Demon Dynasty

Lots of blue sky hype on D'land of late. RPFC reckon you may have had one too many easter eggs already mate! Sure hope we win on Saturday fellas otherwise there'll be a few hot cross bunnies around here

Nice stuff City Mooney is one commentator that gets Roosy's style and grand plan. Has said that defence is the hardest thing to teach a bunch of younger players but that it has to be taught if the group is to work as a complete defensive unit (forwards included) and cover for each other when things don't go their way. He believed this would have been the focus in the first year or so until it was drilled into them. Reckons most players who come into the AFL know how to run forward and attack but most are pretty poor at defending and it doesn't come naturally as it's not something they have trained for in their junior teams. Basically this is what he believed Roos has been focusing on and fine tuning the last few years (with the resulting ugly results on the park and scoreboard) and that he has now flicked the switch, allowing the players some rope to run and carry and attack. For those who aren't already aware, Moons can be heard on 1116 SEN if interested (can't recall the exact day but pretty sure he does a short review of the weekends matches on Monday mornings around 10/11...maybe Tuesdays).

...."A 2010 study published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine found that only 63 percent of NFL athletes who had an ACL reconstruction returned to play another game. Roughly two out of three. And two years after ACL surgery, Andrews said, about 55 percent of NFL players are no longer playing in the league. For the majority, an ACL still is pretty synonymous with the end of a career."* *Link to full article below Just happy to see him back on the park. Fingers crossed and hope he has an "Adrian Peterson" like comeback! http:// http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/acl-injuries-no-longer-spelling-doom-for-football-careers-1.5335284

By my reckoning PG i think we've been doing pretty much that for nigh on 15 years now

Ah bit slow there ... preaching to the converted !

Ah bit slow there ... preaching to the converted !

Agreed....would also add Jackovich and Garry in that mix. Jakovich was unstoppable when he was on. Trouble was he was there one week, and would sometimes go missing the next through injury, suspension or just not interested etc.

Not many players capable of covering off on Nick Im afraid. Has to be a combo of Tom and Garlo with chop outs from others If they can make the contest. Nick plays such a high game and then runs back just as hard and does It repeatedly. Toms the most suited for this job Athletically and defensively. His problems arise when he actually gets the pill. I wld be treating Tom like a lumbering ruckman at this stage , making sure there's always one or 2 options running past from behind for the quick handball as much as possible to minimise the chance of Tom producing too many damaging turnovers, thereby reducing the opponent's ability to score from turnovers In our defensive half

Hope Nick's playing. Cant remember last time we beat them with him In their lineup. Shld give us a more realistic guide as to where we're at

Hate to agree with you on this one C&B but as you say, there's much that clubs don't tell us when they tell us what they want to tell us Front and square here is the Club's desire to no doubt play the optimistic card in the hope of selling a few hundred extra memberships and keep the sponsors/coteries on the drip. As per usual with all football announcements on such matters i'm taking this as another X file moment ie., the truth is out there (somewhere)! Hoping for the best (4 to 6) but preparing for the worst (2nd half of season or beyond)

Exciting debut with poise, nice finish, a little flair. Solid overhead and also lays a nice tackle! Would play him round one off the bench. Too good for anywhere else albeit he will need occasional breaks to recover from rigours of AFL. If we can get Brayshaw back on the park and Petracca debuts cleanly (touch wood), this could finally be a reasonable year for this club. Not to mention the Hulksta

Reckon our disposal skills by foot (ability to lower eyes and hit targets) and decision making in transistion from HB in general today was pretty ordinary about half the time. At other times it wasn't too bad. Need to clean up this aspect if we're to get anywhere near 10 wins this year as many scribes seem to think we should get (roughly) with this list. Our circle handball work away and out of congestion is better though IMO. Probably over doing it at times but a big improvement on last year so far from what i've seen. Clean up the first part and we should get 10+ wins. If we don't we'll be looking at 7/8 again me thinks. I like Martin's idea of trialling T Mac up forward during the NAB cup as he's just too panicky down back and disposal/decision making hmmm. Too late now though. Could try for the last match i guess.

Hopefully it's just us that are bracing ourselves and they aren't bracing a certain someone's knee even further right now The delay has me pretty worried

Sorry forget that last post djr. Completely false Go to AFL website click on > Fixtures & Results > NAB Challenge > 2016 Season and it is on the right hand side. Only the last 3 quarters though and probably wont last long so you better get on it

As far as i know it's still being offered djr but only for the season proper, not the NAB which is exclusive to Foxtel

Has had a crack and disposal when he's had it pretty solid. Hasn't seen much of it though

Overall panicky and slow Was it that or the "tad too wide" kick from Pedo?

We had momentum?

Agreed but hang on...what's the "next bit" ?

Watts always 'looks' good

Maybe not to you guys but as WYL has alluded to in his usual subtle style.... it is CRITICAL for this club given it's last decade in the wilderness Vote 1 SYWL for MFC's next President! (P.J. ur still No.1 until then bro!)

Right on Time The AFL are very happy to have the top clubs continuing to roll along and grow ever stronger. I would hate to be on the bottom 6 clubs in this competition right now....oh wait The MFC has dug its own grave over many decades, but the other 5 will also continue to dead cat bounce off and along the bottom for more decades to come under this set up with the gulf between the bottom 6, middle 6 and top 6 about to grow even wider than it already is. The AFL has effectively cemented the class based competition of the haves and the have nots that it helped set up over the decades prior to this, hammering in the final nail with its version of Free Agency.

Def not a Norf fan but it was clear to me (and Ingrid) what was going to take place in the 2nd & 3rd quarters last night once Norf got the jump and were allover the Coke. There is no doubt the umpires influence the outcomes of some of these matches in order to provide one team an advantage over another in terms of making sure they stay in a game and gain a decent buffer, preferably by half time but in the case of a terribly out of form WC who were so horrid they still couldn't take advantage of some of the most blatant umpiring bias I've ever seen, it needed one more quarter of this horribillis to get WC in front. Norf were all over the coaster in that first quarter and a half until the umps got involved, or didn't depending on if it was a blatant to Norf or not. In a normally umpired game of football that was a Norf win last night but unfortunately the pattern of umpiring bias when playing a 'preferred' AFL anointed team is so blatantly obvious there can only be a few reasons for it. One involves a brown paper bag... The other, undue or covert influence from upon high to assist in a certain 'preferred' AFL outcome. BOG for WC last nite was the impiring by a country mile! All for the finals! As long as you fit into the AFL's carefully orchestrated big picture. NFL rules!

For anyone who still doesnt get the intrinsic inner "something" that defines leadership and someone who has the right stuff vs ones that are NQR, I'll give you 4 names for starters... Selwood Hodge Jones Fyfe Hoping we might be able to add the Hulk (and others) to our list at some point

Thinking along same lines OD. Pretty sure if we were a power club with the coffers overflowing we would pay out Terlich & Jones in a flash