Demon Disciple

Ummm do we want to get in front?

We don’t have scoring problems according to Goody. The team understands that we need to kick a winning score………right? Amazing that arguably our most maligned player is keeping us in this. Just kick to Smith, he can’t miss.

Fritsch needs to catch fire, McDonald needs to move into a retirement home, ANB needs to stand up and show prove why he’s in the leadership group and Chandler (wow hasn’t he regressed as the years gone on) needs to realise he’s playing in a game of footy.

25 tackles to 9 that quarter. Contest defence my @rse. Where is our effort to do the 1%’s? So aside from not practising goalkicking at training, we seemingly don’t value tackling either. Goody said in 2021that he hoped fans would recognise and take pride in our game plan. That was then, 2023 is recognisable but it stinks.

4 goals in a half of footy to 5. The Lions must be quaking in their boots watching this 🤮🤮🤮

Anyone that considers AFL coaching as a career pathway has to be somewhat insane. Unless you win the last game of the year, you have failed.

How is his surname pronounced?

Not surprised Clarry has a sore knee. The height on most of his kicks last Thursday surely must’ve taken its toll on the knee joint instead of the ankle, given he kicked up instead of through the ball.

Xavier Duursma is not exactly the toughest footballer going around

I did like his tackle on Thursday night, I’ll give him that

We would’ve done it in 2021. We simply are nowhere near as hungry as we were in 2021. In 2021 we were relentless, we were manic, we were uncompromising. We are a shadow of that now.

May seem harsh given his limited opportunities, but I think Bill has been a draft bust. Possible trade bait perhaps? But he won’t be worth much.

We could sure do with him in our forward line at the moment

Absolutely we did. Took us 45 minutes to get going. Unacceptable in a QF.

No no no. we know what they produce and it’s not going to help us improve. Footy is a cut-throat business, we’ve gotta be too if we want to improve.

I know that the Pies came out breathing fire and tried (successfully) to intimidate and rough us up but ffs, this was a QF, what were our guys thinking? We did not begin the game in a manner befitting a QF, they did. Coaches and players were in dream land for the first 45 minutes. Inexcusable.

Yep. Our window is now. Brodie leaving frees up a fair chunk of change, go and get a half decent forward. Gotta get a new forwards coach as well.

I haven’t been his biggest fan this year, but Max was immense tonight. A pity that most didn’t follow the example that he led by. The forward line was disappointing all night, as was the delivery into it. As for TMAC - I’m sorry, but even a 1-legged Melky would’ve done better tonight. And I have no idea what we see in Smith, he is well entrenched in our bottom 6 and yet he manages to hang around on the list (I’m sure he’s a great guy and all, but he is not an AFL quality player). Kozzie just needs to be told to go out and have fun playing footy, his heads all at sea.

It’s a shame that Max couldn’t make FF his own. Some of his marks tonight were top-shelf, he just couldn’t kick it to himself 50m down the field.

Well all is not lost just yet hbt. Sure the flame dimmed a lot tonight, but it still flickers.

The 21 premiership still provides me with heaps of comfort and masks the hurt, otherwise I’d be right there with you. I only ever needed to see one, I’d love to see more, but I only ever needed to see one. The euphoria of that night trumps all the hurt losing could ever give me.

100%. He just blindly believes that if we do all the ‘other’ things right, the score will take care of itself. I love the heart our boys show, but [censored] me we make it hard work to score goals. Goody needs to wake up and realise that kicking goals is what wins games, not prevention of stopping opposition goals. We need to look to score. Our attacking nature of 2018 is all but extinguished. We need to get some of it back. Goody has gone way too defensive-minded. I want to see excitement and flare thrown in to the mix.

Grundy could’ve been useful tonight. Surely he’s gotta play next week.

If I could’ve both ‘laughed’ and ‘loved’ that post, I would’ve dazz

Out: Stafford In: Anyone with half a clue about forward line entries.