Demon Dynasty

Would love to see Bedford get a bit more game time. We lack some serious speed and far too often fail to finish in front of goal when we get on the end of some good work up the field. Bedford offers speed and the ability to finish off the work. Problem is who makes way. Sparrow maybe? Seems to have had some fairly ordinary moments in the last few weeks or am i being to critical? (overlooking the good bits?).

Good luck trying to fix what is a flailing forward line along with those kicking/running in to it (who are also often to blame with terrible kicking and/or poor choices). We are in desperate need of a pack marking/busting KF who can kick set shots or goals on the run as if they're shelling peas (assuming ball is delivered favourably more often than we see now). And if not doing that at least bringing the ball to ground more often and getting involved also at ground level more often. We dominated most of that 3rd quarter. Most sides, bar the bottom two atm, would've probably opened up a decent lead and gone into the last quarter with the wind in their sails and something like a four to five goal lead. Instead we just keep leaving the door open. Then, having spent too many tickets, we can't manage to close said door in the final term. Bro predicted that last quarter outcome about 2/3rds of the way through the third quarter. We are becoming reliably unreliable up forward and with our forward craft in general. We are our own worst enemy here and i just can't see where the solution will come from within the current list. Weid had a decent first half but a fairly quiet second half with Casey. Having said that will probably get the call up for BBB who hasn't fired a shot since he posted his interview about how lucky he was to have crossed from the lowly Roos into a premiership side last season. One has to wonder if there's been a little complacency on BBB's account here and/or he's dined out on last year's result a tad too long. One player i do like at Casey as a potential future medium sized impact forward is Ellison but he isn't on our list and untested at AFL level. Regardless, surely there's someone lurking around (free agent?) we could snaffle for 2023 and beyond? Having May back will probably help restrict many teams to a lower score but if our forward line fails to fire, the better teams will most likely continue to run over the top of us late far too often me thinks. We rely too heavily on the May factor i reckon which has glossed over some of the forward issues we have witnessed in his absence. The Cats have one of the easiest fixtures post the buy. Can see them getting ahead of us if we don't solve our forward issues. How annoying would that be. We have to play them at the Cattery in Rnd 17 as well.

Hibberd's close. Finished strongly in the second half today. Is he really ready for a big clash against the Pies before the buy? If the fitness dept & he thinks so then he is a good chance to come in for Hunt. Hunt did ok early but seems to get a little flakey under pressure and unlike last season he is rarely involved in many chains off HB or breaking off HB like Viney did at one stage tonight for example. Not saying he has to do so very often and might be under instruction to play a hard lock D behind the ball (ie no licence to run & break lines) but boy we just look too stagnant across HB now. And on that point do we have too many intercept / slow players across HB now with both Salem & Bowey playing? Does Hibb come in instead for Bowey? Hibb gets the lock down role and Hunt plays the Bowey role but more as the transitional runner off HB breaking the lines and getting the ball forward asap hopefully to a more open forward line? May in makes us a 2 to 4 goal better side. Have the mids (bar Viney & Clarry) forgotten to run super hard both ways to help out more often across HB as they've gotten so used to trusting such a settled/trustworthy defence (until May went out) they are instinctively loose and not paying their opponent enough respect on occasions? Allowing them to get off the leash through the middle too often?

The 2nd worst team coming inside 50 in the League

BBB het in front for once FCS

ANB always shanking it left!?????

Why do we continue to appear to have most leads (and pretty much all TFs) going wide to the pockets?

There's a reason for that....none have played at this level for a while and the Swans are coming off a great come back win. Tails up. Hold judgement till the 2nd half. Takes a while to pick up AFL pace. In the end it will come down to winning the mid field battle

I'll 2nd that....fire up minions!!

Mitch you're up!!

There's a few here but not enough voice ....need to fire up and get some noise going. Swans are probably outnumbered 3 to 1 but bring the louder voices among the few

Get Tomo to kick in. Salem's kicks off FB are falling too short a little too often allowing the Swan smalls to swarm

Can someone please take the mic off that 10 year old girl co hosting the pre-game and quarter time entertainment

Super quarter from Kozzy

Mitch did enough last week and on a number of occasions earlier as well. Deserves the chance. Fingers crossed he does well

Yep...no sign of Macca yet

Buntine's had a good day

Is there any position White cant play haha

There's no immediate genuine KF option. Mitch handy as a lead up or tall (get ball to ground) back up option for this season. Will need to trade in a big hitting impact forward for 2023 imv.

Piggy having a VN second half. Spreading & sharing well

Thats better from Laurie. Chandler doing quite well. Pretty standard. Run under a couple he probably could have marked in contests but doing quite well so far (at this level).

Well Munro aint gonna be happy with that

My bad!

Moniz HB to Dunstan to Melk and then White ....yipeee

Beautiful work from Ellison on the wing... loved the leap pack crunch from JVR. Moniz all class waiting for the crumb for his 2nd....this kid!