Lord Travis

Take the gun tall forward every time. The rarest position to find a gun, yet a gun tall forward can completely change a teams fortunes. Max King is 21 years old and on track for 50+ goals already. Easy decision to pick him and build around him for the next decade.

Meaningless stat in isolation as they presented it, but it does show how hard it is to reverse form. If we continue to lose, we'll be similar to Dees of 2004-2006 where we were top four for most of those seasons but had a period in the second half of the year where we capitulated and lost 4+ games in a row. We bowed out earlier than we should've those years, especially 2004 where we were top of the ladder heading into Round 18 but lost every game thereafter to finish fifth and lose an elimination final to eighth placed Bombers. Let's hope the short bye break gave the players a chance to reset and we can get back on track. The talent is still out there even with injuries, just need to switch on mentally and bring the intensity.

Will be barracking for the Tigers tonight to keep the Blues a game behind us and keep our top four hopes alive. Feels dirty though.

The scumbag better stay out of prison this time. Much harder to get out out of prison in Bali than in the US 😆

We await the results of the scan. Our season could depend on it. Fingers crossed it’s nothing serious for the skipper. And yes, a 10 day bye seems unjust when other clubs get over 15 days break. We’re struggling with injuries so it’s going to hit us hard.

Gawns set shots outside 50 have a good strike rate. Trac and Sparrow bombing from outside 50 in play are good. Hunt also, though he’s usually running inside 50 if he gets shots these days. Would love for a tall forward to own this and start sinking shots from outside 50 like other teams talls seem to do.

He’s back in WA today with JVR enjoying his bye break. Hopefully he comes back refreshed and has a bigger impact on the second half of the year. Lets get that contract signed soon so it doesn’t become a distraction and effect the team.

After halftime over these last three games, we have scored just 5.16 while having a whopping 25.9 kicked against. In percentage terms, that’s 28.9%. If we are loading, then we miscalculated badly. We aren’t as fit as last year, but our poor form can’t be entirely blamed on loading. Even before these losses we’ve been in average/poor form despite winning. By any metric, we aren’t the team we were last year. We have trust and connection issues. Last year players would trust there team mates to enter a contest out numbered. The one entering the contest would either get the ball free to the waiting player on the outside, or at worst halve the contest and create a stoppage. It takes trust in your mate to go against your natural instincts and hang back. This year we’ve reverted to bees at a honeypot. The trust is gone, players are charging in without thought as they’re now trying too hard and going into self preservation mode to hold their spot in the team. We now see other teams giving us a taste of our own medicine. How many times do we see Sparrow, Viney, Trac and Harmes smash into each other trying to win the ball, only for it to pop out to opposition just hanging outside the pack waiting? It’s a mindset issue that needs to be fixed more so than fitness.

In: May, Weid, Hunt Out: Turner, M Brown, Bowey

With our poor forward conversion and injuries to talls, he should play permanent tall forward if Max is ok after the bye break. He’d get a few free kicks per weeks purely from defenders [censored] themselves at his height or athleticism. If he could stand up and CHF it would do us a world of good. He’s needed more there than centre of the ground IMO.

His brilliance and determination have masked how poor our midfield is performing this year. It feels like an eternity since we won the clearances and could stop opposition midfields charging through the corridor. Would be in a world of pain without Clarry doing his bit.

Lost top spot and lost 7%. Horrible day for the club. It’d be good to win a queens birthday match at some point. Bring back Jack Watts to kick the sealer

Reset of the club needed. Top four in serious jeopardy if we can’t find form soon. Even with injuries, the players we have out there on the field should be able to beat most teams comfortably. This is simply not good enough.

Gone. So disappointing watching the club regress like this. Premiership defense looking shaken now. Gonna be a fight to stay top four now and we’re going to need to start beating too right teams.

Regardless of what the result winds up being today, Bowey needs to go back to Casey. Got a bright future ahead, but he’s been poor both defensively and offensively the past month. Dropping Hunt ahead of him was just an outright mistake.

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.