Maluski

Hunter and ANB just miss out, rest of the team was poor-to-average.

6 May 5 Spargo 4 J Smith - Why does this guy get NO love on demonland? competed all night, 4 goals basically, given Kozzie stole one off him with his undisciplined selfish reversal free kick 3 McVee 2 Lever 1 Sparrow

6 Petty 5 Oliver 4 ANB 3 Langdon 2 Harmes 1 Petracca Honorable mentions to: T Mac, Joel Smith, Bedford - who would have played great games had Sparrow, Jackson and Rivers been dropped as many on here called for.

666 Oliver - champion 5 Petty - solid as a rock 4 Gawn 3 Fritter 2 Spargo 1 May (heavily penalized for poor discipline, and x2 suicide turnover kicks into the middle, otherwise was amazing)

Nibbler out, Bedford in Milkshake out, TMac in

Saints in the lead! Go saints!

6 Milkshake 5 Petty 4 Hunt 3 Salem 2 Brayshaw 1 Gawn

Looking at the likely Geelong line up, I would reckon their bottom 6, matched up vs our bot 6, are: Mark O Connor - never even heard of him, a 6-gamer who averages 12 D (disposals). Avg S (score of supercoach and dreamteam) is 53. 3.3 score involvements, 1 tackle. Compare him to our weakest link JKH: 34 gamer with 15 D, 62 S. 5.3 scoee involvements, 4 tackles. Big win to JKH over O Connor. (yes I know these scores arent necessarily perfectly indicative of a player's worth but they are a decent-ish surrogate marker) Jed Bews: 70 gamer, 11 D, 43 S, 3.6 Marks, 1.6 ScoreInvolvements. Bigger bodied bloke, probs most comparable to Vandenberg. AVB has him dominated easily. Statswise he covers him in disposals (15), marks (4.8), SI (5), score (67) but most importantly, grunt. Jack Henry: Has done some decent things as a young 21 gamer. 11 D, 58 S, 0.4 goals, 2.6 SI. Spargo: just 15games, 15 D, 58S, 0.8 goals, 5.3 SI, pressure forward. Spargo wins here imo. Jake Kolodjashnij: 69 gamer, 11D, 54 S. Classed as Key position player similar to Weideman. Weideman 17gamer, 10 D, 52 S. Probably a draw. Menzel: 72 gamer, 11 D, 64 S, 2.3 goals, 6 SI. Murdoch: 107 gamer, 15 D, 72 S, 0.5 Goals, 4.2 SI, 3 tackles. Forward who moves thru midfield. Both these Geelong blokes are skillful, but light 'soft' type players which dont stand up as well under finals pressure imo. Comparatively, Hannan: 32 gamer, 12 D, 58S, 1.6 goals, 6.4 SI. Draw, or slight edge goes to Menzel. ANB 56 game forward/midfielder, 17 D, 76 S, 4 tackles, 1.1 goals, 6 SI. All more than Murdoch, absolute domination here. JKH, ANB, AVB dominate O Connor, Murdoch and Bews. Spargo beats Henry imo. Weideman/Kolodjashnij is a draw. Only Menzel edges out Hannan. Overall scores for bot 6 players: Demons 375, Geelong 344 Go Dees! Time to crush the kitten pretenders!

My list in order of quality + how critical they are to the team's success: 1 Gawn 2 Oliver 3 Brayshaw 4 TMac 5 Harmes 6 Melksham 7 Jetta 8 Hibberd 9. Salem 10. Viney 11 Pettraca 12. Lewis 13 O Mac 14 Frost 15 Jones 16 Fritsch 17 Neal-Bullen 18 Weideman 19 Vandenberg 20 Hannan 21 Spargo 22 Kennedy-Harris Evidence of the critical importance of the bottom six is the Tiges success last year. Their 'spare parts' forward line of lesser light players (eg Graham kicking 3 goals in the granny). I reckon our bot 6 compares very well compared to the other finals contenders.