Adam The God

Langdon's ability to get it so consistently on the outside also means opposition midfield's have to be very wary of outnumbering the inside of the contest (which we often let them do), otherwise they could leave themselves open to being burnt on the outside by the likes of Langdon or Hunt. Their combined speed is a very handy weapon to have and not many teams have two of them. This means though that our inside mids have more width to work with at stoppage, so I'll join the love in chorus for Ed. He's a star. He really is. I thought he was great last year too.

To be fair to Clarry, he started like a house on fire against Geelong. He and Trac were involved in lots of early touches. IMO it actually set the tone of the game.

Sorry, again, selfless means not trying to be a hero with your possessions. It may mean playing within your own limits. Jack seems to be doing this better now, but previously, he's resembled a rugby league players attempting to take on 15 tacklers instead of taking the right option. Jack seems to be maturing and understanding that rugby Jack is a selfish way to play and doesn't help our midfield. All of our mids have clearly had to learn how to function better together.

Good post mate. As for your question about Harmes, yeah, I'd have him ahead of Tom Sparrow and/or James Jordon, because he offers the flexibility to play pressure forward or tagger or inside mid. The coaches seem to be able to get the most out of our guys at the moment. I think Harmes will be the same.

Love him. Well done, Clarry.

I should say despite going back on the trade Jack train, I was certainly one of the posters saying he needed to be utilised between half forward as a tackler and rolling through the midfield, so that's at least something. :P

I want to put my hand up and say I was wrong about this. I haven't gone back over the thread to see, but I'm pretty sure I was one of the voices to trade Jack. It turns out he needed a bit more maturity and better coaching. The midfield is working a treat this year. There definitely seems to be a selflessness emanating through the midfield group and Jack seems to be trying to keep things simple. If he does the simple things well he's a very good player. I'm glad. And sorry, Jack.

Haha, I really don't like my previous post. The debt stuff is nonsense. Sure, the Fed Gov has issued more debt than Labor did, but they spent way more money than Rudd/Gillard/Rudd did and since the AOFM (Treasury) chooses to issue debt after the spending has occurred in order to provide corporate welfare to financial institutions and secondary market players, the debt has increased, but there is no burden. There is no need to issue debt at all since QE has killed the overnight market and placed downward pressure on IRs. I'd argue it never needs to issue debt again - the short term IR is the anchor for all commercial IRs in the economy. They should merely anchor off a ZIRP. The RBA has also bought up billions and billions of state and territory debt since March last year. Its entire $200 billion JobKeeper spend was then offered to be converted to bonds to market players, and then the RBA repurchased these bonds in the secondary market. In other words, it was issued to banks for a quick gain and then swallowed back up. Now it sits on the RBA balance sheet and when it matures, it is transferred back to the Treasury as a dividend. It's not a debt like a household debt. There is literally no reason to take CCP money. It's dumb and based in a neoliberal lie that we need DFI. Dumb move by the Napthine and Andrews Governments.

He's a very underrated field kick. That kick to Melksham was the perfect example. An undefendable 50m bullet. I feel he's always struggled with his set shots though. He tends not kick through the ball.

I don't I'm afraid. Looking forward to seeing how he goes.

Yeah, I disagree that Petty is a 1v1 player. In his under 18 year, he was decidedly an intercept defender IMO. A Lever clone, but I suppose maybe he's developed into a 1v1 player since. I hope you're right about those match ups. At least he comes into a team that is high on confidence. That should help.

So you're saying Cook was spoken to about a board position?

If we can get through this period without May that will speak volumes for our system. It's not earth shattering to suggest I think it could cost us the Richmond game at least and maybe even the Sydney game. I think Petty will be a good intercept defender in time, but I worry that he's too inexperienced for Lynch or Riewoldt and second game back it will be a big challenge. But I thought we'd lose to Geelong, so what would I know?

It's the ground ball gets for me. He is insanely good in this area, which makes him so dangerous in stoppage, because he can butter up his own tap work or literally attend stoppages as a genuine mid. I reckon there were at least 3 moments against Geelong where in the wet he picked the ball up cleanly like an A grade small. If all he had was contested marking I'd be frustrated by his inability to hang on to marks at the moment, but that will come. What he's illustrating to this point is footy IQ, particularly in the forward half and great spatial awareness. Be fascinating to see what sort of player he is in 2 or 3 years time.

I've changed my mind on trading Gus, not that we'd need to. The only way we attract Merrett IMO is we win the flag or go very close this year. That's how the likes of Richmond managed to get Lynch and Geelong Cameron.

What are you intimating here? That we're going to replace Pert already with Brian Cook? What's the thinking?

You bloody ripper! Wish it was for 10 years, but I'll take 2.

To be fair to Jayden, he was actually a very good 1v1 defender in his very early career, but would often butcher the ball by foot. Now he's hitting targets and making the right decisions by hand too. If it's sustainable, look out.

Watching the replay currently. Couple of things. - Tomlinson played on Hawkins the entire game. His positioning the majority of the time was absolutely outstanding. Well done, Tommo. - our two way running in midfield is incredibly evident on replay. If our midfield keeps that up, we'll be hard to beat. - the way we're using our mids and rolling them backwards and forwards from half forward, into stoppages and out again. It keeps the opposition constantly guessing. Also, the make up of who we're sending in there isn't easy to predict. - the defensive work of our wingers in Langdon, Brayshaw and Jones was excellent. The amount of times Langdon or Brayshaw would drop back in the hole and then provide rebound. Beautiful. Gus is a very clever player and Langdon is the prototype winger. Knows how to hold width, get it on the outside or do the defensive work. - team orientation is marked. Well done again, Demons.

Is this Hawthorn or Melbourne? ?

This is a ****house post. Congratulations.

It depends. Has the bar been lifted on expectations and minimum requirements this year?

I'm still yet to receive my membership pack (August last year I renewed) and never received my 2020 pack. I know there's austerity cuts, but step up. I don't usually like to have a go at the club in this way, but it's very poor.

Ed actually, so close enough. Conditions have nothing to do with an ability to pressure and lay tackles. He laid two for the whole game. His lack of defensive pressure simply cannot justify a game in our system. Two tackles is more than he usually lays mind you.

Yep, what i meant was that Sparrow did well to register those 5 tackles disposals with limited game time. I'd say JJ might be in trouble next week.