Very Jaded

He is the heir apparent to May. Do not rob Peter to pay Paul. Average forwardlines have won flags before. Average backlines have not (recently anyway).

In typical millennial behavior I did not read this post first before saying the exact same thing 😂

So offended. I’m not that old thanks! Actually as one of the OG Demonlanders, I reckon you’d be surprised how many of us are, still, in our 30s. This forum started when forums were just at the start of becoming a really big thing and many of the original “testers” for this site were in their early 20s.

1000% this I still go every week tho.

I just stepped in dog [censored]. That about sums about my week and this game.

At literally no point did I argue that we shouldn’t bring Weideman in. I just don’t think dropping Brown helps our cause at all. It puts greater pressure on everyone else in the forwardline who can’t buy a mark. It speaks volumes that Mitch Brown played today ahead of Weideman. Footy department clearly has no faith in him either.

On the other hand the level of umpiring is so bad I understand why people don’t want to watch games.

When was the last time Weideman wasn’t poor playing senior footy? 2018? Weideman commands 0 respect from the opposition. You drop BB and suddenly Fritta has to play on a FB twice his height.

Sure but May wasn’t an option tonight. So we had to push on and Petty fought on manfully. I think Tomlinson is a poor defender but agree that Petty needs a week off to recover properly from his 240 injuries.

Brown has about 100 good games up on Weideman. Even when out of form Brown still takes away the best defender. He is that much better than Weideman ever has or ever will be. Having said that, Mitch Brown is a bad bandaid and we need to bring Weideman in and let him play the year out with BB because there are no other options.

Neither Rivers nor Hibberd are tall defenders. Petty struggled but he was still our best tall defender even on one leg. I shudder to think how many more goals we would have conceded without him.

Who?

Unfortunately it appears the meeting didn’t help.

Again because injuries are forcing our hand. May, Smith both unbelievable and Tmac also injured. We literally have no options. He was cleared of structural damage last week so he played. He was in so much pain I can’t believe how well he played with a bad shoulder, a bad knee and a bad ankle. Absolute resilience!

That’s not our style anymore and thank goodness for that. I rather not ruin a kid with a heap of potential. Weideman has to step the [censored] up. I’ve had a gutful of him. He’s been handed a golden opportunity this year to possibly be a premiership player and he has simply not taken it.

Because the only two forwards left standing are Weideman and JVR.

You have to give big props to Petty. He was literally sticky taped together and just killed every ball coming his way. Held a fragile backline together.

I reckon BB is sick. He literally looks like he’s dying whenever he comes to the bench. Hasn’t been the same since he missed with Covid.

Steven May and automatically we are 30% better. The forward cupboard is bare.

Another horrible turn out. Sydney fans made more noise than our fans.

I wish they would lead this fast or move at all. They all just stand there.

Ball use. Connection going inside 50 and our forwards literally staring at the ground as the ball runs out. Midfield all at sea. No May = backline is falling apart at the seams. It was a bad day made worse by putrid umpiring.

Umpires need to be thrown out

Too many passengers. We look like a team that thinks winning will just happen. Teams come out and go 110% trying to beat us and we have just been going. Our easy first half draw hasn’t helped either. Pressure is way off. Forwardline is a complete mess. Defense is depleted and has been all year long. Midfield is not able to sustain dominance for 4 quarters. A lot of improvement. Luckily we are in a good position to reset.

What’s worse? The umpires, our forwardline or our inability to play without May?