Demon Dynasty

Tackle count is up....8 already this quarter. Gawn pushing forward is much needed if we are to win this

They also put Hogan on Ablett for a ball up or two against the Cats. One of those resulted in a goal to Ablett as a result. He was switched off imediately after that goal. But how did that match up occur in the first place???

Maybe we are trying to bamboozle our opponents with unorthodox set ups and structure? We also love to handball more because we can't kick so well? 20 tackles to 8 .... that's interesting!!

They saw what happened to Pedders after one poor game Frankie! Every man for himself! ?

Im sure Jones will get the nod shortly RF ?

Oops... meant an AFL Player DJ!

Lets hope the players have a some idea of what they are 'supposed' to be doing Chook

Why are both T-Mac & Hogan playing outside 50 much of the time?? Beggars belief. Put a tall target in the 50 Goody

Brayshaw ughh. Running at 64% DE so far this season. 15% below AFL average

T-Mac forward should help with structure finally

Hogan needs to work on his around the corner kicking...bananas etc. Tries to guide it through instead of letting the angle of where foot hits ball do the work. Get him a highlights real of Stevie J pls.

There are many that probably aren't worthy of an AFL game samcan given their form so far this season. We only bat about 14 deep. We wouldn't be able to field a team if you took that approach as we don't have the depth to cover 8 who are sub AFL standards at this point. In the context of our team i have Harmes ranked at No.11 anyways. While he is having an ordinary season so far he also has many below him worse off right now who are even more lucky to be getting a game.

That is the million dollar question SF. I tell you what though, unless you fix some of the basic 101s of playing footy, you know ....the ones that we know this team struggles with within games week after week, no matter who the Coach (Coaches), you are going to have a damn hard job of implementing ANY game style with the mess we put out on the field most weeks/quarters. Goody's main challenge is to get them to play the basics well as second nature along with sticking to the percentage plays that will give us our best chance to score, and as a result improve our chances of winning.

Not sure how the FD arrived at Stretch to start with. Very poor selection IMO and ended up coming back to bite us. Weids did well in comparison to his previous entrees to AFL and can hold his head up but again, incorrect selection for the Tiges match on such a big stage and occasion where goals where always going to be at a premium (for us) under the heat of the Premiers. I wouldn't be heaping too much scorn on Stretch as he should never have been running around in the first place.

Praha that might be the best off field move right now. For sanity's sake! Enjoy

Sorry guys... Mods can you clean that up please....tried to post and hit faded saving post button a few times as it wasn't saving. Then all of a sudden 5 saves popped up grrr. Can you please bring the delete option back?? This happens a fair bit now

Norf are tracking pretty well just quietly. All the stats from the Pies match suggest Essendrug are up and about (in general play...albeit their pressure factor is right off). Roughly tracking (in general play) at about the level we were when we played Geelong. The trouble on Weds was their their shocking scoring efficiency and lack of pressure, not unlike our "Hawks horribilis" match. The disposals per goal were uncannily similar, although our efficiency in front of goal plumbed the depths of despair in comparison... Demons (vs Hawks) Essendrug (vs Pies) If they fix their conversion aspect inside 50 and up their pressure and we don't and we bring a level of form any less than the match against the Cats, we will be pummeled. We will need to clean up in front of goals and have a super solid match (and a significant improvement on the previous 2 matches obviously) to beat them at Etihad.

Wow... Crown fined $330,000 for pokie tampering. The equivalent of me being find the cost of a bunch of bananas!

We have regressed fairly badly since last year's match RB. I agree re: T-Mac but was just looking at where we are at without him in this week as there's no certainty he is. If he comes in it might add the 4 to 5 goals i was thinking which might result in a draw or a very close result. You are correct re: Fritsch. He had a reasonable start for a young fella and not sure why they dropped him for the Tigers match. Alot of his numbers are equivalent to players who have been around for 4 to 5 years as mid / forwards and he's only played a handfull of games. Some of the team selections have been very ordinary so far. Praying T-Mac makes it! If he doesn't this might sound crazy but we really need Maxy to play some significant time up forward, even just to get ball to ground and try and upset their set ups down back a little. Weids to spend a little more time in the ruck vs last week if poss. P.S. If you are talking accuracy Pedders is pretty accurate within 40 odd meters or so. Should have been in last week and this. FD (Macca?) has seemingly stamped his papers after one more horrid game against Brissy it would seem just as they did with Dunny. Betting the farm on Weids.

Tracc out (potential goal kicking mid), no other mids or mid/forwards kicking goals (Kent out), our abysmal delivery / horrible organisation / zip pressure inside 50, Jeffy in career worst form, no genuine stay at home tall forward to kick 2 or 3 (Pedders) on a good day. Might get alot of the pill and alot of entries as in previous 2 matches. But we simply aren't making the most of our entries and kicking enough goals. Scoreboard pressure absent in last 2 matches means a confident freed up (mentally) opponent who will have their tails up from the get go and going for the jugular early. Not expecting Essendrug to be much chop either but will probably make more of their opportunities up forward. Essendrug by 4 to 5 goals in an ugly encounter.

You should Praha! Especially the baked stuffed cheesy / fish ones. Best avoided if you have any reflux issues though

And pickles usually get stuffed

Rinse & repeat DD. We are learning nothing as a club by continuing to select players who rarely impact at the highest level and wilt/flail under standard AFL pressure. His inability to cease with brain snaps also, can result in demotivation and loss of momentum, sometimes at crucial stages of a match when the game is in the balance. As many have said here already... VFL depth (emergency call up) ....at best!

You got the 'Less Than'' part right DJ. I'm just struggling to work out what it was less than!