BrisbaneDemon

Plenty of other teams have lost their best player and still been competitive. Look at our forward pressure over the past 5 weeks, opposition teams just stroll out now under zero pressure, out of the bottom 15 players on the field tonight 10 were Melbourne against a team that has won one game this year.

So many playing bruise free footy tonight, just going at the hard ball half hearted, 5 weeks ago we lost to the blues by a point and look how far we have fallen….

We’re in such a hole, how is our forward line getting worse. Clarry gave away 5 free kicks tonight, $1 million a year he is being paid by us, what an absolute joke. estatic I’m going to the game next week…..

TDK would look amazing in Navy Blue and Red, can play forward and kick goals, out of contract at the end of 2025

The Petty forward experiment feels like the Frawley forward experiment, he’s gone at seasons end and we’re planning for the future without him, there is absolutely no other reason to think it’s going to click as a forward, if he has some break out games it boosts his trade value to the Crows. unfortunately I watched the Kings birthday game live, the lack of pressure and all round care from everyone apart from Max, Trac, ANB, Viney was heartbreaking. It doesn’t take skill to chase and tackle, we don’t appear to be playing for the jumper which I haven’t thought since 2019

Bloody hell it looks cold! I’m at the airport about to fly down, I haven’t packed for the conditions…..

I was at the game tonight, flew down with some mates (Geelong supporters) I potted TMAC a couple of weeks ago and he was outstanding tonight! I take back everything I said about him. We were right behind Frittas dribble goal and I apologise to no one after the carrying on I displayed to my mates and every one in the area. Clarry looked so disinterested in the first qtr but geez he got going late in the game! [censored] you Geelong!

Petty takes his spot in the backline, point 1

- Petty to return to the back line were he belongs and contributes. - BBB back forward - tmac out of the team - Young Woey back to Casey - Trac, Oliver, Viney need a big week next week, playing well below par

We’re never out of it with Petracca, Oliver, Viney, Lever, Gawn, May, Kozzy in the team. yes we have had issues off field but our issue has been injuries since 2021, when you pay a fortune for two forwards that cannot stay on the park (Brown and McDonald) you’re always up against it. list management is how you continually show up and perform, losing Gus is like losing Selwood to the cats, he cannot be replaced, I have doubts on this year because of the loss of Gus and not what happened over the preseason. We could potentially have $2.2-$2.5 (loss of Gus, BBB, T-Mac) in cap room next yeah, we we can bring in a decent forward, back and ruck to help supplement our older guys, we’re hanging around the top four until Viney retires. Lamb has the biggest job next offseason, if he isn’t working the room of every other club this year, yes we will be a one hit wonder, if he can add some pieces around Petracca, Oliver, Viney, Lever, JVR, Kozzy look out. I think we’ll miss finals this year and really draft and trade in heavily next year. Goody was very “us vs the world” in his Gus tribute, I got the feeling he was trying to convince the players more then the supporters base. Im there round 0 cheering on the boys!

Oliver back on the ground

Just looked winded to be honest, ran off sucking them in

Was hoping to see a bit of Jefferson, he’s really struggled to get involved today.

What’s happened to Windsor? I’m still waiting on my digital membership code to come through? Sounds like they’re doing me a favour not sending it through…..

I’ve just bought a digital membership through the club, how long did it take for your Kayo subscription to come through? Was it via another email? thanks,

I think we’ll slide this year because we weren’t ruthless and moved on BBB and TMAC and addressed our forward line. We gambled with Pettys foot and it could blow up in our face, a lot rides of JVR who is so young. the only way we’ll be a top 4 team is if we shift our game plan forward of the ball, we’re a team that floods back and we never get the cherry picker goals over the top, if we can counter our defence and have the likes of Kozzy, Chandler, ANB, Fritsch out the back, we can kick a winning score. We need to dominate the centre bounce, we have 1-2 good years of our captain left and we need to capitalise on his dominance. 2024 will be the year to slightly tweak for 2025 or we’ll need to blow the list up with Multiple changes for us to challenge again. ill be their round 0 live, hoping i absolutely love what I see…..

I’m heading down from Brisbane for the game, I always try and get to the first game of the year. Never been to the SCG before. Keen for any suggestions for decent pubs close to the ground, I’ll be waiting on a swans supporter to finish work so I’ll be drinking solo somewhere 🤣

You really notice the ball drop on Bowzer, May, Van Rooyen

And everyone thinks the MFC PR department had been a sleep at the wheel, what a beautifully orchestrated positive news story…

Your points above are spot on, what I was getting at the other day, if we continue the chaos football in the F50 next year, we needed to target some forwards who can jump and clunk marks, with our forward delivery in finals, it was too long and high (Moore had a day out), I would love to address our forward entries to fix our “forward line issues”. My frustration is we never get an easy goal out the back, the majority of our shots are from an angle, we never short kick on a 45 degree out of the forward long to move to the defence. We would work so hard and burn so much energy to kick a single goal (or 5 behinds). It would be next to target forward who suit our game style (fingers crossed the 2 newbies are just that)

I agree wholeheartedly mate, the she’ll be right attitude of posters above or go again with what we have and “hope” for improvement is a head scratcher.

💯 we have a forward line issue, BBB & Tmac and add Petty can’t be depended on due to injuries, JVR is only young and is inconsistent, our small forwards can struggle to impact, Gawn can’t kick straight and that leaves us Fritsch and Trac. then we have a system issue were we have unlimited forward line entries to no avail or we mark it on the boundaries. We never seem to get out the back goals like Pies/Lions/Port do as we’re a defensively minded team. if we continue to enter our forward 50 like we have over the past 2 years and we don’t have another tall who can clunk marks and kick goals….. we’ll go out in straight sets again or struggle to make top 4

Sounds like we aren’t addressing the forward line issues. Another year of TMac and BBB playing 10 games between them, An unproven Fullerton. We have lost depth and haven’t added any proven contributors. 2024 could be another wasted year and May and Gawn only getting older. Hard to be optimistic.

Rumour up here is between 4-6 years the Gabba will be out of action for the lions, 3 years to build, it needs to be set up for two years prior to the Olympics as part of their testing and commissioning requirements. Lions and Cricket QLD/AUS are blowing a gasket over it, potentially they’ll just do a renovation and upgrade one stand to add seating.

Sadly I have to agree with you, there’s too much smoke to be nothing…. when playing, he’s one of my favourites. Will be a massive loss.