Demon Dynasty

OUT: STAFFORD (forward line duties) IN: GARY ABLETT JNR.

Yes makes sense Sue. Good idea

A little yes but i reckon they prepped for this after the 2020 loss to the Tiges. Injected some run into the team. And also got Cameron courtesy of the AFL. Mind you the same thing helped the Tigers get their back to back with Lynch coming across to a premiership team lol. The AFL are lead by a shameless bunch of incestuous boys' club tossers.

Poorly managed back half

Where's Dilmot!!!????

Think the Filth will be in it

And Dilmot

Only way we would've done ok in the Prelim is to have beaten the Swans and go straight in getting the week break i reckon

Where's the fricken whistle for not coming to the 9 against Brisvegas then? Kozzie got the whistle, zero warning then "FIFTY' ...no warning

Geelong run in support as soon as they get the pill. They all gut run and dinky the ball forward, but, drawing the player in front or beside them just before they give so the next receiver is in the clear. We were doing a bit of that last season but not much run and not many clean chains this season. Hope Goody and the boys are watching. Learnings!

Yes that's the sort of ball user you want running into 50. Aside from Spargo, we wouldve kicked that straight to the Brisdonk player ahead of Hawkins on the Arc.

Berry as well. Thought he was some sort of king pin after scragging Oliver last week. Then there's that nong nong Dilmot

Brisvegas the worst team to make a FINAL since...... Elimination Final 2012: North Melbourne 9.12.66 defeated by West Coast 24.18.162

😄 makes a great commander. She's still saying how stupid we were playing LJ for the second half of the season. Reckons it was like giving a pay rise to an employee who's told you they're finishing up at the end of the year. Said he wasn't committed to the club and that's how he played on match days. Should have gotten games into other player/s.

Wrong in what way though THBT?? My gut feel tells me they MIGHT have gone too hard too early (built them up to a mad level of top end fitness) leaving many spent by the time we got to round 12ish. Goodwin's poor player management in the second half of the season exacerbated this overkill pre-season prepping. Big emphasis on 'might have' and pure speculation on my behalf.

I said to the war office... 10 goal drubbing to the Cats tonight. She laughed and said "nah" 😄

Some ordinary player management in this regard with so many players. Plenty of learnings for SG to ponder over the break from this season. Lots of improvements to aspects of the line up, system and methods if we're to improve on this season.

Nice TT. Will have to introduce some decent run into this team as well. Too many plodders and mature players that can't go with the opp when they put speed on the ball and ahead of the ball. And with ball in hand we need some players more willing to roll out and take the game on, with better kicking skills to hit targets when they do. If we can gain some run (spread) and better ball users we can also stretch and waste the oppo's energy by using the switch more effectively and often. The 'two can play at that game' method is also a viable strategy. After zapping them of their energy on the switch (as many did to us to great effect this season), later in games you can then start to exploit the corridor more effectively. Going more direct = speed into 50 and better looks for our forwards. Having said that we also need better forwards. If we run roughly the same line up into next season... you and i will be putting up similar post mortems this week next season.

Not a bad article but it's not a draw it's a fixture. It's constructed / designed by the AFL to try and foster / induce their preferred teams and outcomes to max revenues.

MVP 2022 Finals Thanks DZ. We weren't that far off as you say. However, these stats suggest we played a couple of our worst games for the season unfortunately. Almost feels like another Prelim 2018 for mine given we came into the finals with the second chance and a top two finish. Anyway on to DD's MVP of the finals award! And no surprises as to who got the chocolates! Imagine if he didn't go into the Semi banged up and coming off the broken thumb issue. May & Harmes deserve some kudos as well. Petty not far behind in 4th. Pretty much daylight the rest really... Player Rating Rank C Oliver 5.775 1 S May 4.813 2 J Harmes 4.038 3 H Petty 4.013 4 Ed Langdon 2.700 5 A N-Bullen 2.688 6 C Petracca 2.650 7 Jack Viney 2.575 8 T Sparrow 2.575 9 Max Gawn # 2.463 10 M Hibberd 2.463 10 Jake Lever 2.138 12 B Fritsch 2.125 13 L Jackson # 2.050 14 C Spargo 1.913 15 J Hunt 1.713 16 A Brayshaw 1.675 17 Ben Brown # 1.538 18 Trent Rivers 1.525 19 C Salem 1.413 20 K Pickett 1.188 21 J Melksham 1.038 22 Team Rating 55.06 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats Courtesy of footywire.com

Semi Final, 2022 MCG - Demons vs Lions Match Day Rating vs H&A 2022 Season Ratings Player Semi Final Rating Semi Final Rank 2022 H&A Rating 2022 H&A Rank % Change vs H&A H Petty 4.450 1 2.392 19 46.25 Steven May 4.325 2 3.971 3 8.18 J Harmes 4.275 3 3.082 12 27.91 C Oliver 4.250 4 5.320 1 -25.18 Ed Langdon 3.325 5 3.109 11 6.50 M Hibberd 3.050 6 2.613 17 14.33 Jack Viney 3.000 7 3.971 3 -32.37 A Brayshaw 3.000 7 3.839 5 -27.97 L Jackson # 9 2.800 9 3.128 10 -11.71 A N-Bullen 2.750 10 2.688 15 2.25 C Petracca 2.625 11 4.456 2 -69.75 Jake Lever 2.575 12 2.703 14 -4.97 M Gawn # 36 2.550 13 3.215 8 -26.08 T Sparrow 2.025 14 2.665 16 -31.60 B Brown # 3 1.975 15 1.759 29 10.94 K Pickett 1.500 16 2.118 21 -41.20 B Fritsch 1.475 17 1.936 27 -31.25 J Melksham 1.425 18 1.947 25 -36.63 J Hunt 1.250 19 1.889 28 -51.12 C Spargo 1.225 20 1.981 24 -61.71 T Rivers 1.150 21 2.423 18 -110.70 C Salem 1.000 22 3.363 7 -236.30 Team Rating 56.00 64.57 -15.30 # Hit outs to advantage not captured (number indicates number of hit outs) Stats Courtesy of footywire.com

Semi Final, 2022 MCG - Demons vs Lions Player Rating Rank Harrison Petty 4.450 1 Steven May 4.325 2 James Harmes 4.275 3 Clayton Oliver 4.250 4 Ed Langdon 3.325 5 Michael Hibberd 3.050 6 Angus Brayshaw 3.000 7 Jack Viney 3.000 7 Luke Jackson # 9 2.800 9 Alex N-Bullen 2.750 10 Christian Petracca 2.625 11 Jake Lever 2.575 12 Max Gawn # 36 2.550 13 Tom Sparrow 2.025 14 Ben Brown # 3 1.975 15 Kysaiah Pickett 1.500 16 Bayley Fritsch 1.475 17 Jake Melksham 1.425 18 Jayden Hunt 1.250 19 Charlie Spargo 1.225 20 Trent Rivers 1.150 21 Christian Salem 1.000 22 Team Score 56.00 Top 6 23.68 Bottom 6 7.53 # Hit outs to advantage not captured (number indicates number of hit outs) Stats Courtesy of footywire.com

Another short discussion on some of our issues here. From approx 9:45 minutes to go

Our tall forward problems have been well documented. Hopefully JVR with Macca & Petty can provide some solutions here in 2023. Problem is will Goodwin get a little imaginative and play Petty forward? Aside from that, we need to get some serious run/finishing skills off HB & through the middle into this club. Yes we have Lingers on one wing but his finish coming inside is questionable. Hunt off HB if he is still with us but the run we sometimes used to gain here appears to have vanished somewhat to accomodate required roles where im not sure he has that freedom under Goodwin. There's no run from anyone else really. Used to be a tad from Rivers in 2021 but he's regressed in general. We rely on kick / marking our way up the field and / or if those outlets are blocked, long down the line. And down the line only works if you are taking a few contested marks and/or winning the ground ball or stoppages more often than not. It's a gruelling way to play the game the more often you default to it, especially for the Mids. Alot of the time oppos are also playing a plus one in defence so when our mids do win it & look towards or inside 50 they often only see the extra numbers for the oppo. Thats where they need to switch or short pass it, but we arent great with passing so what happens? Often what happens is we turn it back over to the oppo and the ball comes straight back, catching our defenders out. The better teams exploit this more often. Knowing the above, our lessor light kicks (like Maxy)"then go into their shell and start kicking to the flanks/pockets! The switch play or 45s off HB are also restricted as we really only have three players that are capable right now. That's May, Bowey & Salem. Unfortunately Bowey didn't play at the back end of the season. Salem had no run and no dare this season with most of his kicks just dump kicks to players lateral or within about 20 - 25 meters ie; no penetration. And May probably tried too hard to switch/kick inside at times to make up for the lack of it going beyond his limitations and missing targets / hitting the oppo too often. Even if those three do happen to hit up a target we're still pretty much stiffled and stuck in the back half for too long as there's not alot of speed / trust in this list. Very few players roll out and play on taking their opponent and the game on. Most just get behind the mark and take their kick and/or pass laterally or down the line. The Pies are a great exponent of run off HB / through the middle and taking the game on. As much as i can't stand them they're probably the best at this aspect of the game in the AFL right now and extremely hard to counter. They trust, so they often roll and take the game on creating ovelap. Many others around them running in support as they move the ball quickly up the field. I think we also did a fair bit of this to great effect in 2021. Unfortunately not so well this season. Speed of transition along with clean clever ball use & execution (under various levels of pressure) is critical in maxing out forward opportunities in the AFL. Hopefully we can find that speed and cleaness once again in 2023. Need to fix the lack of pressure inside our 50 as well. Severe drop off from 2021 this season.

Qualifying Final, 2022 MCG - Demons vs Swans Match Day Rating vs H&A 2022 Season Ratings Suspected something was seriously up after looking at the base data straight after this final a few weeks back. But never suspected things were this bad vs season averages, with a few exceptions in the first 10 players or so. Tracc's drop off explanatory but it's a massive drop. If you're a numbers/analyst looking at that you would be putting the info to the coach's/FD and highlighting surely for the next match against the Lions and asking some massive questions of physios/docs/player. As to what went wrong, who knows. Only those inside the inner sanctum or very close to someone with inside intel might have some idea. Whatever the main reason/s, things sure went belly up once we hit finals. I understand the second week a little more in the sense more players would've been banged up eg; Tracc playing injured, Clarry's head knock. But we had the bye like everyone else leading into this one. Gastro / illness issue? That might account for Hibberd's drop off but didn't hear of others catching it? Many players spent well before finals and too much spent too early in the first 10 rounds, nothing left in the tank in the 2nd half (might explain our last quarter fade outs somewhat)? Pressure from the Swans off the charts, a number of players couldn't handle it? Who knows. Have highlighted Clarry in blue as that is one hell of a performance in a final. Others that did very well statistically vs their season averages included May (superb result given his opponent), Harmes, Petty (outstanding), Sparrow, Fritta (29% above his 2021 season average and 7.5% above last year's final's average!), Spargo & Hunt. With ANB thereabouts. As mentioned previously above, the Team Rating was a massive 19% off the season's average Team Rating. Have to say i'm astounded that this appeared not to set any alarm bells off inside the FD and/or with SG! In the sense that we stuck with exactly the same line up, and much of that line up (statistically) was obviously (if you had the time to dissect) in a world of trouble. There's absolutely no way you are coming back from being off your season averages by around 30% - 40% (or greater) the following week. Certainly not within a week anyway and not enough to probably bring a level of effectiveness in the role you're expected to play, especially in the pressure cooker of a final. Had we made the Prelim...might have been a different matter. Note: A red 2022 H&A Ranking indicates that player did not hit his seasonal ranking in this Final. Some players might be higher than their seasonal ranking just by being picked. That is a player ranked 28th for example might end up being ranked 22 in this game by the mere fact that he was picked in the team. In other words the rankings need to be considered in context. Hope that makes sense. Player Qual Final Rating Qual Final Rank 2022 H&A Rating 2022 H&A Rank % Change vs H&A C Oliver 7.300 1 5.320 1 27.12 Steven May 5.300 2 3.971 3 25.08 J Harmes 3.800 3 3.082 12 18.89 H Petty 3.575 4 2.392 19 33.09 T Sparrow 3.125 5 2.665 16 14.72 Bayley Fritsch 2.775 6 1.936 27 30.23 C Petracca 2.675 7 4.456 2 -66.58 Alex N-Bullen 2.625 8 2.688 15 -2.40 C Spargo 2.600 9 1.981 24 23.81 Max Gawn #30 2.375 10 3.215 8 -35.37 J Hunt 2.175 11 1.889 28 13.15 Jack Viney 2.150 12 3.971 3 -84.70 Ed Langdon 2.075 13 3.109 11 -49.83 T Rivers 1.900 14 2.423 18 -27.53 M Hibberd 1.875 15 2.613 17 -39.36 C Salem 1.825 16 3.363 7 -84.27 Jake Lever 1.700 17 2.703 14 -59.00 L Jackson #13 1.300 18 3.128 10 -140.62 Ben Brown #1 1.100 19 1.759 29 -59.91 K Pickett 0.875 20 2.118 21 -142.06 J Melksham 0.650 21 1.947 25 -199.54 A Brayshaw 0.350 22 3.839 5 -996.86 Team Rating 54.13 64.57 -19.29 # Hit outs to advantage not captured (number indicates number of hit outs) Stats Courtesy of footywire.com