Demon Dynasty

No patience or poise with ball in hand especially just outside 50. Too many panic footballers that have no football brain. The 2 Captains nowhere to be seen! Both are way too slow around the footy both across the ground and their reactions with ball in hand in congestion.

No patience or poise with ball in hand especially just outside 50. Too many panic footballers that have no football brain. The 2 Captains nowhere to be seen! Both are way too slow around the footy both across the ground and their reactions with ball in hand in congestion.

Some of No.9's best work going on tonight. Extremely worried about the influence he might have in the 3rd.

That's about 4 throws out of congestion from the Bongers so far...NONE spotted! Mustn't have gone to Specsavers! Make that 5!

The Weeeid! SALEM a stand out from minute 1

Who is Ump No.9??? Disgraceful decisions against us from the start!!!

Great play Lockhart! Nice spotting by Hunt! ?

Too easy Demons....deesgraceful. Why are both Viney and Jones on the bench yet a 2 gamer in Lockhart is in middle coughing up a hand ball for a goal??

It's smelling very amateurish at the very least Praha. We are 3 weeks in and apart from a few isolated pieces of good play we are a complete rabble from the get go. The selections are also bewildering and Goody forecasts them by saying earlier in the week (re questions from press about Max getting targeted and needing some help) something like "We are happy with Max blah blah". So many dumb pieces of play. So many sluggish footballers that have no burst speed and look like they've just played 4 quarters in a wet bog. Goody the buck stops with you mate.

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Apparently not BBP. Misson impossible?

Tigers play a very similar run and gun game off HB not unlike how the Cats played us last week IMO (when Houli & Rance are playing anyway. Style is impacted when either or both are out). Through the mid field a little chaotic at times. When the Tiges are on they certainly don't chaos / bomb / kick the ball wildly i50 the majority of the time. They often caress and hit targets on a lead (Reiwoldt a major benefactor here) with some very high level pin point precision short to medium passing which is a joy to watch (accept when it's against us). We would be a much more formidable unit if we could do the same more often.

Confidence or Resignation? Possibly either a sign that Goody has total confidence in the group, the FD and the Player's likelihood of turning it around this week against Essendrug (or not long after)....or he is extremely concerned that the players (or some of them) have fallen into the trap of believing in the compromised pre-season stories. Goody seeing a sense of urgency lacking?

And for a long time PD. I have very little regard for it any longer. All outcomes such as these are manufactured / massaged / tampered with to ensure the big names and favoured clubs receive special treatment and aren't impacted to the degree of us lessor lights. They are given a huge advantage when all the favouritism is added up over the season/s, including the FIXture. This has been going on since the old zone days in the late 60s when the initial idea was for each club to share the zones equally and change to a new zone over rolling 3 year periods (or thereabouts) until certain clubs in the then VFL realised they were on a winning zone vs the others. They then reneged on the initial agreement and voted to keep their initial zones. The result was the clubs thats kept the better zones got the cream of the crop over many years and built themselves a dynasty while the rest got the scraps and ended up the poor cousin as a result. The cheating is and has been embedded and rusted on from VFL days and continues through to this very day.

We are suffering from lack of speed fatigue that's for sure. Spargo, Jeffy and Hannan all sorely missed in the forward half. Would have to be one of the worst starts to a season injury wise but then again we've had plenty of em over the decades.

Is that a young radar on the left? But then ive heard others say this is Radar... https://images.app.goo.gl/ugW6W2zz9rfJ5TiM9

Stats Predictor has the Bombers winning by 10 Points Top 6 ranked players (weighted statistical composite) last round Demons Bombers Bottom 6 Demons Bombers Note: Composite does not account for hit outs to advantage.

Out: KK , May, Lockhart, Sparrow (apart from Lockhart's first goal which was great, none of these four gave a yelp...albeit May was probably done early) In:. Stretch , C Wagner, J Wagner , Pruess / Spargo?

Our weighted team numbers are as low as they've been since Rnd 4 & 5 vs the The Hawks / Tigers respectively last year. At that point we had a few wins on the board already though. However, we did get our season back on track beginning with a win against Essendrug the week after in Rnd 6 where our numbers started to improve nicely. The only other time our weighted team number was this low in any other match was against the Crows in Rnd 19 but it did [censored] down most of the last quarter. On a positive note: Our top players are starting to improve but it's mostly Clarry lead. Hopefully the rest will start taking it up notch by notch also. On a negative note: Our bottom 6 on Saturday night were a mile off where the bottom 6 were at low ebbs (even against the Hawks and we all know how bad that was) last year. Even comparing the output from our bottom 6 on Saturday evening vs the previous week (vs Port) they were a mile off. That aspect will need some serious addressing by Goody & Co. before Friday evening if we're to get a win on the board.

In the mess that was Saturday evening for many around him, this was an amazing home and away game statistically (average weighted composites) for Clarry. He ranked number 1 on the evening by a country mile vs his peers at a weighted score of 7.025. The next best was Viney @ 4.275. In terms of a weighted score and this method of comparison that is an insane margin. While this was not a personal PB in home and away rounds (i have not covered finals appearances in the comparisons) he has only bettered it twice.... Round 2 vs the Lions (7.25) and Round 7 vs the Saints (7.125) last year (using the same composite method). Cool hand Clarry is back to his brilliant best! Now we just need a whole chunk of others to get around him and lift their output/game.

We doubled their center clearances though Dr. Technically speaking we should at least be squaring contests up forward when we do as it's 6 v 6 and yet still only managed to score 3 goals in 3 quarters of footy!!?? We are just horribly inefficient up forward. Our backline was too easy to score against on Sat night in particular and we have very little run and link up play happening on the outside. Nor are we capable of maintaining possession in a slow play situation to slow down an Op run on or work our way through extra defenders when going forward. It seems like we are just constantly full steam ahead without thinking. They had a plus one in the back half (or more) most of the night did we address it, hold up the ball and look for some short options and change the way we were bringing it in? (a little thought assessment and precision!). Nope...just keep hacking and bombing it in! Same old methods and no ability to change them mid game yet we've had years to perfect and work on such set ups. Especially against the Cats who bring that game style / set up every time. We might beat the Bongers this Friday if we use a few more brain cells in general play and lower our eyes in general play and coming inside 50 but as for what happens after that who knows.

Unfortunately Dr there are some clubs that seem incapable of consistently getting the basics down as a bare minimum and then building / tweaking / adjusting personel / game style and set ups/match ups a little around those basics to gradually improve from off weeks or a period of good form. Whatever we did right in 2018 it was totally dismantled in the Prelim by the eventual premiers. Every club (coaches, line coaches and game analysts) would have picked that Prelim to pieces and now knows the basic blue print for a Demon walloping. Whilst the 6/6/6 factor has no doubt impacted our set up off the back of the square that can't be the only reason we've been so abysmal since the win over the Hawks. Surgeries and injuries have no doubt taken their toll somewhat so I'm not hitting the panic button just yet. By round 6 we will have a much better idea of whether it's just a personel/fitness/form issue or whether we have a serious problem with the entire game style, methods and set ups/structure. I'm pretty sure it isn't passion and hunger as everything i've heard coming out of the camp suggests the players are fully switched on and are still buying in big time. Friday night will be a great test of where we are at as a team/club passion wise. With both teams so horribly out of form It will mostly come down to who wants it most. Win or lose that match, Goody & Co. (and the boys) have a power of work ahead of them if we are to get this ship back on course for 2019.

Fix this and we lose by only 60 on Sat. Then there's the backline including the return of Lewis & Lever (40 point loss). Dr drake's set up issues (20 point loss). Bring back some general speed / spread on the outside and some crumbing up forward (Jeffy, Hannan) and 2 way running (match goes either way). Find a superstar that can turn a game on its head in 10 to 15 minutes of scintillating ininspirational footy.... WIN! Simples!

Changes this week.... Out: Anyone who can't hit a barn door from 10 paces & Goodwin. In: Anyone who can and DrDrake!

Rjay could you please stop making so much sense so early on a Monday morning! Lucifer forbid we should get the basics of solid footy right! I much prefer our panic manic method with mostly horrid hacking and bombing forward and watching a forward line that has no crumbing or defensive capabilities struggle with the very thing they have trouble doing when the pill hits the deck. Are you seriously saying you would prefer to watch us link up and hit targets on a regular basis and take more shots at goal like good teams do? Boring!