The heart beats true

I can’t have Williamson umpiring our games. Every 50/50 goes against us.

Anyone got any idea why there was so many Bulldogs fans on the train and getting off at Docklands, give their game doesn’t start to 7? Was odd.

Duursma looks fantastic.

Hayward gets a week and the Tigers young ruckman will get a week - both for gut punches. Ned Long hits Oliver in the face off the ball and gets a fine - because… Collingwood? It’s so pathetic.

Best day of footy on Good Friday I can remember.

I reckon McVee was very different to Bedford. Toby wanted more of a go. McVee was given his. Nobody wanted him and we gave him his only shot in the rookie draft. Put a year of development into him and then gave him every opportunity at senior level. He repaid us by stringing us along, not signing the contract he said he was going to sign, and then requesting a move to the club that was 5 minutes drive from his junior club - but never looked at him once. As others have said, he’s the new Howe.

Your bad pun game has really stepped up the last few weeks. It’s highly entertaining.

Freo have the team for sure. They really need to be aiming to finish top 4 this year. Their list doesn’t have any holes.

I agree. That’s why I though the narrative around him was odd.

Interesting to see McVee playing as a lockdown on Rankine. Didn’t he leave Melbourne because he wanted to not be a lockdown defender?

Isiah Dudley has become a really reliable small forward. He’s Koz’s cousin, and Eddie Betts’ nephew. Those are some good genes.

Why would Simpson want to do it though? It won’t lead to a long term senior gig at Carlton, and it would almost certainly disqualify him as a potential mentor at other clubs. If I was him I wouldn’t go near it. There’s no upside.

They keep saying at Carlton that it’s psychological, but I’m not convinced. At the end of every game they’ve played this year if the game went for another 5 minutes they just would have lost by another 4 goals. They aren’t AFL standard fit.

Fritsch is named in the side. If this is the player you alluded to @Demonland …

This is the kind of Thursday night entertainment the AFL has been screaming out for.

I love a good witch hunt for someone who dares tell us what they’ve heard. The audacity! In general this place has some great intel. Let’s not make the bar so high that we scare people away from sharing. That’s no fun.

I reckon all teams coaches know what most teams are going to want to do. But I think the average fan doesn’t have a clue what teams are actually doing. The amount of ‘man up’ and blaming of defenders that happen around me at the G every home game tells me the game’s tactics are lost on most fans. I’d just like one or two tv shows that highlight in better detail the tactics in games. Champion Data and Adam Simpson do a decent job on the radio, but it would be made so much better with vision - and it’s not like we don’t have enough TV shows. 👍

I don’t necessarily like David King’s delivery, but he very consistently shows behind the goals vision - which really helps explain how teams structure up. He showed great vision of Collingwood/GWS that outlines just how important forward hand pass is for unsettling a defence, and where poor kicking kills you. I thought it was interesting last night on On The Couch how Jordan Lewis said he found if hard at Melbourne’s game to really figure out what was happening in real time. The behind the goals vision is where you can really see the breakdowns, and the structures. In general I think there’s no show that really goes into how teams play, which I find really disappointing. It’s all about drama, as opposed to what’s actually happening on the field. It’s a shame as I feel like 50% of footy fans would love some complex explanation of why certain teams want a certain game style. Instead we get 15 shows almost all saying the same thing about which coach should be sacked, and who’s not going in hard enough.

I think what @rpfc said above is correct, plus I also think we are making much more of an effort to get the ball outside first, not just bang it long for field position like we did in our ‘contest and defence’ days. It stands to reason that if you can get the ball to a player in space they have more time to execute = better skill execution.

I would imagine he wouldn’t have broken any team rules because the Giants have the bye this week, and from my limited knowledge the players are pretty free when it’s more than 7 days between games.

What are your Masters in Pickett, and what are you doing your PhD in? I’m always intrigued by what people go deep in their studies with.

Well, the only logical deduction from all this is that @Dee Boys is actually Caroline Wilson, or the story is true.

I think if you look at the consistency of our centre square attendances, and how consistent that was in this game compared to the previous games, it’s pretty obvious the plan was to try and break even in the little circle (knowing that would be our weakness), and get them on the outside. Pittonet really worked hard early to nullify Max, but he just couldn’t do it for 4 quarters. Max is the only player in the competition that looks at a broken hand as a chance to be fitter. He’s absolutely grinding players into the dust because of his aerobic capacity. Sparrow also has to get credit for his ability to break away in his first 2-3 steps. I reckon it was his best game for the club.

Don’t tell Pickett Fence.

And the AFL announced today that Kylie will be the half time entertainment on Grand Final day. Kylie, should Demons members be signing up for a Grand Final Guarantee membership?