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I told yous all that buddy is our bunny!

I'm surprised melk has not got more love. Very influential i thought

Unusually complimentary jb. Particularly given how poor we were for the first quarter and a half. Must be a manifestation of the relief of winning! A bit tough on melk. I thought he was a critical factor in us getting back into the game and then maintain our lead. Kicking - turnovers kill us

Exactly right. Drives me nuts dl posters and so called footy experts in the media saying we need to go man on man. Goody has his model. We made a prelim with it. We will stick with it. When it works teams struggle, like the swans tonight, to get it passed half way. We strangle them. Relies on but running and that is what we saw tonight

Same same. Not once in the many, many years i have followed the dees. Actually once. But not because were losing. We actually won the game. I had to leave the dees v saints round one game from a few years back at Docklands because i had an event i had to attend.

He's our bunny

You forgot Jack watts.

Source?

He has what we need.

Agree. It's all very strange. I thought the big take away from last year was all players had 'bought in'. They were a 'brotherhood', united as one yada yada yada. Now after 3 rounds players are not on board and we need an honesty session? Hezus, we need a win this week. Or i'll struggle to buy in i telz ya

By and large it has been the smalls and mediums that have kicked goals on us thus far this season, not the bigs. Buddy will only get 6

Yes, true. Good point. A worry for supposedly one of the best mid fields. I reckon a factor is oppositions have worked out strategies to nullify max. How many center clearances have we had this year. SFA. The 666 was supposed to advantage not hinder us.

Puff piece? Disgraceful article? Spare me. A good article with solid reasoning supporting its central contention that our lack of defensive running from mids 'who have begun to play like millionares' is the cause of our defensive woes. Hard to argue with that contention. Though it won't convince those that see the game in a much less nuanced fashion. You know the 'the opposition is scoring too easily so must be the defenders fault' brigade. Luckily goody is not one of those people.

Source? If Ben Guthrie is it possible he just missed preuss in that second tweet?

My point exactly.

That's the problem. I don't go there. Ever. As a fan it should be the very first place i go for a range of information about the club. Instead if i want to know something about club (eg links to pressers, links to radio interviews, links to articles, training times, game information, discussion about training, even blood y photos of training!) i come to Demonland Puff pieces have their place. Ours are rubbish and that's ok. But they are just one thing i want from my clubs website For a start how hard its to say keep a running list of Demon related media, with working links. Or regularly upload photos of training (and more than 6). A work experience kid could do it for pete's sake. A website is a critical communication outward facing tool for any organisation in 2019. Ours is an embarrassment and poor reflection on our club and so called brand.

I don't like the comments from Brayshaw and harmed about players not buying in to the need for 2 way running. And I don't like the media around our so called honesty session. Surely they could have kept that in house . And I don't like the mixed messages from goody. First he says injury and fitness not an issue. Judge us on our performance. Then following a crap performance where our lack of spread and two way running, particularly from our mids, he points out that every mid had been in rehab at some point over summer. Together it all gives a sense of a club, if not in crisis, at the least not rowing in the same direction. Which is crazy after such a terrific, united season last year. At the risk of drawing too long a bow this sort of poor external communication is an extension of our appalling comms to fans though our website and other channels. To be honest I think pert has some questions to answer. Comms is well and truly in his balliwick.

Hogan is a gun. And goals is just one aspect of why he is gun. We sorely miss him and in particular his work rate, abilty to get up sand down the ground, offer an outlet target and rack up posesions . I have a lot of time for Weed but if he is not kicking goals he doesn't impact the game

You'll have to deal with Oscar for a few more seasons. Yay.

Hayward almost just as big for us given his 'speed and goal sense'. Small and medium forwards have been killing us this year.

Exactly the point Brayshaw made.

Spot on. It is huge issue for us. Of our defenders only OMac, Lewis and Salem can be relied on to hit a target. The rest are lucky to go at 50%, which is just diabolical in modern footy. Thoughts of Tmac going back send shivers down my spine given how poor his field kicking is

Absolutely. Cooked right from the first bounce. Not going flat out, taking half steps, allowing the ball to bounce rather than going flat out at it. And to top it off poor body language and complaining to the ump.

I agree with the op red. The issue for us now is we have an unbalanced list. Too much emphasis on contested ball winners. That said where's the rule that such players also have to have terrible skills. Which, with the exception of Oliver, ours do. The hawks are brilliant at trading for players that ensure a balanced list. I watched a bit of their game against the roos and frawley, windgard, impey and Scully were huge for them.

My thoughts exactly