Lord Travis

We’re seriously on the ropes here. Season is spiraling downwards here if we can’t get some fit players standing up to keep us in the top four.

How many injuries have we got? I just saw Mitch Brown playing down back with no Petty in sight after that marking contest.

We’re just not sticking tackles like we were last year. It makes a big difference that pressure, completely changes how they’re going forward and allows our defenders to zone off and intercept. Without the defensive pressure going up, our defenders can’t zone off and can’t stop someone as tall as Cox on the air. We’ve had our weapons taken away for us for the last 4-6 weeks and we’ve been brought back to the middle of the pack. On form we’re obviously not top four, but there’s still plenty of time left in this season to get back on track before finals.The midfield and forward line need complete resets. Midfield getting embarrassed around the ball and poor kicking inside 50. Forward line not converting, even when they manage to get shots.

Turner going well on debut, especially early. Bowey is well out of form unfortunately. Hunt or Rivers would be more effective on form.

Midfield getting pantsed again today. Losing clearances and contested ball, giving them free reign to take it quickly through the corridor. Oliver a lone hand. Spargo had a great second quarter. Huge pressure and clean kicks going inside 50. Jackson is a shadow of himself at present and is getting outbodied too easily. How any league footballer can miss goals from 10 meters out with little angle is beyond me. We’re not converting opportunity when we had the momentum. Will be a tough fight from here to get up.

Also Dogs coming off a grand final are fourth last! Kanagroos future looking grim. They’re about to be passed by expansion clubs in attendance 😧

Just goes to show we’re doing well with attendance compared to the league. Teams like Hawthorn hit 100,000 members and yet languish behind us by nearly 10,000 bums on seats per week. Keep it up Dees!

Definitely recommend listening to the Dyl & Friends podcast episode featuring Nathan Jones posted above by DEE Fence. It’s long at 1.5 hours, but it’s a great interview and Jones speaks very openly about his whole career at the Dees. Lots of highs and lows, and it’s great he’s now happy with his growing family. A true role model for us all.

See article on afl website. I notice Melbourne as one of the clubs not listed with that role. Surely we could’ve put Daisy in it and kept her at the club post playing career? https://www.womens.afl/news/94867/daisy-takes-on-geelong-role-three-more-players-granted-coaching-positions?_ga=2.208290007.412555795.1654575296-2118060203.1653802307

On another note, can’t have a go at supporters not being there every week as if they don’t have lives outside of attending live football. The poll in this thread is petulant whinging. I’m not special, but none of those reasons are why I don’t attend every game. We’ve got 12 games at the G throughout the season and I’ll probably get to 9. That number will decrease over the next few years due to very young children. Family and sometimes other commitments are simply more important than attending a live football game. I consider myself a diehard supporter and I’ve sat through probably minimum 8 live Dees games every year since about 1990. Most of those games have been losses and last decade was excruciating. If someone wants to have a go at me not attending every week and say I’m not a true supporter then they’re welcome to… right before I knock their lights out.

The Sydney crowd number and noise were a disappointment. The Freo however was not. In a 4:35 time slot we broke our home attendance record against them. Our best ever crowd at the G against them in a graveyard time slot is a fantastic result.

This sucks. Seems the clubs lost its way a hit this year and the standards we had in 2021 have slipped. I reckon it’s rubbish Mays out, should’ve been a fine or community service type punishment. Now it’ll impact the team and we’ll continue to struggle. Mark us down for losses to Pies and Lions. We’re in poor form and now missing key personnel for even longer. Here’s hoping May comes back and repays us onfield and we can get back on track leading into finals.

Yet again the Doggies lose the match when the free kick count doesn’t go there way!

Not surprised if true. We’ve been poor for over a month now and were lucky we played Kangas and Eagles, statistically two of the worst sides in a decade. Our current form is middle of the road and with injuries to key players and lack of tall forward depth we’re now at a crossroads. We’ll obviously make finals comfortably, but if we’re not throwing everything at it and challenging then we’re wasting our window. Heres hoping for a reset after the bye and hitting top form leading into finals. Better we struggle now rather than later.

Not up to it. On current form we’re a middle of the road team. Defensive pressure poor. Connection into forward line poor. Hawks unreal marking masks how bad our transition was tonight. A lot of work to do for second half of the year.

Not up to it. On current form we’re a middle of the road team. Defensive pressure poor. Connection into forward line poor. Hawks unreal marking masks how bad our transition was tonight. A lot of work to do for second half of the year.

Trac jogging on the spot and letting opposition run off. Been poor for a few weeks now. That was unforgivable poor effort there. Aaaand we’re down now. [censored].

Gawn and Fritta both wasted opportunities. So frustrating

Cmon boys let’s beat these [censored] and beat the umpires. These [censored] umpires can rot in hell. Fire up Dees fans make some noise!

Get Kozzie on ball. He’s the only clean one out there tonight. Set that one up to Fritta. Cmon Dees FIRE UP!

Why? We’ve got no tall forwards left to take his place. Our list is unbalanced and we’ve resorted to Mitch Brown. Zero chance Brown loses his spot even with a zero touch game unfortunately.

Need to start booing the umpires more Dees fans. They’re atrocious and they react to noise, so let them have it.

We’re not the team we were last year at the moment. We have injuries yes, but our pressure and tackling has been abysmal. We’re ranked 17th in the league. We’re leaking goals this year due to poor pressure, not structure, so it can be fixed quickly. Up to the coaches to motivate the players to put in the effort both ways as we’re not good enough this year. All effort based at the moment so easier to fix. We need to wake up though or we’ll lose this match and lose a few over the coming weeks.

Seems the Dogs can’t win when they don’t win the free kick count 😆 Love seeing the Dogs lose! Both the De Koning boys have got great hands. Them and the King brothers are the next wave of talls who control the air.

He suffered injuries and then Covid stuffed the VFL season so a large part of his first season was missed. By all reports he’s going well and has been emergency a lot this year so he’s close to cracking a senior game. I was pleased when we drafted him as he looked like he had the skills to be an effective half forward type. Like Bowza, he’s got good kicking and decision making skills, paired with good agility and decent pace. He seems to have the right attitude based on that interview too so good luck to him cracking a game soon and being in red and blue for years to come.