Demon Dynasty

Would be up there with the worst teams in the AFL in wet weather or slippery conditions. The over use of short dinky handballs to players a foot or two away under pressure instead of the quick kick forward in the wet was astonishingly poor football at this level from Goodwin down, with a few player exceptions. Viney being the main one. Yes i place a large part of the blame here on the coach as he apparently doesn't appear capable of getting this group to change up the way we usually play vs what is needed in wet or slippery conditions. Any team watching us vs the Lions & tonight will figure themselves in with a serious chance of an easy kill if playing us in these conditions bar maybe the bottom two or three. And the bulk of teams would have cleaned the Cats up tonight. We were woeful. Im not a big fan of the dual rucks in inclement weather. I would play one as the sub and just change out if needed at some stage when / if tickets are spent. It robs us of an extra running player on the outside with some skills that can finish our extraction work coming inside 50 and in general play. Max played behind the ball a fair amount with much success last week. Yet this week he plays very small minutes there aside from the last quarter when the game was pretty much gone. Weird stuff from the coaching group. Our forward craft and mid / forward connection lack of cohesion is still bog ordinary After 1.5 seasons of trying to improve, it continues to be a dog's breakfast (at best). Example... Hunter kicking it to Pickett in a two v one as the FF towards the end there. Hilarious. No class or idea as to the last kick coming inside 50. It's just constant bombing and/or kicking it to the goal line. Very few players lowering their vision before they dispose inside 50. Just tumble tumble or bomb 90% of the time in the hope that getting enough ball inside will overwhelm. Rarely anyone playing a higher true CHF role for the many dump kicks we put there. Would love to see the percentage of times our kicks inside 50 drop at true CHF and yet no one is there to contest. Often the oppo does though and they're off to the races on the slingshot and occasionaly turning this into a 12 point turn around. Instead we often see one of Kozzy, Chandler or ANB sitting there. Laughable stuff from the coaching group to think this is a good strategy! Who's teaching them this rubbish and where's the system / structure up forward? Now that BBB & Macca appear to be gone we are in serious need of a genuinly dangerous KTF. Such a frustrating team to watch in the wet. And an under performing one (paper vs performance/outcome) imv. The whole coaching crew and the playing group needs to look in the mirror in terms of.... > how poorly we play in wet/slippery conditions > generaly poor forward structure, particularly at CHF as mentioned above. > Still unable to hit targets coming inside very often > All talls playing deep and sitting back when a surge is on, no one leading at the ball carrier. > The last part (very few leads to higher places) then results in a very crowded forward line from the goal line to 30 odd meters out making it almost imposssible for the medium & small crumbers to work in. > Giving licence to certain players who arent very accurate kicks to attempt short / medium passes into the corridor resulting in easy turnovers and goals smacks of very poor coaching / disipline imho. There's no papering over this one. Too many horribilis downs amongst some decent wins this season. The difference between our best and our worst, particularly in the wet, means there's a fair gap between us and the top 3 from where i sit.

By far our equal worst game of the season imv alongside the Lions. No idea in the wet and/or slippery conditions from the Coach down.

Playing in front again. No dare from Lever there.....the HB to Rivers was on... FIELD POSITION!! ANB ughhhhhhh

Spargo for Jordy ... unless he was injured that's just the wrong call imv

Joel Smith play in front

Grab the ball Kozzy ....wth

Spargo's man.... allowing him to get goal side at the forward stoppage

Perfect tackle by Fritta .... here we go the fix is on folks!!!

I reckon the umps will do that for him as a sits back and does the old smiling clown face at the odd ones they dont call in the Cat's favour.

As a percentage of disposals i would like to wager Lingers is worse. Gus yes but not as a ratio. Gets alot more of it. That last kick was a horror though.

100% YES. Different methods for each team.

No one at true CHF ...again!

Need to keep playing more wet weather footy like we did just then courtesy of Tracc Knock ons, kicking the ball off the ground like Kozzy did etc etc. Less handballs....more direct kicks to CHF. Get the ball moving forward. In conditions like this much of the game comes down to field position, holding it there and winning the next stoppage

Jordy on .... Lingers off. Gus to the wing. Apparently that was a magnificent piece of defence by a 6ft something defender on 5 ft nothing Kozzy

Umpiring is embarrassing. So Chandler gets taken high but continues to play on as no call. Then as he's attempting to kick the goal the ump calls the free but then says he's taking advantage. Geelong tossing it around like a rugby ball.... never called. Viney attempts an overhead HB and according to the commentators he "may have got a fist to it" .... pinged straight away.

Gus to the Lingers wing pls. Jordy into the middle to assist Viney & Max with a few more extractions.

Atkins just put a bear hold on Tracc. No free lol. Fritta there's a time to snap and there's a time to try and handball to someone in a better position. How was that not front on to Smith. Another weak non-decision from the 4th ump Tracc's been held / wrestled all night..... not one free for holding. Cats are a protected species down at Tax Payer Park

FINALLY THEY CALL A HTB!! Give that ump a banana!

Salo VG so far.

May clearly held wow. They just refuse to call against Hawkins

More of that pls Kozzy!!

Max clearly impeded/blocked running to the contesy there.... completely ignored by the 4th umpire who is supposed to be there to call those!!! 4th umpire is a crock of shiiiiite!!!! Send his pay $$ back and put them in to training these blokes how to interpret correctly and actually paying the frees that are there and not paying the ones that arent!

So the Geelong guy on the kick in mark clearly takes two to three steps over the imaginary line prior to May being called play on but nothing to see here. Kozzy takes one step amd looked very close to the play on call for mine and was pinged straight away.

We are our own worst enemy with the last kick inside 50 and / or when kicking from the arc. How some of our boys don't know their limitations by now and play for it accordingly is astounding in this area.

HTB took on the tackler.... but nup. Not one ump had the brains/guts to call it.