Demon Dynasty

What game plan are they learning though Macca? We have gone nowhere and not improved for 3 years now. Instead we are heading south and just got our [censored] handed to us by a bottom four club from the previous season. Norf are on the improve no doubt but that was as bad a performance we've seen since 2019 out there today. And in all that i could not decipher any semblance of us trying to implement something different and special that will see us turn things around and potentially play finals in 2025. Just more of the same garbage we've seen since about Rnd 11, 2022.

Yes but they still struggle to match / win against reasonable to quality oppo. We showed that we're a long way from even reasonable today. We might improve somewhat with the return of some key outs but we aren't gonna trouble many, if any, of the top liners and we certainly ain't finals bound. Likely we'll be bottom five again or worse.

We've been saying that for a few years now but have not progressed. In fact we've seriously dropped off. So much so that we are now being passed by teams that finished in the bottom four last season ie; The Crows & Norf. We can actually get worse in a relative sense vs 2024 and could well end up lower than 14th! Personally i love what Simon brought to the table that lead us to the 2021 Flag but he has probably extracted about as much as he can from this group now. I'm happy to wait till Rnd 8 or thereabouts but subject to an immense turnaround between now and then, his days as head coach appear to be numbered.

Viney doing the Viney inside 50 thing....AGAIN Too many Brain dead Zombies out there. Season 2025 is dead and buried with em

I'd switch Rooh down back for Petty

Don't kid yourselves folks. As bad as Norf are, they want it more than we do. That's on the entire playing group and the Coach

2 tackles in 15 minutes of footy... laughable

Rooh having another mare so far. Although shizen kicks like that one from Jack don't help. Any chance Jack could find a target coming inside?

He's only elite over about 25 meters. That's why he rarely tries on those longer kicks. Even then, i have no idea who he was trying to hit up.

Tracc forward & chin into the middle. Had to try something there

Embarrassing from Bowey there. High school stuff

Why would you play on there Rivers? Then cant hit a target 17 meters away. Just Putrid smarts and skills No strength among most over the ball or when trying to stick tackles. Panic footy from pretty much everyone inside 50 whenever they get their hands on it. Bar Sparrow, Chin, Viney, Spargy and a few other occasional cameos, where's the intent and ferocity at the loose ball and ball carrier in a team sense?

Very selfish. They're mostly playing individual footy with only a sprinkling of players truly invested. The confidence, spirit, flair, selfless team work and skill of the 2021 premiership team is a distant memory now.

Can't stick tackles Can't chain the ball by hand, instead handballing to the feet or missing all together too often. Struggle to hit targets by foot. Continue to play in straight lines out of the middle (666) without finding targets Can't shut down transitions off HB Can't transition quickly or slickly enough often enough ourselves to worry the oppo and give our forwards better looks coming i50 Continue to miss simple set shots from various angles not far out Our only KTF can't take a grab Our skipper can't kick straight at goal almost ever No apparent method or 'Effective' game plan or the semblance of a change in plan to one that works Conclusion... All we have (seemingly) ...is mostly just crash and bash I'll give it 5 to 6 more weeks for a few of the calvary to come back (namely May, McVee, Melky & Kozzy) but i'm about 70% convinced what needs to happen already. The writing's on the wall.

We will finish bottom four at this rate. What a rabble

Too many pretenders over and around the ball bar Viney. And he a bit slower now. No one else capable of extracting now. And we continue to just play straight ahead bomb it i50 footy. Horrible entries time and time again. Too easy to defend. For as long as that goes on you can forget about beating most teams aside from maybe Richmond and this mob. And even then we are no sure thing.

Gawn wld be much better off stopping & propping then finding a target there. My god we are easy to score against now

He's still better down back imv. He might come good by 2028 Gawny hooks on the run too haha. Needs to aim for the right post every time

Hooray...2nd time we've changed direction with the kick inside 50

No talk amongst them... where's the "Hot hot hot" chatter etc

Playing 'dump it straight ahead into the 50 footy' because only the best will do Sparrow the biggest offender

Commence ' Amateur hour'

Lewis showed something up forward.

Yep. Found his feet a bit in that second half, particularly the last Q

10.16 to 11.10 76 a piece