Strategy Round 1, 2014

[Biffinator]

186 point victory - bank on it.

 

[joop]

If I was you guys I'd go super small and quick in the forward line, take out fisher,dempster and guilt with what they are best at, intercepting marks.
This really is no forward line vs no midfield, but our forwards arent too crash hot either.
You should get up, but who knows!

 

[Bluelegs]

If I was you guys I'd go super small and quick in the forward line, take out fisher,dempster and guilt with what they are best at, intercepting marks.
This really is no forward line vs no midfield, but our forwards arent too crash hot either.
You should get up, but who knows!

Kennedy Harris is almost certain to debut, Howe can play small or tall with his athleticism, personally I'd put Blease up forward and tell him to just go for goal. Chuck in Bail who can hopefully get one or two based on pre-season form and I think we're still looking quite strong. Injuries are just oppurtunities for other guys to step up afaic

 

[Bluelegs]

Hey all.

Just wondering if anyone knows what's going on with Nate Jones?

I was just on the AFL app and it has him on the injury list as 'Eye - TBC'

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2014-03-12/several-dees-set-to-play-for-casey-

No mention of Jones I assume he's okay.

 

[CM Sean]

Misson said young gun Jesse Hogan was still a chance for round one.

“Jesse’s back has settled really well and we’re hoping he is able to run towards the end of this week and he’ll potentially train next week.

“We’re not writing him off for round one either. But he’s a young kid and we’re not going to risk him with the injury that he’s got, but he has settled very quickly and the doctor’s very happy with him.

“Again, we’ll assess it towards the end of next week.”

 

[PureFooty]

Analyzing the game is quite interesting. This pre-season we've been dominating possession of the ball, really relying on our decision making, and disposal ability. This game style is only going to naturally improve over time. I feel that Round 1 will provide us with a rare, but great occurrence in that we go in with a stronger midfield than the opposition, and thus can continue to dominate possession. What will let us down is our use of the footy when the game is close and when some players realise that there is 4 points and an early spot in the 8 as crazy as the sounds on the line. The saints have some quality readers of the football in their back half. So I don't expect our 2nd rate talls to being kicking many goals. However, what I expect is for us to play our fittest talls. Hopefully they can run the defence into the ground, all players will be fatiguing late, but if there defence can tire late, and we still manage to hold onto possesion, then it opens it up for the smaller forwards such as JKH and Blease and the like to assert some authority on the game. Round 1's will essentially be How are we going to make scoring chances VS How are they going to maintain possesion of the footy. I think the game will be tight for the first 2 and a half quarters, but come the last qtr I think our small targets up forward will start to get on top and fingers crossed give us a good start to the season.

So with this theory I expect at least 3-4 of JKH, Blease, Brynes, Kent and Bail to play.
tl;dr... We need our mids to get first use of the footy, our KPF's to run hard from the get go, and our Small forwards to take opportunities and advantage late in the game.

 

[Topkent]

Analyzing the game is quite interesting. This pre-season we've been dominating possession of the ball, really relying on our decision making, and disposal ability. This game style is only going to naturally improve over time. I feel that Round 1 will provide us with a rare, but great occurrence in that we go in with a stronger midfield than the opposition, and thus can continue to dominate possession. What will let us down is our use of the footy when the game is close and when some players realise that there is 4 points and an early spot in the 8 as crazy as the sounds on the line. The saints have some quality readers of the football in their back half. So I don't expect our 2nd rate talls to being kicking many goals. However, what I expect is for us to play our fittest talls. Hopefully they can run the defence into the ground, all players will be fatiguing late, but if there defence can tire late, and we still manage to hold onto possesion, then it opens it up for the smaller forwards such as JKH and Blease and the like to assert some authority on the game. Round 1's will essentially be How are we going to make scoring chances VS How are they going to maintain possesion of the footy. I think the game will be tight for the first 2 and a half quarters, but come the last qtr I think our small targets up forward will start to get on top and fingers crossed give us a good start to the season.

So with this theory I expect at least 3-4 of JKH, Blease, Brynes, Kent and Bail to play.
tl;dr... We need our mids to get first use of the footy, our KPF's to run hard from the get go, and our Small forwards to take opportunities and advantage late in the game.

I think it will come down to how many goals do we give away mantaining possesion in the back half, We would have given Geelong 4-5 goals directly from turnovers in the back half which adds up to 30 points, in a potentially low scoring game due to the nerves of both sides we must minimize the impact of our turnovers

The small forwards will be crucial for us, if Pedo and Fitzy can create some good contests up forward then the likes of JKH Blease and Bail need to so snag 5 goals between them and Then Howe and Fitzy get 5 between them plus a few goals from Midfield should hopefully be enough

 

[stretcharmstrong]

I can take a round 1 loss if they bounce back and win the next four haha. I think the real issue with losing to the Saints would be the mental dive in confidence it would bring to the playing group given the positivity they'll be feeling with the higher training standards and more effective match strategies and team cohesion under Roos. We'll see.

Not sure that all that was apparent on Sat afternoon! Going by the tried and true "X beats Y and Y beats Z, therefore X is better than Z" methodology, we are only marginally better than the Brisbane u/18s.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Not sure that all that was apparent on Sat afternoon! Going by the tried and true "X beats Y and Y beats Z, therefore X is better than Z" methodology, we are only marginally better than the Brisbane u/18s.

Yeah I was as disappointed as anyone else on Saturday purely for these reasons. They'd better come out firing round 1!

 

[PureFooty]

Saturdays spanking was the best thing that could have happened. Just the wake up call they need going into round 1.

 

[Gysberts2Bate]

Saturdays spanking was the best thing that could have happened. Just the wake up call they need going into round 1.

Tbh I don't think it was the players that needed the wakeup call - just certain members of the BF Demons board

 

[Jiska]

Melbourne.. Ethiad.. Disaster..

Last time we were favourites must have been when we'd won two straight and were playing North there. Bruce was favourite for the Brownlow and got an injury at the first bounce. I think we got hammered.

I just hate that venue. It's about time we shook off the curse.

 

[PureFooty]

Melbourne.. Ethiad.. Disaster..

Last time we were favourites must have been when we'd won two straight and were playing North there. Bruce was favourite for the Brownlow and got an injury at the first bounce. I think we got hammered.

I just hate that venue. It's about time we shook off the curse.

If I recall correctly last time we were favourites would've bee round 6 2010 against North after we lost to the pies by a point, then won 3 on the trot with the final a 50 point drubbing of the 4-0, Fevola and Brown Brisbane Lions. Good times.

 

[KickLongTackleHard]

Saturdays spanking was the best thing that could have happened. Just the wake up call they need going into round 1.

What about the previous 8 years of spankings?

 

[Topkent]

If I recall correctly last time we were favourites would've bee round 6 2010 against North after we lost to the pies by a point, then won 3 on the trot with the final a 50 point drubbing of the 4-0, Fevola and Brown Brisbane Lions. Good times.

I thought we were destined for finals after that

 

[Bluelegs]

I thought we were destined for finals after that

*Sigh* this is depressing honestly.

 

[Meds]

If I recall correctly last time we were favourites would've bee round 6 2010 against North after we lost to the pies by a point, then won 3 on the trot with the final a 50 point drubbing of the 4-0, Fevola and Brown Brisbane Lions. Good times.

Apologies for this post being off topic, but it's one of my best footy memories so i'm going to indulge...

I was in Europe for the start of the 2010 season. We'd been ok, but the Lions were flying with Fev and Browny leading the charge. My old man had been texting me the odd update through my travels so i could keep abreast of scores (i was off the interwebs to avoid heinous o/s data charges). Leading in to that match my expectations were low. I was wandering around St Peter's basilica in the Vatican City when my phone chimed up. A few people flicked disapproving stares my way, but I diverted most of them by not reacting and pretending it was someone else's phone. When the coast was clear I took my phone out and saw the best thing i would see that day. The text read "We flogged them by 50 points!" This time, there was no doubt I was the one making the noise as a cry of joy escaped my lips. A quick backhand from the wife shut me up and avoided a potential run in with the Swiss Guard, but nothing could wipe the smile off my face after that.

 

[Topkent]

*Sigh* this is depressing honestly.

Our record was 3-1-1 , really should have been 4-1 or even 5-0

Amazing what Neeld did to that list

Apologies for this post being off topic, but it's one of my best footy memories so i'm going to indulge...

I was in Europe for the start of the 2010 season. We'd been ok, but the Lions were flying with Fev and Browny leading the charge. My old man had been texting me the odd update through my travels so i could keep abreast of scores (i was off the interwebs to avoid heinous o/s data charges). Leading in to that match my expectations were low. I was wandering around St Peter's basilica in the Vatican City when my phone chimed up. A few people flicked disapproving stares my way, but I diverted most of them by not reacting and pretending it was someone else's phone. When the coast was clear I took my phone out and saw the best thing i would see that day. The text read "We flogged them by 50 points!" This time, there was no doubt I was the one making the noise as a cry of joy escaped my lips. A quick backhand from the wife shut me up and avoided a potential run in with the Swiss Guard, but nothing could wipe the smile off my face after that.

I remember listening to that game on the radio and knowing that the game was ours when Junior Mac nailed a set shot from 45 on the angle, what a great game that was

 

[GIVELIDSTHEFOOTY]

G'day from Tigerland was just wodering if your club was going to promote a rookie or rookies and will Alexis Georgiou be a chance of being in your round 1 team this super coach is doing my head in.Cheers

 

[Bluelegs]

G'day from Tigerland was just wodering if your club was going to promote a rookie or rookies and will Alexis Georgiou be a chance of being in your round 1 team this super coach is doing my head in.Cheers

Georgiou will likely fill the void for Garland.

 

[GIVELIDSTHEFOOTY]

Georgiou will likely fill the void for Garland.

Thanks m8 thats helps good luck and i hope your clubs plays out of there skin this year allways liked the Dees very much like the tigers we allways cop it.Cheers

 

[Captain Jack]

Thanks m8 thats helps good luck and i hope your clubs plays out of there skin this year allways liked the Dees very much like the tigers we allways cop it.Cheers

Thanks for the sentiments... also I ran out of breath reading that sentence. Punctuation is excellent. Really, it's great!

 

[CM Sean]

http://media.theage.com.au/sport/afl-real-footy/2014-preview-melbourne-5251240.html

 

[ponsdale]

I just tipped Melbourne for round one.

Boy, that felt strange.

 

[RandB]

I just tipped Melbourne for round one.

Boy, that felt strange.

I'm trying to get my head around it.