Demon Dynasty

I agree they would also need to train for it RP ....obviously just throwing them around on game day probably aint such a great idea.

Sort of but not Weid to the back line for mine. He's played very little 'senior' footy there to date. Probably won't read the ball as well as T-Mac in this part of the ground either. Now if you suggested T-Mac for Smith.... as a short term experiment for up to two weeks? And then, only once the game / outcome is under control say from half time onwards, late in the third or some way into the final quarter? I believe Smith started his career as a forward yes? Apart from very little experience there of late, the other thing going against Smith up forward might be his height. Although he seems relatively quick off the mark and a decent leap which could well make up for any deficiency here. See his dad....Robbo etc. I would prefer this option to both T-Mac and Weid both starting inside the 50 AND remaining there for the entire match. Unless of course it's actually working haha! But from what i have witnessed on game day from behind the goals, they both get in each other's way far too often and when was the last time that 'both players' worried the scorer with say three to four goals a piece in the same game?

W or KC must have some idea

I believe that was correct ...is that no longer the case?

It's ok...Ralphy is used to getting most of his calls wrong. What a [censored]

English also gave a similar forearm across the snoz of Townsend on the weekend and probably broke it but zip outcome...."play on". Townsend immediately retaliated with a slap across the head of English and have a feeling he was free kicked. English, the Bont and the Doggies in general appear to be very much a protected species and have been since 2016 season. Not sure why. What's their free differential now ??

My personal view Adonski is that we should avoid playing both T-Mac & Weid in the same team, assuming the FD are adamant they're both playing as genuine forwards inside 50 most of the time. Obviously this week it's not an issue as there's no one else to come in to replace either. They are both looking for the ball in similar parts of the ground (if playing an i50 role) and leading into similar lanes....they often end up getting in each other's road or leading into the same lanes and neither seem able to work different parts of the ground (i50) in a cohesion sense. Also Weid is pretty ordinary once the ball hits the deck IMV, T-Mac only slightly better here or possibly worse? We will need Kozzie & Spargo to be really switched on pressure wise. GWS will have their belief up after last year's effort. Take them lightly at our peril.

History repeating!?? BB was the glaring non pick in this same game last year at the G for mine and on the day we had so many decent entries i50 but there were very few targets on offer for those up the field to kick to. Plenty of holes for leading as well but the leads were pretty much non existent. Perfect conditions for footy that day and prior to the bounce i mentioned to bro "hey the missing ingredient today me thinks... BB!". Who knows if we would have won but for me this was the match that we could've/should've won last season. No fault of the selection committee this time around but BB is about to miss against GWS again...grrr. He was picked the following week and the rest as they say....is history.

Can't see it happening but would it be worth swinging Smith forward and T-Mac back for a stint and see how that goes for two weeks or so? Thats assuming BB comes in for Weid and not T-mac of course.

Would be pretty hard for anyone to cover Lever's role effectively as Lever himself (in best or close to best form) i would think LT. He plays it so well and such a specialist role at that. Petty might be a better foil though (covering the Lever role if / when he is out i mean) which might explain the comments from Maxy re May having some issues with Joel. That might be purely experience / time spent (in game) playing in the system and with the other fellas down back vs Joel (less time spent = less experience = more likely to muck up). If he (Joel) does miss due to Covid outing then yes it would be very unlucky timing for him eh. In terms of similar style / role i would think Joel might be (post Lever's return) more directly competing with Petty & Tomo? Hunt being more a high pressure (ground level) quick rebound type defender and more likely competing with Rivers & Hibb (high pressure sense in the case of Hibb). One stat that i have a sneaking suspicion some within the FD take a bit of notice of is... interceptions. The top five here (on averages) so far... 1. Steven May 7.00 1. Jake Bowey 7.00 3. Gus Brayshaw 6.75 4. Joel Smith 5.67 and 5 Ed Langdon / James Jordon both on 5.50

Chandler's game against Willy was pretty decent i thought. Will probably need to kick the door down to get another look though me thinks after his very ordinary first up performance in Rnd 9 vs the Blues last season. I liked Bedford's first up game this year. Looked more switched on to the high end tempo of AFL and brought some serious pace and reasonable finish at the highest level. However, he pretty much only played half a match so would need to see a chunk more and playing a large part of a match before being convinced he is ready. Laurie i haven't seen enough of of late at VFL level to say. If i had to pick one who is more ready out of the three i'd probably say Bedford but not with a high degree of confidence.

I realise the selection committee doesn't base it's decisions around stats but if you were to look at these four from a purely stats form perspective... So far Joel is running at approx 13.5% higher weighted score (output) than Petty's season average score in 2021, 21% above Tomo's average output (so far this season) and 74% higher than Hunt's average score (this season). Will be pretty stiff to miss out but wouldn't be surprised if he does either.

Average Time on Ground % to Rnd 4, 2022 Player TOG% A Tomlinson 99.00 Steven May 98.50 Ed Langdon 98.25 Max Gawn 89.00 Petracca 88.75 Joel Smith 87.33 Jake Lever* 87.00 C Oliver 85.75 Alex N-Bullen 84.75 Ben Brown 84.50 A Brayshaw 84.00 B Fritsch 84.00 Jayden Hunt 83.00 L Jackson 80.25 K Pickett 79.00 Jack Viney 77.50 S Weideman 77.00 Jake Bowey 76.75 T McDonald 74.75 James Jordon 74.25 James Harmes 71.00 Trent Rivers 69.00 Charlie Spargo 68.50 Tom Sparrow 66.25 Toby Bedford* 55.00 * Only played one match not an average Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Weighted Average Scores up to & including Rnd 4 , 2022 vs H&A Season 2021 Player 2022 Score 2022 Rank 2021 Score % Change vs 2021 2021 Rank Change in Rank vs 2021 C Oliver 4.519 1 5.258 -14.05 1 0 Steven May 4.300 2 3.926 9.53 3 1 J Harmes 4.056 3 3.520 15.23 6 3 C Petracca 4.031 4 4.041 -0.25 2 -2 A Brayshaw 3.981 5 2.836 40.37 12 7 L Jackson # 3.800 6 2.355 61.36 21 15 Jack Viney 3.700 7 3.171 16.68 8 1 Jake Bowey 3.400 8 2.881 18.01 11 3 Alex N-Bullen 3.269 9 2.388 36.89 19 10 Ed Langdon 3.225 10 3.092 4.30 9 -1 Max Gawn # 3.181 11 3.439 -7.50 7 -4 J Jordon 3.100 12 2.908 6.60 10 -2 T Sparrow 2.769 13 2.023 36.88 28 15 Joel Smith 2.367 14 1.375 72.12 32 18 T Rivers 2.267 15 2.658 -14.71 13 -2 Ben Brown 2.175 16 1.855 17.25 30 14 A Tomlinson 1.956 17 2.475 -20.97 16 -1 T Bedford* 1.825 18 - - - - S Weideman 1.750 19 1.055 65.88 27 8 Bayley Fritsch 1.656 20 2.155 -23.16 25 5 T McDonald # 1.613 21 2.516 -35.89 15 -6 Jake Lever* 1.600 22 3.661 -56.30 5 -17 Jayden Hunt 1.363 23 2.597 -47.52 14 -9 C Spargo 1.338 24 2.068 -35.30 27 3 K Pickett 1.263 25 2.378 -46.89 20 -5 Average Team Score - Top 22 64.54 67.23 -4.00 # Hit outs to advantage not captured * Only played one match not an average score Stats courtesy of footywire.com

BB will surely be an auto in for Weid Smith or Petty for Tomo seems reasonable. Smith making a few errors but still feel there's plenty of upside here. It's probably a tustle between those three for one spot and another arm wrestle to see who stays in out of Hunt, Rivers and Hibb once Hibb returns & gets back to some match fitness. Casey game should will be an interesting watch although the winds at Willy are usually pretty fickle to say the least

6. Gawny 5. Harmes 4. May 1. Jordan 1. Lingers 1. Viney 1. Sparrow 1. Nibbler 1. Jackson

Round 4, 2022 Adelaide Oval - Power vs Demons Harmes at No.1 with 21 effectives, 3 clearances, 3 Rebounds, 4 inside 50s, 1 mark inside 50, 1 one percenter, 3 Tackles (one of those inside 50), 5 score involvements, 4 intercepts, 325 meters gained and 2 goals. All that with only 70% game time. Some of his two way running and chase downs (hunting) was amazing to watch. Fitness seems to have gone up a notch again from last season if that's at all possible and it's paying dividends. Maxy not far behind if you add about 0.75 for hit outs to advantage that puts him at roughly 4.90 Thought he was BOG on the night. Stats included... 15 effectives, 5 contested marks, 2 marks inside 50, 2 one percenters, 6 clearances, 3 rebounds, 7 inside 50s, 2 tackles, 4 score involvements, 6 intercepts, 516 meters gained and a goal. Another super solid game from May. Team score way off the first three rounds average but it was a dour type of game in comparison. Top 5 Meters gained.... May 680, Sparrow 551, Gawn 516, Langdon 483 & Jordan 412 Jordan, Sparrow, Nibbler, Gus & Viney all very good, especially in that first half for mine. Player Score Rank James Harmes 5.075 1 Steven May 4.800 2 Max Gawn 4.150 3 L Jackson 4.075 4 Alex N-Bullen 3.550 5 Jack Viney 3.550 5 James Jordon 3.500 7 A Brayshaw 3.150 8 Ed Langdon 3.025 9 C Oliver 2.550 10 T Sparrow 2.175 11 Jake Bowey 2.100 12 C Petracca 1.825 13 Trent Rivers 1.675 14 Jake Lever 1.600 15 B Fritsch 1.475 16 T McDonald 1.400 17 S Weideman 1.250 18 Jayden Hunt 1.125 19 A Tomlinson 1.075 20 C Spargo 1.000 21 K Pickett 0.400 22 Team Score 54.53 Top 6 25.20 Bottom 6 6.25 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire

They are too busy minding the likes of Tracc & Clarry in that first half to get enough of the pill themselves and get any momentum.....so far anyway! Big Max is being mauled in the ruck and around the ground....as usual. And of course zero protection but always called for blocking at the slightest hint. Lycett constantly wrapping left arm around Max and over the shoulder on a couple of occasions. The player just in front of their last guy who marked before the siren..... cannons in to Max's neck/head with no eyes/intention of going for the mark....zero protection/favours. Need to put the foot on their neck this quarter. Viney's had a very good half along with Jordan, May, Lingers, Nibbler & Gus (no doubt a few others ive left out). I like Harmes's gut running and willingness to close up on multiple opponents to pressure when we don't have possession. Gus, Bowey & Hunt also here. Tracc started to find some space in the latter half of the second. Whoever his young opponent is, he's about to find out how hard he is to stop (if Port leave him on Tracc that is) P.S. who put the hand in to cause that turnover on our half of the square that quarter (thinking Sparrow, Nibbler or Harmes).

Sparrow with the smarts.... long to the top of the square for the out size advantage. Finally a contested mark from a tall.. deep

Jordan & Gus doing well. Macca having a mare.

Asside from pressure when we dont have the ball (ot he doesnt) Kozzie is in terrible form at present. Hopefully can turn it around this match but its now 6 weeks and 1 quarter long.

Over use of handball Coming inside 50 a dogs breakfast. No smarts so far aside from nibbler. Is any forward leading up hard?? Hard to see on the box. T-Mac getting to some contests but appears to have concrete boots on again Weid no awareness on the wing.... Jackson going up for it in the box....Weid comes in from the side and spoils 🤷‍♂️ Giving a team out of form a sniff...again. No semblance of any decent forward options so far. Fix this part and we would be 4 to 5 up already. Maxy, Bowey, Nibbler, May all doing well

You chose well Uncle. Things could have gotten really grotty had you gone with...

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