binman

How good was that 40 metre drilling pass under pressure down the wing? A thing of beauty

Would normally agree. But given there is no VFL.....

Bit annoyed. Got the third quarter wrong.

Go redlegs. See you on the other side Demonlanders

Just doing my bit .

binman's prediction (sounds more authoritative in the third person): Game: I think we will have the better of a physical first quarter, get well on top in the second, come into half time with a 5 goal plus lead, resist a final effort from the cats in the 3rd q, and play tempo footy in the last to win by our half time margin Betting strategy: I'm very keen on us making our 12 point line. Load up on the line (even money). Half time margin might be worth having a small go at too. Back two ranges - Dees 25 - 36 @ $7 and Dees 37+ @ $11

Looking at the BOM radar there is s small band of showers' drifting across Perth ATM. But basically no rain or cloud behind the current band.

Sorry Dazzler, but you've made a spelling error i can't let pass It's youse

Finding it hard to be productive at work. But still want to contribute to the. economy. So I think I'll go online and spend $1000 on dees merch.

Damn. Double dosed AZ and none of that. Might have to give Pfizer a go.

Ta. A couple of weeks back i decided to watch Matrix. I hadn't seen it since its release. Has held up remarkably well, both in terms of its story (simple and classic sc fi), design and use of CGI. Often films from that period (2000s) that use CGI look incredibly dated but Matrix still look amazing. In part becuase they stayed simple, and of course used the classic king fu movies cables so well for the fight scenes I then watched the second one - Matrix Revolutions. It was better than i remembered it being, albeit over the top visually and the story getting too convoluted and operatic. And the CGI did look a bit dated Being a completist, and in preparation for Resurrections, I thought i might as well watch the third in the series - Matrix Reloaded, a film i have never seen. Simply awful. The story is a complete mess, it is padded out with horrible action sequences, the CGI is impenetrable and the sound design almost gave me an aneurism. And to top it off, i had forgotten it (and the second one) was filmed in Sydney at Fox studios. So the b grade Aussie actors that pop up in it kept distracting me. As sci fi fan i'm looking forward to Matrix Resurrections - but i I hope it is a return to form.

No wonder they're crook then. By the time the curry has gone to Geelong and then been flown to Perth, placed in quarantine and then in a taxi to the cats hub it is likely it was pretty rancid.

He is a total peanut. As noted by someone else he was a commentator for our AFLW game against freo this year. He made Brian Taylor and Darcy look like Denis Commeti and Bruce in his prime. God awful and so ridiculously pro dockers. And IIRC correctly, he was also bemoaning a dangerous tackle that was paid against them on the grounds that game was getting soft and 'its not netball'. He's a dinosaur. On the article, i'm not sure what his point is. Well other than the fact he thinks we will carry mental scars into tonight's game. Let's say he is right. What impact is he suggesting those mental scars will have? Because he makes the point that they carried the scars of the 2015 GF loss into subsequent games at the G. Sure, fine. But surely the mental scars are only relevant for the next Grand Final they played (ie it is the game not the ground). And they took their very next opportunity to overcome that scarring by winning the 2018 GF. We have played at Optus Oval since the prelim and only 6 weeks ago beat the Eagles at that very venue. So Optus Oval holds no fears. And if we follow the Eagle's pattern we will overcome any prelim related scarring in our first opportunity to do so - tonight.

Hatch and dispatch

We miss Jack Watts in this team. Agree?

I hope you're right. He would be a good sub option. And a bit of romanticism might add some magic. And I reckon goody likes a bit of magic

In practice yes. But the medi sub counts as a player. Hence no change

No change to cats line up. Which looks funny because psrfitt is out. Zach Guthrie was medi sub last week. In the starting line-up tgis week

Not even the second half of Q2. They kicked 5 goals in the last 5 minutes of the second quarter. Watching the replay of that quarter is surreal, becuase with 90 seconds to go you realize they still get two more goals!

I take full responsibility for that loss. Went with crew of mates - three of whom were big dees fans and one was a big bombers fans. Top of the Ponsford. We were all pretty well lubricated and i was in my most vociferous, rambunctious form - particularly as the lead grew. IIRC we kicked the first goal of the last quarter to get it out to a 46 point lead, having dominated the match up till that point. When it sailed through i yelled PERCENTAGE!!!! at the top of my lungs. Salmon proceeded to destroy us and my mates have never let forget that cry. I still yell percentage from time to time - buts it's fair to say i'm a lot more conservative in my timing.

First dees game live: TBC (subject to Demonwiki coming back on line). I'm thinking 1977? I remember in my first handful of live games was Vic park. I recall getting told off by a pies grandma for my language. Which is weird becuase i was 10 and i never swear at the footy. Or perhaps haven't since. Not dees related, but the first GF i went to was Hawks v Roos, Snake Baker v Knights 1978. Mike Willisee sat directly in front of me Worst game, by so far it is really is not funny: 1987 prelim. The 2018 prelim very distant second. Well equal second with the 188 and 200 grand finals Best game: hard to go past the last round of 1987 at the kennel. But apologies to any number of games - the first two finals in 2018, the wiz kicking 9 in the second half of a game against the pies, this years ANZAC eve game (more from the perspective of having not seen any games in 2020) - the list goes on and on

I am trying to jog my memory of my first game and of course went to Demoniwki - cant reach it. Is there a problem?

That's right. Montagna said on First crack that Salem came up to the stoppage in the first half (something you just can't see on TV - be nice if one of the 12 commentators they having calling the game actually pointed that out!). I think we have only done that once previously, so clearly Goody was trialing something. And as you say they went back to their normal set up in the second half. And i suspect they were also trialing different set ups at the center square bounces in the first half - and or the positioning of the half back flankers - which might help explain those clean clearances in the second quarter. We have given up very few such clearances this year ie where they have so much space to run into goal side - and i can't see us doing so in the prelim. On the round 23 match, i cant believe the amount of commentary suggesting it was game of two halves, the cats dominated 3/4 of it etc etc.

There is no doubting the fact that Selwood is a champion of the game. But jeez he looked slow in the last quarter of their game against GWS. And i know he had a head knock in the last quarter against us in round 23, but he had no impact in that last quarter - which is hardly ideal given he is starting mid not, say, a defensive forward or some such. And perhaps it is a bit of confirmation bias on my part, but to my eye he looks to have some of the tell tale traits of a player the game has gone past - crude tackles, throwing, milking frees, cheating a bit in terms of running patterns (eg getting forward of the ball).

Agree. And I reckon that is exactly what they will look to do. Against the Lions they were switching in the first quarter more often than they normally do (and more often than they did in the other 3 quarters) and i reckon the will do the same again. Make the cats chase and spread. It was no surprise that the Scott and players that were interviewed downplayed the significance of the round 23 loss after that game (and since really). What else were they going to say? But the bottom line is losing meant they had to play Port in Adelaide off a 6 day break. And having lost that game had to play an extra game, that surely has fatigued their aging stars - particularly given there was no pre finals bye. Not to mention having one of their young stars in Pariffit injured and Hawkins getting a massive Mummy corkie 5 minutes before the end of the game