Demon Dynasty

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Rnd 17, 2021 MCG - Power vs Demons Disposals Per Goal 29.6 % In50s Goal 26.7 Conversion % 46.2 Significant improvement in all of the above forward indicators from last week's effort against GWS.... Disposals Per Goal 54.0 % In50s Goal 12.4 Conversion % 35.0 Tracc's equal best result in these tables for the year. Same weighted score against the Tigers in Rnd 6. Clarry bouncing back with another top of the table result. May, Macca & Salem rounding out the top five. Petty's best result for the season beating his 2.475 against the Lions in Rnd 12. Still some work to do with the team score about 5.8% off the season average. Player Score Rank Clayton Oliver 5.900 1 Christian Petracca 5.125 2 Steven May 4.200 3 Tom McDonald # 3.875 4 Christian Salem 3.800 5 Ed Langdon 3.700 6 Michael Hibberd 3.200 7 James Jordon 3.025 8 Kysaiah Pickett 2.975 9 Angus Brayshaw 2.925 10 Harrison Petty 2.850 11 Jake Lever 2.775 12 Max Gawn # 2.625 13 James Harmes 2.500 14 Jayden Hunt 2.100 15 Bayley Fritsch 2.075 16 Charlie Spargo 2.050 17 Jack Viney 2.025 18 Luke Jackson # 1.675 19 Trent Rivers 1.600 20 Alex N-Bullen 1.550 21 Ben Brown 1.500 22 Team Score 64.05 Top 6 26.60 Bottom 6 10.40 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Easily

Got down and dirtier tonight in the contest and finally got some goal spread. The pressure was way up from the start and none of this loose forwad half zone nonsense allowing umpteen uncontested marks as the opp works its way easily up the field to preferred launching places into 50 on multiple occasions. Some solid games from plenty but also a couple of fellas well off their best so plenty of room for improvement.

Kozxie Kozzie Kozzie Oi Oi Oi!!!

Yep... tackling by the ankles is allowed as long as it isn't a Port player

Worst game I've ever seen from Lingers. Viney is doing ok at stopping but is a mile off the pace with ball in hand.

Two and then handball deliberately over the line and no frees at all. There are diff rules for this mob or whistle just gets put away with the obvious stuff on their side much of the time. Gawny works Lycett off the ball in the ruck contest straight after but apparently you're not allowed to be strong in the contest!

Wow did we need that. ANB hitting up a long lead for the Macc goal. Basic footy and nice finishing all round

Who's playing the sweeper behind the contested packs!!!?????? Just dumbass footy

Rivers on to play Lingers role pls. He's just off tonight. Must start winning the contested at the call face

Awful kick by May on that kick out. Look for a shorter target son. Too predictable

Lingers having a mare

Spargo why would you turn your back on play when you know you are no chance of making the distance....then kick to the line!!!!!????

Awful panicky play Lingers... wjat was that handball. Take them on mate then go long to a contest.

That forward line has no ground ball beasts. Get down and grab the bloody thing someone!

Time to put JJ on Wines. Viney looks pretty spent. Lingers ...no need to panic on that kick. How was that not dropping the ball on Motlop? He also threw the other one earlier two handed for the Wines' goal. Port player runs over the line under no pressure. Not intentional. No rules for Port with ball in hand! Anything goes.

I would have Harmes playing a hard tag on Pepper. In hot form at the mo but doesn't like the two way accountability that Harmes will force him to bring. Tag team semi shared role (softer tag) between JJ and Viney on Wines might be the go. May takes Dixon. Petty or Smith (if Petty doesn't get up) to George. Hopefully Hibbo can manage Marshall with chop outs from Lever. The key will be the supply though. Mids need to step up in a big way vs last three weeks or so plus extra pressure in our 50 to slow their transition. If i see a loose zone happening in our front half of ground from the get go you can probably kiss this game goodbye. Need to bring manic pressure all over the ground from the first bounce. Can back it off a little if we get a decent lead and zone off a bit more from there (in patches) once we have control of the game.

Judgement cast too soon on very little evidence it seems KP. It will take him at least four to five games to settle in to this side and for some of those running into our forward 50 to start spotting him up and kicking to his favoured side etc. This team is not used to playing to a genuine multiple goal kicking forward as a regular target. I'm not expecting instant miracles but if he can average two to three goals per match (on average) over a block of 5/6 matches we're getting a decent return and BB will be doing what is asked i believe. Might take a month or so but if he finds form we will become a more formidable prospect in time for finals. Let's hope Goodwin is also wise and patient here and allows this transition to develop. Alot of this will depend on the mid field and small forwards picking up their game from here too. Our success or otherwise doesn't all fall on whether BB fires or not.

Yep this is the 10 goal Reel. Draws plenty of frees which for us is super rare up forward. Every extra goal counts whether the free is there or it isn't. Check the last goal. Would love to see Tracc break from the center and kick to BB's favoured side like Higgins here. And others...Clarry, Harmes, Viney!... When you start hitting a KF up like this on a regular basis it also frees up our other forwards when their player peels off to double team etc. Throws the whole opposition defence out and puts doubt in their mind. We are way too predictable and easy to defend without a KF target playing deep and doubling back on transition as BB tends to read and do so well here. He knows when to hold his Depth. Will also mean Macca gets the opp's 2nd best tall which might help him out as well.

It's hard to just switch being the "The Hunter" on again. Some have probably unconsciously slowly let this part of their game slip / ebb away since the game against the Crows. Probably thinking we could coast along and still win comfortably. Well unfortunately the above, some significant personnel / form / connection and cohesion issues up forward plus some woeful delivery with ball in hand coming inside (and or no serious tall deepish target to bail out to last week), has seen us drop some games we never should have dropped. The result against the Crows was a coin flip. Had the intentional been paid who knows. However, the way we lost to the Pies and GWS was much more of a worry IMV. Let's hope the FD / coaches have really gotten down and dirty on these two awful performances and have started to address the ugly aspects creeping in. Make no mistake, this is partly due to the above and as Jnr has so nicely highlighted, a pressure issue, but 50% or so is also purely above the shoulders. Tomorrow night will be a genuine indicator of how far this team has come in terms of maturity and getting down and dirty for a win against the odds on the road against a quality gritty opponent who never take a backward step. The bell will either be ringing or we will know we are back on Tracc once more and still eyeing a place in the top two.

Yes i was just making the point that he is not the same Goldy we were seeing two to three years or so ago Jnr

This is generally correct YB. The centre bounces however are one of those times when they at least start deep though.

Medium smalls and in some cases smalls can still run into a hole on the lead RPFC ...and get hit up if those doing the delivering can hit a target, kick it out in front softly or to their favoured side. There should be multiple go to options up forward. The likes of Kozzie on the burst should be an option here on occasions but aren't. Must not be training it? But then those kicking in need to have confidence in these smaller kickers provided they're within distance. Obviously they have no issues with Fritta here. However as for some of the other smalls.. even if they are hit up most can't kick beyond about 35/40 meters. And when they do on occasions, usually not accurately as it is beyond them. Also small and medium options presenting will usually result in entries out wide to the boundary (flanks & pockets). KFs (who play deep and lead etc) will usually see entries hitting the corridor area more often resulting in a better conversion rate. Why you would not want to have at least one effective (or potentially effective ...everyone has bad days) key tall focul point playing the deep role for most of a match is perplexing.

Possibly yes. That would be also due to the retirement of Boomer and the falling away of Goldy's around the ground dominance as he aged IMV.