Earl Hood
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2 hours ago, wackojacko said:
Swings left? Let’s hope she doesn’t bring that garbage into the club
No she won’t be swinging left. I used the wrong term, not politics, more her economic thinking is conservative, tends to parrot the usual Business Council propaganda as I remember some of her comments.
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1 hour ago, Swooper1987 said:
Herald Sun:
3. Petracca
2. Fritsch
1. Gawn
The Age:
8. Petracca
7. Langdon
7. Gawn
7. Oliver
7. Fritsch
Swooper:
6. Petracca
5. Gawn
4. Fritsch
3. Lever
2. Viney
1. Oliver
Looking forward to seeing what Goodwin and Scott thought of that.
At least Swooper worked out the Lever stuffed up numerous Cat forward entries and gave him recognition. Numerous times the cats got the ball on the rebound but found they had no targets, they could only see Lever and when they took him on they lost every time. Great game by Lever.
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Basically we need a replacement for May. That would be Petty for me. Then the Jordan, Swallow and Jetta positions are all up for grabs but do we have suitable replacements? Not convinced. And would love one of our big forwards to come in but don’t believe they are ready yet. Weid didn’t get a kick and BB only played a half in a practice match.
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I know her from ABC TV Breakfast appearances, don’t always agree with her politics but she is very competent.
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20 minutes ago, GCDee said:
I'm not trying to be smart here but did you watch it from a few angles?
He hand balls the ball at waist height, why was there a need to elevate his left arm anywhere near his head with sufficient force to fracture his eye socket? If he was trying to break his fall for a potential tackle his arm would have gone downwards to limit the impact.
Tom has a history of this [censored]. He is a dirty player and IMO he took an opportunity to give one to May here. It just all doesn't add up why his arm goes up, and seems to accelerate towards May.
I am reminded of Steven King’s wild boot swing at a loose ball back in 2005?, you know the boot that rearranged Jeff White’s face and he needed substantial facial reconstruction. That was deemed accidental, could happen to anyone! Well we all know it was reckless, high contact and severe impact and should have incurred several weeks suspension. Now we have Hawkins who does dish out a lot of damage because he is so big and strong. I would like the AFL to at least have a good look at this one. Throwing your arms around indiscriminately doesn’t mean you aren’t responsible for the outcome of your actions!
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4 Gawn
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1 Oliver
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Just now, leave it to deever said:
How does geelong with less possessions have 30 precent more frees than the other side?
6 frees more in that qrt made a huge difference.
Always happens against this yeam. Is it the crowd?
Loved the holding the ball against Oliver in that quarter. It followed about 6 tackles on Geelong players in the same passage of play which were all called a ball up.
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Dumb ruckwork!
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Just now, Rusty Nails said:
One of the most disgraceful umpiring performances ive seen in that 5 minute period in the 2nd. We should have been running it up the field for a shot at goal instead he calls holding the man when it should've clearly been holding the ball.
Two holding the balls that were 50/50 against us in our forward line against Frittata & Sparrow yet the Cats don't get called for similar and then get a reverse call instead. Faaark off Umps!
That last tackle on Isaac Smith in our goal square, a case in point. No prior but he was also making no attempt to release the ball and we know why. That is often a free.
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1 minute ago, The Swimming Dee said:
Hopefully it’s not a broken eye socket
Yes they made a quick diagnosis so it’s not concussion or something they can stitch up.
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3 minutes ago, Brownie said:
Selwood whinging to the umps coming off.
What the hell is he going on about? Cats gifted their last goal by the umps and he has been getting his usual head ducking frees.
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Just now, P-man said:
Skills wise the level has been absolutely deplorable.
Are we watching the same game? Yes there are errors but look at the frenetic pace and intensity of the game.
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This is some game, surely it can’t keep being played at this frenetic pace in the second half. Port should be 5 goals up but for poor set shot kicking. Richmond is living off intercepts and running the ball all the way to the goal square thus their accuracy that is keeping them in the game. Second half will be interesting.
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22 minutes ago, trout said:
Bloody average game, poor umpiring but great result.
Not a great result really, if we are a serious threat and the jury is out, we want the top sides losing.
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22 minutes ago, Demonland said:
Case in point.
It does not get any more obvious and all 3 umps would have seen it clearly and decided to ignore the rule book. Expecting a response from the AFL on that one.
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54 minutes ago, defuture15 said:
Can we attend the practice match?
Yes but the gates will be closed. Just joking but it would not surprise me this year. Members/fans have been treated like [censored].
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2 hours ago, DemonLad5 said:
game is 12pm at Casey
Strewth do Casey ever play away? Would have gladly travelled to Willy.
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3 hours ago, CHF said:
WOW!
3 rounds, 3 wins and 12 premiership points in the bank.
It is so long since we have experienced such a high position on the ladder this early in the season it is giving me nose bleeds. As a matter of fact, I have experienced some Demon seasons where we have not realised 12 points for the whole 22 rounds.
We played GWS last round and, it has to be said that they suffered three critical game ending injuries to leading players. This, of course, made it very difficult for them. So what? It happens. I will take the points and celebrate the win and I do not see anywhere an asterix besides the 4 points that explains the situation. Sing the song, celebrate the win, and move on the next round.
And so, to the Round 4 encounter with the [censored] ( I had no idea that 'Puss ies" was censored) at the G on Sunday afternoon. Don’t be surprised if Geelong do not turn up on Sunday. I mean that literally, not metaphorically. Since records were first kept, when the [censored] supporters saw the Dees fixture on the season list they just assumed it was a home game at Kardy Park. Do not be surprised if, an hour before the game, a bunch of their supporters turn up at the ground from the pub only to realise that the game is being played elsewhere. A few of the dimmer players might also turn up there.
The facts:
We are coming off a win in Canberra and are full of confidence. Advantage us.
We did not make the most of our good play last week. Advantage them.
They had a hard-fought win against the hawks and have one less day to recover. Advantage us
They have no Dangerfield and that other bloke that is the worst sort of sniper/king hitter I have seen for some time. Advantage us
Problem areas of the game for us:
Strange to think that we are 3-0 with a patched up forward structure and have not really put it all together in a game yet. Does that say more about us, or the teams we have played?
Defence was a bit patchy on Sunday. It held together but did not look as confident as it has in the recent past. There were a few dropped marks that should have been taken and I was very nervous each time Jetta was called upon to step up. He started on Toby and was left standing and watching a few times before May moved to him. Nev had jut 67% game time for 9 disposals and zero tackles. Not what you want from a defender. On the plus side in defence Hunt had a blinder.
In the past I have subscribed to the old maxim that it is all about the midfield but I might have to say that in this game it will be the defence that needs to perform against a mature, well structured attack. May has a big job to do on Hawkins.
We had problems in the midfield against GWS. Oliver copped a heavy tag as was not able to work it out. The coaches moved him forward where he managed to get his hands on the ball but butchered the three set shots. Petracca had a reasonable game but I wondered after the game if the heavy tag on Oliver also affected Petracca’s game. I have noticed that the seems to feed off each other in games. Will be interesting to see how that situation develops. I like the way that we are developing the games of Sparrow and Jordon. Both had only 66% game time last week with Jordon really delivering.
This week they will come up against a good midfield team but I believe we will come out on top of them. Smith against Langdon as a match up? Gutherie and Selwwood will need to be contained.
Ah yes, now for the forwards…….
The good; we kicked a winning score last week. Kossie with 4
The bad; that midfielder’s set shots for goal
The ugly; TMac’s disappearance for a lot of the game
Well, I have to say that Kossie is a great pickup. 4 goals taken with excitement and flare. And….. he is ours….. Fristch found his kicking boots and looked like he was having fun out there and giving the opposition players a bit as well. It is not the forward structure we thought we would be running with in the pre-season but we still manage to find avenues to goal each week. I hope we do the same this week.
I predicted a 6 goal win last week and missed by a couple of points. This week I think it will be tighter than last week with the older more experienced [censored] pushing the whole way.
3 quarters of an arm wrestle with us winning out in the last by 3 goals.
If we go to 4-0 I can imagine that there will be a few more heads turning our way in the media and the other teams.
OK. I’ve dusted off the bandwagon, polished the fading paintwork, given it a tune up and topped up the fuel tank with premium bathwater. Another win and it will trundle out into public for the first time since the beginning of 2019 season.
And historically Geelong loses the next week after they beat the Hawks. If we show to play this week we can win.
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Anyone else having issues with ticketing? I am second priority with a level 1 reserved seat and was slow to log in this evening but have been in about 5 times and choose a seat area but can get no further, as in I get no actual seat and option buttons to move on. I doubt everything is sold in our reserved area yet?
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5 hours ago, waynewussell said:
Yes, SPC... that was a very good year.
In 1986 we drafted Steven Febey, Matthew Febey, Andy Lovell & Darren Jarman!!!
Then added Andrew Obst, Steven Tingay and Jay Viney in 1987
Another fair year was 1997 with Travis Johnston, Nathan Brown and Guy Rigoni
Should we even mention 2009 with Scully Trengove & Max Gawn?
Yes all those and then thinking about the recent Rod Owen story, we recruited him in 1991 but shopped him off to the Bears in 92. Why did we do that, oh yeah think 1991 and we discovered Jakovitch with 70 plus goals in 12 games, we already had Bennett and Lyon and then a young Schwartz appeared on the scene. Talk about forward talent.
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4 hours ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:
Hypothetically, if they wanted him this year, what do they have left to give up? He is contracted. Top 3 Brownlow. He isn’t going for a first rounder alone or a future 1st. Are they prepared to part with De Goey? Genuine questions, what on earth would they have to give to secure our club’s best player?
Might be like Howe, a coffee with Bucks and there you go it’s a done deal.
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5 Kossie
4 Hunt
3 Langdon
2 Viney
1 Petracca
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2 hours ago, Redbeard said:
Were the folks who did the writeups and stats for Casey part of the huge personnel cuts due to Covid or something? Not getting much apart from photos these days
Basically [censored] poor efforts from the club this year in regard to us, their paying members. Hiding away at Casey all preseason, with ****all coverage of training by the club, all the while denying access to fans who did make the trip out there. Apparently 42,000 plus of us have paid up for membership this season but do we exist in the calculations of the club management? I am not sure. Denied access to training but [censored] all club coverage, a few photo collages occasionally and then there are the unpublicised VFL practice matches with no coverage and no club reports. Remind me why I am paying a premium club membership this year for our current Administration?
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3 Tomlinson
2 Gawn
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VOTES: Rd 04 vs Geelong
in Melbourne Demons
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Gee those coach’s votes are interesting. Tracc was good but didn’t think both coaches would give 5. And I presume only one coach appreciated Lever’s efforts. I thought both coach’s would have worked out that Lever stuffed up numerous Geelong attacks by intercepting marks, by just being in the way, forcing cats to kick sideways and then there was his intercept of the cats guys streaming toward him. Gee it is interesting that your own coach didn’t rate Lever higher up the tree. Like mids are going to get 25 to 30 on a usual day so they always get the media votes but I thought Coaches might see things differently for the role players like Lever.