Demon Dynasty

So who's on Pap guys? What a disaster at selection and so far on the day this has been

why are all three of Weid, Brown and Fritta all going up at the drop? One of Fritta or Brown should be leading away from there fmd

If not for Clarry, Gus and May crikey

Jones seriously awful stuff. Goody you need to pull the trigger and bring Harley in pls

Would love to know what his role is. Has he even touched it so far?

i'm getting an awful feeling the injection of Oscar and Smith (can probably afford to carry one max) is gonna cost us big time here.

As i said a few weeks ago, he's a very good reader of the play and intercept defender, but gee for a bloke who cost us in the draft and gets paid $800 k a year or so, Lever's loopy kicking and sharpness under pressure is bog ordinary.

Nice to see Harmes on the ball. Adds another attacking bullocking mid around the contest. I actually prefer him here to Viney. I'd be playing him (Viney) roughly 70/30 Small/medium forward / Mid a la Papely style

Yes he made that turnover happen and set up the goal.

Spargo 6 goals from 6 shots.... running at 100% goal kicking efficiency!

WHy the hec is Tomlinson at FF!? Wow what a mess up forward. Fix it Goody. Tell those who shouldn't be there, including Fritta and Melk to GTFO and play higher!

They look flat as a tack and all running kicking forward in straight lines. Switch or 45 to change the angle of attack and make it harder for the opp to defend

One option... Get all players, other than Spargo & Weid, to lead their players to the arc or just outside. Leave those two with space in front and space behind them for Brown to lead back into. Wow O-Mac....5 meters off his man left in no man's land there. And all players running forward of the ball before that caught out on the turnover. Ordinary stuff Demons. Saved by Harmes on that.

Where's a small front n square? Unbelievably bad structure on that entry

Younger inexperienced teams often go super hard early. Just need to stay in touch in the first here.

Nice flat sharp pass from Melk there and a solid contested mark from Brown

Yep.... i reckon that's a possible 5 goal decision right there. Already involved in that first score.

Some very astute work there Dee.... i agree re the backline looking settled and nicely balanced prior to the Doggies match. Much of the loss was us not locking down on the Bont who had one of his usual day outs againt us plus a horrid effort from the forwards who applied some low level pressure inside 50 and allowed the Dogs to waltz out and transition too easily off HB for multiple score launches. I don't mind Rivers for Lockhart though although with Hibb out i believe he was a must in this week.... not Smith. And you are right, we shouldn't be relying on one player down back to be bailing us out every other week. Not gonna happen against the better clubs.

Via Zoom? Thought about pre-recording your responses? Hit the play button and your away GC!

As if all us southerners aren't aren't suffering enough D11. No work, no footy, no finals here, the GF stolen from our magnificent G, no men's bars (wait, is that an essential service!?) and here you are bringing up the 'perfect one day' factor. May the fleas from Gawny's sacred beard infest your armpits!

Reading this again Ox, are we seeing some similarities (albeit we are still a fair way off their level and obviously with many differences to each list) to the way the Tigers play? It wouldn't surprise me to be reading this article about a scrappy Tiger win a la last night's vs the Dockers as this excerpt demonstrates... ..."Melbourne’s inability to compete with the Saints in the centre proved to be an issue for a lot of Saturday night’s game, but it was able to win the ball back around the ground and lift its intensity after half-time..." Not sure if it's just a one off but maybe losing the mid field clearance count isn't such a bad thing if we are covering the outside and winning it back around the ground (at stoppages) and on the turnover. The Tigers get most of their scores from turnovers rather clearance work. Would be interesting to see some info on which area we had been scoring from in past season or two and even the first half of this one vs the second half of this one or even the last 5 to 6 rounds.

I see there's a bit of MFCSS virus still lurking about Uncle. Nothing a good Shiraz won't flush out! I'd recommend giving it a fair shake well before the bounce. Finished the remainder of my Wolf Blass grey off on the weekend PRIOR to the match and it worked a treat... anxiety quashed!

Yes i stand corrected Bin. Ok so lets call him a medium tall. He has 6cm on Harmes and 15cm (nearly 6 inches) on Pap. Too tall to take Pap (effectively) imv. And an even worse decision if that is the case really. Should be Jay all the way. I still think we win this one (or should) reasonably well but given the tight group/race we are in for a spot in the eight surely we'd want to drive the nails home for percentage!? It might come down to that in our last game against Essendrug. Imagine missing out on the eight by a percent or two and a few goals saved (in this match) might have been the difference! Like many forms of sport, success or otherwise can sometimes be a matter of "inches".

How about 5 LH? Harmes is a VG lock down player further up the field on someone with similar traits / size to him. Papley is a small forward who plays the role with aplomb and one of the slipperiest snakes up forward there is. That's too big an ask for the likes of Harmes who is much more confortable playing on a mid size player (usually not quite as agile as Pap) further up the field, away from the constant danger zone. This could still be a 5 or 6 goal game with the size of that back line and no Lockhart coming in to shut Papley down. And then we'll all blame Harmes and say "wow he needs to go, how bad is he this season!?". If this match up actually comes to pass can we at least not blame Harmes and blame the person who is playing him out of position and who overlooked Lockhart (assuming he isn't carrying an injury that is). Hibb was the other obvious lock down on Papley. We probably still win but we make life hard for ourselves not going in with Lockhart imo and instead bringing in another tall (poor in defence so far) in Smith.

Hibb out is a real bummer. Having a solid season and gave us some real run and fast play transition. Hopefully just the week. Not sure why we wouldn't bring Lockhart in for the lock down on Papley to replace him. Smith in is just overkill (talls) for mine given Sydney's smallish forward line and makes no sense at all unless O-Mac was an omission. O-Mac is def in SG's little black book he was a straight out for Tomlinson (moved down back to cover) and Lockhart the in for Papley. I'm assuming Harmes is taking on AVB's role on a wing / HF and they aren't looking to swing him on to Pap. He'll get smashed on that match up IMO. Fritschkrieg & ANB makes sense for the two other forwards who def needed a rest and a reset.