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All is not lost! Watch the ressies - Casey game at 1:45 on AFL app.

And this - “Over this season, watching Jordon mature in the role to the point where he owns one half of the ground has been a pleasure to watch. He has built and built this season to the point where over the last six games, he has averaged 25.5 disposals. With so much attention going on the run and carry of Ed Langdon (and with it, the defensive efforts of opposition coaches), Jordon has put together an impressive run of games. Yet, hardly anyone speaks about him. He snagged two goals to go with his 24 touches in this game, and added four inside 50s as he was once again a valuable contributor. Suffice to say, if the Demons make the big one this year, he won’t be sitting on the bench hoping to be subbed on. This bloke now owns a wing just as much as Ed Langdon does.” Mr. Mongrel Punt is however convinced that Gus Brayshaw is gone from the Dees, so his assessments aren’t all good.

“The Beast of Brunton Avenue”.

Too much. One example - “that quarter was the biggest mauling I’ve seen for years”.

Great quarter. No let up, and we win. For any of you watching on Kayo at home, have you ever heard a stream of more ridiculous hyperbole than that unleashed by David King? He is a frank embarrassment to football commentary. Almost everything that leaves his mouth is plainly ridiculous. Rant over! Can’t wait for Tracc and Clarrie to really get rolling!

Hmmm….does someone know something?!

…….the bookies will have got it right, despite how wrong it currently seems.

And hence why the contenders never back up a Giro d’Italia with a Tour de France. By the by, Max Gawn is a cycling nut (guests on the cycling podcast ‘Stanley St. Social’ consistently), and would undoubtedly align the two sports.

Is my personal experience of loading behaviour too. As cycling is so physiologically pure (i.e. miinimal requisite skills), the comparison holds only to those physiological outputs, but they simply drop drastically during heavy loading phases (wattage, speed, endurance, grinding the pedals). If ball skills were involved, I don’t doubt they’d deteriorate accordingly, The payoff of course is that ability to ‘dance on the pedals’ when you’ve loaded, tapered, recovered and primed. (I refer to my now dwindling ‘dancing’ days).

Spend it on a mid-season media controversy wrangler. Off-season they can be a minder for whoever might activate their mid-season needs, or a hit-man to knock off disgruntled ex-board members/off-loaded ex-players.

Okay @Demonstone, now give us the crims they were representing, you brutish mastermind. Couple of bushrangers there, a US terrorist bomber, a British serial murderer couple, Eric Bana and Faye Dunaway, but the rest?

I reckon I’ve watched all the Casey games this year that Daw has played. He’s very slow. Rucks well enough on the tap, and offers a presence there, but just wouldn’t be mobile enough around the ground, and his marking hands are only ok. Sam Weideman has rucked plenty enough to pair up with Dogga. I don’t doubt that’s how they’ll go. What that does to the Mitch Brown out equation, hard to say. The bold version is with May back in, Petty goes forward, and Tommo gets another crack down back. Either way, Max Gawn isn’t just our most important player, he’s the most influential player in the league. Could all just be ‘deckchairs’….

Match of the round this week I reckon. Andy’s MFCSS vs. binman’s calm optimism. Surely gonna test George’s mettle to sit somewhere in between, albeit with some expected queries over ANB’s position in the team 😉. Can’t wait!

And this is the alternative answer to our form, the rebuttal to the loading theory. It’s an almighty shift in our game-style, and anathema to the ‘Melbourne brand’ I would’ve thought, but why then did we win the first 10 games? Anyone?………………………………………..anyone?

The euphemism of ‘loading’ was invented for the term ‘overtraining’. Anyone who’s experienced this knows how form and freshness drop substantially, particularly at the back end of efforts/games/sessions. Are we overtraining, are we not? We’ll never know if the club won’t tell us. If we are, and our fresher form is just around the corner, Goody’s a very brave, very assured man with a plan. Could be a flag-winning plan. Again. If we aren’t,, then we’re not going close to the flag this year.,

The truth that dare not be spoken by the club, and unjustifiably so in my opinion, but for which this game (on top of the last two) is further evidence (and I’m not saying we know for sure, before my head gets ripped off!) is that we are loading heavily. Ask yourself what’s unique about these last 3 games. Answer = last half capitulations, particularly last quarter. Remember we’ve been leading at halftime in all. Then ask what would be the MOST OBVIOUS reason. Answer = we are tiring early in games, and a lot it seems. Really a lot! Then ask why they might be so fatigued, when at our best, we did the opposite. Then ask who our fitness coach is, and who he learnt from? See any patterns?

Not looking good from here…..

Something’s seriously gone wrong with this team. Loading does NOT explain what we’re seeing, but it’s so hard to know what does.

If it wasn’t ugly already, it’s sure gonna get that way now.

This is so hard to watch. We have NONE of the contest/forward urgency that was the REASON for our flag. Static, stop, slow, then bomb. Hence 10 contested marks to 1 in that quarter. 10 TO 1!!!! How can this possibly be Goody’s intention? It’s literally like we’re trying to make it as hard as possible to score when we get the ball. HELP ME UNDERSTAND, somebody please!

We have COMPLETELY lost the plot. How can you keep making exactly the same mistake over, and over, and over…… it’s totally bizarre!!!!!

Got a serious problem with his confidence at the mo. Something’s going on with the boy I reckon, hope he’s ok, and it’s nothing more than just a natural human lull.

Is that a joke?

Just a matter of time before their midfield dominance, attack from the breakdown and run through the midfield overwhelms us, straight kicking or not. Unless we [censored] this and really make them pay from the contest and turnover, they’ll start piling on goals. No idea where our team’s gone, but they’re a dwindling shadow of last year, and it’s utterly horrible to watch.

Just watched the Disco debut announcement video after Goody’s presser. What a horribly disunited bunch! 😉