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Just as we predict the crowd numbers, let us this week predict the following:

- Losing Margin

89 point. Backline will save us from losing by over 100.

- Gary Ablett Jnr Possessions

45, 3 goals

- Number of goals that nuff nuff Hawkins will kick against us (because they all come out and play against us! :rolleyes: )

Hopefully Stef/Warnock shut him down. Will still kick 3 by virtue of Geelong being awesome, and us being... well... us

- Number of GOOD minutes of footy played by the MFC, and in which quarter

10 good minutes, midway through the 2nd quarter. We'll be down by 6 goals at half time though.

At least we can go this week and actually enjoy watching the opposition. Beats the sort of crap Adelaide dished up yesterday.

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This may sound wrong but i'm actually looking forward to the game next Sunday...why?

I'm looking forward to seeing how they go about it against the premier team of the past 2 years and how they stack up. I'm especially looking forward to seeing how our defence stands up.

I know the team has a way to go but at least we will see what football we need to play to win flags.

Robbo must be close though.

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This may sound wrong but i'm actually looking forward to the game next Sunday...why?

I'm looking forward to seeing how they go about it against the premier team of the past 2 years and how they stack up. I'm especially looking forward to seeing how our defence stands up.

I know the team has a way to go but at least we will see what football we need to play to win flags.

Robbo must be close though.

OK we're not going to win but is'nt that what we expected in this year of development. If we double up on SON OF GOD then one of his friends will just smash us. I would like to see Bailey again use one on one football and hopefully Geelong play along with us and our young boys can learn by watching the current masters play. To be beaten is not a bad thing at the moment. It is what they learn by how they were beaten is more important in the long term. Even Stan Alves said yesterday that Melbourne members should forget the first half and look at what they achieved in the second half by playing one on one. He believed that the signs were there for the Club and that persistence is required for the rest of the year. That goes for the supporters as well. I too am looking forward to next week. I know we will be beaten but I go now to watch the improvement of the young boys because it is those boys who will carry us into a premiership in the near future. Hard decisions have to be made about those players who don't have the ability to improve and give others a chance to be exposed that do have the skills ie Geelong, Hawthorn.

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OK we're not going to win but is'nt that what we expected in this year of development. If we double up on SON OF GOD then one of his friends will just smash us. I would like to see Bailey again use one on one football and hopefully Geelong play along with us and our young boys can learn by watching the current masters play. To be beaten is not a bad thing at the moment. It is what they learn by how they were beaten is more important in the long term. Even Stan Alves said yesterday that Melbourne members should forget the first half and look at what they achieved in the second half by playing one on one. He believed that the signs were there for the Club and that persistence is required for the rest of the year. That goes for the supporters as well. I too am looking forward to next week. I know we will be beaten but I go now to watch the improvement of the young boys because it is those boys who will carry us into a premiership in the near future. Hard decisions have to be made about those players who don't have the ability to improve and give others a chance to be exposed that do have the skills ie Geelong, Hawthorn.

Give dunn the task on Ablett and tell him to watch the Crowley tapes. Then we should lose by less than 10 goals.

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I'm going so I can watch, Ablett, Selwood, Mackie and a few more run around.

I would like to see some of our young guys playing well at Casey get a run ie Maric

Ablett will slaughter us (I want to back him to get 50+ possessions, any bookies offering odds on that any one know?)

Scarlett and co will love the fact we do not have a forward line that stays forward side of the middle of the park, one on one their backs are better than our forwards, but when it's 4 v 2 etc, Milburn will have a ball down their.

I expecta loss of 90+

Ablett 3 votes, Selwood 2, Johnson 1 (he will kick 8)

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Finally optimism and realistic, yes I will be there next Sunday with bells on, realistically knowing that we may not have much of a chance if any of winning, but optimstically watching are ever improving defence take them on knowing that they will keep the score down to something respectable,

the midfield battling on, think Dunn will get Ablett maybe for the first quarter, just to say hello!!!!!

hoping we go one on one

hoping that if we get the ball we kick the bloody thing to a moving (ie going forward) target...and another one of the young guys stands up and has a breakout game...

Highlight for me yesterday was young Frawley......leaps and bounds....Sean Wellman take a bow....

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We will win this game.

...you know we had the meeting at Light Tower 2, can we have the same this week to meet up with YM so he can distribute the drugs he is obviously on so we can 'REALLY' enjoy the game

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Just as we predict the crowd numbers, let us this week predict the following:

- Losing Margin

89 point. Backline will save us from losing by over 100.

- Gary Ablett Jnr Possessions

45, 3 goals

- Number of goals that nuff nuff Hawkins will kick against us (because they all come out and play against us! :rolleyes: )

Hopefully Stef/Warnock shut him down. Will still kick 3 by virtue of Geelong being awesome, and us being... well... us

- Number of GOOD minutes of footy played by the MFC, and in which quarter

10 good minutes, midway through the 2nd quarter. We'll be down by 6 goals at half time though.

At least we can go this week and actually enjoy watching the opposition. Beats the sort of crap Adelaide dished up yesterday.

losing margin: 68. agreed on the power of our backline

Ablett: unstoppable. 34 touches, 4 goals. wont need to fluff around racking up handballs against us so that should drop his numbers and if he wants to try for 50, he'll cost his team about 3 goals with the time unnecessarily spent.

hawkins: will get 2, just because of the delivery.

good minutes: more just hoping for moments, as i did last year. strings of 8 touches by presenting with quality and deliverance. still hope for the future stuff.

and finally an additional answer of scoreline: melb: 10.7 67 geel 20.15 135 (miller 3 robbo 2)

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Highlight for me yesterday was young Frawley......leaps and bounds....Sean Wellman take a bow....

oh yes, definitely seconded. wish we could see the same impact of scott west on jonesy. that would be a dream come true.

(who is our actual midfield coach? i know westy only has the occasional word)

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Grimes will come in, hailed as the new Brett Kirk and will thus spark forum debates as to whether he is awesome, or brilliant. Infact I'll even start the poll. Woona or Maric will come in and kick a couple crumbs, and Robbo on return will kick Six on the 'unbeatable' Scarlett. We will lose by a couple goals, and the headlines will read 'Noble Dees fall to Cats'. Ablett will have 30 possessions but we will have fought it out for three quarters of the match, after being blown away in the first.

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Just as we predict the crowd numbers, let us this week predict the following:

- Losing Margin

89 point. Backline will save us from losing by over 100.

- Gary Ablett Jnr Possessions

45, 3 goals

- Number of goals that nuff nuff Hawkins will kick against us (because they all come out and play against us! :rolleyes: )

Hopefully Stef/Warnock shut him down. Will still kick 3 by virtue of Geelong being awesome, and us being... well... us

- Number of GOOD minutes of footy played by the MFC, and in which quarter

10 good minutes, midway through the 2nd quarter. We'll be down by 6 goals at half time though.

At least we can go this week and actually enjoy watching the opposition. Beats the sort of crap Adelaide dished up yesterday.

We can`t dish up the crap like we did against Adelaide. I`d be reasonably happy if we played like we did against them at skilled in Round 3 2008. But I`d rather win. But they please don`t get killed. And Hopefully there is a decent amount of dees supporters unlike the Adelaide game.

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Anything could happen against Geelong. They key is to get players like Steve Johnson and Cam Mooney out of the action. Shut their forward line down and we have a chance.

Agree...If Geelong come out and and take it easy anything can happen.....Id take 30 points again

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- Losing Margin

Geelong to lose by 23.

- Gary Ablett Jnr Possessions

22 useless possies

- Number of goals that nuff nuff Hawkins will kick against us

0

- Number of GOOD minutes of footy played by the MFC, and in which quarter

120 good minutes

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oh yes, definitely seconded. wish we could see the same impact of scott west on jonesy. that would be a dream come true.

(who is our actual midfield coach? i know westy only has the occasional word)

Jones' problem is he sees McLean and Moloney and tries TOO hard, the more he tires the worst it gets, first few games he seemed to have overcome this, looked more relaxed and played as such, but took a step back yesterday...........Mark Williams is the midfield coach, but you can see West's influence in the 'see ball get ball'........

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- Losing Margin

98, a goal just before the siren from Robbo will save us from 100+

- Gary Ablett Jnr Possessions

38, 5 goals

- Number of goals that nuff nuff Hawkins will kick against us (because they all come out and play against us! :rolleyes: )

3.7 his kicking will get the yips........hopefully

- Number of GOOD minutes of footy played by the MFC, and in which quarter

First 20 minutes after half-time, but we'll only get 2 goals out of it with inaccuracy playing a part

At least we can go this week and actually enjoy watching the opposition. Beats the sort of crap Adelaide dished up yesterday.

Very true, last year's hammering @ the G i was at least able to watch the best of the best at work.

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I cant wait for this weekend just to see the greats of the game like Ablett, Selwood, Hawkins, Johnson and the other cats do there stuff. But also to have in the back of my mind that in a couple of years instead of those names it will be Watts, Jones, Morton, Wonna, Garland ect. I'm not really interested in the margin that geelong win by but more importantly the amount of experience our boys take from playing against such a good side. But for the sake of punt

losing margin

70 points

Gary Ablett possesions

50+ (3 goals) and 3 votes

Hawkins Goals

4

Number of GOOD minutes played by MFC

120mins of competitive footy but will be outclassed by a better team

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Just saw the odds for this weeks game.

Centrebet - Geelong $1.01, Melbourne $13.00

Geelong odds look tempting. :P

Last time I looked at odds similar to this was last year before going down to the cattery. The Dees put up a solid effort that day, although Geelong flirted with their form back then. Then later in the year on a wet freezing night at the G, Geelong simply played with us in the wet. Going into that game, I said at the time that I thought we could win it. I don't know why, perhaps I just love the good aussie battler, the underdog.

I won't be making that same mistake again.

Geelong by 58 points. :(

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Geelong odds look tempting. :P

:lol:

Can we not turn up and just say we did?

The result is the same, we lose the 4 points, but at least we don't have to suffer.

I guess we'll either put up a good fight for 3 quarters and they'll run all over us in the last, or it'll be on for young and old from the first bounce.

To be fair, they really should rest Ablett, Selwood and Johnson this week... I hear they are all suffering from the debilitating Wintoomuch condition ;)

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I would give Cale Morton the job on Ablett Jnr.

Not something Cale is used to, but he has the potential to be one of the best in league, so he may as well get some pointers from the best.

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I would give Cale Morton the job on Ablett Jnr.

Not something Cale is used to, but he has the potential to be one of the best in league, so he may as well get some pointers from the best.

C.Sylvia for mine.

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I would give Cale Morton the job on Ablett Jnr.

Not something Cale is used to, but he has the potential to be one of the best in league, so he may as well get some pointers from the best.

YM, cale morton has a worse kick than bruce. enough said.

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