Demon Dynasty

A draw plus Cox & Mihochek out. Great start to the weekend.

Woot woot....gotta love it!

Besides Fyfe & Darcy, they arent woeful by hand but they do over use badly alot of the time which invites pressure and unnecessary turnovers

Yep. The whole team has white line fever. It's 100% pressure / urgency then go go go on the turnover. Cameron's also a decent ruck and VG overhead mark. I think i heard somewhere he's one of the best intercept marks behind play also? The game appears to have gone past Fyfe now 😬

Young's been pretty ordinary tonight. Is it just me or has Walters had a mare so far?

Darcy's competitive in the ruck but that's about where it ends. Super slow to react & dispose and his HBs are generally pretty shizen

The Pies use their feet to kick / toe poke the loose ground ball away from oppo alot, attempting to move it forward or towards safety of boundary. Deny and disrupt.

Freo are very slick by hand and foot but over use the handball which sees them get caught in their back half a little too often. They also make a fair few rookie & basic mistakes both with choices and clangers.

Comes down to that one lack of follow up effort to at least try and chase after being turned by Harley Bottom line... never give up on the contest.

Freo presently the happiest handball team in the AFL. Also the best at it. Of course they are the least kicking team. But also the best at it

If he's picking up aspects like this on the run mono.... why not!

Nothing but loud noises Disco. Lots of loud noises. Surely you aren't going there for the game itself? Enjoy...

Neat live 'in game' analysis from Hodge there showing two Freo players sitting off the back of the stoppage while the filth had an extra around the ball. He suggested moving one of them up to the contest to even up the numbers to prevent any easy clearances.

Whatever game style we're implementing we need to at least be very good to excellent in what it is we are attempting to implement. With regard to disposal execution. We are presently a mostly kicking team vs handball. Our kicks make up 61.5% of dispoals. Ranked the 4th highest kickimg team behind the Lions (1st @ 64.3%), then Port & the Swans. However we are only ranked 9th in the league for kicking efficiency (66.6%). Sitting just below the AFL average (66.8%). The Lions in 8th spot (67.2%). Sydney the best of this bunch (68.7%... ranked 4th) and Port 17th (64.7%). The lowest ranked kicking efficiency title is presently held by the Cats, ranked last @ 62.8%. Other teams rely heavily on handball such as Freo, the Doggies, GWS, the Bombers & the Pies. Freo ranked the No.1 HB efficiency team @ 84.7%. Followed by the Doggies (83.5 ranked 2nd) and the Bombers (83.4 ranked 3rd). The Pies & GWS a fair way off the front runners sitting in equal 14th (80.3%) and below the AFL ave of 81.7%. The lowest ranked team is presently the Demons @ 78.9%. Stats courtesy of www.wheeloratings.com

Not sure if this is a compliment or insult

Given this fact, wouldn't it be better to run ANB through the middle on a consistent basis. And/or even sharing a winger role with Langdon or Windsor to have him bringing the ball in more often? Yes i realise he's being played in the middle a tad more this season but it might be time for the FD to consider upping this substantially if poss... Average CBA %* 2023 ... 2% 2024 ... 10% *Courtesy of wheeloratings.com

Fantastic Jane. I'm pretty sure i had the pleasure of meeting this lovely pup at a training session many years ago during the Neeld era. Not long after the two poor young fellas were named Co Captains. If only these guys could live forever.

Thanks GV

Am i hearing right the 7 nuffies are talking about the Swans suffering from fatigue after a rough fixture? Something about 5 day breaks? They've never had worse than a 6 day break with most of them 7 / 8 day breaks. Then this little gem "Collingwood's been decimated with injuries". You can't make this stuff up

The umps killing our great game week by week with no let up in sight. Having way too much unfluence on the outcome of so many games. It's becoming unwatchable and just not worth the time taken to watch anymore. It's almost a given in every other match that they'll pull decisions out of their bum and/or ignore other obvious ones that end up changing the course of the game.

Terribble decision to seal the match

UH what a goal son!

Harmes has had a pretty decent game. Seems to have his tank / fitness back that went missing last season.

Gutsy from Jones there

Nothing wrong with a bit of yelling surely...