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Our game style makes it a hard days night for any forward, with the get it in and lock it down attitude, there are often 34 players in the arc. Maybe grundy is not the answer, but he may have to do if the cupboard really is bare.

Keep it simple: contact was high, impact severe. 4 weeks. GFY Maynard.

Whew. Nearly got there. The stats would say we should have won it, but the scoreboard disagrees. First q was putrid. We kicked ourselves out of it, those long bombs to outnumbered forwards didn’t work, so why not try something different? Really dislike Mason Cox. thought the maggots were very ordinary. gotta get there the long way…. Cmon demons!

I see this going the same way as the swans game. They will come hard and it will be a tight tousle. Half way through the third we put the hammer down, get the game on our terms and set up a comfortable win. i expect the pies to react badly - faux tough guys with Maynard and Cox - ucker trying to rough up our boys. Umps to be against us as they play to the narrative. Dees by 27points

He was at Box Hill yesterday, so he was about 18 km away, I’d guess….. (I’ll see myself out..)

Hope he has a great pre season and shows some big steps forward next year.

I think we Go TMac in for smith, who rolls across into Melk’s role (with Melk out of the team). Only other change would be Jordan in as sub if Laurie needs to go back.

Another kid with a lot of tattoos ????

It’s the giggle brothers most liked rather than true best in positions. Pies are flavour of the month so get a stack. Could easily cut 20 or so from this list. no Bont? Come on! This is a joke

Thanks Freo!! Have enjoyed this death ride more than I should have. Bell (end) has now paid massive overs for Jacko. He will serve them well, but he has now served us well - a flag player in 2021, and #4 or 5 now, on top of the other picks. Seems like a deal we have done very well out of! GO Dees, and although I disgust myself by saying it - Go….hawks??

It may be that Disco was always preferred but out injured? Now he is back and has run the rust off at Casey, the kid gets the shot they always planned to give him? He did OK before being injured, so I think there are some solid grounds to have a look at this before finals. The Sydney forward line is quicker and this may be why he is also preferred over AT?

Maybe a few players might get ‘awareness’ that needs to be managed….that is, awareness of other results….

Many (many) moons ago, I lived in the harbour city. I would go to the SCG for demons games and go off my nut. No swans fan had a clue about the game, the rules or anything. They have had access to lots of talent and the cola to keep things nice. Their arrogance is galling. Going to revisit the SCG this week, will probably go off my nut and reckon most of the crowd will still know squat about the game.

This week’s round is a race to the bottom for a number of teams. We will know the landscape before our bounce. Want to death ride the shockers one last time and I hope we get up. bombers stung into action against pies who don’t care. Roos hawks and lions. Crows Port and demons. And in the august premiers special? The giants with Carlton getting a bag of injuries.

Joe boy -prioritising the bintangs

Sad news indeed. Proud of how the club got around him. Rest in Peace.

So you are coming from the inner west, then?

What has been the biggest change he has made to his game that has led to the current run of success?

The free grog doesn’t go well with the driving, tony. Stay in town and celebrate hard after a big day on the supplier’s ticket and a big Dees win!

Thought we got done early, but showed great maturity to adjust to all of the in-game efforts of the Hawks. Sydney will come at us hard, with a lot of emotion in the game for them. Goodwin talks of the finals as a ‘new season’ - will we use the Sydney game to run time into returning forwards or play ‘as is’ to win?

We simply need to win. If we don’t, it tells us a lot about where we are at just before finals (that would not be a good place). We play these sorts of teams well, if we hold our defensive structured it should be a clinical result for us.

I think they will switch and try to spread us and get chaotic entries. setup from the midfield and allow the move to the back flank then ‘bam’ no corridor or target wing or forward. Take Sicily out, don’t let the fridge magnet cause any bother and shut down jai newcomb. better in the middle - maybe grundy in ruck and max forward? (70/30). More kossie rotation through there with Trac forward more. jj out, Melk in, Spargo in. if we ain’t got this, we got nothing….

Forward issues: bbb can only run in a straight line, and needs a clear runway to mark. TMac is underdone, cant turn or operate below his knees. jeffo is at least 1 maybe 2 preseasons away. petty and frittata are injured. need to get a bit funky from here to make it work. melk on Sicily, Trac and cosi and max to work together, Reg Grundy in the ruck

Pressure and structure wins finals. It has been our ‘one wood’ now for the past few years, with the sugar rush of the pies approach built to counter it. Now we faced a team that out demoned the demons - their set-up defensively was brilliant, and their whole ground pressure was unbelievable. And we lost by a fingernail (real or imagined). I think we are set for September, with just 3 issues that’s stand out: Skills under pressure Grundy Forward line and delivery into it. Are these the panels biggest concerns, or do you have other big red flashing lights as we approach the big dance?

I think we have been under-rated by almost everyone. All the bluff and bluster about the ‘team of the week’ whilst we accrued wins. We have not been at our best, except for th kings birthday game, and some early shoot outs. Our best team has not been available, and with BBB. TMAC Petty, Oliver Fritter and even Max out for periods during the year. We have uncovered some great talent (JVR, McVee for example), and are still top 4. Our game plan is ‘built for finals’ - very much like the game last night. We lost ot by less than a kick, after giving up 3 goals at the start of the last and facing extreme pressure for much of the match. We saw that we were able to absorb that pressure and defend well, except for those small patches. We held the blues to 60 points, and in most cases that would get it done, except our forward 50 was a stinking pile of fecal matter. Don’t give up on us yet. We have to face two tricky games to finish - hawks are up and about to take scalps, and teh Swans may have a fair bit to play for. We need to do better - sure - but I dont think we are over rated.