Demon Dynasty

17 - 0 hit outs to advantage. Good luck trying to defend and win a match with that.

Only when we play them Dr. Other middle rung teams are capable including the Hawks last week and the Doggies by 10 goals five weeks ago.

Big lump of a lad eh

Correct. And bring Jeffo in for at least three games (or more if he holds his own). Brown dog for Sparrow also. Need to see where both of their games are at and give them a good look at the next level up and what's required to stay there. Work on things over the off and give them hope & incentive to push harder. Get a quality mid or two and a back up ruck for Big M

He has but coming off a low base. He's a receive and go mid imv. His mindset and positioning for defending isn't the greatest as far as quality mids go and by a fair way. Very good at the former though so you would back him in here vs most opponents. Our issue at the moment is that our go to extractor in JV is no longer extracting much of late (shoulder issue or just badly out of form?) and the other usual part timer here in Clarry is a mile off his former (pre 2024) best and barely getting any effective extractions either. Then there's the back ups that might get the odd extraction. Max yes but didn't play today. Gus a tad. He's gone. And on the odd occasions JJ. He's gone. Sparrow nowhere near anything atm and should be replaced in the side by brown Dog for the speed and spread factor for the remainder of the season. When you have zero decent rucks in the CBs plus the above extraction problem and you play an oppo that has strengths in both of those areas = recipe for disaster.

That's not what i said. Taking it the wrong way. I said you 'might want to give DL a miss' if you think you are going to not see a myriad of positive and negative posts. It's part of the way a forum is. Whether you continue to read / contribute or not is up to you. The point i was making is it aint going to change just because whatever is said fits in or doesn't wIth your own POV. Same applies to all on here.

Might wanna give DL a miss then Kev It's a forum where you're gonna see praise and criticism as a constant so no one is gonna ease up either way just because it's upsetting you or you don't get the reasoning.

Top eight at stake and we produce that rubbish! Goodwin's obsession with Petty has absolutely cost us this season. You can't play a man down in the bulk of matches (bar about two 'ok' games in total) since Rnd 5 and expect to win against the better clubs. And then attempt to play him in the ruck against two monsters (twice in the same season... ah hello!) and have a positive outcome. He just isn't a ruck and he has no form or ability at ground level rucking either. Then when he fails you send your best KF to then go into the ruck to try to turn things around. Robbing us of any structure or contested marking ability inside 50 or even just getting the ball to ground for the smalls. You can't make this stuff up. 2024 has become a complete joke of a season and seen us regress about 5 years watching so many ordinary to good teams now over take us.

And too slow off the mark. Too often second to the ball. He is simply NOT a mid fielder in any sense of the role and brings nothing to the table other than handing the oppo another opportunity at first use. Another terrible coaching decision from Simon today.

Possibly the worst game ive ever seen Kozzy play

Lol just going for the ball Bowey and gets penalised. FO Clarry's been ok in patches around the ground and away from CB

JVR has tried his guts out today

Im not sure what Goodwin or the recruiting team were thinking when they chose Billings. Nor why they selected him ahead of Fullo for today's game. The insanity inside the FD continues.

Same reason

You cant just throw a rookie on the ball. He needs to train for it and learn a little about how to play the role first

Everyone was failing in the middle in the first half. Clearances 21 - 2 The no ruck decision is hardly on Rivers.

Also allowed too many easy around ground relief marks from Darcy. A two meter tall competitor just might get a few more of those to ground and give you a 50/50 chance. Especially up around the wing where a ground ball win can often result in a shot on goal.

You can't defend so many horrid turnovers in bad spots. Sparrow needs to be dropped for Laurie. Too slow and badly out of form for months now.

Embarrassing performance all round from the Coach down.

So Freo just run players forward as they know they'll win most of the ground ball comtests and just sling shot it with speed via quick hands then the long kick out the back. The only way to counter that is to either win more one v one contests, dont turn the ball over so often and/or play man on man for a while. The latter is something we seem incapable of bringing at all, let alone for 10 or so minutes.

Why would you start Salem in the middle instead of Rivers?? Rivers is a mile ahead in the middle. SG has seriously lost the plot this season for mine.

The speed on this game looks to have gone past Salem in that first half. Hopefully he can bring something to the table in the second.

Playing mostly higher up the field and at CBs. His last month was better balanced playing mostly HF and lessor time in the middle or higher up the ground. He's upped his tackles inside 50 and goals in the last 6 weeks to his usual averages prior to today. We are paying the price inside 50 with poor ground ball gets and poor pressure at ground level inside 50 also in this first half. Robbing Peter to try and get some speed skills further up the field. Hasn't paid off so far.

Bedford by a fair margin for mine. He has a weapon which Chin does not. Chin only has manic follow up pressure (chasing tail) and second efforts which sometimes works and looks good when it comes off. Bedford brings the wheels plus the latter.

Yes but shouldn't have had to. Kolt needs to learn to kick off a few steps and not lollypops either