spirit of norm smith

@Demonland Losing to Carlton. Andy, it hurt. Really hurt again. Four close losses in a row to the Blues.

Lots to talk about. Lots to play for. ❤️💙Clarry. 200 games. 👏👏he showed energy and desire. He gave it 100%. Umps didn’t reward him and penalized him for smallest of indiscretions 💙❤️Kozzzzy. Magic. We love him. He was exciting and 5 goals again surely locks him in for All Australian selection. He’s the future for us. 👍🏻Fritsch. Again showed better intent and has class to create and finish. Still need more energy but he’s important for us 👍🏻Harvey Langford. Another very good game from Harvs and he’s definitely in Rising Star conversation. Though the media is pushing up Dan Curtin and Murphy Reid 👍🏻Riv was good. He still has run and gun and we need him given some more CBA opportunities 👍🏻 Max battled against two big rucks and was one of our best The rest were average. Some were poor!! Kolt definitely needs a block at Casey Questions. Surely the May incident was a split second collision where both players are going to win the ball. The ball doesn’t run, it’s pops up and May arrives 0.00008 second late. His shoulder hits Evans high. Accidental. His eyes are always on the footy. MRO Christian takes any opportunity to crucify Dees. If he gets suspended, will we fight it? Surely we must. Dees must stand up. Can we withstand a rebuild? We were in the wilderness for 12+ years after the 2006 season and our prior “rebuild”. Our finances and membership and relevance would be severely dented by another poor season next year. Umpiring standard was shocking. The non free to Clarry who catches the Blues player clearly holding the ball and no free!! 40 metrs out from our goal. A possible chance to hit the lead. Then a soft free to Curnow for barely a hold and he kicks it to desk to game. When will we stand up and call up the poor umpiring to the AFL? or do we just lie down and accept it as a soft club Buckley was commenting on the game and called out …”Dees lack of movement ahead of the footy … Apart from Kozzy, Dees have few threatening forward options … Dees mids are not goal kickers any more “ Overall he was constructive, so any thoughts on Buckley as a future coach (from 2027 most likely?)

Wish we had a CEO with a voice And Brad Green is a nice guy but the media eats him alive as a “temporary” president

@Demonland Surely the Dees have to ask for a please explain from the AFL. We are struggling for any relevance in the AFL now and it hurts that we are a club that just rolls on and accepts this appalling umpire standard. If this happened to other club, they question it and the media gets it in the spotlight. Do something Demons. !!!

@Demonland Three things Pies filth claim the umps killed them and that “the ump decides a MASSIVELY important game by paying a dubious free kick to Bolton”. FFS Where’s the media comments on Darcy Moore knees into Treacy. That’s rough conduct. That’s a fine or a one week suspension Where’s the media comments about Maynard pushing Reid into the bench after crossing the boundary line

@Demonland @binman @picket fence 3/4 time. Free kicks Pies 19 Freo 14 Magpies supporters going crazy. Booing the umps. Wankers wankers call out from the Pies cheer squad. Unbelievable!! They want everything!! They are the extra player trying to influence the umps Imagine the media circus if they got the Dees stitch up by the umps …Oliver non free kick for holding the ball and then the Curnow free kick-goal situation !!

After today In : Petty Kentfield Johnson Spargo (and Hardie … unbelievably we didn’t pick him as SSP fillin) (Outs. May, Kolt, XL, Sharp) Sparrow to be managed for another week. He was knocked out. Should be a minimum 2 week unavailable period. May, Lever, Henderson unavailable (Hore out season) Mcvee Petty Turner Salem Tmcd Bowey Langdon Rivers Windsor Chandler Johnson Fritsch Pickett JVR Melksham Gawn Trac Clarry Int: Viney Lindsay Kentfield Langford Sub Spargo

Cats 15.4. Wow. MFC only dream of that !! I wish we had a few games to see that

Petty must be in next week. Johnson. Certainly throws himself into the contest!! . Offers more than Jeffo???

Carlton coach Michael Voss was of a similar opinion regarding the hit. "Clearly it's going to get looked at. Both players were in line with the ball, seem to be attacking it to be fair, if I'm being brutally honest, and both sort of making a play at the ball," Voss said. "Maybe one person was one step late, which obviously then the incident happens. But, for 'Frankie' to be able to hold his line with a pretty strong man coming the other way was, again, it was a pretty important moment in the game… I don't tent to read too much into it at this point of time, let the Tribunal take care of it, really.

Steve's whole intent was to get the ball, clearly," Goodwin said. "And you can see it, even if you slow it down, his whole intent was to win the ball, and it's really unfortunate to get a concussion in the game, and sometimes you can be concussed without (it) being reported. And, you know, it's going to be one of those ones that will have to go through the process. "But if you just look at his pure intent, it was purely for the ball, and it was unfortunate, and in the end, similar too, Steven, he's walked away with a concussion himself late in the game with a knee in a marking contest." 10:31 9 hrs Goodwin post-match, R19: 'Steve's whole intent was to get the ball'

“This is a six weeker for me" -- David King shocks the AFL world by advocating for Steven May to be suspended for SIX WEEKS for an innocuous bump!!

For Goodwin, an unacceptable start to the game, whereby the Demons trailed by eight points at quarter-time, then 19 at half-time, set up the loss. "I thought our start was way off," Goodwin said. "If you take the result away from it, you're looking to build unconditional behaviours and unconditional in the way that you play, and we're trying to build something. And when you start like that, it's probably the second time in the last four weeks where we were fairly off from a role execution and intensity of the game, that's incredibly frustrating and angry, because that was probably the part of the game that really cost us the game." So what are you doing about it !!!! What are unconditional behaviours!!! What about the second half of the 3rd qtr where we got in front then coughed up 3 goals. Skill errors. Missed tackles. Poor decisions. Handballs to … no one. Fumbles. Dropped marks. Let’s talk in plain English. Call it out.

What did JT see in him? Yes his personality. Cool sunglasses Ok he’s outgoing. But is not quick, plus his skills are so so. He was a midsized half forward who we got in the first round ??? I hope he starts to work hard to repay the faith shown in him. Logan Morris might have been the right choice at that pick imv. (Refer 2023 draft thread)

Bowey casually running out of defence gets tackled by Docherty. Free kick. Goal. That was horrible. Did he not see Docherty? Did he have ZERO AWARENESS?? WHAT THE???