Demon Dynasty

That would include Chunk, Viney and Tomlinson. Of course we aren't getting the latter back. We have struggled in the first half of a number of matches and struggled to put away most clubs, even the crappy ones (Norf, the Crows and now the Pies), since Viney & Tomlinson departed. The Tigers match was the last time Viney / Tommo played (Rnd 6) and the last time i felt we had another (quality) team convincingly covered from the get go, aside from the Doggies. I would not play Sparrow/Melk ahead of Chunk* (if 100% fit) for the remainder of the season (unless injured) either. Neither are reliable under heat against quality opposition and Melk has zero defensive qualities. Anyone who thinks he does please watch his replays in full. His opponent is mostly yards ahead when we don't have the ball and he is coasting/struggling to close down the space. He just doesn't have the two way running capability and/or the will to. Sparrow might develop into a player at some point but the difference between his best and worst is just too massive to risk vs Chunk (once match fit) at this stage. *Obviously Viney comes in ahead of all of these. We can cover Tomlinson to a point with Petty (who is still a fair way off Tommo though) but IMHO we aren't good enough to go further than a PF without Viney back in and fully match fit. And don't kid yourselves, our depth isn't that good, especially up forward. Would give BB another block of three. Fails and he is done and joins the Weid back at Casey for the remainder unless we lose T-Mac (Lucifer forbid). Mitch maybe two/three (max) if BB fails. If neither of those two cut it then just revert back to the original set up to Rnd 6.

Weighted Average Scores up to & including Rnd 13 , 2021 vs 2019 Top 22 average team score is tracking lower than the 2018 season average by 1.7% Hopefully today wasn't a sign that we still don't cope well when we're expected to win comfortably (above the shoulders!??). There was virtually zero leadership, structure or cohesion out there all day today and i didn't see much selfless play happening either. The missed hand ball from Kozzie to Fritsch for a likely goal in the last was one good example. Need to get back to team first pronto. And is there any chance anyone could hit up any target inside 50? I'm not sure who was worse here, the leading forwards (or lack thereof) or those doing the kicking. Player 2021 Score 2021 Rank 2019 Score % Change vs 2019 2019 Rank Change in Rank vs 2019 C Oliver 5.423 1 4.643 16.80 1 0 C Salem 4.019 2 3.658 9.87 3 1 Steven May 3.971 3 2.446 62.35 14 11 C Petracca 3.960 4 2.616 51.38 10 6 Max Gawn # 3.637 5 3.256 11.70 4 -1 J Harmes 3.632 6 3.850 -5.66 2 -4 Jake Lever 3.513 7 2.313 51.88 17 10 Jack Viney 3.450 8 3.068 12.45 5 -3 Ed Langdon 3.373 9 James Jordan 3.129 10 A Brayshaw 3.060 11 2.894 5.74 6 -5 T McDonald # 2.662 12 2.150 23.81 19 7 M Hibberd 2.633 13 2.124 23.96 20 7 Jayden Hunt 2.615 14 1.958 33.55 22 8 L Jackson # 2.523 15 Trent Rivers 2.481 16 K Pickett 2.475 17 M Brown* 2.475 17 A Tomlinson 2.475 17 Oskar Baker* 2.325 20 1.714 35.65 29 9 Alex N-Bullen 2.294 21 1.984 15.63 21 0 Nathan Jones 2.214 22 2.711 -18.33 7 -15 Tom Sparrow 2.122 23 1.075 97.40 37 14 Bayley Fritsch 2.058 24 2.641 -22.07 9 -15 Charlie Spargo 2.033 25 1.375 47.85 35 10 J Melksham 1.984 26 1.931 2.74 23 -3 H Petty 1.950 27 1.905 2.36 24 -3 Neville Jetta 1.865 28 2.264 -17.62 18 -10 Ben Brown # 1.575 29 S Weideman 1.055 30 1.818 -41.97 27 -3 K Chandler* 0.250 31 Average Team Score - Top 22 68.34 59.62 14.62 Hit outs to advantage not captured * Only played one match not an average score Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Rnd 13, 2021 SCG - Demons vs Magpies Our worst team score for the season. Our worst top 6 score for the season. Our 2nd worst bottom 6 score for the season only bettered in Rnd 10 vs the Crows (just at 6.78). Salem back to his best is one major positive and Dogga / JJ had pretty decent games. May went alright. A few others were serviceable but that was about it. Forward line was putrid today in the air, on the ground, defensively (lacked pressure/chase downs), accuracy and delivery was bog ordinary also (mostly wide even when we were behind). I can't recall one player taking a mark on a lead inside 50. Dogga clunked an over head at one stage early but can't recall if that was inside or just outside. (Note: i missed the entire third quarter so happy to stand corrected). The Pies did it to us again, just as they did in the last round of 2017. Only one team gave maximum effort for the entire match today and played as if their lives were on the line while we went wide, Hollywood hand balled or preferred to slow up on the chasing/pressure and instead just guard space. At the end of the day there is no free lunches at this level and you can never choose when to go or not, even against a bottom 4 club. Player Score Rank Christian Salem 4.650 1 Steven May 4.475 2 Clayton Oliver 3.825 3 James Jordon 3.825 4 Luke Jackson # 3.800 5 Christian Petracca 3.425 6 Angus Brayshaw 3.350 7 Alex N-Bullen 3.000 8 Max Gawn # 2.825 9 Michael Hibberd 2.600 10 James Harmes 2.525 11 Jake Lever 2.500 12 Jayden Hunt 2.400 13 Harrison Petty 2.050 14 Trent Rivers 1.975 15 Tom McDonald 1.725 16 Kysaiah Pickett 1.625 17 Ed Langdon 1.475 18 Tom Sparrow 1.425 19 Charlie Spargo 0.925 20 Sam Weideman 0.800 21 Bayley Fritsch 0.650 22 Team Score 55.85 Top 6 24.00 Bottom 6 6.90 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Too easy. Viney (if fit) or Chunk for Sparrow (reaction time too slow / sloppy for AFL at this stage) BB or MB for Weid

Brushed aside by a bottom 4 team as if we weren't even on the field. It's not how much you lose by...but how. You can't pick and choose when to bring your best. Too many of the boys did that today. Now every team will think they are in with a shot and now have the formula to do so. This may have cost us an easy top 4 place. Some in this team preferred to play Hollywood and may have drunk too much of their own bath water. Others were simply not up to it and were found out as being so and should not get a further chance for a very long time. Would much rather see Chunk in for Sparrow if fit and either BB or MB in for the Weid from here who rarely stands up when the going gets tough.

Shocking game MFC

Sparrow's been crud today unfortunately

Kozzirle.handball WTF

Could someone please help improve set shot kicking for goal and help them find some distance as well. There's a few exceptions but most can't kick accurately from 40+ out. Kozzie & Spargo the worst

The Pies just more precise in general, more run and have worked harder to hit the contest all day

Quanare has killed Spargo today

Tracc having a complete mare. The Pies would have to play pretty badly to lose this from here. Sparrow too slow to execute under pressure today and shown up big timel by DeGoey in the first half.

Tracc didn't keep following his direct opponent Nobke around HF there and allowed him the easy receive. Played on easily also and transitioned too quickly inside 50. Tracc's goal....lazy as. Guarding grass

All talls have also failed to at least get the ball to ground as well albeit with few opportunities so far but they have all failed. Tracc's Hollywood handballs have also been super frustrating to watch so far.

Mate...two talls and i have not seen one of them lead straight up at the ball carrier. All of them pretty much lead to the boundary every time including the medium in Fritchkrieg. Awful play just awful and entries inside 50 far too shallow when not going wide!????

How Harmes was not sent to DeGoey by about the 10 minute mark of that quarter is astounding.

One of the worst 1st half games from Tracc for some time i would think.

Any chance Max could stop tapping the ball towards our goal at centre bounces straight to their sweepers who are then coasting around and out of the square?

Harmes to De Goey FCS!!!!

Pls go man on man for the rest of this quarter. They have way to much space in a zone and getting too much of the ball / possession = confidence / link up play through the roof. Too easy to transition on such a short ground to zone off all the time.

De Goey's running red hot on Sparrow. Harmes needs to go to him now.

Reminding very much of the game against the Crows so far but just on a squishier ground. Their ball use is a combination of patience and precision in transition and the final kick inside. Our forward line putting very little pressure on their backs also. Pressure in general has been awful

So many attempts to hit up short targets, and shallow ones, coming inside 50 into a crowded zone. Need to use the short ground and get it deep to the front of the goal square more often to mix things up, put pressure on the defenders and give the talls are fair chance to mark/smalls to crumb. The short stuff is too often, too predictable and in such a crowded forward line, spoiled too often. Go longer. And this is where BB would have been slightly harder to defend had he been instructed to play deep IMHO vs the Weid whose DNA sees him more likely to play higher and on the lead.

I made a guest appearance for 3 seconds on the Dallas Brook's voting fiasco clip ?

Yep and i'm also now wondering if, after having listened extensively to the direction this present board saw things heading in a list management / FD sense over the next 3 to 5 years, whether Buckley considered it as just not where he would have liked to have taken things. You're taking the High road and you are welcome to it! In that case never the twain were going to meet and wasn't going to end well. Didn't want to sit around waiting for the ideal outcome re a send off. Pull the pin, make a clean break and as you say Fork, enjoy the after life with a whole lot less stress for the remainder of the season. Handball the mess to Harvey et al and wash his hands of the future outcomes and change of direction (and substantial differences??) the Board had mooted in their discussions.