Demon Dynasty

Tomlinson is ummm ....well

Can someone please tell me roughly where / what role Bennel is playing? Hard to tell from side on viewing. I would play Tomlinson down back to replace Lever. Allow Lever to place the loose role that he loves. Bring Harmes to the Tomlinson wing and rotate him with Bennel. What is ANB bringing to the table, if anything, so far? AVB is also a worry. Jones has to play HF in small bursts off the bench or not at all. His kicking inside 50 or anywhere higher up the field is atrocious. Where do you hide Melk****e? Time to go unless he kicks 2 or 3 in this 2nd half. Tracc into the middle with Clarry & Gus. Gus needs a rocket from SG. Perform or you wont be back for a while, if ever mate. Viney to go forward for Melk rotating with Chunk (off the bench...nowhere else fcs)

Our kicking in general, bar the odd one here and there (mostly to players 20 meters in the clear but even then it's a coin flip) is bloody awful. Even senior players have no ability to finesse and just take a little power off, & pull a kick to a leading player. It's horrid. It's been a problem at this club for 50 years!

Woeful kicking to open players inside 50. What is happening at training? Do we train this at all? Doesn't appear that way. Salem's cost us 2 goals now. 1 dopey push in the back in the middle and one horrid 45 kick straight to a crow forward. He's done a few good kicks, offset by a few horrible acts. So Melbourne

Yes in the 2nd quarter he has. I am watching 10 min behind (when i wrote that lol)

Salem doesn't take the game on enough. Way too conservative with his kicking and decision making.

Is that the goal that sees the Weid hit some serious form i wonder. Needs to play in front more often when we are under pressure out of defence though

We saw some flashes of "unselfish" team first play in 2017 & 2018 LH. However, the tyre received a puncture vs WC in the prelim and has never been properly attended to since imv. Too many seem happy to just get to jog out on to the field in most matches. Deeplorable with a few 'individual' exceptions since that match and an occasional decent win against the lessor lights that the players appear to hang their hat on. Then all to easily drift back to selfish mediocrity shortly thereafter against the rated clubs.

Many would say you are suffering from MFCSS Bin. But that scenario is not a far fetched as some would argue! We do have an uncanny knack of making average footballers and / or rookies look like super stars at times that's for sure. Then there's the "playing teams into form" part. Still waiting for the worm to turn.

Keep an eye out for Harry Schoenberg. Not saying he'll be a world beater this early but did look a likely prospect and smart ball distributor at u18 level. No doubt he's probably a few seasons away from impacting but could be a very nice player at some point.

I sometimes wonder how we would react were we to see a sustained period of success ding. It would all seem very strange indeed. Continue on the plonk maybe?

Well i was trying to stay a bit half glass full Jnr. From here on in i'm probably better off just filling one with two fingers off the top shelf!

I can only figure there's been no response as you pretty much nailed it SNS. My only addition to that is we still don't have enough class coming inside 50 nor a genuine KF. Our 4 biggest weaknesses for mine... A 2nd key tall down back that can handle the opp's 2nd best tallish forward and shut him down PLUS create some run with ball in hand and expend the opponent's energy chasing. We only have Hibb capable of doing this atm. Hoping that Hore will eventually fill Oscar's place here. Or someone. We need a classy tallish marking winger with a bit of dash and clever finesse coming inside 50. Langdon is a great runner but a tad NQR coming inside. Still very handy though and the best we have for one wing. Fritsch 'might' be capable on the other but if not we need to find an option. One classy / speedy outside biased mid with evasive clean ball use needed. A genuine KF needed. Would be throwing a big pile of folding stuff at Cameron. Oh, and depending on how the rest of the season pans out, a clean out of the FD & a new Coach. Is that asking a little too much?

I reckon it's about time to check out to be honest DJ. Most of the players have...

And..... ratings AF. Don't know how we are fairing but can't be great surely. The AFL brains trust will no doubt be watching. Anything that's beyond tenable , or worse, and the jungle drums will be beating, the purse strings loosening.

Road to Finals / GF - Triple Crown Update (to Rnd 9, 2020) Vs the Power Meters Gained Differential (looking for + 200 or more) ? -638 ❌ Marks inside 50 Differential (any positive is a win but the higher the better) ? -4 ❌ Contested Possession Differential (looking for a +10 or greater) ? -12 ❌ Season Averages (the one that counts) Meters Gained Average Differential (looking for an average of + 200 or more) ? -14.5 ❌ From +74.6 last week to this. The top five with current ladder positions in parenthesis below. It is worth noting that only the top four clubs have a +200 (or greater) average here. That's one more club than last week being the Lions. 1. Power (1st) 2. Tigers (5th) 3. Cats (6th) 4. Lions (2nd) 5. Saints (3rd) Marks inside 50 Average Differential (ideally we need to see a top 6 ranking) ? 5th ✔️ Down one place from last week with a +1 average differential but still in the top 6. The top 5... 1. Lions 2. Power 3. Pies 4. Tigers 5. Demons Contested Possession Average Differential (looking for +10 or more) ? +8 ❌ Dropping two places to No.4 from last week and now below the required pass rate. The top 5: 1. Kangas 2. Pies 3. Cats 4. Demons 5. Lions

Weighted Average Scores at the end of Rnd 9, 2020 Wouldn't take much notice of Sparrow's result. Obviously only one match played this season and comparing it to only two matches last season. Pretty dodgy base. Player 2020 Weighted Score 2020 Rank 2019 Weighted Score % Change vs 2019 2019 Rank Change in Rank vs 2019 Christian Petracca 3.644 1 2.616 39.30 10 9 Clayton Oliver 3.425 2 4.643 -26.23 1 -1 Max Gawn # 3.144 3 3.256 -3.44 4 1 Jack Viney 2.781 4 3.068 -9.35 5 1 Steven May 2.497 5 2.446 2.09 14 9 Christian Salem 2.482 6 3.448 -28.02 3 -3 Ed Langdon 2.388 7 - - - - Alex N-Bullen 2.338 8 1.984 17.82 21 13 Michael Hibberd 2.250 9 2.124 5.93 20 11 James Harmes 2.088 10 3.850 -45.77 2 -8 Angus Brayshaw 2.009 11 2.894 -30.58 6 -5 Tom Sparrow * 2.000 12 1.075 86.05 37 25 Jake Lever 1.938 13 2.313 -16.21 17 4 Nathan Jones 1.917 14 2.711 -29.29 8 -6 Harley Bennell 1.875 15 - - - - Oscar McDonald 1.825 16 1.877 -2.77 26 10 Aaron Vandenburg 1.819 17 - - - - Jay Lockhart 1.618 18 1.660 -2.53 31 13 Adam Tomlinson # 1.613 19 - - - - Mitchell Hannan 1.575 20 1.325 18.87 36 16 Tom McDonald # 1.430 21 2.150 -33.49 19 -2 Bayley Fritsch 1.416 22 2.641 -46.38 9 -13 Sam Weideman 1.388 23 1.818 -23.65 23 0 Neville Jetta 1.305 24 2.264 -42.36 18 -6 Joel Smith 1.158 25 - - - - Toby Bedford * 1.150 26 - - - - Jake Melksham 1.150 26 1.931 -40.45 23 -3 Kysaiah Pickett 1.068 28 - - - - Luke Jackson 1.038 29 - - - - Trent Rivers 1.033 30 - - - - Jayden Hunt 0.858 31 1.958 -56.18 22 -9 Mitchell Brown * 0.625 32 - - - - Charlie Spargo * -0.250 33 1.375 -118.18 23 -10 Average Team Score -Top 22 48.072 59.623 -19.37 # Hit outs to advantage not accounted for * Only one match...not an average

Perfect role for Harmes imv. Instead he is shouldering up alongside Rozee in defence. Yep another one of many bizarre match ups / inclusions by SG & Co. No wonder they're all over the shop. What a mess of a football club this is.

Can't argue with that although there would be a few exceptions i'm sure. This group (in general not all) appears to be ok with just putting the boots on, running out and collecting their salary.

Not really Dazzle...

Ding i've seen more fight shown between HFF & Dazzle than i've seen on or off the park for most of the year. Could you at least give them a little more time so i can enjoy this stoush before killing it off so early!?... talk about a party pooper.

Hopefully it's not like this MR. If so then it's no wonder we are all over the shop. Is this your assessment or have you heard things internally along the line?

The issue is....we improved in the middle in the second half of 2018 once Gus and Harmes started playing more time in and around the middle with Viney out injured for quite a while during most of the period leading up to finals. Chunk also beginning to spend slightly more time resting forward or off HB. Gus offered a bit of the inside / outside mid we had been missing to that point when we had Chunk (inside), Viney (inside) and Clarry (inside) playing most of the starting 3 for the first half of 2018 and of course prior to that (2017). Whenever those three played together for the most part of a match we got plenty of contested but suffered with genuine clean clearances and were often smothered by teams who would sit off these three waiting for them to gather then tackle the [censored] outta them, win their fair share, spread to outliers and then off to the races. None of those three quick enough to cover any speedier outside mids once they got it. Harmes slowly started taking on the game's best mid and shutting them down as well as getting them the other way on occasions pushing hard forward. Does anyone recall seeing the movie Seabiscuit? Well if you did, in his famous championship match race with War Admiral, Seabiscuit wasn't great out in front, even though he was super quick and bolted out of the blocks, as he tended to get bored and lose concentration. So his rider in this race (Woolf?) was under instruction to allow War Admiral to come alongside. That he did with a super quick gain along the back straight pulling up alongside Seabiscuit with ease after Seabiscuit bolted out of the blocks as he often did. Surely War Admiral would zip past Seabisuit and win at that incredible closing speed!? But as War Admiral came alongside, Seabiscuit looked him in the eye, sized him up, and then said that's enough mate. Taking off to show him who was boss and win this legendary race by 4 lengths. To me this is Harmes in a nut shell. Get him zoned in and focused on a tough challenge, prod him to stick it to that player and give some back, and away he goes. Allow him to roam in areas of the ground he isn't familiar with and just go shoulder to shoulder to defend an opponent and he looks right out of it (disinterested?). Is Harmes our Fritsch of 2019? So many errors of judgement by SG. So many blunders, year after year. I've seen some reasonable set ups, structures and balanced line ups that SG has put on the park on occasions, mostly in that second half of 2018. Only to see them disappear just as quickly a month or so later. I wonder if he even knows them with all the changes to players and roles we see from week to week.

And the time before that it was the late Dean Bailey (R.I.P.) over Kevin Sheedy. Albeit he wasn't the only one making the decision it was this group think decision that ultimately then lead to the Mark Neeld decision. Out of the frying pan.....Twice bitten VERY shy.... no thanks. Would rather have Lyon or Hodge (if he was in the system with an apprenticeship under his belt) over Gazza. Clarko's the one you want.

Rnd 9, 2020 Metricom Stadium - Demons vs Power Well i certainly wasn't expecting the diabolical performance we witnessed last night but the "to little from to few" i witnessed last week, sadly went to another level this week. A couple of ugly numbers arising out of this match ("just a couple?" i hear you say... yeh i know but i don't want to be up past midnight)... Disposals per goal ... must be some sort of record at 74. Just let that sink in for a moment. Count to 74 and imagine the work going in to each goal The team score is very ordinary but wasn't our worst for the season. That came against the Cats @ 37.05 The team score however, was 11% down on the average team score from season 2019 ... AND The Team score was down 21% vs our 2018 season average. The Top 6 score was the worst for the season A horrid output from Viney but not his worst for the season. That was against the Tiges in Rnd 5 with a 0.70 Gawn's worst game (statistically) for the season AFL Disposal Efficiency usually averages about 73%. We were at 66%. Would love to know what our kicking efficiency was. Some absolute howlers. Two special ones in particular from Clarry that's burned into the grey matter. Who would have thought....Salem at the top of the stats rating. Now i didn't think it was a great game by any means but then again no one really played out of their skins last night. Visually i thought May, Lever, Hibb, Maxy and Langdon put a fair effort up (might have missed one or two but who cares...the overall effort was abysmal). The rest of the non-rookie boys were complete crud IMHO. Player Score Rank Christian Salem 3.575 1 Clayton Oliver 3.000 2 Michael Hibberd 2.750 3 Steven May 2.650 4 Ed Langdon 2.300 5 Angus Brayshaw 2.225 6 Jake Lever 2.200 7 Christian Petracca 2.100 8 Tom Sparrow 2.000 9 James Harmes 1.950 10 Nathan Jones 1.650 11 Max Gawn # 1.575 12 Bayley Fritsch 1.400 13 Jake Melksham 1.400 13 Sam Weideman 1.300 15 Oscar McDonald 1.225 16 Kysaiah Pickett 1.000 17 Mitchell Hannan 0.850 18 Jack Viney 0.850 19 Luke Jackson # 0.800 20 Jay Lockhart 0.600 21 Tom McDonald 0.600 21 Team Score 38.000 Top 6 16.500 Bottom 6 4.700 # Hit outs to advantage not accounted for Stats courtest of footywire.com