Dee-licious

Rain coming down now sadly. Would be good to have a clean game for our talls.

He is but I’d be interested what he’s doing as he doesn’t seem to be the deep option but he’s not around the ball like a high half forward. @Drunkn167 can you confirm? Thanks. He just appeared with a good smoother.

Pedo playing back - but doesn’t seem to be having an impact. Solid though. Really impressed with Bil and Weids. Just look so classy at this level. The 2 id be looking at for next week. Spargo playing inside mid. Doing alright but not dominating. JKH should have gone to Carlton. Would have played 13 games in the AFL next to Cripps. Frost probably the best of the backs for the second key forward. More for his run rather than his lock down work.

What happens with games like this is that say Stretch and Garlett do the warm up with the boys in Adelaide and as soon as the game starts they are off to the airport and usually land before the game ends so they are ready to play on the Saturday. The issues lie when the game is on at the same time / the day after Casey. Agree that we do need to get more game time into some of these boys who havent played for a while.

Correct. I don’t know where they were on our board but know that we were pleasantly suprised they fell that low. And both I feel have now shown they were worth more than their pick. Langdon starting to do the same.

@Satyriconhome I get what you are saying in that we tend to overrate opposition players and possibly we are thinking that Gaff will solve all our issues and be our messiah. However he is a proven performer, he’s had many great seasons, the best is still ahead of him, he is a Brownlow fancy, and Sydney put a hard tag on him and he still had 24, 6 clearances and 6 inside 50s. I love billy and ANB but they aren’t getting a hard tag. If he does get tagged out of games at the dees, then think about the space Brayshaw and Salem will get. He might not be the messiah, we might overrate him, but he will make our side better and that’s enough for me.

Gus really good analysis on AFL exchange podcast. Said that Dees were getting complacent and it was better to loose than to limp over the line the way they were playing. They are re-focusing and are better for it.

Played really well on Milochek and when he went to Cox I thought he played him well considering he gave up 17 cms. He got in front and blocked Cox’s run. He ended up being one of our best.

Interesting and can confirm we were up to our eyeballs in this kid. Taylor called him on the night to apologise he wasn’t going to be a Dee because Oscar dropped to us. We had ANB and Oscar much higher on our draft board than where we drafted them and Ed was pretty sure he was going to be a Dee with pick 53. Don’t know if he’s keen to come back but apparently he ‘understood’ our decision. Hope that insight helps.

I agree with you (kind of). I'll agree that in year 3 if Petty still hasnt played a game of AFL and his trajectory has continued upwards he'll be on his way to a club he can play AFL week in week out with. However, I see a spot for all 3 (and Joel Smith) in Year 3. Oscar is the one-on-one guy, with Petty able to do this as well against the double key forwards. This allows Lever to play 3rd man up and loose in defence which is perfect for him. He is able to play small but really with a zone and team defence, he really should not be playing one-on-one (which he really hasnt done since Round 2). Petty reads the play really well, has great hands, and from what we have seen thus far can kick and make good decisions. If he has a tank, then it doesnt matter that he is 197 and we have 4 blokes down there above 190cm. If they are able to play 90% game time and hold down the fort, it means that we are rotating our mids; which is going to come in handy considering they are going to reduce the interchange cap by the looks of it. Having the Casey game on TV was great so we could all see how the development is progressing and hopefully in 12-24 months time we will have all Casey games televised.

Weid could have had a few. Had two lace out passes that he was cut in front of by JKH and Balic. Quiet first half but worked his way into the game nicely. Was Hunt tagged? Just really felt he couldn’t get into the game at all. And on the balic debate. He’ll be extended. Looks too good to just let him leave.

Hunt playing. Stretch and Garlett carry over to Monday.

6 behinds this quarter. Come on Dees.

The commentators are mistaking Dec for Petty just like we do!

Is Tyson playing ‘a role’ or just not getting a heap of it?

Yes is - listening to the radio and they are mentioning him but he isnt marking or kicking. But not sure if he is crashing packs.

I know that Sydney a few years back, and Hawthorn two years ago were "our best wins" of the modern era. I think that possibly this one might take the cake. The other thing to remember is, we are so very, very young. There is no reason that this cannot continue for a decade, when Gus and Trac are doing Lewis and Vince things.

6. Brayshaw - it is games like this that you remember why Roos thought this boy was the best in the draft. Look at the top 5 disposal getters - Brayshaw, Oliver, Viney, Jones, Salem. When those 5 are the top 5, we arent loosing games. 5. Hogan - He just worked so hard and has such great hands. Now he has his kicking boots back on, watch out! 4. Gawn - monstered Sauce. 49-21 hitouts. Believe you me he was one of the reasons we won. 3. Viney - awe he's back. Just argued with everyone. 2. Oliver - like Gawn, we just are numb to 31 touches, 10 tackles, 10 clearances, 16 contested possessions. He's a gun. 1. ANB - showing why he was a top 10 player last year.

@Wrecker45 If you’ve got time - can you give us a little more about Petty, how he’s been going - strengths etc? Thanks so much.

Let’s face it. If he was on the open market in a draft year with his pedagree and physicality he’d be drafted. To get a free hit is awesome. The other thing is that we get him like we got Hogan. Basically a year of being in an elite system while he is in year 12 and then will be able to play as of next year. I’d expect he won’t play VFL at all this year. Just looked at at his basketball highlights. The kid can jump and the write ups were all about his agility. Yep he’s not like any big man we’ve seen in the Afl. NicNat like in his agility. If he can kick we might be on to something here.

I thought he was taking the injured players up early and then they were flying up Saturday. I think maybe the 1 traveling emergency is consistent with the rest of the year (right?). Saying that i don’t remember us traveling with and emergency to the Gabba.

Great write up on Cripps today from FoxFooty talking about how he is the fastest to 1,000 contested possessions with 68 games ahead of Kennedy with 79. For those playing at home, Oliver has 614 from 44 games, meaning he needs 386 from 23 games to break Cripps. This means he has to go at 16.8 contested possessions a game from here on in, which is a tick over the 16.33 he is averaging this year (averaged 15.64 last year). More likely, he is going to do it in the same number as Cripps (av. 16 contested possessions) and it will come before the bye next year. For him to be second on that list to Cripps, he would need to 'only' have 11 contested possessions per game which are more like his figures in year 1 (9.5 average) and be in his 4th year of AFL, compared to Cripps' 5th, Fyfe 5th, Libba's 5th, Wines' 5th, T. Mitchell's 5th, Kennedy's 6th. For comparison, Viney will get to 1,000 in the next 2 games (on 975 now) and he has played 89 games. In summary, assuming no injury, Oliver will equal Cripps' record for fastest to 1000 contested possessions and do it a year younger than Cripps as well.

Question - anyone know why Brayshaw is doing the AFL podcast every week? I love that he is doing it - but why Gus? Seems like he is crafting a nice little media career. Would be good in 15 years the for us to have Gawn, Brayshaw and others commentating.

How is young Hunt going? Thanks for the updates.

What is great about him though is his ability to take a mark and a contested one at that out on the wing. It was something we sorely missed when he was out. 24 years of age, still under 100 games, there is still growth in him (and hopefully a good kicking coach).