Demon Dynasty

I hate both however anything but the filth. Common Dawks do something! And if you can't win at least take out Mayturd

Team & Player Ratings to Rnd 3, 2024 vs H&A Season 2023 Gonna go out on a bit of a limb here and say... getting Clarry right should possibly be our highest priority between now and post the bye! How we do that i don't know (very few ready made mids knocking on the door for a 'managed' situation) but the FD and Sports ppl will really need to make sure Clarry's hand gets to a fully recovered state over the next 4 to 6 IF we're to go deep into finals and possibly further. Does the FD consider resting Clarry for say Kolt or Sestan in order to get Clarry right for the post bye leg? Player 2024 Rating 2024 Rank 2023 Rating % Change vs 2023 2023 Rank Change in Rank vs 2023 C Petracca 5.320 1 4.707 13.02 2 1 Max Gawn 4.045 2 3.350 20.75 7 5 Jack Viney 3.995 3 3.707 7.77 4 1 Steven May 3.783 4 3.213 17.74 8 4 C Oliver 3.460 5 5.002 -30.83 1 -4 Judd McVee 3.230 6 2.320 39.22 22 16 T Sparrow 3.205 7 2.811 14.02 16 9 A Tomlinson* 3.175 8 2.915 8.92 14 6 T Rivers 3.145 9 3.696 -14.91 5 -4 C Salem 3.025 10 2.993 1.07 12 2 Ed Langdon 2.972 11 3.057 -2.78 10 -1 Jake Lever 2.972 11 3.131 -5.08 9 -2 A N-Bullen 2.805 13 2.532 10.78 20 7 T McDonald 2.688 14 2.054 30.87 27 13 K Chandler 2.630 15 2.265 16.11 23 8 K Pickett 2.569 16 2.101 22.28 26 10 J Billings > < 2.519 17 - - - - M Hore 2.273 18 B Howes 2.240 19 - - - - B Fritsch 2.190 20 2.324 -5.77 21 1 J V Rooyen 2.090 21 2.170 -3.69 25 4 C Windsor < 2.065 22 - - - - J Bowey* 1.950 23 2.820 -30.85 15 -8 H Petty 1.850 24 2.718 -31.94 19 -5 Ben Brown < 1.658 25 1.941 -14.58 28 3 C Spargo* 1.200 26 1.886 -36.37 29 3 B Laurie* < 0.775 27 2.235 -65.32 24 -3 J Schache* 0.700 28 1.525 -54.10 33 5 T Woewodin* < > 0.378 29 1.406 -73.12 34 5 L Hunter - - 2.939 - 13 - D Turner - - 1.825 - 31 - J Melksham - - 1.599 - 32 - S McAdam - - - - - - Team Rating 66.40 69.86 -4.96 Top 6 23.83 24.43 -2.44 Bottom 6 13.38 15.17 -11.82 < Subbed out TOG > Subbed in TOG Stats courtesy of footwire.com & wheeloratings.com

Round 4, 2024 Adelaide Oval - Crows vs Demons Amazing stuff from the boys playing away against the two Adelaide clubs in consecutive weeks off a 5 day break. Ripping start to the year from CP5 coming in with the No.1 rating for the third time in five matches! 26% higher than his 2023 rating. McVee hits the big time with the No.2 rating, blitzing his 2023 rating by a massive 78% and cracking the top five rated players for his first time in the red & blue. His highest result so far, knocking off his Rnd 3, 2023 rating vs the Swans of 3.425 Lets take a look at some of his outstanding work against the Crows... 19 effectives @ 95%, 1 contested mark, 2 one percenters, 6 rebounds, 1 inside 50, 4 score involvements, 10 intercepts (second most on the night behind Keane with 11), 416 meters gained and 4 turnovers. The incredible Iron Man "May" comes in at No3. which is quite astounding under the circumstances. To post a result 22% up on his 2023 average player rating is just ridiculous given the injury cloud. Maxy posting a VG rating given the 5 day turnaround and what he produced the week before. Sparrow another solid performance, 25% up on 2023! Notable performances from Chandler & T-Mac again. Fritta solid but his Rnd 3 performance vs the Hawks still the best for him so far with a 3.425 Viney still doing well also under a cloud. Clarry suffering the effects of a (soft?) tag and that hand injury it seems! Our bottom 6 players improving on their performance against the Power which might be an indication of some "learnings" on the road? Player Rating Rank 2023 Season Rating % Change vs 2023 C Petracca 5.925 1 4.707 25.88 J McVee 4.125 2 2.320 77.80 S May 3.925 3 3.213 22.16 Max Gawn 3.725 4 3.350 11.19 T Sparrow 3.500 5 2.811 24.51 Jack Viney 3.475 6 3.707 -6.26 K Chandler 3.100 7 2.265 36.87 T Rivers 2.950 8 3.696 -20.18 B Fritsch 2.875 9 2.324 23.71 C Salem 2.800 10 2.993 -6.45 A N-Bullen 2.725 11 2.532 7.62 T McDonald 2.575 12 2.054 25.37 C Windsor 2.550 13 - - J Lever 2.525 14 3.131 -19.35 J V Rooyen 2.425 15 2.170 11.75 Ed Langdon 2.350 16 3.057 -23.13 K Pickett 2.200 17 2.101 4.71 J Billings 1.925 18 - - H Petty 1.775 19 2.718 -34.69 C Oliver 1.725 20 5.002 -65.51 B Howes 1.575 21 - - Ben Brown < 68% 0.900 22 1.941 -53.63 T Woewodin > 10% 0.150 23 3.213 -95.33 Team Score 61.65 69.86 -11.75 Top 6 24.68 24.43 1.00 Bottom 6 10.10 15.17 -33.42 < Subbed out TOG > Subbed in TOG Stats courtesy of footwire.com & wheeloratings.com

Finey calling out 'the Edge'. The only segment worth listening to via the SEN podcast or on the night. Peaky's a crack up & reminds me a little of uncle Doug from the old Wide World of Sports (basically a VFL footy show) from the 70s... You can throw the rest of SEN in the bland AFL 'lackeys' bin.. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/tDAFaZibYRrEJThV/?mibextid=xfxF2i

Howdy DZ. All good thx for asking. Super late on this weeks as i had a wedding road trip to travel to in Bowral and back (from Melb). I was thinking about bringing the laptop to complete while i was here but the potential fallout with me lil stormcloud probably wouldn't have ended so well! Chowing down in the Beechworth bakery right now 😅 I'll get this done and up by this evening. Hope all's well at your end.

My fav.... EssenDone 😅

Another contentious win resulting from an umpiring / arc shizen fest

Dog's wld be up 91 - 89 without the false mark behind the goal line decision

Hooray Noughton marked!

Duryea's kicking has been shizen

Score shld now be 85 - 87

Had the pleasure of meeting and chatting to him for about 10 mins about 18 months ago and can confirm same. Super humble, no nonsense straight down the line. You could be having a beer alongside at a bar and not have any idea he's a super star. Good SOH too. Love watching him. Needs more support in the middle though. Mostly just him & Libba.

Dogs shld only be 10 points down. The Stengle ball was still moving in his hamds (just but that's enough) and not totally in control as it (fully) crossed the line. HQ continues to find ways to influence one team or another undeservedly. AFL amature hour continues on unabated.

How was Atkins supposed to avoid that? Cut off his leg?

Dogs have allowed too many mids to get forward of the ball and over run the contest at CBs tonight. The Cats just pressure and sweat the turnover then link by hand to outlets & outnumbers straight out the front into their forward 50. Not sure if the Dogs are playing a sweeper but if not why not? If they are where the hell is he?

Baker having a good night

I think Scott is a flat earther and was referring to the edge of the earth and how long it would take till the Bombers eventually fell off. Didn't have to wait long.

The Kangas are desperately short of some hard nose vets. Among other things

How about Tex running over the mark on at least three occasions by a meter or so. Never called back. You're allowed to determine your own mark now apparently. Even if the player kicking in has only 4 meters or so between the fence and the player over the mark. One kick was partially smothered!

Fox was bearable at one point but not once they start bringing the likes of Kingy into game day coverage. He should be left to First Crack and other specialist programes where his inane over analysis can be taken or left by choice and his bias against the Demons avoided. SEN i stopped listening to once Hutchy took over and muzzled or fired any who spoke their mind a little freely (KB, The Ox, Finey). Gerard 'The Crow' Whately call (snippet) on the Rivers non-holding the ball decision i accidently came across while surfing FB. There's very few callers that are unbiased or a bearable listen. Anthony Hudson & Richo are still passable on 3AW but then you've got grumpy Tony Shaw to put up with! I guess no one's perfect

Attack from stoppage down i suspect due to Viney under done and Clarry with only one hand. Viney's our number 1 extractor and a fully fit Clarry (other hand plus uninterrupted pre-season) would surely be No.2 Hopefully we can get Clarry's hand back to some sort of normality pronto. With Gus out our 'managed' options here are limited otherwise you'd have to seriously think about giving him next week off plus the bye to try and get it right for the next leg. Maybe time to bring in the Kolt for his debut but probably too early?

Not even a mention. Then you have Whately on the SEN broadcast literally barracking and booing against the Rivers non-HTB decision. Did he say a word with the Rivers push in the back? Bet he didn't. Weak as [censored] Whately. The entire AFL is such an inbred incestuous circus. Hard to believe but it's even worse during gather round where there's home town barracking now from supposedly impartial broadcasters. BT / Chanel 7 & FOX (Kingy in particular) included. Kingy couldn't help himself after the win... still highlighting that in his view we are under achievers if we don't win another flag. Couldn't just speak about the great win and had to drag that out lol. Pathetic the lot of em. No wonder Carey bags the [censored] out of them. Anyone who speaks their mind doesn't last long as a commentator on any stations / tv shows. Jordan Lewis & Richo examples of that. Chanel 7 also now has the blandest special comments ppl going. Talk about a snooze fest. Selwood...bah!!

Billings just doesn't look strong enough through the core, at the contest / over the ball imv. Physically he is a fair way off this level imho. The missed tackles is a coach killer. To justify his spot he needs to be kicking the two gimme goals (at least) and hitting a few targets by foot coming inside or at least around the arc. He did very little of the latter last night unfortunately. The missed goals of Petty, Kozzy, Max and the two from Billings left the door open. Kick just one of those (and we should have) and the game was pretty much beyond doubt at 3/4 time. As much as i love Max and i felt he played a VG game, will he ever learn to aim for the right hand post from 30 odd out? Petty is slowly improving but it's a hard climb back from an interrupted pre-season. Slowly getting there. Smacca should be ready post the bye. Looking forward to seeing what he brings. BBB did a few good things and helps with structure but will probably also benefit from the 7 day break to Brisvegas and the bye the folllowong week. No doubt plenty of sore bods after that mammoth effort. The win even more amazing given Vins was just back from a dose of the squirts and Clarry with one hand behind his back.

Max held around the waste / pulled away from the ruck comtest by the guernsey on at least 3 to 4 occasions and nada zilch ignored! Was it Howes pushed square in the back in the square for Dawson's goal in the last? That was an amazing win given the bias of the yellow fellows tonight.