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The Backyard Charizard
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Yes I work and of course I have bad days but not when it counts or every other day. Collingwood can afford an off day or two. They've already done all the hard work to get to the top. As can Geelong also. Every no show by us is a step backwards and mostly has nothing to do with off days. There is a regular pattern of bad habits in commitment to interstate games and with moderate sides which we have a realistic chance of beating going back for decades.

I was at both the Darwin and Brisbane games where we got really good victories, Darwin in oppressive heat and Brisbane where is was humid and moist, showed me we are getting there, we had a really good crack against Freo and just couldn't do it, so apart from Geelong, by coincidence we have put in two bad interstate games both in Adelaide......this will change

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    I was at both the Darwin and Brisbane games where we got really good victories, Darwin in oppressive heat and Brisbane where is was humid and moist, showed me we are getting there, we had a really good crack against Freo and just couldn't do it, so apart from Geelong, by coincidence we have put in two bad interstate games both in Adelaide......this will change

    We beat a side in bad form with an internal crisis at a neutral venue who sacked their long standing premiership coach a few weeks later. The other against a side playing their worst ever football for 10 years. Both games we hung on by the skin of our teeth after having big leads and barely withstood off spirited charges that nearly sunk us. They were pathetically bad but had a red hot go at the death. We were just ordinary bad and got lucky.

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    I hear the pain of a Demon's supporter in Adelaide... I'm so glad it isn't me.

    As a group, they must be the hardest-up to believe that we're really making improvements, that we're really developing. All they hear is 'progress progress progress' talk and all they get to see live is 'weakness weakness weakness'. Like Carlton supporters living in Sydney, it's a tough gig.

    Hollow comfort for me to tell you that things really are much better than they look over there.

    Mind you, this thread looks like a bit of a sookathon. A little bit of taking some perverse joy in being 'right' about relentless fatalism. That stuff sucks the life from clubs more than anything else.

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    Adelaide has Farmers Union Double Strength Iced Coffee!! We do not have that in Melbourne (just the standard variety). So not all is bad with the world.......

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    A little bit of taking some perverse joy in being 'right' about relentless fatalism. That stuff sucks the life from clubs more than anything else.

    It's human nature. We all want to be right, even at the expense of rationalism, progress, sanity, whatever.

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    Some classic MFC Supporter Syndrome showing through in this thread. Wanting the future now, seeing the present as mirroring the failed past, and always, always, asking for more without cedeing what they have already been given.

    Jeez.

    And I want to know what JCB meant about this MFC female employee becoming 'emotional'?

    You didn't make her cry did you, JCB?

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    He's made me cry many times.

    Both frustration and laughter.

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