PaulR

Real credit to Bowey that no one is questioning his spot in the team… clean smart and composed.

It feels like the season has turned the final bend and we’re now looking down the final straight. Our players will know quality performances will ensure a place in our finals team and nothing is guaranteed. Coaches have us peaking with a couple of final touches to add next week in TMac and Viney. Expect us to be on today. We’re in a position to make history. Go Demons.

No. Weirdly Port could jump to top spot.

Given the quality of our new kids (I.e Bowey) is increasingly difficult to find a spot in our best team for Nate… finding an appropriate moment to honour and celebrate his huge contribution to our club is a different question, and I hope we can do this well.

I thought Kozzie was ok running through the middle earlier in the season as well. Like Bradshaw on wing, his sweeping work gives us a lot of repeat 50 entries.

I’m glad we’ve hidden the “Jack Viney made me cry” thread… ? Go Jack, beat the rap!!

I don’t like the red mist or hunted theories. My theory is that against lower teams we fail to get sufficiently aroused (until too late), whereas against the top teams we are aroused with the good wins resulting. once had a tennis coach describe tennis as balance of arousal and precision, too aroused and precision (ability to execute game plan) can drop… with poor results. insufficient arousal and precision irrelevant as not working hard enough to execute at level required to win.

Always liked VDB, hope he hits his best, was good in the finals 3 yrs ago, could be a Smokey if he comes good again in time for our run to September.

The way the Saints are beating Lions is exactly how we beat teams… Great to see.

Stick a fork in the Tigers, cause they’re done.

Having Max bring his contested marking to the goal square instead of the wing, with Jackson and Daw rucking would be an upgrade on out current tall forward set up…

Weird and unexpected aspect of us sitting on top of the ladder…, is I don’t care about teams 5 wins below us playing for a slot in the final 8… used to really sweat that stuff, now it’s “meh” and ????. hahahaaaaaaa Go Demons.

Hogan is out of contract at years end, I believe... ;)

I hope our boys can smell the blood in the water on Monday and act accordingly. Time for a 10+ goal win. Go Demons.

Hey Andy, A suggestion that may help DL viability: that all Lifetime memberships end the day we win a flag, reset, as it will have been a lifetime most have been waiting... and in the post Flag euphoria, we're all bound to sign on for another "lifetime"..? ;)

Ask me again in 2025…

As usual, we are suffering due to the Key inability of all governments to make tough decisions beyond their next election. With CoVID, the Feds should have developed and communicated a plan and timeline as to when sufficient people will be vaccinated such that quarantine can be eased or removed... OR stated that Quarantine is here for good, vaccinations not really required and then proceeded to rapidly build medical grade quarantine centres etc... But choosing either path has issues, so they’ve chosen neither and we’re in no-mans-land with further lockdowns the inevitable and costly result. incompetence on so many levels, but primarily the Federals are the ones whose dithering is most damaging. Very hard for Victoria to defend against a virus that enters the country via SA.

Maybe they should stop the season now, and award the Premiership to the team on top? ?

Maybe Sam finds it hard to actually practice successful marking when paired up against May or Lever... at training. ?

No immanent WA election... all good.

I found Dermutts "analysis" that, 'aside from 8 min in the first the teams were equal' was a bizarre negative spin to put on it. As we clearly jumped them, then held them to a losing position for the rest of the game... denying them their surges with amazing defence. Would be a valid spin if it was equal scores and pressure all game, and then we broke them in the last 8 minutes... Dislike Derm quite intensely...

I'm in more familiar territory with the Demons tonight, low expectations, with a win pure bonus and a pleasant surprise given we're yet to click all over the ground this year, despite our win:loss ratio...

"Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! “Charge for the guns!” he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred."

Agree, there’s work to stop them overlapping, or better coordination between them if they do overlap. I suspect it will just take time to gell.

Only chance the crows have to beat us, given how solid our defence is, is to switch aggressively and try and move the ball quickly through the middle or non-dominant wing. Would risk exposing them to our counter punching, but the alternative of trying to move it along our preferred wing with May, Lever and Gawn set up to mark, is suicide by slow strangulation... Be a hard job coaching crow in this one... ?? Go Demons