spirit of norm smith

4th qtr JVR miss from 18 metrs out. 💩💩Sparrow. Effort. Slow or weak. 💩💩 Lever. Embarrassing all day. 💩💩 Tackling. All day. Allowing Freo to get handballs away. 💩💩💩💩💩💩💩 4th goal from goalsquare. Goodwin !!!! stoppage spread goal 💩💩💩💩💩

Billings. Saints still laughing. He’s goalkicking his skills his tackles are POOR. WEAK!!! He can’t even score from 35 metre out!! 💩💩💩💩💩💩

3rd goals out the back - dees turnovers - May to sparrow 💩 Viney. Pickett. 💩 Sparrow 30 metre out in front miss 💩💩 Anb 25 metre out - kick on the full 💩💩 Pickett. Chasing grass still 💩💩 Riv 50 out pass to Viney 40 out why? Viney can’t kick 40 💩 Chandler. Goals. Riv to Chandler. Melksham to Chandler. 👏👏 Melksham to Petty goal 👏 3 qtr clearances Freo 10 Dees 7 Frees Freo 4 Dees 5

It can. Freo kick straight then it’s another shocking 92 point flogging !!! Dees need to show heart and strategy. Glad Goody got Fullarton to replace Grundy. Glad McAdam and Billings were recruited. 28 year old fragile types with no ticker.

1st half. 20c Dry conditions scores Freo. 51 Dees. 21 👏👏Riv. May. McVee. Lingers just Ok. Turner. JVR AMW Viney the rest are very disappointing very disappointing - uncompetitive 💩💩💩Petty Sparrow Lever Pickett Fritsch. Lever. Fritsch. Sparrow. Lever. Salem. Chandler. Lever. Bowey. Tmcd. Tholstrup. Pickett. Lever. Oliver. just Ok. Turner. JVR AMW Viney 🤮🤮🤮umps Freo free kicks 11-4. 💩💩💩clearances 24-3 💩💩💩marks inside 50 12-4 Goodwin. no ruckman !!! Smashing !! FFS. Tell them. Don’t kick it to Darcy or Pearce or Jackson. Run it !! Goodwin Mids. Get goal side Get into the contest !!! Pickett - I love you But you’re playing midfield and just 2 disposals- worst half ever - fumbles every contests - missed tackles , miskick, falls to ground all the time.

Clearance 18/1

Clearances 14-0. !!! 14 to nil !!!! Viney. Pickett. ANB getting smashed. Wtf.

Pickett slow to dispose 💩 Fritsch poor kick into F50💩 Fritsch miss tackle 💩 Tmcd too slow 💩 Chandler miss from 25 metres 💩 sparrow and Salem are passengers … one disposal each !!! 💩 McVee 👏 may 👏 Langdon 👏riv 👏

Going… BBB (retired). Schache (delisted) Hunter (delisted) Farris-white (delisted- Cat B) Js29 suspended Gus10(medical retired) On the edge … Sestan to be decided. Tmcd and Melksham Likely to seek other opportunities- Tomlinson

Verrall 👏👏 pup Brown 👏👏 Hore 👏👏 others were ordinary at best. not great conditions so some foregiveness

Yes he was slightly off v Vic country with some fumbles and miskicks. But I’d definitely take Smillie at the Dees. Big sized mid. Alas he is likely to go pick 3 or 4 to the Saints or Eagles.

Howes deliberate out of bounds. Ridiculous. Fumbles ball. It goes out. Frankston played appeals and ump gives it. Shows how BAD umpiring has become. Easily conned. Easily influenced. No idea of actually playing footy. Umps clearly favouring dolphins.

Casey getting killed in the midfield. in fact, apart from Mitch White and Roan Steele, most of the Casey listed players are suburban footballers. Poor recruiting getting exposed. Also the loss of Hustwaite and Leo Connolly really hurts, as they were the main off season recruits. They’ve missed 10 weeks of footy. No news at all on their possible returns.

Yes want to see Woey jnr have a full game this week. Needs to run after weeks of being the sub. Be interested to see our new cult hero Roy George. George Grey. Has been definitely missed by Casey this year. Had a great year at Frankston.

Ben Camporeale was SA MVP and agreed he was impressive through the championship. Top 30 absolutely. Top 20 yes. Probably rank him 12-15 imv. Blues getting to smokescreen him down the order?

5 injured unavailable Woey jnr - quad/managed- 1 week Max Gawn — ankle / test- 1 week Lachie Hunter — calf / 1 week Charlie Spargo — Achilles / season Christian Petracca — spleen / season 1 medical retirement Angus10 1 indefinite suspension JS29 3 travelling emergencies having a WA holiday break 🥤 11 available for Casey - Adams, Hore, Howes, Schache, BBB, Kentfield, McAdam, Sestan, Jefferson, Verrall, KBrown41

Billings back in. Hmmmm Hasn’t shown really anything when he has played. Lucky to be back in. Skills poor. Goalkicking poor. Tackling non existent. Laurie contracted though to end 2026 for some reason. Looks to slow and uncontested for AFL midfield role and we have plenty of small forwards already. He’s a VFL standard player. Tholstrup is the future. He’s going to be very very good.

JV7. He’s a legend. Definitely!!! One of our greatest ever players. Probably the toughest Demon ever. He and Barassi31 probably on level ranking for toughest ever.

Dees will likely be on the phone to the Dockers. AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS Dockers … can we have your 2024 1st round pick 10 for 2025 MFC future 1st round pick & 2024 MFC 3rd round pick 42. OR Dockers … can we have your 2024 1st round pick 14 for 2025 MFC future 1st round pick & 2025 MFC future 3rd round pick

It’s the same concept in practice as the NBA PLAYOFFS

Worst concept floated in a long time It’s just trying to copy the NBA (USA basketball model). Nothing like innovation through trying to copy the USA!!! Leave the current finals as is …

Definitely Dees overshoot on emergencies. Freo took an extra emergency last week v hawks. 24 in squad. Not sure why we are so cautious especially as I can’t recall in the last 25 years of any event where two players pulled out prior to the game. Let alone 3!!!!!

Dees will need to have Fullarton this week. Darcy and Jackson will destroy us. Hoping he debuts in the west.

Agreed. 6/10 in the draft. I had Will Hamill (Crows) and Bailey Williams (Eagles) as highly rated youngsters , both from the Dandenong Stingrays. Hamill has suffered injury concerns yet shown his ability when fit. Williams is developing into a good young ruckman now. Not surprised we picked Sparrow but was when we called out JJ.

Cumming 👍🏻