.

Wow. Putrid/. No skills, no effort, no tackles, no nuthin! If we dont change something at half time, this is looking like the Port game

Things to watch for: Are we running hard enough to defend and reset the zone behind the ball? This is a key indicator if we are on our game or not. Are we winning the contest / clearance? For a team that prides itself on this, we have sucked at this for many weeks now. Do we have reasonable disposal to advantage, or do we play hot potato? One works, the other makes me want to spew. Do we have enough presence forward of the ball to offer a suitable target (s)? Honestly, if we lose this one, we only have ourselves to blame. Think it will be 42 points Dees win.

Hilarious and painfully true. I think Broooce is struggling to commentate from home, and this is the only way he can make sure others take the baton or are kept involved. Notice its Doesn’t he, Hame? To redirect the traffic. He is a fail this year. Gets on the nerves at least 85% of the time (up from 70%last year)

Clarko: making Adelaide look like West Coast! Oh joy to watch those stuck up whankers at Glenferrie suck a big fat one.

3 votes Steele... ha!

He was last man on the goal line to mark. He took the ball and distributed it well through half back. He was in good position and his skills were good in general. He was often first man Jon defensive chains, and didn’t get caught or turn it over badly. Which second efforts concern you? I saw him zoning and positioning himself off the key backs. Anyway, each to their own. He may not have a matchup vs Sydney.

Rewatching the game: Hannan out. AVB and Jones on notice. Kozzie did better than i gave him credit for, although he had a real chance to do much better. Brown, Wagner (save his first pickup) were good inclusions. Tommo and Spargo both ok. OMac did well most of the night, just got caught out on that one lead. Max will only get better for the run we were very poor disposing of the ball and very lucky to win. Our defensive pressure dropped off in Q2, but came back, luckily. If that is one of the best midfields in the comp, I’m your mothers brother Robert. They were hopeless in the middle, thrashed around the ball. Only a few late moments to admire. Gotta sort this out.

Ron Barassi is a Demons legend. You want to select him next week? team first. If he is up to standard and deserves his spot, then select him. Gifting games busts culture as quickly as cutting people unnecessarily. It’s not what we do with Jones, it’s how we do it.

Scoreboard!

It was a goal. It went in the scorebook as a goal. Kane: “Scoreboard”! G.F.Y.

Ricoh said in his interview that players would be managed across this block of games. Sydney are not hopeless, just not quite good enough so we want to play a good team each week. We also should reward as many as we can who got the job done in the Alice. Could see these being dropped: Jones, Kozzie, AVB, Hannan. Managed: Hibbard (ankle) Matchup: OMac - may not have a tall to play on against the swans. Maybe a few rotated/rested in like for like swaps.

When they got hold of us, it was because we backed off the gut running. As soon as we lifted this rating, they had nowhere to go. We actually showed that they are a one trick pony, and you will see other teams go to school of that. Thought we had a system that help up. Our basic skills let us down often, but the effort got us back into it. Several performances to like, but the defense was superb and Trac is awesome. Max made a difference, even though he had a tough competition in the middle and looked a little proppy. Viney tea high 6 tackles. Kozzi needs to commit and keep his feet. Waiting for the oppo to take the ball then tackle them (then going to ground) is not a winning strategy.

That was terrible by Jones. He cost us big time. If he cleared it, we go in more than two goals up. We now go in two points up. His kick to Clarry in the middle also was 5 m too long, and cost us a goal.

Channel 7. All saints and we are afterthoughts

Was thinking difficult to get through....

Grabbed myself some Coopers Stout. Boys are gonna have to play like my beer to bring this home.

The Dean Kent cup. I understand schoolgirls, dwarves and firefighting tools are banned on the flight. Less entertainment, but safer for all.

How about - the weak maggot threw himself forward and exaggerated to whole thing by throwing his arm in the air to attract a false and soft free kick from the umpire. No effort was made to remain in the contest or modify his trajectory once he fully committed to this cowardly act.

I keep waiting for the day that we become relevant and this crapola doesn’t happen to us, but happens to others. Still waiting....

more than half of his taps went straight to oppo midfielders. He had 16 cm advantage over Dunkley and didnt use it. He was not great around the ground (gets a pass mark). So how do you reflect that he was our best player (ahead of S May for example). He goes out for Max because Max is better. He only stays in if the structure suggests we need two ruck men. I doubt that we do, as we need more speed and defensive pressure before anything else.

Absolutely not have it a dig at you Rusty. I am so appreciative of what you do each week. Highly valued. Just calling out that any model measures what it measures. It also doesnt take into account individual bias, television coverage or the BT drivel factor. But I think your approach gives a grounded way to review performances and when the model is consistent, we can see changes between performances and discuss what we have seen. Cheers