Demon Dynasty
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What are the odds Tassie finishes building their stadium (once it eventually gets the nod) before we end up getting into a genuine home base (Caulfield or other lol) -
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Driving standards at training and on and off the field has to be up for question DZ. But so is our decision making and skills / execution once we get forward of centre. All deplorable since 2024 bar the odd match here and there along with some commendable efforts from a few like Kozzy and Melk. Our levels of skill, fitness and decision makimg worse than VFL sometimes. We are also seemingly switching off at times as if our heads aren't even in the game. Again, i wonder if the players are calling the shots here as to when they decide to turn it on. If things get too hard they revert back to CGAFF status. Take the $$ and run. That's what some past players have done at the MFC for many a decade pre the Roos era, with few exceptions. So many have taken the pizz and just been happy to turn up and choose when they go.
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Round 14, 2025 Adelaide Oval - Power vs Demons Well the question was asked over the last three weeks and the result... we failed miserably. Our Team Rating vs Port, 6% worse than our average in 2024, which in itself was obviously a poor year. Our Player Rating was 11% under that of Port's and our Top 6 a massive 18% off that of Port's Top 6 with only two of our boys finishing in the Top Ten Rated Players on the day. It's fair to say that the club is now likely to finish in the bottom 6 for two seasons running. The other worrying aspect is the complete failure of our mid-field aside from Max & Kozzy. With senior players unable to impact or execute even the most straight forward aspects of the game. One great example among many, Tracc running in to the 50 under absolutely no pressure and kicking it on top of Melk's head, when he clearly had the jump on his opponent 1 v 1. What should have been an easy kick to his favored side for a straight forward mark and decent shot at goal instead resulted in the oppo getting the resulting spill and running it down the other end for a 12 point turnaround and a massive team deflator. Handing them the momentum, which we could not stop thereafter. Add to that the constant inability of senior players to do the team discipline things required to be a top line professional team almost every week. The gap between our best and worse is also just too massive to be competitive at this level. And the icing on the cake, the worst rated goal kicking team in the AFL for accuracy. All those issues add up to a team that has now become predictably bad under any sort of pressure and who will more than likely crack early if the oppo turns up the wick. Unable to convert and put a winning score on the board (to defend) we have no way of countering any momentum lost, which in the majority of games happens far too easily and too often. We are absolutely boring to watch in terms of the way we move the ball, turn it over so often and miss straight forward shots. We occasionally put in one decent quarter and then go missing for two or more. Very predictable stuff and for mine, we have now become unwatchable. The turn over king from this match was Clarry with a massive 8 turnovers, the most of any player on the night. To highlight the gap between our best and worst, Clarry finsihed as the No.1 Rated player vs the Pies to a lowly 14th against Port with the the lowest Rating of all mids. Again ther gap between our best and worst is too great. In our last win vs the Swans our % of goals from inside 50 was way above the AFL average (approx 24%) at 29.7% Against the Saints the next week, a shocking 12.3%. Vs the Pies 18.4% (the Pies just over the AFL average for the win). All this horror fest with a huge advantage on Port in terms of game time experience. An average advantage of nearly 30 games per player. No excuses here. The bottom line is, our next genuine finals team (that seriously threatens; ie making a PF or GF) is unlikely to come from many on the present list. I suspect those that do make it might well be playing under a different coach. Player & Team Ratings - Demons > Subbed out TOG % > Subbed in TOG % Player & Team Ratings - Power Combined Player Ratings Stats courtesy of footywire.com and wheeloratings.com
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To wait this long to find out the original proposal is now most likely OOB. We are the oldest and SLOWEST club in the land in terms of staying in touch with the rest of the comp. No real movers or shakers at the top that can pull strings it seems. Meanwhile the lowly Dogs are leaps and bounds ahead. Imagine every player in the land knowing we now have the worst facilities and any possibility of a state-of-the-art facility being built is at least 5 years away AND may not happen at all.
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I am thinking that before he even marks it! Like wtf is Max actually doing in the forward line if he's not going to dish or HB it off knowing full well he will never kick them with an accuracy rate this year roughly 1 in 10???? This club has completely taken it's eye off wanting to be the best and doing what's best for the team. There is no selfless, there are no smarts and so many have turned in to inept footballers now.
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Probably but just looking at today's game.... he was asked to play on a monster sized defender which should really have been left to a bit of a brute key tall forward all things being said. Problem is we don't have one. It was a physical mis-match and one that other teams with similar type solid tall defenders can exploit for as long as we are stuck with our present line up up forward (in a list sense). There's nothing to fear in a big way (bar Kozzy) in our forward line at present and everyone knows it. The way we bring it in and our lack of dangerous mids (when they do push forward) also doesn't help our cause. We are the epitome of a toothless tiger. Lots of growling and efforts but when it counts we have no teeth to inflict pain on anyone but the worst rated opponents (bottom 4 to 6 and we're one of them).
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Poor at selection Keeps rewarding players who haven't earned it or badly out of form Poor on game day. Persisting with Petty & Rooh forward when they keep failing week after week. Playing both Fritta & Melk in the same role. No smalls or mids capable of kicking goals aside from Kozz. Same old amature undisciplined trash almost every match now One of only three teams to lose to Norf and we lost by 10 goals + There are only four teams with a worse percentage than ours... The Peptides Norf Tigers Eagles Membership is down approx 15% & will be worse next season Likely to finish the season in same spot as last year (or worse!) We have become so predictably bad. Unwatchable. Ty for the cup. Forever indebted but time to go Simon (at year's end)
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There's no stopping those entries when there's such poor pressure and easy outlets WW
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All they have to do is play keepings off for 9 minutes or so. We can't score quickly or consistently Add to that our constant turnovers and ineffective loose zone plays right into the oppo's hands in close games like this
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Woe is probably shuffling deck chairs but couldn't be worse. Can at least play a cameo in the middle for short stints also.
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Sparrow also a garbage game today. You can't keep playing blokes like this who continue to produce absolute rubbish games when they've been in the system for years.
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That should've been a deliberate shot at goal in the clear. Instead no one up forward takes the game on. All they look to do is give it off to a player in just as bad a position and pass the pressure on. Amature hour up forward always bar kozz
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Shocking today. Chandler & Petty should be joining him.... if only we had more subs
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Someone in the team should [censored] May off at about the 5 minute mark of every game!!
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So ill disciplined and often by our so called leaders at critical moments Poor discipline is poor footy Gotta adhere to 'team first' always or you're out. That should be the coach and on field leadership mantra
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Take Petty off FCS... USELESS!!!
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What a garbage game from Rivers today. Stick that tackle but nup....shaken off like sprinkles off a floppy sandwich
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The same mistake from Max over and over and over again. Just turns his back on the game and never looks for the give. It's astonishing how we refuse to try and fix our faults. From the top down.
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Because Simon has too much faith and isn't ruthless enough that's why
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Finally Turner up forward
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Brown Dog for Vines today. Why is Vines even being asked to play as a tagger with a bung hand when tagging involved scragging and tackling! Such an amature club. Unwatchable
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The Saints performance is the real us. We just keep putting in these putrid performances far too often for this to be anything but a pattern now under Simon. He truly has to go at year's end
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Can't match it with one of the worst teams going this season. Shizen Melbourne just [censored] shizen Our skills and inability to convert or sort out the forward line is something you could not imagine up in your worst nightmares. It's seriously time to look elsewhere before we end up in a cocoon of perpetual horror Simon's had three seasons to get so much right but instead all we've done is regress
