Demon Dynasty

Ward...terrible option

GWS kicking bombs down the line into their 50 too often. Need to switch where possible

Here come the dodgy frees for the filth. What wat that free at the CB!??

Do GWS have a cooler for DeGoey? He's the difference so far

Great first half from Whitfield. Great work rate in the second half also but too many turnovers by foot so far.

Maggots will win it for the Filth

Our boys Hogan & Bedford ....noice!!

Its amazing what one poor kick into the corridor can do ughh!

One of the great rrat finals goals on the left foot! Toby!

They were always matching any bid. They had eyes on him from a long way out and alot invested. Took time for Tom to find his feet at this level. The athleticism of Jackson helped us win the cup in his second season.

Wash your mouth SthSea. He looked a million dollars post the injury with us and definitely worth a pick in the late teens!!

Yep Buddy style! That's the pie'ce de re'sistance for me.... SOLD!

They answer to no one Jack. The other clubs might jump up and down a little but in the end they just do what they like and change things to suit their preferred narrative (at that time).

It's just one giant franchise run, overseen and massaged/directed by the AFL circus masters i'm afraid. Anything goes as long as the AFL believes it will further their desire for a close competition with the big clubs taking the lion's share of the limelight and the spoils / silverware. All the clubs are now in on the act and the players complicate. The franchisees are hardly going to take on the franchisor if they don't like something. They just suck it up as they're all on the gravy train. No club is going to go out of its way to upset HQ when it controls the purse strings, the fixture, the head of the MRO etc.

Him & White were the glue down at Casey. Talk about blood and guts. Sounds like he wasn't happy at all with the final game. A pretty ordinary ending to the season at both levels for us it would seem. Will be sorely missed. Was a thorn in every other club's side. Goody luck Jimmy and thanks for the amazing efforts & memories plus the 22 Premiership year.

Def needs looking at

Yes 100%. More of the same will see more of the same or worse. Top 4 is not an automatic inclusion every season just because we feel we're in the window. Look at the Cats this season. While we don't need radical change to the defensive side i'm hoping Goodwin reviews much of everything else we do from the CBs forward and even the way we transition off HB. Needs to be open to some fresh ideas and thinking imv and release the shackles. That includes new blood across the lines that have some freedom to express and tweak things. Same with the players to a degree. Would love to see highly regarded 'not long out of the game' forward and mid coaches coming in for a significant overhaul in this area. Other clubs have caught us up and we need to be quick on our feet to keep up let alone stay ahead of the game.

Good get SW. We now have an oppo coach at a big club with full knowledge of the Goodwin playbook. We'll need to make a few tweaks to both staff and the style / methods as well as significant improvement to forward craft, followers, and the general ball movement / mid-forward cohesion as has been thrashed to death on here for the last two seasons.

I really like the look of Sanders. Reminds me a little of Tim Watson. Great football brain combined with oodles of power and some finesse coming inside 50 as well. He's within reach for us yes? However looking like the Norf are going to shift the draft posts with the help of the AFL bah! https://www.afl.com.au/news/1036986/top-draft-prospect-ryley-sanders-approved-as-member-of-north-melbourne-kangaroos-next-generation-academy

Great career move for him. Well done Ooze and good luck at the Tiges, except against us! Thanks for helping to crack our first silverware for some time!

I reckon he (and the FD...it's a big experienced team we're talking about here) managed the first half ok but then botched the 2nd with Clarry out for so long. That put a stack of pressure on Tracc & Viney to lift their output to cover off. Plus a bit of JJ and Harmes coming in to assist. But for mine the Harmes option (on a couple of occasions) was the wrong one. Goody was probably deceived somewhat by some ok to good performances at VFL level and probably still had recent strong flashbacks of his 21/22 efforts and figuring he may get back to somewhere near that. Fair enough. Unfortunately for Goody and all of us, Harmes was nowhere near his 21/22 and after the first recall should never have gotten the next call up. For mine it was Dunstan in for at least a few matches while Clarry was out. Even ahead of JJ. But especially ahead of Harmes. Why do i say that? Dunstan like for like was about as close as we had to Viney in terms of extracting and distributing the pill. The physicality required in this position must be immense week in week out. At that point Dunstan was the most likely bull to switch in for a week or two. Harmes not a regular extractor anyway and wouldn't have provided the relief required to Viney regardless of form imho. Even a couple of Dunstan assists, spread out spasmodically over about 6 to 8 weeks, may have been better. Especially as we knew Clarry was a long term fix. Imv Viney was the bull, the extractor....the ball getter we needed to protect as much as possible in order to keep him as fresh as possible coming in to finals. We live and die by his performances much of the time, just as the Doggies do with Libba's form/abscence. The game against Hawks, Libba missed the second half from concussion. They lose by 3 points. The week after they lose to the lowly Eagles by 7 points. Came back the week after and vavoom they beat the cats at the Cattery by 4 goals. That little window of his abscence sees them miss the finals by two premiership points. One more win and they're in instead of the Swans. A coincidence? I think not. In the QF against the Pies, Viney was a massive 55% off his H&A Season rating. Recovered well against the Blues, posting a rating 20% higher than his H&A rating, but by then we were pushing up hill in terms of missing our chance at the weeks rest via the Prelim and going in to our 2nd consecutive final without the likes of JVR and Gus.

Hope all the "why didn't Goody play Grundy!?" landers see this. Even then i suspect some will keep asking 😅 Would love to know the 'Schache, no Schache' reasoning though. Very costly imho.

Mono i know you're very forgiving but just say what you're really thinking 'Decapitated' is fine

That about sums it up. Jefferson appears to be a pretty big work in progress and too early to tell if he'll make it for mine. Improved a little in the back half but when exposed as a main forward in the final he didn't give a yelp. Needs time to develop though. Be interesting to see what shape he comes back in for the start of 24. He might be two pre-seasons away IF he makes it. Assuming we're playing McVee, Salo & Bowey, then Howes would have to fit in somewhere other than HB yes? Personally i think he's very suited to the wing which means he would have to bang the door down big time to push out Hunter or Langdon. Goody seems pretty fixated on these two. While both were very serviceable at times in 2023, i didn't think either of them were consistent stand outs and occasionaly they were poor. Both are pretty ordinary with ball in hand coming inside 50. Adding to our inside 50 connection woes. Howes and Woe might be able to push their way in to one of the wings here but i don't think we'll see either of them do so early on. Unless there's an unfortunate injury or suspension window. Woe might get some mid time though so opportunties might arise for him here with JJ & Harmes now likely to depart. I'd love to see both get some serious game time at some stage before the buy though as i feel they'll offer some improved connection plus some much needed run & carry. We need to get some more overlap play into the team. Transition in 2022/23 a bit stale/slow for mine. Particularly on Hunter's wing as he has no run & carry ability.

This latest straight exit's having some massive side effects on some My 12 yo cheapo Chivas is sure getting a good work over