Demon Dynasty

Well done Roohey for taking thw outside 5 for the OOTF kcik in

Astounding that after so many years we aren't instructing Kozzy (when he's 40+ out and rarely makes the distance) to either find a short target OR HB to a player coming from behind who can.

Better if Kozz dishes this. Too far out

I'd bring Turner on for Bowey in the second half. He's a mile off this defensively and far too slow to move the ball on. No penetration in his kicking when he does

Nice hand in from Windsor.... great work Moniz

Great tackle Clazz

Driving the legs... havent seen that in a while

Bowey on Greene is a big win for them

Nred to play the posession game forn a while here like we did in parts during the first quarter. We are playing on too often. Playing into their hands now. Poor tactics

Absolutely. The new interpretation has long been forgotten but also selectively applied. Bowey & Laurie the weak points so far in this second quarter.

That's his best game for the year and three to go

The everywhere man

Not much to like about that!

I would not have Bowey or Kolt down as speedsters. They go ok but not up there with the likes of Moniz & Caleb imo. Should've gone harder to keep Bedford and personally felt we should've retained Hunt who played a strong part in us winning silverware in 2021 during the H&A segment.

You don't gift games to mediocre players based on how many games they've played DZ. Not at the top level. They need to earn their call up. This year has been a horror fest in terms of selection integrity for SG & the SC imho. We are also picking three emergencies to travel interstate which is killing the chances of two players to show case their wares or get into some form at Casey. We then pick two of them to play the next week based on track form alone? While K Brown racks up 173 dream team points vs the Dolphins (pretty rare at VFL level) and can't get a gig? As i mentioned a few months ago, Simon is allover the shop this season with selection integrity. Plenty of good players out impacting on results too that we are well aware of which hasn't helped. But he hasn't handled things very well at the selection table imv.

He is named as an emergency so no game at either level this week i assume? Same with K Brown & Howes.

We're picking severely out-of-form players on sentimental value now? Has been horrid most weeks at Casey. Hope not!

Can also be a bit of a panic merchant turnover king at times MF. And that's playing in the middle (when he does) at Casey. Fingers and toes crossed if he goes into the middle. Might be better to just leave him rolling through as a HF off the bench for now with minimal time through the middle?

Its the elephant in the room about his game. When he's in form there's a fair chunk more of the latter. At the moment he rarely drives out of / away from stoppage. Mind you he's had so many amazing up years playing at such a high level he was probably always due to come off at some point. We can only hope he'll have a bumper pre-season and we see the return of ye olde King Clarry in 2025 🤞🏼

We will never know Rjay as Goody refuses to trial anyone else. As a result SG will never know either. 2 meters Fullo may have given a better edge and won or neutralised a few more contests plus allowed JVR to remain mostly up forward vs Petty. Emphasis on 'may have'. Same with Verrall. Even if you only got 2 quarters of neutralising and a few wins before being subbed (for Petty!?). We still get well beaten but maybe not as embarrassingly pantsed as we did. Also remembering we trialled Petty as a back up last time against Freo which was also a monumental fail. Goodwin's obsession with attempting to get Petty back into some form over the last three months via constant AFL games, regardless of atrocious form in most of those games, has resulted in us playing a man down for most of that time. SG finally got his wish (but not in a ruck sense) on Sunday, which was always going to happen if given anough chances, but at what cost to the team in season 2024?

He was not a ruckman at the Lions when recruited. He was a forward who was occasionaly asked to pinch hit in the ruck.

Around ground marking is important but that wasn't Petty's main role on the day. He started off as the 1st ruck and failed miserably. We then had to throw JVR in in the hope he might offer more resistance. That didn't work either. Same happened the week before with JVR coming in to replace Petty early after Petty got wacked in the first Q but luckily the whole day become a contested shiite fest where we were able to wrestle the game back on our terms at ground level with the rain largely making much of any attempted ruck work / craft by Draper ineffectual.

Not sure how much more Simon can get out of the regular group he sticks with anymore DZ. I reckon alot are pretty much done mentally and physically. Our engine room's done and dusted for 2024. My take is, we aren't going to worry anyone even if we made finals. So it's best to take anyone who needs some end of season surgery or fix ups out and do it now. Put em under the knife if needed eg; potentially Vines. Replace with anyone from Casey be it Laurie, Sesto or brown Dog or just alternate over the weeks and may the best man win. Not that i'm placing much faith in any of those bar Brown. Manage the older fellas like May and T-Mac (IF he's continuing on into 25) by utilising the likes of Tommo and Marty as replacements. Roll any other youngsters through that you want to trial further like Jeffo for Turner to see where he's at. It's time to manage those we need to look after to prep them into next season, trial the youngsters and review all the off season crew including everyone in the FD. A few changes might be needed there also. We look as stale as a year old croissant and highly unskilled with our ball use in general against the better rated sides. It's pretty obvious the present list is not going to take us to the promised land again so we may as well reset and prep for 2025 and beyond now. Our recruiting needs to raise the bar on who we go after in terms of skill set as we have way too many hackers by hand & foot. And / or it might also have something to do with training methods? The gulf between us and the Dockers, especially by hand and their spread was immense yesterday and if anything it's gotten worse each time we play them. Imagine getting into the top four and meeting a team like this, or even GWS on a good day in finals. We are a long way off highly skilled teams with leg speed when they're putting up something near their best 22 atm.