Demon Dynasty

JJ is a real goer. And a lovely player at VFL level. But.... too many clangers and poor decisions made at this level for mine. Would be blooding Woey at this point. Hibb on and Joel forward yes??

Clutch goal Nibbler!

Nice goal from Sparrow. Needs to lose the fend off nonsense though. Hooray finally HTB!

Razor actually clarified that exact circumstance on SEN and said that if it's after the kick its a free. He apparently left out the bit about it doesn't apply for us!!

Why is Jordan being played at CHF when we have Grundy back in and two tall forwards!!!!??? What a load of boulderdash from the FD. GET THE FORWARD STRUCTURE RIGHT FCS!!!!

Why was Smith running away from his opponent there towards the Blues' goals when he needed to attack Curnow and try and impact the drop??? Terrible

Lol spun 360 throws ball in the air..... no free. Pay the one against Clarry though straight in front

ANB could've gone deep to a contest then. Instead tries to thread the needle through heavy traffic. The distance was too far, inviting the intercept. Poor decision there from such an experienced player. Turnover.... goal.

If we keep playing our normal game instead of a change up to allow for the comditions we just might! Still trying for the clean chains of possessions in greasy conditions. Players like ANB & Sparrow looking to take on the tacklers instead of the quick surge kick forward. Makes no sense unless the oppo aren't closing and hopeless with their pressure. Unfortunately the Blues aren't one of those teams. So we either change the way we play to align with the conditions or it will be a coin flip, or worse! Will the players get this general message at half time and reset? If not why not !!??

Whoever wins this wins the cup reckon

Hooray sub time! And about time

Why aren't we using our subs?? Looking shabby as a result. Fresh legs needed!!!

Dr. Who's fault. All charges dropped surely!

And the East... but apparently the G remains a Shangri-La vs the dreaded Melbourne eddy and Grundy is safe to play!

Sunshine Coast?? Pissing down here .... 12kms as crow flies from the G

The two Rucks selection is now looking problematic in this weather. Surely Grundy comes out for Hibb and Smith goes forward!! JVR as the (roughly) 20% chop out for Max in the middle and obviously forward ruck duties JVR's hit outs to advanatage % in the last few matches is as good or a smidgen better than Grundy's season average.

Might be the effect of missing a full pre-season starting to impact Kent. Pure speculation but listening to many players who've had that interruption over the years, they all say that anytime their pre-season's effected it tends to result in a less than optimum performance during the year. Not sure what's happened to Harmes. No one door stops the payers much and even if that were to happen they're all so well trained to say nothing now. The other one is May. Might also be a pre-season issue. Wasn't there some sort of calf issue early on that he was recovering from? Missed the first game or two?

I suspect something like 85% - 90% LD. Clarry will be chomping at the bit after being held back for a number of weeks, well beyond when he felt he was ready. We have a rampaging Tracc in career best form. Max capable of winding his game back to new levels we haven't seen. Kozzie playing alot better in his limited mid minutes and pretty dangerous. Viney tearing it up since Clarry was out. JVR having one of his best games last week. One of the best defenses in the AFL assuming May fires up. My only doubt is the return of Grundy that unsettles alot of the ruck cohesion in the middle, built up since his departure. However, provided Goody recognises that we've gelled in the middle big time 'without' Grundy and keeps him away from significant chunks at CBs, hopefully that won't happen. If that's the case i reckon we will send them packing. If it doesn't then it will probably become a bit of a [censored] fest & another coin toss.

Amen to that. The Blues are about to feel what it's like to cop the pointy end of the Demon cattle prod.

I feel they've probably underestimated the impact of the return of Clarry. If he plays anywhere near his best and the rest of the boys show up, the Blues might be in for a bit of a let down me thinks.

I was at the game. And all the other home games. Grundy is ok around the ground. Not as influential at CBs as Max imo. I've watched enough games to know that as soon as Grundy spends significant time at CBs, the oppo starts to gather momentum, by evening up or winning the clearance count. Many of the oppo's come backs from deficits have started when Grundy spends major minutes in the middle. Play him forward, play him around the ground if needed for a chunk of time. If Goody's learned anything about the duo, he won't play Grundy in the middle for significant minutes at any stage. With one exception...the result's beyond doubt and we can afford to 'manage' Max on the bench.

Lordy no thanks 55. We'd probably end up either well behind or so far behind, we'd be chasing tail for the most part or kissing the game Goodbye by half time. Has to be Max for the first 3 quarters or so .....then Grundy, but only with the game well in hand imv. Grundy spending significant time at CBs (aside from coming on as sub late) = handing the momentum / game to the oppo. The diff between Max & Grundy is chalk and cheese. Not sure what's changed that has lead Goody to back flip on the Grundy to VFL decision so soon. Yes Petty is out but Grundy hardly demanded a call up based on his two matches at Casey. You have to ask what was the point of all the 'forward craft' learnings nonsense we heard from the FD here. There was certainly no learnings that i witnessed.

Clarry in for Harmes a no brainer and great news. As for Grundy i just can't see the why.... So Petty is out. He was effectively a forward and playing the role beutifully with impact. We've seen with our own eyes how Max has grown another leg once Grundy exited "letting Max be Max". Joel Smith was surely the next option before Grundy yet we don't bring in either Tomlinson or Hibb (sub) which allows Smith to play that role. So looks like Smith is playing the Tomo role. That part might work but i'm not sold on Grundy into the team. As i've said from half way through the season.... sub at best.