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I didn't say he played well. I said: 'Omac has not had a great start to the season but was ok on Friday. Not great, ok. His opponent for much of the game had one mark inside 50 for the game and a solitary point. And had the equal high number of one per-centers with Hore (who played one more quarter than Omac). He did his job'. As for one per centers i would respectfully suggest that given your 'token one per-centres' (sic) comment that perhaps you are unaware what they actually measure. As per Champion data they measure tackles, spoils and shepherds. All fundamental defensive skills - in particular spoils . And the best defenders score high in one per centers - Rance being the king. And Omac is by far and away our highest one percenter scorer. So again with all due respect i think you don't really get why a coach (that most on this site seem to respect) picks him week in and week out - and in that you are well and truly not alone on this site. The reason Goody picks him is he does his job. Simple. Take Thursday night - Reid was his opponent for much of the time and he was ineffectual. As for being more courageous in the air again you are not alone in your seeming blind spot to his courage. Omac cannot be questioned for his courage. Exhibit A is how is how he he ended up getting concussed in the Swans game. Go to the replay and watch the contest at the end if the third quarter (4.36 to go). And then tell me he isn't 'courageous in the air' or doesn't 'throw himself at some contests'. Omac is pretty slow. He also sometimes gets out bodied (but given he is only 23 that is no shock). But the fact is that Goodwin, a coach most on this site seem to rate and one the club has seen fit to extend his contract - picks Omac each and every week. For two full seasons. And continues to do so in his third season as coach. Leaving aside the frankly asinine suggestion that a professional AFL coach has favorites and would risk success for some weird reason such as stubbornness what does that tell you? I'm not sure about you but it tells me that Omac is doing the job the coach is asking him to do. So he continues to select him. Which is way good enough for me. You are right - Omac isn't looking particularly confident at the moment. He is one of the many players who post season surgery and i expect that has impacted his preparation. . As Goody and other people from the club have pointed out, our all team defensive pressure in the first 3 rounds was woeful so that also makes it hard for defenders. And the entire back six has struggled (not helped by Mays lack of discipline and poor physical preparation i might add). But I expect Omac will soon get back to the his best and have little doubt he will continue to be selected. And again i'm happy to back the judgement of a coach who I rate as perhaps the best we have had in the many years i have followed the dees. Others can please themselves and no doubt will.

Bobbing!

Hadn't checked the other best bets before posting, but was going to pick dubhe too Macca. Unusually for me I've done my selection At randwick based on a swoopers track. I just think randwick struggles to come up week to week, particularly after rain, and the track will be hard to lead on. Two races in and seems to be the right play with horses getting home from tbe rear. Makes for a tough tough day with value winners

Last getting day of the Autumn for me fellas. My best is Tonsor at eagle farm. Race 9 no 7. Shooting for 4 in a row and will get the chockies

No it didn't. A classic a case of confirmation bias at work That incident occurred half way though the second. Oscar was concussed late in the 3rd quarter (4.36 to go) in a huge spoil that repelled a Sydney inside 50. In the intervening period betwen the buddy incident and when he got concussed we played our best footy of the match, kicking of 8 of 10 goals. And in that period Oscar worked super hard and his gut running was big factor in creating that web zone Sydney struggled so badly to penetrate. Omac has not had a great start to the season but was ok on Friday. Not great, ok. His opponent for much of the game had one mark inside 50 for the game and a solitary point. And had the equal high number of one per-centers with Hore (who played one more quarter than Omac). He did his job.

Strange comment for a fella who has worked in tv. He us clueless about who most people are. He has a producer piping directions and instructions direct into his ear

He absolutely did his job. Sure he made his share of errors - but so did every other MFC player (my god there were some shocking turnovers in that first half, just appalling stuff) but he played a good game and i'm sure Goody agrees. I would not be surprised if Goody gives him a coaches vote (to be clear i'm not saying he will).

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