Queanbeyan Demon

Had they lost, two weeks. They won, so a fine.

Serious question . . . how many Gerilong players would actually get a game for the Deez?

Brilliant thread. Thank you.

For the last 50 years the joint has been run by psychopaths. Eventually, psychopathy catches up and destroys everything. They are now 26 years into their wastelands journey.

What are you doing on Demonland Sue with such insights?

F*&^ing hell. Laughing so hard just spat my coffee all over the keyboard.

The Demon looks way to friendly to me. Could we not have modelled the image on Nathan Carroll's face???

347 days.

The Deez obviously . . . who else? Geelong have their problems. Ryes Stanley, not for the first time, was cut to ribbons by Gawn. Geelong do not hold any real fear for the Dees. Other than 20 mins in the second term, we controlled the game. Too old, too slow, flat track bullies that s*%t the bed when it's white-hot. Port have a reputation as downhill skiers, but are going to be favoured by home crowds and wounded opponents. Keep tight. The Bears are well coached and don’t have a glaring weakness. If (and it’s a huge IF), Joe plays four weeks of great footy, they can win it. The Dogs have had a brain fart big time . . . difficult to tell if it's terminal or if they can bounce back. Can't see Essendrugs beating them though. Swans . . . Longmire is cunning (in a nice way) as any coach going around. A well balanced side who on their day can beat most others. GWS . . . Cameron’s coaching this year has been brilliant. Completely slipped under the radar of the pundits. Has completely rebuilt the backline on the fly and reinvented the roles of all his mids. (Whoever wins out of GWS and Swans could go on and play in the granny against us.) Essendrugs . . . . . vomit.

"Clash strip". Strip of what? "Interchange gates". Seems to me they've swung off their hinges.

Yes. And imagine how good we'll be when Max, Tacktor and Clarry truly arrive?

Darcy's a d&%k. I expected more from Richardson. When I heard them say that, I thought there was a big chance of egg on face. The momentum had clearly started to swing our way before three quarter time. Classic group think stuff.

I watched the Scott pressa. He's a problem. Bizarre. They will never win a premiership with him as coach.

Their cheap jibes Melbourne have been genuinely pathetic any time the heat has been put on them and thats exactly whats going to happen come finals, isn't really a side to fear provided we play our best footy. If Bulldog's beat Port Friday night, and we're backing our selected 22 to get the job done against Melbourne (whoever that is). Melb is a more talented version of StkILDA. Just want to see whole team improvement and focus each game from here on in. And to give Melbourne some mental demons heading into September. Their compliments Melbourne are the big threat in finals this year with a full strength team. Gawn/Jackson vs Stanley/Blicavs is a definitie win to Melbourne. Gawn will have 45 hit outs, 20 disposals and 6 clearances on the weekend. The Dees have some genuine guns that worry me - Petracca, Gawn, Oliver can all dominate. Dees are primed to take the silverware. Few injuries and seem to have got their junk together. Their arrogance We'll trounce the Dees. We lost to Melbourne at the G by 25 points with no Danger and no Cameron. They don't fill me with any sort of fear. Overrated imo. Player match-ups The key to this game is making sure that Leever is accountable. May will play close attention to Hawk so whoever plays on Leever needs to draw him away from Hawkins and if Leever doesn't follow, then his opponent needs to be utilised. Must not put O'Connor on Oliver. If you see that at the start of the game just ring Sportsbet and put everything on Melbourne. Stanley is playing well at the minute, Smashed Marshall and he plays well against Gawn. I'm sure they will have a tagging job for O'Connor, most likely Oliver or Petracca. Although Oliver gets a lot of the ball, his passing and goal kicking won't hurt you on the score board, I'd tag Petracca instead. Looking forward to seeing May and Hawkins battle it out. I have to say Stanley is playing the best I have ever seen him play. He won't dominate Gawn in the hit-outs, but his other work around the ground is going to test big Maxy to the core. I think Petty will get the job as he's very agile and should be able to hang with Cameron. Everything else Could Fort be our Clark Keating? Dees look pretty top heavy to me. On paper it looks like we are chasing the win. Last time we played Melb in round 23: Us:24.11.155, Deez:6.8.44 Differences from the last time we played the Dees: In: Parfitt Cameron Rohan Dangerfield Simpson Out: Clark Duncan Z.Guthrie Narkle Stewart. Compared to Melbourne's changes.... In: Smith Petty Harmes Brown Bowey Out: Hunt Jetta Jones Jordon Melksham. Cameron is our forward line basically. I mean potentially we could have the best forward line especially with the last two Coleman medallists , but at the minute it’s not dynamic. Close & Dahl are not goal scorers, Sav is a joke, Hawkins is glued to the boundary line. Higgins doesn’t score much. We are 7th of the top 8 teams for scoring and in 7 games we haven’t scored more than 70 points. Hawkins has not exactly starred in finals in recent years; Rohan has a poor finals record; Dalhousie is not a goal kicker; so a lot - too much in fact - depends on Cameron. I wouldn’t mind Hawkins being rested this week simply so that he avoids suspension ahead of finals. He’s been getting a little frustrated over the past few weeks, and I can just see if he gets poor delivery this week, Dees defenders will rib him, and he’ll lash out with a dumb elbow or poor tackle or something. We must have him for finals. Might as well rest him until the grand final (if the Cats make it) just to be safe. My fear for Geelong is that a team will get a hold of is in the midfield for a quarter or half and expose our backline. Geelong’s forward line is a stagnant mess. Cameron is the exception. Melbourne is very susceptible to pressure which is why they've lost to some average, low skilled teams. We pressure them, we win. Melbourne is a super talented team but how can they lose to teams like Adelaide, Collingwood and Hawthorn? Pressure. Letting Salem distibute the ball from the back unchecked would be a mistake. Salem's been off the boil for the past month or two because teams are clamping down on him. Lever will try and intercept everything just as Taylor did for GWS the other week. One whole post It doesn't look likely that we will play them rd.1 in the finals now, but this will be an important test for both sides. I think Melbourne will certainly go in very strong favourites. We simply don't have the midfield they do and although we seem to find ways to win, without key defenders Touhy and Stewart we will struggle to get that run off the backline. Hopefully Atkins and Rohan will be back to put the heat on the Dees a little and release O'Connor to play more defensive in the middle and Rohan to force a defender to chase him all over the field. I simply don't think the defensive side of our midfield will hold up unless we get the balance right. Their backline has improved and that's a threat. Jake "Pull My" Lever and Steven "Holding the Man" May are both playing well and deserve respect. If we bomb it blindfolded into the forward line like we did vs GWS and like our 1st quarter vs Saints they will star with Ed "Not Karl" Langdon just running it out at will. Their forward line is still whacky though. Bayley "Needs a Proper Haircut" Fritsch is having a purple patch and would have been a good matchup for Stewart. Not sure who runs with him now. Ben Brown is still a bit of a decoy player so he doesn't worry me much. The rest of them are pretty good. Not sure about jake Milkshake or Charlie Cargo though. Max "The Personality" Gawn is still a legend, despite his umpire's pet reputation. Clayton "Kicks Like Cam Guthrie" Oliver is scary prolific. Christian "One Console at a Time" Petracca and co. are way better at their best than our guys. I think they have answers to any question we put to them. Big test. I'd say they win by 25 pts.

Hey GBDee. The fact you are able to critically self reflect is the characteristic that possibly disqualifies you from sharing on this forum . . . not your perceived removal from the nuances of the modern game. Thanks for your wonderful contribution. QD.

"Leadership Group" . . . . . please . . . . . . When those doing an analysis of a club's playing roster (sorry, team), and authoritatively state "this group" [insert whatever profound insight they arrived at in the car on the way to the studio (yes, I'm thinking of you Lloyd and Cornes)] completely [censored] me. What, all of the 38 players blah, blah, blah . . . .

And who could forget the late Doug Heywood's brilliant piece of commentary, "{insert player's name] has let rip with an enormous drop *&nt". The station fell silent for about five minutes.

I'm pretty sure in 1980, Michael Roach, Fatso Taylor and Mark Jackson all won the goal kicking at Bunt Road across the Seniors, Resies and U19 respectively. And DB and UZ used to get the match of the day based on some weird rotational basis and fit it in between the races. Bizzare.

Preference order: Watch the Deez win in person Watch the Filth loose in person Watch the Filth loose again on the replay.

I've spend the best part of 58 years expending emotional and spiritual energy on this mostly disfunction organisation. It's easily the longest relationship of my life. And i don't even wanna think about the money i've poured into the joint, one disaster after another. So a premiership would barely balance the scales. Having said that, I'll be buying all the relevant merch . . . it's what people in long-term, codependent relationships do.

If he gets us to the other side I would.

Hey DJ . . . I love you . . . . . but . . . . . . Jones is in another football universe compared to Murphy. For a number one draft pick, Murphy has been 'good ordinary' at best.

Oliver, Tracktor and May car pool. Arrive at airport five minutes late. Rest of team arrive in Perth to begin their seven days quarantine after crushing Jeelong by 15 goals in the preliminary at Kardinia Park. The other MCG (McGowan) says "sorry boys", . . . Deez loose by five points on Robbie Grey's last kick of the day from the hotdog stand after Melksham gives away a 50 metre penalty on the halfback flank (awarded by umpire Nicholls of course). Post script November . . . With a premiership and Norm Smith medal secured, Deez offer Robbie Grey 800K for 2022 to be our icing on the cake. He declines, accepting the Suns offer of $1M per year for three years.

You'd think having Treloar and Smith in your over 20 possessions multi would be safe right????????????????

Ten point plan: Tassie secedes from Australia, renamed 'Democratic People's Republic of Devil's Island', Creates it's own currency (The Devil's dollar) and prints money, New 30,000 seat Optus like stadium built with the new currency, Offers Deez big money to be co-located in both Melbourne and to the new nation's capital, Devonport, Deez agree, 11 games in Melbourne and 11 in Devo, with 50 year free travel and accommodation between Melbourne and the DPRDI for current Dee members, Poach Luke Beverage as coach (Bevo to Devo has a nice marketing ring to it), New team known as the Devil's Demons, A 50 year moratorium on salary cap breaches granted to new entity, AFL renamed Pacific International Super Optimist Football League, Eddie, Dean Margetts, Razor Ray, Matthew Nicholls, Malthouse and Tex Walker intercepted at border and placed in Bernie detention centre for undetermined period of time.