Demon17

Anzac Eve DOES count last year. We were 13 points up at 3/4 time with no bench players left. Were always going to run out of legs. A good effort in the circumstances. QB was an heroic effort as well on a big stage down to the wire. The games were are meant to win have usually been disasters, up to last year. This years 6 game streak now shows major mindset improvement.

Did anyone else notice in the 2nd 1/4 at a centre bounce about the 10 minute markish Jack V gesticulating to T Mac and pointing to the goals which looked like a bake to TMAc about why he didn't kick forward instead of passing off. Waiting for the re-bounce after the scrum Tmac gave it back to jack. Was interesting.

Sitting near the bench on Monday I was close up to a couple of good things Spargo did, getting into trouble, getting out, and seemingly keeping a cool head. That small passage of play sold me in the kid. Although he's been playing like that earlier also.

Correct.

Exactly. We felt at the game from first bounce they were ' on'. And their outside run showed us up for pace and the rest followed. I was impressed we got back into it after a bad first 1/4. but weaknesses exposed gives Goodwin something to work on for second 1/2. Better now . The pies are the real thing and wer'e not as good as we think.

Smart post. McGuire has done this before; Introducing him as a "...Superstar..." Really? I have felt he has been overrated all year and was showed up in endeavour by Joel Smith, spargo in tight spots , and a few others. I'm not sure what his tricks/strengths are either. Seriously worried if he can make it.

This guy is ready. Esp given strong handover period with Jackson in the background

Poor grammar by joffa. It should read "..THOSE demon flogs...". Sheeesh. Magpie morons.

Brillant that oliver gets the recognition. Clearly deemed to be best inside mid. Which he is.

Salary Cap rorter @crows.. Are you kidding?

Can someone put up a link to this. It was insightful and amusing at the same time. Garry Lyon nearly"... fell off his bike..." when he heard the new yesterday, so happy was he!

Correct. Close this thread for irrelevancy. It about New Ltd. causing outrage so we all talk about them. Lets deny our oxygen. And of course Grundy is in - he's Collingwood, the papers main reading audience to whom this team is targeted .

Rounds out the vision nicely. Good work and highly believable.

Chairman Glenn Bartlett is former Managing Partner of Australia toughest Tier 1 legal firm Clayton Utz. I reckon he'll have Gill covered.

Bif day for the marketing Dept. AND the recruiting team. The sales pitch now to Gaff, Wines or anyone else of quality can be: "... how would you like to kick the ball into a Hogan/TMac forward line..." Sign here!

Give him a break. Kane Cornes tips Dees for the premiership and re-confirmed last Friday again before the dogs game on his SEN show.

No-one seems to be talking about Joel Smith lately in these threads. Can anyone advise thoughts on him as an option?

Success in converting strong inside 50's into winning sores coincided with lots of things, but primarily T Mac coming back, with huge flwo on effects on Hogan, and mids who finally had targets, but Lever was important also. However his replacement will merge into the best defence in the league - Hibberd, Jetta Salem, Lewis and OMac. Plus a top line midfield that helps protect them. I would be more mortified in losing Gawn, T mac Hogan , Viney, Oliver, Brayshaw,, Jones........... Just the debate on here about Lever' s replacement has thrown up 4 or 5 options. For any of the above there is no-one capable of filling any of these shoes in tersm of quality. QB will tell though

Correct. Enough was enough for goodwin.

Brilliant first paragraph lt. The fawning by darcy at the post match was sickening. Empty vessel commentator so common on ch 7 ( excl daisy who seems smarter than all of them)

In the spirit of trying to rationalize levers loss i have gone over joeboys above list which i thinl is a great summary of all snd counted 15 names i would be equally devastated to lose. Once upon a time that numbet might have been 5 ish. If goodwin can fill tjis loss adequately recognising levers value may not be replicated i think the fundamentals are still sound. Q B will tell us.

Completely agree.. Again on todays game spargo showed he's made this position his own. Lowers his eyes . Chases. Beautiful kick. Hard runner. Mature beyond his years in a tight spot. Doesn't panic. Lets all move on.

As the great John McEnroe said: "...you cannot be serious.." Do you understand the various leadership qualiites? Such as " follow me" as a prime example, train hard, play hard, look how I play ... etc.

Its interesting that from the start he's had a lot to say on the field at set up time, prior to centre bounce etc. , contributing to the disicussions with Jones, Gawn, Viney. He was very vocal yesterday. Just feels like a leader and belongs in the engine room. He said a few weeks ago his re-signing was a "..no brainer..." He's part of the scariest demon midfield Iv'e seen (since 1967)

Be accurate and in context: He said: "..Not convinced just yet. Going very very well but not getting carried away. THE in form team and the way they win has been impressive..." . "... Roos did exactly what he was paid to do..." "... Lever absolutely superb..." "...a successful and seamless succession plan..." Darcy, Brown, McClure and Taylor say unselfish, modest, balanaced and can win the flag. Reasonable assessment by the Duck. He has consistently been upbeat this year. Who cares anyway - i bet Goodwin doesn't.