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Key comment from King: that takes years to build.

Loved the question from King to Robbo: King: When you are at the ground do you see that? Robbo, hand on chin, long pause, looks a bit shocked: Then crickets. Then after eventually fudging some response (the conclusion being, no, he doesn't see that when he goes to a game) Robbo, a full time professional football journalist seriously asks if Teague would know about that sort of detail. And reckon it's a crazy world - could Teague be sitting at home watching this and go whoa that's what we need to do? King and Montagne: speechless Jesus wept.

Said no one ever

Indeed. The title of the article is: Christian Petracca's move into middle strikes gold for Melbourne Demons The link to article includes the question 'is he worth the seven year contract' The article goes into great detail and drills down on very specific evidence to answer that question. And based on that evidence concludes that the answer is yes, Petracca is worth the seven year contract And for good measure explores if the deal is likely to create long term salary cap or related issues. The answer is no. In fact it the article notes that 'locking in players' salaries in current dollars has proven to be extremely valuable for clubs' and that 'if the cap rises over the next eight years, it may be a shrewd deal'. By the by it is an excellent article. And i think the forts by Atkinson and Lawson this year after having done quite few terrific analysis articles last season. I was worried they had been another victims of the cuts to the ABC

Youtube is your friend. This is a great channel for a mix of videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/MelbourneDemonsFooty This one is brilliant for replays and in particular specific edits (eg - all goals and highlights for each dees match - and any number of other games for that matter - catnip for dees fans): Lace Out But there are a bunch more.

Fun fact from Demonwiki The history of the Melbourne Football Club Greg Wells (a star) is 17th for our all time total goal list. But third on our all time total points list

There is only one place to start your exploration. This incredible website: Demonwiki The history of the Melbourne Football Club

Of course he will. Mental demon's is trolling. Proof? This comment: I suspect we are more in need of what Weid offers. I mean C'mon. We moved heaven and earth to ensure we could draft LJ. Because of his incredible skill set. And because we had not a single player who comes close to having his skill set. No other club does. A generational player. Weed was on the list when we drafted LJ. We then recruited a player who very much has what weed offers. Ben Brown. Who, when a spot became available, was selected AHEAD of weed. What does that tell you about weeds relative value? LJ is with a club that is equal favourite for this year's flag. And has a shot at a sustained period of being a realistic flag contender. And he is going to want to go home to WA to play with a team on the wane (who may well struggle to make finals this year - certainly not top 4) who has a star ruckman on big coin. A three gun tall forwards? Or a team in tbe second year of a year's long rebuild that is struggling to improve? And fly accross the continent every fortnight for the rest of his career? Right. Trolling or clueless. Take your pick

Perfect Captain Jack it is

Like all dees fans - a life long learner! How to endure, how to build resilience, learning to understand the pain of life.....

Perhaps. I blame my misspent youth and all the late nights at the Punters club, Seaview ballroom, The Tote, The Corner, The GB, the Espy, The Prince, The Old Greek Theatre etc etc. That and the fact my misspent youth lasted until i had my first child at 35! I need to give him a nickname that takes hold. Given i will watch him closely, maybe Orni? As in Ornithology.

Awesome caller and top questions. I love the fact Terrance is in Belgium listening to an obscure podcast, not on delay but live and calls in and brings some really thoughtful questions and comments. Brilliant I hope he calls in again. My first question will be what is he studying?

It was only long becuase I spent so losing correcting myself about number 32. Sorry Tom, i am never going to mention your name again.

Exactly. And perhaps an extension of what has happened over the 6 years since goody has come to the club. The narrative that there has been some silver bullet, or the penny has dropped, or the other shoe has dropped, or any other silly metaphor is complete and utter bollocks. As is any narrative that yze and Williams are the puppets masters. We have not magically arrived at this point. Sure there have been some changes. But that occurs every year for every club. But all are incremental. Even the biggest one - the total buy in, selflessness, team first, enough is enough time to deliver focus of ALL the players. As many here have pointed out - and the players have been at pains to say (see traccs terrific sen interview on the mfc site) - this all a function of maturity. Think back to goody's first pressers as senior coach. He made clear what his philosophy is and what he planned to build. A game plan built on the fundamentals of contest and pressure. Territory. Strong in all three phases. Tough, uncompromising And above all two key elements: - An idenfiable 'brand' that dees' fans recognised and loved to watch - A game plan built for finals - not winning home and away games, not getting to finals winning finals. A game plan that would set us up for a sustained period of success And here we are. We have yet to achieve anything so lets see about the sustained period of success. But all the other planks are all in place. And goody deserves all the credit in the world for that.

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That is the first interview I've heard with him. Very impressive. I reckon they do try to mix things up. Look at the different spots Max hits it to. But it was a slippery night and as ooze noted like most teams the swans were simply trying to negate Max and rove to him. And they had some guns doing so. And the centre square stoppages are pretty random. On smahing it forward to space Max does that quite a bit around the ground, and occasionally in the centre. But I reckon they avoid it in the centre as a rule because it is so risky. If one of their half backs or wingers come off the square there is a good chance that if they (or one of the mids) win it, they are in space and so can kick under no pressure.. A tap down to one of our players who then looks to handball out to one of our players in space is far more controlled and less risky. If the opposition win the ball from the tap it is in traffic so we can apply pressure.

Jackson is not really a key forward as such. More a floating half forward, albeit a tall one. And of course he is taking serious minutes in the ruck So Daw is really more a like for like replacement. And I reckon he would be a terrific option. But surely they will go with weed from a player management perspective. Now really a senior player who has worked super hard and by all accounts has handled being in the twos very maturely. Lots of comments from teamates about his team first approach. And Weed rucked a bit in 2019, both at Casey and in the seniors. And I thought he looked quite a natural ruck. Improved quite a bit through the year and improved his ruck craft. I thought it strange he didn't ruck st all last season (other than in the forward line). But that may well have been because of his hip issue that he apparently was struggling with. All that said a forward line of Brown, melksham, friiter and weed really worries me in terms of their collective lack of forward pressure. Sure weed can lay a hard tackle. But he barely laid any in the second half of last year. And when the ball hits the ground often ball watches and doesn't apply referred pressure. Both issues were evident in the Casey v roos game. He better bring the heat.

And why we recruited preuss and had him on our list for two years, used our first pick (that we traded up for) in 2019 on a ruckman and are developing bradkte. Not sure where CA is but perhaps it somewhere where it is not possible to keep up with what the dees are up to.

I don't reckon they will want rest anyone late in tbe season. They will want their best 22 playing together coming into the finals. Round 12 in the nt is in that group of round 11-14 and base so maybe for that one.

Agree. Missed one important example. The forward who has been down on form, thst we play back into form and he kicks a bag. I'm gonna be nervous if they start cripps forward!

yze is interviewed on the talking points video that was loaded up today. The first 3 mina or so all about the centre square clearnce differential. Interesting discussion. In fact the whole interview is good. I didn't realise he hadn't been a mid field coach before (or perhaps I misunderstood the question and reply) https://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/934386/the-talking-points-adem-yze?videoId=934386&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1620721799001

What he said.

I'm confused. What's your point?

Day before. Which is crazy. So ours don't come out till Saturday at 6pm. Pre covid (which IIRC was the pretext for the change) my memory is that final teams would come out for Friday night and Saturday games on Thursday just after 6pm. And 25 man squads came out on Thursday just after 6pm for Sunday games. And i thought, but might well be wrong, that last year the squads for a Sunday game out on Friday.

Is there anything stopping the dees announcing their team tomorrow night? It would be great publicity for sponsors and cost nothing. And then on Saturday they could change it! More publicity