Demon Dynasty

What a goal Ward!

Papley ducking ...AGAIN

Yeh he is one of the worst at that. And he doesn't need to keep bringing that rubbish so often. He's good enough to just get on with things surely

Thanks for that. A much needed memory ... not. I still recall a young Clazz sticking it to Garland one Sat arvo vs the Hawks at Box Hill. "Lazy defending mate, how about getting on your bike" 😬 And there was more than one bake that arvo lol

He's not alone. Heeney's also a serial offender. The Giants also have there's in Toby G

The Giants winning the tactical field battle so far

Toby Bedford! 😒

Hogan's been super so far. Note the Giants rarely if ever take the mark. 98% outside five to help protect / reduce Sydney's penchant to always attempt the 45 kicks into the corridor. As well as trying to protect againat the dinky short passes forward. GWS happy to give Sydney lateral short kicks or switch attemps...but ALWAYS protect the middle. Go wide if you like.. we're happy with that!

Uh BoG are you feeling ok? 'Playing at Casey' = 'Great spectacle' ? That's about as likely as the Peptides winning a final!

The stagnation and lack of consultation/comms with the member base on this has actually become pretty embarrassing now. Pert included. As you said they could've utilised the momentum following our success in 2021 but alas much of that appears to have been flushed down the proverbial. The boys delivered on the field and the top brass appear to have let us down since then.

This will be finished before we probably even get an update on Caulfield...

You beauty. That leaves Koz sitting out only two more matches before he returns in Rnd 3!!!

They played Bont as if they were conserving him for next week! Seriously what was Bevo doing. He's their best by a mile and needed to be on the ball from about half way through the second when the game was up for grabs. One of the worst games you'll ever see from JUH, let alone in a finals sense. English not much better for such an experienced coveted ruckman. Ditto Darcy. Libba had a shocker as well and he's their go to extractor. Good luck winning with most of their best having such an off night.

A big ty to Kate for all her efforts and passion she brought to the club. She backed Goody to the hilt during a tumultuous 2019 / 20. We ended up achieving the ultimate the following year which i'm forever grateful for. Kate was one of us as well as attempting to play a key role at club / board level. I loved how she would happily mix in with the DA and have a quiet one or two when the opportunity arose. Was hoping she would steer us through the Caulfield shenanigans but alas no definite outcome as yet which is no doubt beyond her control but still dissapointing that we seem to be always a bridge too far. I see this last part as one of our most important cogs if we're to transform from a medium sized club, always chomping at the heels of the big boys, into finally cementing ourselves as a proper BIG Vic club from here. We need some good news on this and soon imho regardless of who the new president is. They need to get on with things quickly and get it done ASAP.

2004 was a good year. I so wanted the Razr V3! Unlike the peptides, Motorola are making a comeback as we speak.

Playing in tight spaces on a proper (not in a converted indoor cricket netted stadium with a giant tennis ball that rebounds off the nets like a Queen's tennis court) indoor futsal stadium in a proper junior comp that feeds into a national comp would be a start L. It will never happen here though. No one has the vision or seemingly the political connections to get it funded and off the ground (nationally). There's plenty of basketball stadiums and comps around though!

There's no serious junior feed in comp to instill the skills required and needed at the top level L Sth America and the top Euro juniors learn alot of their amazing ball comtrol, finishing skills and striking in their junior years playing indoor futsal before hitting the open field rough and tumble. All we have out here is the rough & tumble junk football pathways (in a skill / ball control sense) which can only take you so far.

Port have lived up to their 'Pretenders' mantle again. They were very much 'torn apart'

There's no national indoor (with proper stadiums) futsal comp to teach the juniors and young teens superb first touch ball comtrol and skills a la Sth America and Europe. We have not invested in the youngsters here which should be acting as feeder pathways into the open field under 18 comps. Our whole 'football' system here is a jokefest. Our first touch (inability to control / dribble) and lack of quality strikers has been a blight on the game for decades. But let's not build proper futsal stadiums and a serious futbol junior comp, better to spend millions on attempting to host a world cup that we may not even qualify for!

Don't blame the player. Tim Lamb's selections since 2021 have been (in the main) absolutely shizen. I'd be getting rid of Lamb to start with before he destroys this list entirely. Richo has surely run his race also. New voices / ppl muchly needed. Time to put a broom through the FD. No point stopping at Stafford. Minor tweaks will just see us waste yet another year and go nowhere as a club. Most likely stagnate or go futher backwards, particularly on the membership fromt.

McQualter and Dimma were, in most cases throughout their premiership reign, happy to give up first possession clearance and instead sweat / pressure their opponents off that first clearance attempt. Their aim wasn't to set up and win most of the first possi / then clear but instead look to get the ball back on turnover and chaos the ball forward into a fairly open forward line. They had the closing speed and white line pressure players to do the above through the middle. Beyond Rivers late in the season and some minutes from Koz, we didn't have much of that closing pressure capability as our core make up through the middle in 24. Very one paced and ploddy outside of those two. So i would then be wondering, is Mcq looking to bring similar mid field sweat and pressure tactics to our game, but without the cattle capable of playing that way to regain the ball on turnover and chaos i50? We also lost players that could play the usual Melb (win clearance) way with Clarry a fsir way off his best / finger issues, losing Gus from the get go and then losing Tracc (not that he's a huge clearance beast) half way.

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Very silky with the help of the burst and agility to escape and evade on top. Pretty rare. Great vision. Slick by hand and foot with a poise beyond his years. Just the frame but hopefully a few years in the system will fix. Wouldn't want him to gain too much either as he'll lose some of what makes him special. Bottom line, super slippery and silky with poise, vision and decent finish hand & foot. Ability to assess and change lanes! Our mids are mostly all ahead straight most of the time. Would need to make sure we don't coach that aspect out of him. He's a 360 mid with the above. Don't come along very often. Would be a VG addition and exactly what we are missing through the middle.

The AFL rarely do things by accident NS. The idea was to make sure we didn't get him but instead went to their preferred franchise. Did we protesteth at tbe highest levels i wonder? The filth would have pushed for some form of compo and/or made sure this didn't happen surely?

Yep, looks VG at ground level by hand. Kicking is not as mouth watering I'd have Smilie and Langford ahead at this point.