spirit of norm smith

Absolutely gives 100%. He was very good v Suns yesterday. Very good. Sung the Dees song with real feeling. He’s had a very good year. He’s a very good player. Sad to see him go. And he’s a very good club man and individual off field. 177 games with the Dees. 10 years. Life membership. 👏👏👏👏👏👏

Jeffo is not ready yet. Still in development. He’s a nice young man but needs to be more physically aggressive in a contest. Jeffo needs a huge pre season in the gym and on the park. He’s 50/50 right now. As a first round pick, he was a big investment… not just a punt. We will a little more patient.

Suns at home. Apparently unbeatable. And we destroyed them !! Gawn was huge. ALL AUSTRALIAN RUCKMAN Viney is the ULTIMATE WARRIOR

Happy holiday Houston. 6 weeks. No attempt to tackle. Bumps. High contact. High impact. Intentional. Indeed actually 8 weeks. Bye bye 2024 !! anything else is criminal and AFL hypocrisy and AFL corruption

Houston / 6 weeks suspension likely 🤣🤣

Cats 🤣🤣🤣chokers !!! Cats 💩💩

6 - Jack Viney INSPIRATIONAL 👏👏👏 5 - Ed Langdon All Australian wingman in my view he just keeps on running 👏👏👏 4 - Max Gawn. Captain leading from the front 👏👏👏 3 - Trent Rivers Gave his heart and soul 👏👏👏 2 - Alex Neal- Bullen classic nibbler run and carry and 100% effort 👏👏👏 1 - Tom McDonald I was wrong I thought he was finished Today he showed he is still capable and reliable 👏👏👏 It was truly a fantastic team effort today!! apologies to Salem, Howes, Hore, Disco, JVR, Petty etc etc etc.

In. Hunter -200th or AMW - deserves recall or BBB (unlikely given key forwards) out. Sparrow

All 23 👏👏👏

On today’s showing, there’s been a complete fail in recruitment. X McAdam likes to receive but his 2nd effort is non existent and tackling doesn’t try. No. X Laurie. No. Ok at VFL level but too slow at next level ❌Schache Suburban footy next year NO 🤯Verrall. No - unless he gets into the gym 🤔Fullerton I think he stays and needs to show what he can do Had good contest and like his movement Give him a go in 2025 (Moyle destroyed us in the ruck again) 👍🏻KBrown. No. Heart yes. Tackling yes. Disposal is poor. Summer in the kicking squad !!! 🤔Kentfield… give him 12 more months 💔Woey jnr has gone backwards Not sure he has the desire Must be annoyed at being sub for 6 games and often quickly dropped might ask to go home to WA 🤔Jefferson.🤔 Adams. Not there yet. Queries but must stay in the list at least for 2025. 👏👏BBB - Six goals and showed his marking ability still exists…it’s a shame he’s got no knee cartilage left. Retires next week 👏👏ANW - again showed he’s too good at this level Lowers his eyes to hit targets Was overwhelmed in 2nd half 👏Roan Steele. Like his run and carry. Oops he’s not even in MFC list 🤣🤣

Ball hits the ground. Suns take control. Repeat and play and repeat and play. Casey have ZERO midfielders. Zero. Mitch White is a half back playing as a ruck rover. Billings needs to retire. Seriously.

I’ve only coached under 10 and under 11 as East Malvern knights and that’s obvious!!! Who’s the Casey brains trust 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

BBB retirement game next week v Pies ?

Dees as a destination club seems to have been truly killed off. Still after 2021, Lamb has delivered Dunstan, Hunter, Schache, Grundy (Y), Billings, Fullarton, McAdam. Hardly tracking as a “destination” since our premiership. More like a salary dumping saloon.

It’s a shootout. Hunter. He’s retired or delisted. Disappointing this year.

I ranked Taj Hotton at pick 14 in the years talent pool. +He is a classy mover. Ideally an outside player but can win in his own footy. Nice sidestep evasion to get through traffic. Seems to make good decisions with the footy. Good runner and can move pace up when needs to. Versatile. Has played half forward, mid and half back. ? One query for me is his kicking efficiency due to his ball drop on kicking (like a Selwood or Brandon Walker drop) so his skill under pressure would be queried. Unfortunately his knee injury meant we didn’t get to see him in the national championships against other talented youngsters. That would have seen his intensity and defensive game more on show. He’s definitely a talented player who should go first round despite injury stopping his year.

Ouch. Suns by 64 points !!

Dees could either Wilt like fuchsias in the Qld Sun Or Play like Demons !!!

Yes this is serious and it’s no time for any Hunter, Schache, Billings, McAdam type trades !! Dees need to nail this off season.

Just subscribed to Code Sports. Looks like a good website for lots of sporting info. They have listing of 50 draftees. I particularly thought this was spot on about Xavier Lindsay ⭐️. He’s a Josh Kelly type. Position: Midfielder Height: 183cm Clubs: Gippsland Power/Vic Country Lindsay’s emphatic performances for the Gippsland Power translated on the big stage against Vic Metro. With the championships on the line, Lindsay produced a best-on-ground display for Vic Country, tallying 30 disposals, 11 marks, eight score involvements, eight tackles and 169 SuperCoach points. It underlined the AFL Academy member’s well-rounded traits as a midfielder. Lindsay hurts opposition sides with his penetrating and pinpoint left boot, wins it on the inside and the outside, and defends strongly when he hasn’t got the footy. He was also a class above in challenging conditions against Western Australia, going at 90 per cent by foot and winning 19 disposals and eight clearances. While Lindsay doesn’t need a lot of the ball to punish the opposition, he has been one of the top ball-winners in the Coates Talent League competition, where he averages 25 disposals, six inside 50s, six clearances and 132 SuperCoach points. He also racked up plenty of the ball as a defender last year and played down back in the AFL Academy game.

That’s a bad sign. Bombers may actually recover. More bad news !!!

Is it running the clinic or LEARNING in the clinic. 🤣🤣 “ now here’s how you lower your eyes to hit a target “🤣🤣 ”now here’s how you kick through the ball and lean forward to direct the footy, not lean back to chip kick it 30 metres up and 25 metres forward “ 🤣🤣

It’s madness. Clarko comments and it’s ok. Imagine Goodwin saying we are aiming to get Houston and Serong and other contracted players. It’s all smoke. The media love the deteriorating story that is the MFC

Who cares now !! The AFL Swans ok they probably deserve the premiership. They get father son 🤮and free academy picks🤮. Premiership cup in Sydney. AFL would love it. No wonder they don’t bottom out. Not the Lions. That music. Another AFL LOVE CHILD. Father on and academy picks. We had them beaten and then the crowd scream gets them the mcchuggage free kick. The arrogance 🤮 Not the AFL Giants (a make believe club created by the AFL. 🤮🤮Average home crowd of 12,000 and everyone else bemoans our crowd numbers Not the Power from Port. Mullets and tattoos and BO. And that Koch bloke 🤮Couldn’t stand Kane Cornes rambling!! 🤮🤮 Not the bi-polar dockers. Smash us and fall apart against other teams. And of course the WA footy media 🤮and supporters are feral. Not the Geelong - we are the self proclaimed self mastur&$&(ing Cats. Chris Scott - lover of himself and a general piece of 💩 Not the arrogant and house of cards Carlton Blues . Their supporters were feral after last years finals This was their year And the media pack who love the blues 🤮🤮 Not the Bulldogs - although they are the least hated of those named !! Ok I suppose if not us Not the Hawks. Remember their arrogance …🤮🤮 it was nauseating!!! Too much success. Not the Bombers. May the drought continue. Smacked us in 2000. Their supporters were just so ugly to my family and I after the Game. Hard to forget. Brad Scott. Piece of 💩. Such a righteous bastard!!

Two first rounders for Houston. Thats ridiculous!!! He’s very good but not an elite midfielder. Butters = two 1st rounders. Houston = one 1st rounder. I’m glad he’s not coming onboard. There’s real talent in this draft. I would rather draft young guns like Langford, Lindsay or Lalor with first round pick.