Demon Dynasty

Aside from Kozzy and Melk. Def our best tall forward prospect (at this point). Handy down back and can be played there anytime to good effect. But absolutely no reason why we can't trial him forward for the remainder of the season. Nothing to lose and better to cross this off as an option (yeh or neh) well before commencing proceedings in 2026. Our second best (tall) defender this season in T-Mac can't get a game under Simon though. Who for some perplexing reason, prefers to play an alternative out-of-form Lever. A player that probably cost us at least two goals directly from his clangers today (possibly more). No reason why you couldn't bring in T-Mac and move Turner for a trial run forward for the remainder of the season. Won't happen under Goodwin though.

At the coaching, fitness and player level. Bar a few cameos for maybe a quarter or a bit more, this team is unwatchable now and full on amature performances have become the norm whenever the oppo turns up a bit of heat. We crumble like a house of cards. So easy to beat under any reasonable pressure. Simon has us still trying to save games when 3 to 4 goals down with 10 to 15 mins to go. Then there's Simon's inexplicable decision to play an unfit fumbles Lever ahead of our 2nd best defender (prior to being dropped) in T-Mac. Senior players which need to be seriously considered for trade at year's end in order to start the rebuild... ❌️ Viney - Too slow, getting caught far too often, doesn't kick goals and can't hit a target by foot. Almost always plays on and panic kicks in straight lines into the F50 ❌️ Clarry - Sadly not a patch on the pre 2024 champion. Can play out a quarter or two but that's it. No tank to keep it going beyond that and zero ability to go with his oppo after half time in any defensive sense or just get back inside D50 to help out & intercept (on occasions). ❌️ Fritsch - A shell of the premiership player of 2021. Wants the easy ball out the back almost always. Refuses to work off his opponent and lead up at the carrier, mostly always running back to the goals hoping for a long over-the-top kick for the joe-the-goose. He's become a cheap selfish player that doesn't do the team things often enough including in a two way coverage pressure sense. Too easily beaten in one v ones i50 and up the ground as well. Downhill skier at best. ❌️ Tracc - where do you start. Often just nowhere near it in general and a massively flawed panic stations footballer with ball in hand now. Is he a chance to ever get back to the pre-injury rampaging player we once knew? I guess anything's possible but 2026 has to be the turning point surely! ❌️ Lever - There's no point intercepting if all you have in your kitty is down-the-line long bombs and, when under heat, continually panic handballing straight back to the oppo for easy turnover goals Depth / fringe 22 with occasional looks at AFL level when they knock the door down at Casey... Chandler - a good ordinary footballer who always starts the season well but peters out by about Rnd 8 - 10. Looks busy and is handy at times but just doesn't do enough to justify automatic selection in the 23. Rarely kicks goals after about Rnd 8 for whatever reason. Players on the fringe / Coin flip. Personally i would trade and/or delist the lot at years end bar Sharp who has shown something on occasions, albeit he has also been bog ordinary on many other occasions. IMV these players are all flawed footballers in their own way... Sharp* last chance saloon 2026 JVR - One trick pony whose hands / athleticism simply aren't good enough to justify a regular spot. 2026 or bust. Salem - Constantly getting caught / fumbling or being beaten in most one v ones now. Great servant, ever appreciative of the 2021 flag year plus other VG performances over the years but time to move on. Jeffo - Year four and we are still looking at a player who looks like he's in his first year. A handy VFL player at best. Sparrow - Doesn't have many weapons apart from the occasional goal when he gets away from his opponent. Gets beaten by opponent in one v ones far too often and can't play through the middle ie; mostly ineffective when he does. Aside from the occasional opportunistic goal, what else does he bring? Hore - Never gets on the park. Can't stay there when he does and just doesn't impact enough at AFL or VFL level Fullo - delist (Casey list only if he wants to stay on it)

Team & Player Ratings to Rnd 16, 2025 vs H&A Season 2024 * Played less than two full matches < Subbed out at least once or more > Subbed in at least once or more Stats courtesy of footwire.com & wheeloratings.com

Don't hold me to this but i seem to recall there is a component of scoring (or conversion rate from entries via transitioning off the back half into 50) from ball movement that is fed into the ball movement ratings. Could be wrong though.

Melk & Kozz yes. Another solid effort from Bowsa. But as has been the tail in the last two or three seasons, too much left to too few DZ. Our follower unit has also dropped the ball in terms of effectiveness also aside from Maxy's herculian efforts some time again and the odd Clarry cameo. Then there's our entry methods (mostly still bombing and playing it in there in straight lines) and conversion i50. Just horrid far too often. In particular Tracc. His disposals and apparent shots at the sticks are mostly 'Look Away'stuff this season. You can't win many games at this level with that sort of work in front of the sticks. When i watch the Cats i'm reminded of how critical it is to hit the score board. Keeps them in so many games and helps them get over the line plenty of times, even if they're having an ordinary day out. Not always but most of the time anyway.

Round 16, 2025 People First Stadium - Suns vs Demons Melk winding the clock back big time. Not going to troll through the records but his rating would have to be close to his highest in the Red & Blue. Possibly his best. Not a bad day out from the wily veteran! Player & Team Ratings - Demons > Subbed out TOG % > Subbed in TOG % Player & Team Ratings - Suns Combined Player Ratings Stats courtesy of footywire.com and wheeloratings.com

Pattracca post the injury Skills ❌️ Awareness ❌️ Contest to Contest ❌️ Commitment over the ball ❌️ Contested marking ❌️ Clearance work ❌️ Goal kicking. Was already ordinary. Now regressed to being one of the worst shots in the league.

Thanks for the flag Fritta but time to look elsewhere. Game has gone past him. Adds absolutely nothing to this forward line and useless up the ground also.

Im at the 7 minute mark of the first quarter and no idea what the present score is. Havent read any comments. Took us about 11 mins to get our second entry inside 50. They've had about 10 and about 90% of time in their forward half. (Now 20 inside 50s to 6 with 1 minute left in the first). Can't string more than about three consecutive possessions together. Comtinually turning it over. Fumble city. Indisciplined stuff still happening. Coming off the bye and look dissinterested. Zero energy. Can't kick a goal to save ourselves. One of the worst Vic memberships this season yes? Aside from a May, Bowey, Kozzy and the odd Max contribution there is no spirit, fight, skills or white line fever in the bulk of this list. We are not AFL worthy or worth watching and on the verge of becoming irrelevant once more if we aren't already. The team and effectively the entire club is now in complete free fall and will need a complete review and most likely a full rebuild from the coach down. It will be a decade or more before we become a serious finals prospect once again.

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)

Team & Player Ratings to Rnd 14, 2025 vs H&A Season 2024 * Played less than two full matches < Subbed out at least once or more > Subbed in at least once or more Stats courtesy of footwire.com & wheeloratings.com

The 2025 AFL Goals from Free Kic...The 2025 AFL Goals from Free Kicks Ladder after Round 14The best and worst differentials.

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.

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

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.

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.

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).

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)

There's no stopping those entries when there's such poor pressure and easy outlets WW

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

Woe is probably shuffling deck chairs but couldn't be worse. Can at least play a cameo in the middle for short stints also.

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.

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

Shocking today. Chandler & Petty should be joining him.... if only we had more subs

Someone in the team should [censored] May off at about the 5 minute mark of every game!!