BrisbaneDemon

I’m off to U/8’s in Lions heartland this morning, wearing my demons jumper…. I cannot wait for the comments

It didn’t look like he got out of a job until the 4th quarter when he didn’t some defensive chase downs, looks slow and lazy today. The wet slog would have taken it out of them. He he looks a shadow of the player he was before he took Smiths head off / precontract

I have a question for someone a whole lot smarter then me: 1) why do we always do these two things kicking out, we either bomb to max to the left of the field straight away, or kick it 90 degrees left to the boundary, then bomb it to max? It infuriates me that we don’t have a plan be here…. Especially with Max so badly out of form at the moment. 2) Centre clearance taps, apart from the 5 magical mins In the 2021 grand final, why don’t we give out a-grade midfield first use of the ball, it just feels like our Ricks tap straight to the opposition of to the ground and our keys have to fight for it. 3) forward movement? Blocks, swinging the wings, separation between forwards? 4) Gawn / Grundy the forward experiment has to be over, they just need to rotate off the bench and stay the hell out of the forward line, I would love to see Max behind the ball like years gone by, we looked invincible when he would float in from The side in the defensive 50. We look like a bottom 8 team after the bye….

It can’t just be Pickett mate, I’d add Brayshaw, Gawn to a solid block in the VFL to get some form back.

They must be playing Spargo as the deep forward and will bomb it high to him with three defenders around him

I don’t think this has been addressed previously…. I think it’s worthwhile that all the attendees that went to dinner at Entrecote return to the restaurant, wearing the same clothes, same table, same meals, but this time May punches Melksham at the stroke of midnight to reverse this bad juju that has followed ever since.

What’s happened to Max? It’s clearly playing on his mind because he raised it on the Gus and Gawny Podcast, he took two contested marks today (a plus from previous weeks) but he’s not having any influence around the ground, was easily pushed off it today. petraccas body language looks terrible at the moment, playing for frees, throwing his hands up in the air. This year they have gone away from “everyone gets a lick of the ice cream”, guys are snapping ridiculous shots at goal, not centring it, our forward line has become very selfish. Fritsch out for the foreseeable future makes things even worse, i fee like we need to drop one of the rucks and have a second forward as the secondary ruck. bring on the saints I guess…… cannot wait for all the effort and a solid 2 point win, kicking 22 behinds and 6 goals…

Over the past 4 games Melbourne have kicked 29 goals and 88 behinds. Put a cork in them boys and girls, we’re a run of the mill team

Go back and have a look at the goals, he wasn’t individual beaten by Rohan, Geelong play for each other and create blocks and space for their fellow forwards to get good clean looks. It’s called quality coaching and forward craft, something the Demons know sweet [censored] all about and haven’t for 3 years. last night the deference was a team playing for their season and another that is preparing to play their best footy in the back half of the year (knock knock Simon it is the [censored] back half of the year)

who has hurt you? And what are their names …..? 8.18 - without three premiership walks up, come on mate, we were by far the better team, some voodoo witch has cast a spell from Collingwood as all teams kick poorly against them surely….

Whatever happened to Gawny dropping behind the ball to assist the defence and take marks? We looked so solid in defence when he’d drop back and help out.

Unrelenting forward pressure not seen since 2021 would be a lovely in, bring the pressure small forwards.

Such an uninspiring team and coaching staff, everyone is down on form, backline couldn’t catch a cold (lever WTF!), just continue to bomb into the forward 50, never lower you eyes. Such a waste of talent in this team

I’d like to see Gawn hit it to a player in blue just once out of the middle, stand up skipper and be a match winner!

The demons have been the media darlings for 2.5 years now, I think it’s great this team is starting to get some negative press. We aren’t playing good football, we have so many deficiencies in our game, our core leaders (Gawn, Langers, Brayshaw, May, Lever) are all down on form. I watched us live against GC suns & Lions in QLD, our forward pressure is non existent, our midfield looks second to the ball, team connection isn’t firing defensively which creatures scoring shots, we’re vulnerable down back currently. It doesn’t look like we’re hungrier then the other teams (Lions, Bombers, Port all out hustled us. It only gets harder without Oliver and Petty unavailable, a positive is we’re sitting 4th and we aren’t playing that well. we don’t want to be playing our best footy in May but it will define our season if we’re poor. Massive 3 weeks, cannot wait to see how we respond.

We knew Marshall was an out, Dixon would most likely miss, but we thought our talls would be an advantage? 🤦‍♂️. if Goodwin continues to play, two tall Ricks, two tall forwards and our midfield is as pedestrian as tonight, we will go no where this year. We need forward pressure for our defence to be a weapon. Collingwood will beat us by 50 with this game plan and team.

Too tall, too slow for modern football, their midfield was harder at the ball. port deserved to win it, mistakes by Viney and Roo hurt us badly.

Too tall, too slow for modern football

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again, we’re too tall for modern day football, when our midfield gets a bath, our big blokes don’t chase and tackle and we get cut open. need a smaller forward line, 1 x big forward, and a resting ruckmen deep forward then have 4 x quick smaller blokes. still reckon we’ll win tonight, Midfield needs a bake from the coaches

Midfield dominance seems an issue, we can’t seem to get our hands on the ball from two dominant rucks, that was supposed to be our 1 wood. Maxy seems off after the injury

Love him to bits, really need a Hibbo clone for the next few years, makes us so much better behind the ball, so dependable.

GC Suns just waltzed the ball out of their defensive 50, I was sitting in the south eastern 50 and it looked so easy. we need to drop a tall and bring in Spargo or a small to help with forward 50 pressure. You’re already a man down with Fritsch in there, Grundy/Gawn/Roo can rotate through there. I also noticed that Gawny isn’t getting behind the ball to help out as much this year? I know our forward is a bit of a mess but him helping out behind the ball makes us look so much more settled defensively.

Just got home from the ground, was a cracking game live, we owned them at the start of each quarter and the suns in the end of each quarter. Agree with everyone, Petty needs to stay back, was ineffective forward. we aren’t playing our best and still winning ✅ GC can’t play any better then that ✅ 4 points ✅ have a great night everyone, I need a scotch after that game….

A mate is staying at the Sofitel in Broadbeach, the demons are staying their also, he was in the Spa with Viney, Van Rooyen and two other demons he didn’t know 🤦‍♂️ (bandwagon Lions supporter). Viney mentioned to him that the suns at home was the Demons hardest away game last year. They should be on ready to go!