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🤮umps ⭐️Fritsch Spargo Kozzzzy goals

That’ll help our goalkicking !!!!!!

Yes Gus either on the wing or include in the midfield/Centre rotations

Yes. A two-year deal is fair. He’s showing signs this year of being definitely a chance to partner with Kozzzzy as dangerous small forwards. He’s just got to “ Do … rather than think” more often

Luke - it’s up to you …

Fantastic news. We love Gus. Bloody champion footballer. Bloody champion bloke. It’s time for …

JVR could be one of the “flying” emergencies this week (??)

Screwed again. Dees - have to do interstate travel after a 6 day break Lions - at home. 7 day break. it should have been a Saturday night blockbuster

I think the Jack Watts thread got to 784 pages 🤣🤣🤣🤣

I agree DJ. It’s two 1st rounders. Ideally they’d around a pick 5 and 15 at worst. Jackson’s best is still ahead and he’s already shown how he can win a GF. That’s worth demanding a high price !!!

I’m looking at the Casey team and it shows we probably need to identify a young ruck, key forward and another quality mid/onballer in the draft period. Depending on the Jackson situation, if he goes then we’d need to grab a mature bodied ruck/key forward.

Yes strong team. Unavailable: Daw retired. Injured- Tmcd Dsmith Rosman BBB I think Hunt will be sub this week. Bedford needs the run to find some form again.

I reckon the Hawks would have to be looking at Cadman for sure. They can have Cadman and Mitch Lewis as future tall forwards. They got Ward and Macdonald last year and their defence is ok. We’d need to get maybe pick 5 imv to get Cadman.

Can we get Birds of Tokyo to play “lanterns” at half time to bring back the GF feeling and create the Demon renaissance 🤣

Same position as 2021,but totally different last ; rounds run home 2021 - last 4 rounds. Suns 15th (home -“kinda”. Eagles 10th (a) Crows 16th (h) Cats 2nd (a) 2022 - last 4 rounds. Freo 5th (a) Carl 7th Coll 4th Bris 3rd -(a) it’s 🤞🤞🤞🤞from here

Love it. Agreed.

Not sure Bowey is the answer. Looked decidedly (uncharacteristically) uncertain with the footy in the last few rounds. Was physically pushed aside too easily. Still only 19yo. Salem has to be the quarterback and actually hit targets , not bombs !!!

Actually. In. Lever. Chandler outs. Tomlinson (very very unlucky) Spargo/Melksham

Apologies DD36. I’m getting frustrated by the Jackson non signing. Becoming more likely he’s going home. As some know, I was very keen on Hayden Young as a highly skilled quarterback type player. And local. Jackson was a project and from WA, with go home factor always in the back of mind. But I saw the highlights and potential. Love JT for his bold vision and courage in picking Jackson. It proved a masterstroke and GF glory. Really hope the kid sees his future at the Dees.

Agree. Brown had knee issues at Norfff. We took the gamble and it paid off. A premiership to remember. Love what the BBB delivered in the GF but I think BBB will go through to end 2023 most likely. We need the succession planning to happen for JVR to come through for 2024.

6!changes this week radical but it’s not necessarily players in/out that will break us out of the slump Ins. 1- “winning the clearances” . The numbers don’t lie. We are being smashed in the contest and clearances work. So different to 2021. That’s bizarre considering our contested ball winning. Even with dominant ruckman we struggled. 2- “tackles inside 50”. Last week … ZERO. That’s unbelievable. Yes we let the Bulldogs run it out far too easily. Forwards pressure was non existent. 3- “marks inside 50”. Yes it’s that “connection” word again. Long bombs that have 8 seconds hang time don’t work. “ “Hello Mcfly”. It doesn’t always have to ge a contested mark. Practice more direct spear type entries. 4- “overlap running and kicking”. It’s an old strategy. Yes run past for a handball and then kick. Not just handballs to other players under pressure. Even look to use the corridor. It’s about confidence. Slow and wide is a cop out. 5- a “kick in to create” opportunities. As we watch many other clubs get the kick in and create (aka pies last 28 second play)! 90% of our kick ins are to the big pack 55 metres out on the half back flank. Time after time. It’s so easy to shut down. Boring mediocrity in fact. 6- “play out the full game”. First half leads have quickly dissolved in the 2nd half. And our last quarters v Freo v Swans v Pies v Cats v Dogs have been killers. Even port kicked the last 3 goals against us. Fitness? Or attitude. outs. 1 - “stop the long bombs” to the forwards . We all know why! 2- “stop sloppy handballs”’to players next to you under more pressure. It’s a stat. But useless!! Frustrating. Wheres the spread? 3- stop the “near enough is good enough”. There’s no intensity in the sharp delivery or hitting a target. Maybe we were #freed from desire and need to rekindle the eye of the tiger. Get hungry. Find the desire. 4- “slow and wide and slow and turnovers”. We move it too slowly now. Kick it down the line to a contest pack. Let them setup. Helloooooo. We are beating ourselves and other clubs are doing “Melbourne to us”. Look at the GF 2nd half. Quick running and ball movement. And not always to the wings. Yes I love Lingers but he plays on the boundary line. On the knife edge. He often runs out of space and it goes out of bounds. Or he kicks with only one option. We need to play more in the corridor. Ask Lingers to walk 5 steps in. 5- “stop kicking to the deep forward pocket”. It’s hard to score from even with a mark or crumb. It’s a defensive kick to the forwards. Why? We are the worst entry team imv. The defender just punches it over the line. FFS. 6-“stop letting opposition quarterbacks free”. Bailey Dale. Callum Mills. Jack Crisp. Mitch Duncan. See the theme. Lock them down. Try Harmesy or ANB. Let them run and create at your peril. And we do !!!! (Hayden Young is Freo quarterback… lock him down and pressure pressure pressure him always)

Hello Mr.G. Read this. If all we do this week is keep up the tempo and play quicker to give our forwards a chance , then it’ll be a step forwards. Slow and slow is boring and gets defended too easily. Teams are using our strategy to beat us !!!

Hello Goody - put this up in the locker room. MELBOURNE'S difficult run home will see the premier miss the top four, according to our reporters, who predict a Grand Final rematch in the opening week of the finals. The Demons started the season with 10 straight wins, but have slipped to 13-5 with four rounds remaining. Melbourne faces top-eight sides Fremantle, Collingwood, Carlton and Brisbane in its final four games and AFL.com.au's reporters collectively predict the Dees will miss the top four.

Scott Thompson Jeff Farmer Jesse Hogan And potentially Luke Jackson do the Dees have trouble retaining our interstate talent? Hoping Jackson stays but if not, let’s reset, demand 2 x 1st rounders ( get Aaron Cadman and Brayden George) and then get a 2nd Ruck/Fwd (like Haydn McLean) on less than 1/2 the money.

Yes yes yes. It’s so clear to 65000 supporters. It’s not that they are under pressure. From a mark or free kick, it’s a bomb and often to the pockets. It’s like a defensive type kick.