Demon Dynasty

In 2020 with our season waining, Goody used the term "ruthless....we have to be more ruthless". For this season he might want to add "Selfless, we need to be more selfless". Well now's his chance to follow the ruthless and selfless sides through. Fritsch should be out for a stint at Casey to work on his selfless acts. Bottom line you can't have selflish players if you want to make a GF and win the big one. Selfless footy is catchy...and so is selfish footy. Coach needs to be ruthless here for everyone's sake. Huge opportunity to make that statement this week. Don't stuff it up son. Hard call but has to happen.

Round 17, 2022 GMHBA - Cats vs Demons While we started off pretty well, seeing May start to fumble, drop marks and run under the ball i thought to myself "hello, hello, what's all this then!?" From there a few others caught the same fumble bumble disease and slowly but surely we started turning the ball over and gifting the opp a few cheapies. Got to give it to the Cats though, they also pressured us well around the ball, won their own fair share and had 20 more inside 50s. Better than us on the high press (harder/longer) and also punished us more often on the turnover. Method of entry i50 was a level above ours tonight. They use the spaces well and to their advantage to seek out potential loose receivers in fairly high percentage places. We've had many matches to work on getting something going with our own forward half play but so far a fail since Macca went down. You just won't win (defend!) against many teams scoring 8 or 9 goals very often. Even 10. You need at least 11 or 12 minimum as we witnessed from the Cats tonight, kicking 12 goals 19 behinds. Is it time for Goody to take the mantle and start changing things up with how we deliver coming inside and present / work when leading up to those delivering!?? Also wish BB would stop playing from behind so often. All forwards if you see your fellow player/s under the pump coming through the middle or on the wing, FCS try and at least get front position and be there for the bail out / dump kick under pressure. Why would you attempt to sit back in the hole in such a high pressure game unless players up the field were on a roll and gifting you a stack of repeat deep entries!?? Ok so leave one player deep eg Kozzy for the over the back crumb or goose. I think it's super important Goody does step in for a major attempt to tweak if we're to finish this season on a very strong note. We are flat-lining forward of center (badly!) and the buck stops at Stafford ...and then Goody. Come on Simon. Time to step up and get more heavily involved in this aspect of our game IMO and make the most of our (presently) strong ladder position. Clarry finishes at No.1 and no doubt he was up there for us on the night. But jeepers i just felt like he over hand balled (again) and that a large proportion of his disposals went nowhere and ended up being pretty ineffective and or resulting in a Cat's turnover & in some cases a goal. Steven May (8), Viney (6) & Clarry (5) the three worst turnover offenders. No doubt Viney & Clarry were under intense pressure tonight (heavy locks?). Most of Viney's efforts coming inside 50 and some of Traccs reminded me of the name of a villain from a fight scene in a god awful 2008 movie, The Incredible Hulk. For those of you who are lucky enough to forget or even better, haven't seen it, the Hulk had to battle one of his arch enemies... "Abomination" Player Score Rank C Oliver 6.000 1 Jack Viney 4.875 2 A Brayshaw 4.475 3 J Harmes 3.825 4 Steven May 3.225 5 C Petracca 3.025 6 Jake Lever 2.825 7 H Petty 2.650 8 C Salem 2.525 9 Ed Langdon 2.425 10 Max Gawn # 2.375 11 M Hibberd 2.250 12 J Jordon 2.125 13 Alex N-Bullen 1.950 14 L Jackson # 1.650 15 K Pickett 1.625 16 J Bowey 1.425 17 T Bedford 1.225 18 T Sparrow 1.175 19 Ben Brown # 1.100 20 B Fritsch 1.000 21 C Spargo 0.875 22 Team Score 54.63 Top 6 25.43 Bottom 6 6.80 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

I'm callin it.... PF on the Claret & will be out tomorrow!

Out: Bedford#, Spargo#, Fritsch*, Jordan or Bowey% In: Chandler, Weid, Van Rooyan & Rivers # effectively two men down on that performance * Important cog but not playing such selfish footy thanks. Need to send a very important message. Too soon for Van Roon but he might just snag a few himself. Amazing what adrenaline and a bit of self belief can do. Selfless footy is premiership footy. The reverse is BS and should never be tolerated (once you see it becoming a habit!). Fritta should have learned after burning Tracc three weeks ago but hasn't. Time for some important learnings and sends a message to the rest of the group about how not to play! % Can't afford all three of Gus, Jordy & Bowey across HB IMHO. One has to go and it aint going to be Gus. Rivers my choice for one of Bowey or Jordy. Allows Gus to go to wing / HF (a must if we are to kick enough goals via quick repeat entries IMV).

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Slow, flat, fumbles....poor decision making. Too many panic 2 foot handballs to no one that drew even more pressure. Decision making slow. Have we not heard of knocking the ball on to keep the ball moving instead of looking for the perfect give so often. Danger needed a Harmes tag after half time imv. Max shouldnt have played. Tried hard but was like playing with a man down. Come back through the McGoos for some match fitness pls Goody. Even the Captain isn't above basic team principles and smarts. Outs: Spargo (Nancy award) & Jordan In: Chandler & Rivers

BB one good quarter then plays from behind most of the time for the remainder

Where's that switching been all night? And of course as soon as we go forward we torch it

Awful technique. Tried to guide it through instead of running in a straight angle and letting the curl of the ball off the boot do the work

Why do Melb insist on gathering the ball off the ground when under severe pressure when a knock on or quick slap forward might allow your players to run onto it and clear congestion. This is most likely our worst all round performance this season IMV given the ins.

100%. Even the Weid might have given us a tad more

Bloody awful awareness and he isnt alone tonight

How did Bedford miss that easiest of gathers....

Fritsh another burning!!!!!!! Drag him and tell him thats not on!

FAARK OFF PAL!! Go back to the Cattery and eat some gefilte fish!

Gawn battling on but looks very under done. Not sure why we dont just rest him at CHF from here and push all in on Dogga on the ball!!

We rarely find short lead up or free targets inside 50!

Looks flat as a tack. No zip at all. Kozzy Spargo the same. Where is the will to be first to the ball??

Its a little more conplicated than this but it comes down to one team having good forward half skills and habbits ....vs another that has none.

Not while Stafford's the forward coach. Time for a change IMV

Theres the difference. Tracc looks up but still bombs/blazes away... turnover. The Cats look and use vision to hit up a loose.

Bowey, Lever & May look a little off the pace tonight

Yep.... i would play Gawn 80% forward with only 20% in the ruck interchanging with Dogga from here. We need a tall target at CHF to straighten us up and get the ball to ground. Will also upset their spare a little

Ump thought about calling it.... then [censored] his dacks

Mostly off handballs.... a few too many are also missing targets