Adam The God

They have managed Lindsay...

We create more than enough shots to win. And your argument is our kicking inside 50 is bad, so get rid of our best kick inside 50? Spargo is statistically our best kick inside 50.

What lack of connection? We can connect. We can't kick straight.

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Yeah, so we'd have to leave out Melky or Fritta. And because of the second ruck issue, you probably have to play JVR, then a more seasoned body around them in Petty, then Jeffo and Melky/Fritta. The problem is it throws out our balance I reckon.

How would you structure the forwardline, Dazzle?

Ah, the good old "Demons Melbourne".

Maybe we'll try for Cadman again... 😉

You want our best kick inside 50 and probably our best kick under 40m to be moved on? Practically the only player who can kick inside 50 and hit targets? Not sure I agree.

@William , they've been reading your posts on Demonland...

So is Aliir playing? Just skimmed a slightly confusing and potentially misleading Zerohanger article saying he has the flu, as does Hinkley...

I hope we're working on extensions for Lindsay and Langford to take them through to 2028. They've shown more than enough to suggest they'll be stars and we don't want them all coming out of contract in 2027.

Is this called for?

Yep. He was.

I'd be surprised if he isn't sub.

And allows us to manage Trac or Clarry at some stage in the back end. 👍

An underperforming defender or two. It's going to be a tough cultural balance if we do...

He'll be worth more, but I'd be less inclined to trade him as one of our three consistent goalkickers, alongside a 438 year old Melksham and Kozzy.

Very true, but that because tougher now too that he seems to have turned a corner...

Have a chat to the boss. I don't use the app, just access via Google Chrome on my phone.

It's been mentioned multiple times on Demonland that starting with this off season, clubs will be able to trade two future firsts. So 2026 and 2027 could be traded.

Snapping all over the place. 😂

I know. I'm a fan too. I guess I'm hypothetically thinking about list balance and what could land LJ, that solves not just the ruck/forward problem, but the Max succession.

Interesting. I wonder if they'll rest Lindsay and play Sharp instead.

@binman , thoughts on this given your comments on the podders last night about our failure to convert our stoppage dominance to scores. I think we did a good job, because despite not probably scoring enough from centre stoppage, we gained territory, which meant it wasn't inside their 50. And we only won around the ground stoppages by 1. We also had the same amount of scoring shots from turnover as Collingwood. They were just more accurate. Turnover 4.6 30 7.3 45 -15 I think scores per inside 50 show that we actually moved the ball well and our field kicking was good, it was that our goalkicking mostly let us down. As I mentioned in the chat room, Collingwood's DE was padded by a lot of uncontested possession at the back. Something we rarely reverted to ourselves this week. They only beat us by 3 intercepts, which given the Daicos', Sidebottom, Houston and Pendlebury had 76 kicks between them, tells me their team field kicking was not that much better than ours. IMO, it was lost by our goalkicking, not our field kicking.