Demon Dynasty

Weideman, Hannan, Melksham, JKH, Dawes, Garland, Michie, Frost, Bail, Riley, Fitzpatrick..... a few others you may want to add to the opportunity list out of those Cranky

Should be merged with team selection IMO

That should have been banned already.....DEEscusting!

Stretch (4th) ANB (8th) & Harmes (9th) are all tracking top 10 statistically on weighted averages so far this year Dr. Would have to put in very ordinary games and be very unlucky to be dropped. Stranger things have happened at the MFC though eg, Kent, ranked 10th on averages. Last week's performance saw him drop to 18th (last week's results only).

Had Bugg in my top 6 last week. Surely Bugg was a decent run with option (part time) for Dusty and another competitive beast around the mid field where we have been off a little so far this year? Shows you how much I know. Smith ahead of Pedders after last week's performance? I'm a huge Bull fan but most attendees had Pedders in the top 4 players and Smith just a so so game. Pedders also allows Watts to avoid the ruck (maybe a very brief cameo or two), surely this is the best option!? Having our best ball user and most accurate kick in front of goals, the opportunity to play more game time in the role he is most damaging? Pedders must be this year's Dunny. Wouldn't matter what level he performs at Casey, has probably been branded as a non-required 'senior' option by the Demon hierarchy already. As I've said so many times and will continue to say, DONT BRAND ANYONE...PERMANENTLY. Just play whoever the hell is in the best form for the role required and give them a decent 2 to 3 weeks to settle and show if they can bring that same form (or very close to it) at AFL level. JKH? Wish him all the best but has so far failed to make the step up to AFL level. I hope he makes a difference though and is a much improved player than what we saw early on. He would want to be but again, the selection committee needs to grow some balls and back their judgment and, unlike their rediculous and gutless "in one week out the next, in the next" Smithy decision, give JKH at least a 2 to 3 week run at it to find the pace and his feet at AFL level. I had Kent at about the same level as Harmes and in the top 10 players so far although it was only two matches and we saw a drop off last week against the Dockers and as some have said he hasn't really set the scoreboard alight. Would have thrown down the gauntlet and challenged him with one more week to show he can do better. JKH to back up last week's reasonable game at Casey once more before before committing to a decent stint at senior level if Kent doesn't lift this week. Hibberd in but Melk stays? Is that correct? Surely not. I rate O-Mac & Melk at a similar level in terms of what they add to the team so not sure how Melk stays when he hasn't really given us any significant improvement on O-Mac. Surely a direct swap with Hibberd? If we have a big win I will happily shut my trap and just like Sarjent Schultz admit that when it comes to selections....

It's amazing what a win on Monday night would do OD. Hugs and backslapping all round ?

Lets hope so Abe. Vince playing deep down back is a huge win for the opposition IMO. With Frost, Hunt and IF we can add Hibberd as another attacking (run & carry) defender we might finally have a solid, but attacking defence, that will cause some severe headaches for the opposition at the selection table and on game day. Throwing Vince further up the field is exactly what's needed at the moment. Adding another experienced body that will take a significant opponent to match up on. A little less pressure on the younger blokes in general through the middle?? The return of Lewis next week should also allow Vince even more freedom to roam higher up the ground We just might be about to take this team to another level and finally see another significant step in its development towards regular finals appearances. The next 3 matches are all very winnable and must wins if we are to make our first finals appearance in a decade, starting Monday night.

Yes I think Ablett kicked 6 in the first quarter lol. Probably didn't but it sure felt like it

How do you know this Abe? Poll results pls ?

Common WJ that was pretty funny

So if I were to mention my residual dissapointment in Saty losing his grand daddy beard....would that count OD? ? VERY VERY Happy with the rest of his work!!!

I now forgive Mr Vince for not looking to STAB pass the ball inside 50 in the last few seconds of the dockers match. The only option was the torp! All makes sense now ?

Just let him get over his bloody toe injury first! All this bloody talk of marriage and trades I dunno. Rusty says close this thread!

Any Mods keen on running a "self congratulator of the year" award similar to 1116 SEN's here? ?

That sounds like hard work and no g'tee you wld find a strong correlation Skuit. I reckon the pros are getting paid pretty good coin. Let them go earn it ☺️

Unfortunately we failed at the very next hurdle here LG. The coaches place so much emphasis on stoppage work/set plays, moving the ball inside and up through the corridor quickly, slow possession play around the back and switches to fat sides etc....they forgot one of the most important aspects or didn't drill it hard enough... how to protect a lead with only a minute or two left. The rest is great and needs emphasis but useless if you end up losing the close ones once your nose is in front. All that franatic effort, chasing, goal kicking, tackling etc etc for a big sack of nothing.

He is not the greatest but as ruckman go he is no spud either. Nankervis is hardly worthy of a permanent hard tag. Just needs a solid ruckman to compete against him and neutralise (or win) as many contests as possible and compete with him in the air in marking contests. Although it would be helpful, you don't always need a superstar ruckman to win matches of footy as long as they can break even most of the time in the one on one contests. Anything more (goals, goal assists, tackles, hitting up leads etc) is a big bonus

Needed to go man on man in their forward 50 especially to handle the bail out kick around the arc IMO DJ. We allowed the opposition to zone off and failed to put them under enough pressure and compete in the marking contests when the ball lucked out their way, which unfortunately was most of the time for a good 10 minutes or so. They took a number of uncontested marks from our bail outs, controlling this section of the game for too long. Compete one on one and either mark it ourselves or bring the ball to ground and get the stoppage going further out from goal rather than the opp getting the lucky receive by zoning off and getting it straight back in to targets or top of the square for even more pressure. When we did finally get it up our end at one point for a possible breather or maybe get one back ourselves to stop the rot, Trac made a huge error, deciding to flick the ball back in right on the boundary in the forward pocket punt road end instead of disguising it out or gathering the ball and taking the tackle for the stoppage or rolling over the boundary for the throw in. Freo ran it straight back out and up to their end and I think they may have even goaled again from it. A rookie error that hurt us badly at a really critical moment IMO.

Spencil will pole ax Nank. Played a very solid game against arguably the best ruckman in the game on Sat. Could be the difference on Monday night if Dusty is out.

No not at all Dappa. I'm just saying I think the MFC is far too lenient with under performers and has been for years although there has been times when Coaches have probably had little choice. The fact that Harmes seems to be on the improve and getting more matches under his belt is a good thing for everyone concerned, including Harmes. Let's hope he can keep up the good work and as he gains a bigger tank, we hopefully see him impacting for more than a few quarters here and there. He is on the cusp of becoming a very fine player if he can bring his best over 3 to 4 quarters and not drop away too much from that output within games very often.

And some are favourites of the coaching crew or someone within the coaching crew Dappa and get continuous match time wile continuing to under perform in the seniors. The MFC is hardly in a position to risk this continual strategy at the expense of winning and need to just start playing whoever's showing the best form at Casey for the likely role required. This includes playing young inexperienced players who are showing very strong form at Casey and who deserve a decent go in the seniors for a few weeks vs a more experienced player who hasn't performed over a number of weeks to a required level or showing very inconsistent form. If we move away from continuing to just getting games into 'promising' youngsters and/or continuing to play more experienced players who are badly out of form, we will start stringing more consecutive wins together and more likely to make finals. And more often. Need to raise the bar as much as possible or we will just keep bouncing along the bottom as per the last decade.

Hopefully we aren't counted as another of those crap teams after Monday evening green

He does show glimpses of outstanding play Dappa. Like all developing players things can occasionally go haywire though but seems to be producing at a pretty high level so far. I like the idea of Bugg working him on the inside a little then Harmes taking say about 50% of the duties and working him on the outside going the other way. As for the match committee they would probably laugh at the suggestion and do nothing of the sort! Harmes is tracking top 10 statistically this year, with a weighted average score of 3.43, sitting 9th just behind ANB. Early days but a big improvement on last year's weighted average score of 2.92, where he finished 15th overall. A 17% improvement so far.

Yeh standing room Punt Rd behind the goals DeeZee. You will def avoid a nose bleed. Then again... might need a helmet!

Bugg & Harmes sharing the role.... might keep him to 2 or 3 goals