Demon Dynasty

Gawny has not played very smart footy all season IMV. He's taken some decent intercept marks all over the ground but the rest of his work has been good to ordinary other than a few marks & goals inside 50 when pushing forward. Reckon he's played at top form maybe two games in total from memory. Was his pre-season as good as some? Looks disinterested at times as if he couldn't care whether we win or not. Laughing at the opp long after they've kicked a sneaky goal at one stage ... not a great look from the Captain.

Rnd 19, 2021 MCG - Bulldogs vs Demons The Hunters revert to the hunted once again (with a few exceptions). Too meek and mild for 3 quarters tonight from most. Some very poor match day coaching IMV also cost us dearly today. Our worst Team Score for the season. 7.7% worse than the 2019 season average and a massive 19.8% off this season's average until last week! Easily our worst score from the top 6 for the season by a fair margin also. Probably Linger's worst game for the year as well (statistically). DE% of 60% is not going to win you many games either. Yes it was wet, but same for both teams. Doggies ran at 69%. We over used the ball too much as well with 41 disposals per goal vs the Doggies 28. Dogga was our best ball user (outside of defenders) running at 88.9% efficiency. Tracc our worst at 35.5% overall. A few other stats worth noting ... Turnover Kings ? Clarry leading for second week with a massive 11! Followed by ANB 7, Tracc 6, Lingers & Hunt with 5 each. Score Involvements ? Viney 7, Clarry & BB 6 with Hunt & Fritta 5 each. Tackles ? Viney leading for the second week in a row with 9. Next best Kozzie & Harmes 8 with ANB & Tracc both on 7 Marks inside 50 ? BB the main target here with 4 Meters gained ? Hunt 548, Clarry 404, Tracc 390, Viney 371, Lever 362 Intercept Kings ? Lever 15, Hunt 9 with Clarry Rivers & Salem the next best on 6 each. Player Score Rank Jake Lever 4.675 1 C Oliver 4.225 2 Jack Viney 3.750 3 Jayden Hunt 3.175 4 J Harmes 2.950 5 Trent Rivers 2.950 5 C Salem 2.900 7 C Petracca 2.875 8 Alex N-Bullen 2.850 9 Steven May 2.725 10 Max Gawn # 2.575 11 K Pickett 2.125 12 A Brayshaw 2.050 13 M Hibberd 2.025 14 C Spargo 1.900 15 T McDonald # 1.850 16 J Jordon 1.775 17 L Jackson # 1.725 18 B Fritsch 1.700 19 Ben Brown 1.675 20 H Petty 1.350 21 Ed Langdon 1.200 22 Team Score 55.03 Top 6 21.73 Bottom 6 9.43 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Yep they've both done very little all night. Would have have had Harmes on Bont and Viney on Libba all night Another coaching fail.

Now that's what we lack coming inside... a beautiful finish kick

NICE THROW LIBBA!!!!!!

Why would you allow Viney back into the middle after that play when he is clearly better at HF?? Put anyone else in the middle even Spargo.

Keep Viney at HF FCS

Why is Dogga playing from nehind in the wet and in that situation. Boy this forward line is a dog's breakfast

Chunk simply has to come in for ANB next week if fit

Yep it's the worst non call I've seen in quite a while

The Daaawgs are Gaaawn. Demons by 3 goals

I reckon we get them in the last quarter ... umpiring aside

Their forward pressure has been much more intense for the entire match. We've matched them a little this quarter here but the first half was lacking

Spargo's been given a bit of a towelling up so far

Chunk for ANB or Jordan ASAP pls

Jordan just toe it forward son! [censored] stupid non thinking VFL grade footy

Not really they won a premiership perfecting this. The AFL loves it and clearly encourages

Keep Viney at HF pls to replace Kozzie who should be on Daniels (after quarter time).

SG that goal is all yours son for not locking Daniels down with Kozzie

Is that Spargos first kick?

Also the mids are getting pantsed. I count maybe one or two clearances for the whole night. I would have moved Kozzie on to Daniels to start the second. Bring Macca up the ground and clear some space behind. Manic pressure and attack on the ball missing. The Dogs want it more so far. And why is Max constantly smashing the ball forward straight into the hands of the Doggy's defensive sweeper? Just dumb footy. Put Max on the bench, Dogga into the middle. Macca plays higher and Kozzie into the middle. Scrap that stupid zone in our front half....it's a MAJOR fail and the difference between us winning and losing far too often.

Our dump kicks to no one in particular. And Gawn looking to kick after he gathers possession almost always instead of the handball to someone in the clear. The other issue is pressure. Once it goes into our forward half its too loose. A zone in these conditions in our front half just plays into their hands and gives them the time they need to connect and transition relatively easily....then launch i50. This last part is on SG.

Kozzie

Should have gone short or to the top of the square. Our weakest links so far.... ANB, Gus, Dogga & BB

Worth putting Kozzie to play a run with on Daniels? He's running hot and setting up so many plays as per usual. Ideal conditions for him but Kozzie might be able to kurb the damage