Demon Dynasty

Weid is useless at reading the play off HB. Has no idea and sits back way too far when he should be hitting up hard to make the next kick Lazy??

I reckon its time for Vanders to bee line Mummy and take him out.

No frees in front of goal....at least two that were too high there. Spargos was as obvious as it gets! Lets go fellas ....Baker you beauty son

was a free kick to Lever all the way.... and Fritta held off the ball. Other teams would've got one of those at least but i guess we are playing the AFL's No.1 love child

Interesting to see Vanders getting some serious mid field minutes obviously for Gus

exactly....what a sniper

No it doesn't coz he was the first D'lander to get hot on him early in the draft. Gone cold for some reason. I was the 2nd lol.

Wowee! Joe-the-goose! Well not quite but anyways

Jack shldve played NRL lol

A kick inside and waddya know the game opens up and also the angles / opportunities coming inside 50.... noice. Was that Oskar who went inside?

Oskar baby!

Hey we're having a no merger Diamond Joe era throw back with the flame tonight. We're a chance here

I hope the game isn't as rough on you as that drop Ox. It's wet and it all goes down the same way though so why not!

Reminding me a little here of the gap between our best and our worst. You have covered it well without trying fellas. Bottoms up!

Are you taking orders CHF?

I can only assume you're quite a young chap BenF. I do admire your optimism. A decent quality shiraz should do the trick. There's still time. Give it a decent breather about now. Then a good old scoffing about half hour prior to the bounce. This should help dull the forthcoming torment a little. After that it's just a matter of topping up as you go. This will ensure the numbness continues till well after the final siren. NOT reading this game day thread after the bounce will also assist here. Regards Ye Olde Crusty Rusty

Yes i am having similar pre game issues with this one P-man. We are extremely hard to watch and any enjoyment is too often short lived

That's too good for an end of season fizzer!

Oops my bad Deever. Might need copious amounts tonight. Maybe we should organise a raid on the manor's cellars (noting the use of the plural here).

early start here....

As much as Jetta has been a very good defender in his time, personally i think Jetta is now cooked godees and this appeared to be the case pretty much the entire season. Hope i'm wrong but this particular in smacks of desperation stakes (ie., Lockhart isn't an option). No way he is anywhere near Hibb now. What's up with Lockhart? Must be injured as i'd be playing him 10 times outta 10 if the choice is between the two at this point.

He made two other points in that discussion when questioned. He stated that if he was in charge or had some say over what was happening on Monday night what would he have changed? He said he would have thrown out the zoning once the heavy rain set in and gone man on man to make Freo accountable and worry them off the ball / switching and racking up easy possessions. He was also asked about his playing days and what the general feel was like about what the issue was at the Demons (ie., inferring what was it that made them such an easy beat without actually saying such). His response was something like... "Get them on the outside. We always felt if you can get it into the outer ring, set up for that, we could then run it away from the contest and were a very good chance of winning".

We have form here though OD. I recall at some point we put a bit of a caveat on a Daniher extension to his contract at some stage around the end of 2004/2005. I can't recall the exact details/dates/timing but at the time i'm pretty sure it was Gardner who came out early in a season saying something along the lines of "we will need to see a big improvement between now and turning towards finals (ie., about round 12ish i think he said when pressed) before we agree to an extension of Neil's contract". This was after like 4/5 losses from 5/6 matches or so early in the season. Within about two rounds (ie., about Rnd 7), and we had clocked up a massive two wins in a row, for some reason that hurdle suddenly disappeared and the extension was announced! I remember thinking at the time .. "what was the rush here? How are we losing IF we wait a little longer to be more certain?". Fast forward to the present and we now have Goodwin talking about ruthlessness. Yes i realise he is mostly (or 100%) referring to the team itself. However, it's pretty hard to bring this if the history off the field alone suggests the complete opposite. As we've seen far too often over many decades at the MFC, we like to talk the talk a fair bit.