Official Team Thread Mt. Buller Demons Season 37 Team Thread | Ice To See You

[sausageroll]

Oh, I was actually expecting to play my 100th this season but I just realised we have about 15 byes.

You'll be one week before PG. Potentially the Grand Final if we finish top 4 and go straight through to the prelim.

 

[Wosh]

You'll be one week before PG. Potentially the Grand Final if we finish top 4 and go straight through to the prelim.

Well now we just have to do it.

 

[Bluelegs]

You'll be one week before PG. Potentially the Grand Final if we finish top 4 and go straight through to the prelim.

It will be the biggest game of the year and also the Grand Final.

 

[Wosh]

It will be the biggest game of the year and also the Grand Final.

My birthday weekend too, perfect present

 

[Bluelegs]

My birthday weekend too, perfect present

Oh that reminds me, Happy Birthday Proper Gander!

 

[cooney]

Said no one ever

Maybe maybe not

 

[Mobbs]

Ok so ... wait, no ... wrong thread again. Carry on!

Happy birthday Proper Gander and Wosh !

 

[Proper Gander]

Oh god

 

[cooney]

Damn

 

[sausageroll]

This was the fourth game in cloudy conditions this season and the third 10 goal loss in those conditions. DemonJim played his 250th Demons match but didn't turn up at all throughout the week. Ironically, his Demons team mates didn't turn up on Sunday.

We made several changes this week, mostly due to Hate taking indefinite leave and the very welcome return of Proper Gander. manangatang took Hate's spot in the ruck, DERO's posting and match form was rewarded with a move to the wing and Hate moved to the back pocket. Proper Gander came straight into the starting 18, replacing PMBangers who hasn't posted over the past fortnight.

It was a mixed week with posting. Demons contributed two thirds of all match thread posting but we had the lowest number of active posters for the club in several seasons, finishing with just 17 active Demons. For the second week in a row, our 10th highest poster finished with less than double figures. The good news is that Proper Gander as the one finishing ith the 10th highest numbers for the week on her return.
Wosh and Gralin led the posting and moginie and I were next, both in the 50s. Scythe94, DERO and manangatang were all in the 20s and Yakker and cooney in double figures.

Given the result, it's no surprise that the team DT total was the second lowest of the season.
Having said that, Gralin managed to score 113 and moginie also finished with his second ton of the season and his fourth top two finish. manangatang had a great game in his first run in the ruck, finishing with with his highest score of the season. This was highlighted by the play of the day where mang took the ball out of a centre bounce and goaled from the centre.
jmoo wan got a lot of the ball once again at CHB as did cats2rise on his back flank. cooney provided an avenue into the forward line through limited supply from Scythe94 and sante while Proper Gander was given a chance to run in her return after starting in the forward pocket.

Our number of goal kickers was more than halved from 11 last week to just 5 this week. Bluelegs came into the game averaging two goals per week and he somehow managed to improve that average despite limited opportunities, finishing with 3. I somehow managed to also kick 5 in the same conditions.
After that, only moginie, manangatang and Hate managed to trouble the scorers with one each.

Random Stats:
1. DERO was moved from the back pocket to the midfield in selection but found himself moved straight back to the pocket, ending with his second lowest score of the season.
2. Hate struggled to score goals from the ruck all season but managed to kick one from the back pocket this week.
3. Headless' score of 58 in round 4 makes up 65% of his total scores for the season, scoring just 31 in the other 5 games.

No milestones for our Round 7 matach away against the Dragons. We're sitting on a 3-3 win/loss record this season but our percentage is very low courtesy of three 10 goal losses. That's going to be an issue if we're borderline finals contenders. We need to keep winning so our percentge doesn't become an issue.


Round 4 links:
Team Selection
Pre-match
After-Match Summary

 

[Gralin]

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This was the fourth game in cloudy conditions this season and the third 10 goal loss in those conditions. DemonJim played his 250th Demons match but didn't turn up at all throughout the week. Ironically, his Demons team mates didn't turn up on Sunday.

We made several changes this week, mostly due to Hate taking indefinite leave and the very welcome return of Proper Gander . manangatang took Hate's spot in the ruck, DERO 's posting and match form was rewarded with a move to the wing and Hate moved to the back pocket. Proper Gander came straight into the starting 18, replacing PMBangers who hasn't posted over the past fortnight.

It was a mixed week with posting. Demons contributed two thirds of all match thread posting but we had the lowest number of active posters for the club in several seasons, finishing with just 17 active Demons. For the second week in a row, our 10th highest poster finished with less than double figures. The good news is that Proper Gander as the one finishing ith the 10th highest numbers for the week on her return.
Wosh and Gralin led the posting and moginie and I were next, both in the 50s. Scythe94 , DERO and manangatang were all in the 20s and Yakker and cooney in double figures.

Given the result, it's no surprise that the team DT total was the second lowest of the season.
Having said that, Gralin managed to score 113 and moginie also finished with his second ton of the season and his fourth top two finish. manangatang had a great game in his first run in the ruck, finishing with with his highest score of the season. This was highlighted by the play of the day where mang took the ball out of a centre bounce and goaled from the centre.
jmoo wan got a lot of the ball once again at CHB as did cats2rise on his back flank. cooney provided an avenue into the forward line through limited supply from Scythe94 and sante and Proper Gander was given a chance to run in her return after starting in the forward pocket.

Our number of goal kickers was more than halved from 11 last week to just 5 this week. Bluelegs came into the game averaging two goals per week and he somehow managed to improve that average despite limited opportunities, finishing with 3. I somehow managed to also kick 5 in the same conditions.
After that, only moginie , manangatang and Hate managed to trouble the scorers with one each.

Random Stats:
1. DERO was moved from the back pocket to the midfield in selection but found himself moved straight back to the pocket, ending with his second lowest score of the season.
2. Hate struggled to score goals from the ruck all season but managed to kick one from the back pocket this week.
3. Headless ' score of 58 in round 4 makes up 65% of his total scores for the season, scoring just 31 in the other 5 games.

No milestones for our Round 7 matach away against the Dragons. We're sitting on a 3-3 win/loss record this season but our percentage is very low courtesy of three 10 goal losses. That's going to be an issue if we're borderline finals contenders. We need to keep winning so our percentge doesn't become an issue.


Round 4 links:
Team Selection
Pre-match
After-Match Summary

love you work mate

new plan, I go back to scoring under 100 DT points and the Dees can go back to winning

 

[sausageroll]

love you work mate

new plan, I go back to scoring under 100 DT points and the Dees can go back to winning

Don't need to go to those extremes. Just need to let moginie finish above you. He's been top scorer in all three of our wins.

 

[Gralin]

Don't need to go to those extremes. Just need to let moginie finish above you. He's been top scorer in all three of our wins.

good point

LIFT moginie

 

[moginie]

good point

LIFT moginie

 

[Gralin]

I believe in you

 

[Wosh]

I’ve just come on to this, should I look or just log off again?

 

[Wosh]

I should streak through all those threads. That’ll teach em’

 

[Wosh]

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This was the fourth game in cloudy conditions this season and the third 10 goal loss in those conditions. DemonJim played his 250th Demons match but didn't turn up at all throughout the week. Ironically, his Demons team mates didn't turn up on Sunday.

We made several changes this week, mostly due to Hate taking indefinite leave and the very welcome return of Proper Gander. manangatang took Hate's spot in the ruck, DERO's posting and match form was rewarded with a move to the wing and Hate moved to the back pocket. Proper Gander came straight into the starting 18, replacing PMBangers who hasn't posted over the past fortnight.

It was a mixed week with posting. Demons contributed two thirds of all match thread posting but we had the lowest number of active posters for the club in several seasons, finishing with just 17 active Demons. For the second week in a row, our 10th highest poster finished with less than double figures. The good news is that Proper Gander as the one finishing ith the 10th highest numbers for the week on her return.
Wosh and Gralin led the posting and moginie and I were next, both in the 50s. Scythe94, DERO and manangatang were all in the 20s and Yakker and cooney in double figures.

Given the result, it's no surprise that the team DT total was the second lowest of the season.
Having said that, Gralin managed to score 113 and moginie also finished with his second ton of the season and his fourth top two finish. manangatang had a great game in his first run in the ruck, finishing with with his highest score of the season. This was highlighted by the play of the day where mang took the ball out of a centre bounce and goaled from the centre.
jmoo wan got a lot of the ball once again at CHB as did cats2rise on his back flank. cooney provided an avenue into the forward line through limited supply from Scythe94 and sante while Proper Gander was given a chance to run in her return after starting in the forward pocket.

Our number of goal kickers was more than halved from 11 last week to just 5 this week. Bluelegs came into the game averaging two goals per week and he somehow managed to improve that average despite limited opportunities, finishing with 3. I somehow managed to also kick 5 in the same conditions.
After that, only moginie, manangatang and Hate managed to trouble the scorers with one each.

Random Stats:
1. DERO was moved from the back pocket to the midfield in selection but found himself moved straight back to the pocket, ending with his second lowest score of the season.
2. Hate struggled to score goals from the ruck all season but managed to kick one from the back pocket this week.
3. Headless' score of 58 in round 4 makes up 65% of his total scores for the season, scoring just 31 in the other 5 games.

No milestones for our Round 7 matach away against the Dragons. We're sitting on a 3-3 win/loss record this season but our percentage is very low courtesy of three 10 goal losses. That's going to be an issue if we're borderline finals contenders. We need to keep winning so our percentge doesn't become an issue.


Round 4 links:
Team Selection
Pre-match
After-Match Summary

Thanks sossage All I see is Proper Gander and that makes me smile.

 

[Wosh]

But ffs.

 

[cooney]

Some nice work

 

[cooney]

Rubbish

 

[sausageroll]

Yet another game in cloudy conditions and yet another convincing loss in those conditions. Once again, the game was all but over early, conceding 9 goals in the first quarter. The good news is, we only lost by 5 goals and not the usual 10.

We saw another shuffle in the line-up with Proper Gander moving to a wing and DERO returning to his back pocket. DemonJim came onto the field in the forward pocket and PMBangers replaced Hate in the 20.

Total Demons posts was in the 400s as it has been for the past month, but the number of active Demons was at a season-high 22 posters, five up on last week.
The bulk of the posting numbers came from the four usuals with Gralin, Wosh and moginie continuing their strong seasons. But the highlight was the activity levels from Proper Gander, who finished with over 50 for the week. This is the second time this season where five Demons finished with over 50 posts.
Nobody else reached 20 this week with manangatang, Yakker, Scythe94 and Truetiger all in the teens. Headless became the third person in the past three weeks to finish tenth in the posting with less than double figures.

manangatang had another big DT week in the ruck, closely followed by Scythe94 and Headless, all in the 90s.
Gralin and moginie sent the ball forward a lot through Yakker and Truetiger on their flanks.
Not surprisingly, our defenders found a lot of the ball again with DERO, cats2rise and Van_Dyke all having big games.

We had 10 goal kickers, which is pretty good for a losing side. Like in the past few matches, I wasted a few opportunities but Truetiger, moginie and cooney all chipped in with two each. Scythe94, Proper Gander, Gralin, Yakker, manangatang and DemonJim all finished with one.

Random Stats:
1. Once again, DERO got more of a run in the midfield when starting in the back pocket than he did starting in the midfield.
2. Headless' score of 91 more than doubled his DT total for the season. He scored a total of 89 DT in the first 6 rounds, 58 of which came in Round 4
3. We have lost 4 of 5 matches in Cloudy Conditions. Three of them have been 10 goal losses.

This week we'll get to finally catch up with Tarkyn_24 in our match against the Hawks. Can't believe he hasn't dropped by any of our match threads to say hi this season. It'll be great to catch up with him.

Round 4 links:
Team Selection
Pre-match
After-Match Summary

 

[cooney]

Great work

 

[cooney]

Beauty

 

[Wosh]

In case you missed it






And Headless informs us that everyone had a very nice time