spirit of norm smith

Hunt out?? Wtf. Only bloke who runs and runs and kicks properly into fwd50

Outs. - kicking bombs to the forwards - slow and wide ball movement - endless useless handballs that are easily intercepted Ins - use the corridor more - BBB taking a contested mark. (Not always going one handed) - Quick play on style footy

ANB, Sparrow, Brown, Spargo all liabilities. ins. Harmes and Chandler outs. Any TWO of ANB or Sparrow or Spargo Fritsch has to do better. it’s BEN Brown or JVR … so Brown stays in only as JVR is still so young.

Got to play the corridor. That’s better

keep on kicking to the pockets to no result. either Goodwin is dumb or Stafford is dumb. either way, I’m angry !!!

Where is Langdon ?? Next to the boundary line with no space. He’s not the solution!! Actually he’s part of the problem. Wide and wider !!! Ffs

3rd ⭐️Melksham Hunt 🤮Spargo. Waste of space. 🤮Brown Sparrow ANB 🤬Lever

Memo to Goodwin- for god sake, find a key forward that can mark. 💩Weid 🤡Brown are not the answer. And Mids who can setup a kick to a forward!!!

2nd qtr kozzzy & Melksham goals⭐️ tackling ⭐️ 🤮May playing a zone off , 30 metres away from McKay. Ffs. May is a danger !!’ To us !!’ 🤮goalkicking (from both teams) 🤮ANB Spargo sparrow Fritsch and Brown (zero kicks, zero marks, zero goals, one handball) 🤡🤡Goodwin - slow and wide and boring ball movement … play the corridor AND TEACH HOW TO KICK (no bombs!!)

Kozzzzzy ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Clown is bbb 🤡🤡🤡🤡

Goody - Likes the contest - needs to make most of the opportunities

1st qtr ✅Gawn Jackson ✅Tackling and pressure 💩ANB. Brown. 💩fwd line crumbing 🤮kicks on fwds heads! And to pockets !! 🤔May kick out to 60 metre, left hand size. So boring and dull.

On watch tonight - Sparrow, ANB, Melksham & Spargo. You have to deliver. Passengers last week and we need goals. All these blokes should be able to contribute at least 5-6 goal’s amongst themselves.

AMW, Bedford & Chandler are all being “managed”. Especially given they also had a bye last week. That’s no footy considering Chandler should be on the fringe of senior selection. With a full list aside from Tmcd, Dees have 19 listed players to play in VFL. I think we have played max.16 AFL listed and kept 7 spots for the VFL listed guys. (not sure if there is a max rule for AFL aligned clubs).

I wouldn’t mind the Dees giving a call to Jake Riccardi’s manager. At the Giants, he’s in and out of the team. He has some good moves and at 196cms is a target type forward. Would be reasonable trade pickup (cheap) and he might be interested in a move.

and after due consideration, it’s still a No from me. Grundy is physically very fragile and offers very little as a forward. For the $$$, it’s not where we need to invest. We need a strong marking KPF to kick the goals. Lynch,Hawkins, Curnow,Franklin, Bking, Naughton, Walker, JoshKennedy, Darling,Daniher type key forward. Weid is not the answer. BBrown is playing with an ongoing knee issue and has 12 mths left imv. Tmcd has 1-2 years left at best. JVR will progress but need another.

Love big Jake Spencer. Interesting to see him running around at Casey. He is one of the friendliest blokes ever at the club. Always willing to have a chat and a photo with the kids. Great to see him recently with his own young family. He’s the sort of bloke you want around a footy club. He’ll look after the young blokes if there’s a bit of physical stuff thrown around too.

My friend Peter “Johnno”’Johnson (an arrogant Blues supporter) reckons they have our measure and guys like Saad and Walsh will expose our zone. He thinks Curnow and McKay will be too much for Dees. Bring it on. I do wish we had a strong marking “figurehead” key forward like Neita in the line up. Our multiple entries seem to go wasted a lot of the time.

Simply Max King lost it for the saints. 0.5. Lost confidence? His technique was flawed. Leaning back. Too casual. Heartbreaking for their supporters. I was even getting angry at how simple shots were missed. Professional full time footballers (athletes) paid big $$$ to kick a footy 25 metres through two wooden sticks. And they can’t. Ffs.

Dees supporters v Pies Saints supporters v lions

9.5! Saints then 6 behinds all gettable to 9.11 choking

perhaps they would view this also as a contest and incidental contact … ffs

IT WAS A BUMP. IT WAS NOT A CONTEST. I SAW IT LIVE AND IF WAS A BUMP. I WATCHED IT ABOUT THIRTY TIMES ON REPLAY IT WAS ALWAYS A BUMP. PROTECT THE PLAYER GOING FOR THE BALL PROTECT THE HEAD A DUTY OF CARE YES THESE ARE THE STATEMENTS USED TO CONVICT OTHERS FFS I FIND THE BELOW UNBELIEVABLE AND ERODES ANY CONFIDENCE IN THE DECISION OF THE JUDICIARY OR IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE GAME Kellam said after he and jurors Richard Loveridge and Stephen Jurica viewed the footage, they believed Cripps did not bump and was merely contesting the ball. "The video did not reveal a bump, it set out as a contest for the ball that resulted in a collision," Kellam said

this is what I think of the AFL judiciary right now ffs