Demon Dynasty

Well you better make sure you come out with a black box under your arm DZ!!

I'm surprised you are surprised NS!

Gazza on SEN says both leaders (Gawny & Viney) werent present. Thank goodness they went to the Sorrento instead!😄

Satan or Mods can we add a poll to this thread .... Was suspending May this week the correct decision? Yes/No

May will get pilloried whether we do or don't. More so if we don't though is my guess Macca. Agree re the first part but its usually at training not a boozy night out. Dust ups/incidents with other knuckle head members of the public on a boozy night out .....yes. Re second part .. We haven't faired well without the two book ends (May & Tommy) so far against 'in form' top 8 teams. I'm not sure it will just suddenly click and we start beating them from here without both of them back in (and /or another KTF finally hitting some form and the scoreboard!).

Trend setters!??... https://www.afl.com.au/news/776120/dockers-suspend-speedy-forward-for-drinking-on-short-break

D'landers thinking of QB before and after the boozy bash up news....

Love the last comment.... not the worst comments by the oppo we've seen

Prepare thyself Mr Old..... In and now Out: May In (direct replacement): the Weid!

Pretty sure there's a line WA. A pool cue across me ribs from a good mate (splitting it in two) tought me that lesson as a young fella. Yes we are still mates. What happens in the man cave stays in the man cave!

Melksham in for May for one last hurrah Your role son: Take out at least five Magpies with your trusty left to make up for no Maysie!

Suspension!??? Surely a fine and/or community service or whatever would suffice. More than likely just handed the match to the Pies and possibly a top four spot if it gets tight at the top from here. Crazy decision IMV that, as you say Macca, punishes the team more than the player. The filth will all be jumping for joy as we type. Expect less Demons to turn up also given it hampers our chances of winning. You know how fickle our lot are (bar most of the rusted on minions here). WOKE alive and kicking in the Demon pit!?? 🤮 FM what has the world come to!

Can't argue with much of that Pates. My only POD would be that Benny should feel super fortunate if he gets a game this week after his last four results! The invisible man! I have nothing against any of them and hope they all succeed. I just want ONE of our KTFs to stand up and get a riggle on (not including Macca in any of this of course).

Its been nearly four years and 3 seasons since the 2018 finals series Pates. How many chances has he had since then i wonder?

Some good points here DT. In particular the pressure side. Could Goody be holding the boys back a little, saving some tickets for a big push in the run home?

The other option Nicko ... play Hunt & Hibbo. Hibb covers the most dangerous small which he's done successfully before. Hunt plays on the next small-medium/quick forward who might not need such close checking. This frees him up to get off the leash a little to hopefully provide a bit more line breaking run off HB on the counter? That would mean sacrificing someone else. Hec i'll be strung up for suggesting this but that would probably be Bowser 😬 (and no im not suggesting we should minions... just a bit of hypothetical nonsense here)

I'll second that. Was a stand out for second week running and played out the full four quarters. Ellison, without being brilliant, also played well i thought. Guy has some real footy smarts with the ability to evade and find that extra bit of time & space to execute. Worth keeping an eye on.

Absolutely but would be nice if we had a spare pack marking heavy hitting KF to come in for Macca right now. Unfortunately they don't grow on trees! We do have Dogga though. Is this his moment to step up and try to take on a similar role? Hasn't had a great couple of weeks through the middle. Not saying he plays the entire match as a KTF either but maybe say a 80/20 ish role switching with Max on occasions? As we know he's done it before in patches including big finals. Anyone?

Fair enough 64. Whatever floats your boat mate.

I think horses for courses here. He is likely to take Hunt's position if he does come in. But lets look at the opp when selecting. For example if/when we play Freo again.... who covers Fredrick? Cant see Hibbo keeping up in this particular match up. so I'd be going to Hunt here but he needs to be in tip top form to go with him. If he goes back to Casey does that hinder or help his him i wonder? Maybe neither and all's well and he gets the call up for match ups like this for Hibbo. Probably talking gobbledygook (nothing new!) but no harm discussing.

Not dissapointed to the point of 'chicken little' syndrome 64. That's just your (incorrect) assumption. I don't need to watch anything i watched /went and most of those weeks we had Macca up forward. May out the last two has also hurt us but May doesn't kick goals to give us a defendable score. But he (and Salem back) will make us harder to score against for sure Remember that Tomo was the preferred option last season prior to going down. So with Tomo back we have an option to use Petty forward. Your view is different and you believe we'll just return to winning form. I would like to think so to but not with the present KTF line up of the two Browns. One of them hasn't fired a shot in four weeks. And while im happy to give Mitch a decent go before making any judgements, he didnt hit the scoreboard once either in first game this season. He'll need help and at this point, aside from Maxy, all other talls that play forward are badly out of form. So....Forward line needs a bit of help. You have said yourself we have the luxury of a 10-0 start to kick in with training loads. Now 10-2. If we can throw Macca behind the ball for a while im not sure what the fuss is about throwing a tall defender up forward for a bit who has already been played there on occasions prior. And in a few of those i thought he showed something even as a wet behind the ears 19yo rookie. Might handle it alot better now he's matured? There's no harm in looking for ways to improve as a team. Goodwin preaches that philosophy all the time. This may or may not be one of them. Being versatile as a team is also handy and part of that is some players being able to be switched into diff roles (if/when times call for it...even in game if someone goes down) Do i expect it will happen.... nup. Is it worth a short trial run (assuming Tomo stays in). Why not!

100%. Lever is really the only piece of the puzzle that needs to slot in now. We'll have that line up from this week. Just need Jake to get back to somewhere near his 2021 form at some point. Doubt it will just click against the Pies but who knows. Still need to put a defendable score on the board though.

Fritsch & Maxy our only multiple goal scorers the last two weeks. Bedford the other but not playing. Averaging 8 goals a match agaisnt top 4 sides without Macca. Good luck defending that sort of score line for the win against anyone other than Norf & the Eagles. This team's in fair degree of pooh right now without Macca and a badly out of form Benny. Can't see Mitch being a match winner or getting it to ground often enough on his own for the smalls. Maxy ...well yeh but he's already playing there and kicking multiples but we're still losing. Jackson badly out of form as well. Gonna have to try something. Agree with the Op. Keep Tomo in (i reckon he stays in this week anyway) and trial Petty forward for a few weeks (assuming he's right to go). If we don't you can kiss this week goodbye as well me thinks. Doubt we'll be capable of posting a defendable / winning score against the Pies with the current forward set up.

Lever looks lost at see playing anything other than the spare across HB. He also looks a fair way from being fully match fit. Was it Lever they took aside last season to do a mini mid season 'pre-season' as he missed most of the actual pre-season due to the knee recovery? Given enough time/match practice, Lever might find his mojo at some stage but right now he's actually causing us a few headaches / clanger turnovers and goals from those turnovers. Just hasn't been able to get on the pace so far. As highlighted on 360 tonight, the oppo appear to be targeting his opponent big time when coming inside 50 as they know he'll probably be pretty loose and unlikely to man up much of the time. May returning should help here but he still looks a fair way off his 2021 match hardness / best form. For us to fully fire this season we need him to get back to his best. In Goody we trust!