Demon Dynasty

Highly unlikely. Gawn might take a few more contested marks around the ground than Dawes but that would be about the only highlight. Think he was our leading stat getter on that stat last year. Frawley, Dawes & Pedo lead our marks i50 last year albeit pretty low averages vs the rest of the comp. All 3 are NQRs and we need to move on quickly and start building a solid list of decent talls who can actually play decent footy at AFL level and help us to impact on more matches. All part of the building blocks needed to start winning games.

6. TMac 5. Pedo 4. Jones Boy 3. Garlett 2. Grimes 1. Cross

Especially Dawes...if he makes it next week that is

We would probably get a few more wins if they relegated us to the VFL. Looking at the game last night Norf's big men were super for 4 quarters. Ours have no impact at all.

Yep. Time to go fishin me thinks

Nice work!

Dawes is done & dusted. I would prefer Gawn up there at this point. At least he can take the odd grab even if he cant hit the side of a barn door

Nah try a week's load of dog poop in the back yard at half time... glorious

Hey at least Denis earned his Carlton with a better win/loss. 22.7% vs Roos 18.1% .. prior to this match

So after 8 seasons and 7 rounds of pain & suffering and about 20 (or more) No.1 draft picks....we got 1 player who's AFL quality and possibly All Australian ....well done MFC! Hec i wld rather watch this BS...

Hartung... 15 disposals 1 Goal 100% Disposal Efficiency Only against us

Footy is played mostly above the shoulders. But where's the drilled skills & ferocious tackling as a bare minimum at this level when nothing else is working? The ability to hit lead up targets under pressure to move the ball up the field when the heat is on. When u aint got the ball man up and tackle/spoil/pressure! FMD

We have no one dangerous in our forward 50 so the Hawks will pay them no respect and just back each other in the contest while the rest run off and create mayhem. Can only prevent this if ur forward 50 pressure is up to AFL standard. It's not. Our boys off HB rarely pull the trigger inside either. Up the line is too easy for the Hawks (and most clubs) who will just spoil and back their ball/foot skills to run & spread the ball back inside thier 50 real quick for the high % scoring conversion when its mostly one on one

Pedo couldnt kick 30 meters ... fm. Salem out with a hammy

Just curious Ding... when did u start thinking we might be here to play AFL footy like the other 17 clubs?

Hey we doubled our score from last week's first half in the first 5 minutes. I'm impressed! With our amazing "No pressure" forward line and sweet footskills we should only lose this by 80 or so

Genuine all round true blue bloke. Timmy chose one Mr. G Lyon for the next freeze challenge at the G on QB weekend against the pies. They showed gazza getting called out by Timmy and Gazz was stoked! Very sad to see him like this but if we can all get behind his cause I think the Rev's sprits wld lift a little. One thing you could never question with Neil was his g&d and he sure showed an immense amount of it tonight. Head to www.freezemnd.com if u wld like to help out the cause

I sure hope not. Not another 1 goal first half!! Need to come out breathing fire, knock a few sculls together and play like berserk warriors to have any chance of keeping this within 5 goals against this mob. A good old fashioned rev up from Pete & Brian pre match might be handy! ......

So how's that working out CB?

I am not shocked at all. I am more shocked at how shocked you are lol. Our list was hardly world beating or likely to worry anyone outside the bottom 6 even with our best 22 from round 1. Not sure why Its so shocking all of a sudden after round 6 and a few usual injuries/poor form outs are taking place. I hate watching carnage as well but thats nothing new against the Hawks either for the past 9 years. I wld add Cross to the mix of pretty good each week. He is in our top 3 to 4 so far. While I dont think they will turn us into a world or Hawthorn beating team the ins are a marginal improvement on the outs and in particular the inclusion of Michie which will allow an extra rotation thru the midfield who also has decent disposal skills. I wld rather it be Viney but alas he still out. Grimes & Jones add some run and carry that we wldnt hav with Pedo/JKH/Newton with roughly the same disposal efficiency. Replacing Watts you lose some clean ball use but offer another running alternative through the middle and defensively he "should" give us a leg up on Watt's output. So all in all a marginal improvement but still an improvement IMO.

Storm in a tea cup.... close thread

Any team is!

Hell yeh! And Yeater

Wish we still had Rivers

Spot on bing. Might also have a slight effect going the other way too, giving a little more incentive to some at Casey that they might get a gig if they do up the ante down there! Carrot & Stick!