Demon Dynasty

Harmes and/or Harley a must in for AVB and/or Jones imho. We need some extra run and finish on the outside and the odd goal from either when they push forward. Our defence is rock solid. It's this outside / forward craft area that needs urgent tweaking to take things to another level on the scoreboard. Too much is being left to Tracc and that's not going to get us a winning score or out of jail card much of the time against the better clubs.

Monash was (is?) a great environment from all reports FD. Happy to send the excel file if you're interested in browsing / tinkering. Pretty basic stuff.

Seems like we aren't the only ones worried about Jonesy's turnovers.... ..."Hill i thought was excellent. Also Jones disposal is a massive concern."

Yeh Harley must be a shoe in this week for Hannan. There is no way he plays a worse game than that even if he tried. Viney plays mostly forward for Kozzy. Harmes comes in for Kozzy (managed for a week) and replaces a fair chunk of Viney's mid time but also pushing forward at times.

The Saints Player Score Rank Jack Steele 4.350 1 Bradley Hill 4.150 2 Zak Jones 3.250 3 Ben Long 2.875 4 Jack Sinclair 2.850 5 Sebastian Ross 2.675 6 Rowan Marshall # 2.625 7 Ben Paton 2.525 8 Callum Wilkie 2.450 9 Edward Phillips 2.375 10 Dougal Howard 2.225 11 Daniel Butler 2.075 12 Nicholas Coffield 1.975 13 Patrick Ryder # 1.825 14 Jarryn Geary 1.600 15 Hunter Clark 1.225 16 Tim Membrey 1.200 17 Josh Battle 1.200 18 Nick Hind 1.000 19 Jack Billings 0.950 20 Max King 0.700 21 Dean Kent 0.300 22 Team Score 46.400 Top 6 20.150 Bottom 6 5.350

No worries FD

Rnd 14, 2020 TIO - Demons vs Saints Team score, allowing for this season's 20% less game time, was 6% off the 2019 average and 17% lower than 2018's. Still not sure how we won that. Possibly just the fact we held our structure better than they did and finally managed to even up (or maybe just limited) their stoppage clearances. Even Ed's last kick. If he hangs on to it and eats up his 7 seconds we are a shoe in but he plays on, kicks down the line and it ends up with a Saint and, had we not been able to hem him in they might have had one last foray forward with about 14 seconds left. All is forgiven though as he had a very good day otherwise. May, Tracc daylight then Clarry, Ed and Salem the stand outs for mine. Lovely game from the young rookie Rivers. May's 9th top five finish this season. Player Score Rank Clayton Oliver 4.200 1 Steven May 4.150 2 Christian Salem 3.725 3 Christian Petracca 3.350 4 Ed Langdon 2.800 5 Jack Viney 2.700 6 Jake Lever 2.375 7 Joshua Wagner 2.375 8 Michael Hibberd 2.300 9 Adam Tomlinson 2.250 10 Max Gawn # 2.250 11 Angus Brayshaw 2.050 12 Trent Rivers 1.725 13 Charlie Spargo 1.250 14 Aaron Vandenberg 1.050 15 Mitchell Brown 1.050 16 Sam Weideman 1.000 17 Nathan Jones 0.775 18 Oscar McDonald 0.775 18 Jake Melksham 0.700 20 Kysaiah Pickett 0.600 21 Mitchell Hannan 0.475 22 Team Score 43.925 Top 6 20.925 Bottom 6 4.325 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

6. May 5. Tracc 4. Ed 3. Clarry 2. Salem 1. Lever Apologies to Rivers. That second half was a beauty from the 5th game rookie.

Tracc is a star....Clarry epic last quarter. I'm not sure how they won as the umps would not pay us a thing in that last quarter but i'll take it.

Hannan just awful tonight. Turnover king. Kozzy & Spargs where are you? Nowhere near the drop of any contests. Always too close to the pack (kozzy) or nowhere to be seen (Spargs)

yep we dont need both... Viney just cant get clear of most inside contests

Surely this is NO-Mac's last game in the red & blue. He's been beaten in the air most of the night and as soon as the ball hits the deck he's cooked and beaten there as well. Thank goodness for May & Lever coming in to assist or we'd be down by a few goals i'd reckon

Hannan has been completely useless tonight...Hibb gone goodnight any run off HB

Hoooray!!! Finally a bit of forward ball and low and behold we get overlap run for the joe-the-goose

All designated forwards are getting absolutely towelled in this. - Talls... fail - Mediums ... fail - Small ... fail Unless it's given to them on a platter. The only dangerous forward isn't effectively a dedicated forward and that's Tracc

Gawn almost looks cooked to me. Too lacks a dazy for mine. He just isnt playing with enough intensity for this level.

This match us there for the taking. It simply comes down to who wants it the most. This will tell the tale and whether the boys really are playing to win and force their way into the eight. If we lose i'm afraid this club will need to take a serious look at things within the FD.

Harmes Harmes Harmes was the man with Rivers in to cover his role. But no lets play Jones, Wags & AVB in the same side coz they can't tag, stick tackles, struggle in open field and none of them much chop up forward either.

Jones my friend.....time is up mate. Seriously that is just dumb footy and there my friends goes the match and possibly our finals chances. Saints will now go in with their tails up

The Saints are cleaning up when the ball hits the deck out back. Need to get the structure right at the drop. They are working it out the back mostly

How did Melk pick out the 1 lone Saint coming inside 50. After all the good work prior too. Mostly good apart from that though. Clarry's getting beaten by Steele to this point.

Is this VFL or AFL...Maxy just stupid non-thinking footy there. Took too long and then kicked it shallow straight to a Saint. Get the free, if you cant give off as a ruckman kick it long to one on one hot zone directly in front

Melk to the other wing pls! Much more value kicking inside 50

Thank goodness for the Traccsta. About the only reliable forward

We have one wing covered with Ed. Still waiting with crickets nip nipping on the other. Was hoping it might end up being Bennell in 2021 but who knows. Unlikely but hopeful. Rivers will be critical on one HBF and we might get another year or so from Hibb on the other. That's reasonable speed off HB. We need a class running winger on the opposite Ed wing who can impact forward and hit the scoreboard from 50ish a la Burgoyne. Ok so that sort of quality / class doesn't grow on trees. Find someone who goes close pls. Need a big KF to clunk marks and kick the odd goal at CHF. Weid the 2nd go to looks ok from here. That big KF may well be LJ next season or two. Fingers crossed. Two of Kozzy, Bedford and / or Spargo need to start hitting the scoreboard regular or we go find the other two. Very confident Kozzy will get there given a season or two. We still have too many contested inside ball winners in Viney, Clarry & Sparrow (ok so he is now injured but when he's in) or ex/part time ones in Jones & AVB. We have three potential break away inside / outside mids in Clarry, Gus & Tracc and there is another under those that can also chip in in Harmes but he's not in Goody's black book. All three of those should be rotating through the middle and part time up forward. Harmes also but just less time unless needed to play a tagging role where he replaces Viney. Viney plays forward for Spargo. We are badly overweight contested mid types when all three or even two of Jones, Sparrow & AVB are playing together. The first two are handy and AVB is a great competitor but they aren't what we need. Neither is sparrow imv. Replace those three with a class winger and two speedy inside / outside mids who can run both ways, push forward and kick goals. Add Viney to that significant time forward mix or trade for the two classy outsiders, both of whom should be capable of also playing on the wing a little. Gus, Tracc, Clarry (the latter two pushing forward at times) & Big M as the starting four.