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We won ten in a row to finish fourth in 2000 it may happen again

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    a fantastic year right up til the first saturday in september.

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    We won ten in a row to finish fourth in 2000 it may happen again

    We finished third with Essendon and Carlton above us and North in fourth. Sadly, I think your dreaming!

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    In my 42 years following Melbourne that was the only year I had real confidence we could win the game from any position .

    Even if we were 5 goals down I was always confident we could come back and win it .

    With Neitz , Schwarz , Farmer , Robbo and Uze running around the forward line usually 1 or 2 would cut loose at some stage.

    We had an unhappy knack of meeting dominate seasoned sides at their peaks in the last 2 GF's .

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    We started our run after Carlton thrashed us by around 100 points, if my memory serves. We had the last laugh though. That pre-liminary final and the Wiz turning it on is still one of my best days (nights rather) at the footy. Back when we had the Ox, Neita and the Wiz. I don't care how bad he got at Fremantle, he is still one of the most exciting players i have ever seen in a Melbourne guernsey. I will always love the Wiz.

    Those 2 goals by Powell on the forward flank were fantastic. Still have the game tape from name a game. You hear Bruce at the end saying, no matter who we played next week, it will be a contest. That lasted for all of 2 minutes. And bloody Michael Long - weak pr!ck.

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    I'm with you , the Wiz brought too much joy to hold a grudge on him .

    I was of the impression we would lose him at some stage due to his family staying west anyway so wasn't such a shock .

    He loved our club , didn't have the same magic at Freo .

    I even admired the way he'd always play well against us , carving us up with multiple goals at times.

    As for the GF ,I can't believe we weren't ready for Essendons physical assault.

    They'd been belting us up since since the 80's and this was a forken Grand Final , Sheedy kept Wallace in the lineup purely for thuggery .

    And if Neitz hadda kicked them 1st 2 , who knows what woulda happened .

    What did happen was Hird kicked the captains goal to put them on the board , they then quickly slammed another . They were away .

    Remember even Farmer getting a dud decision early when just clear and heading goalward .

    Confidence sapping sh!t .

    The game was over by the time Long displayed his cowardice by charging the youngest kid on the ground with his head over the ball. Made it even more of a weak act .

    Wallace broke Greens windpipe or something in the opening minute or 2 .

    He wouldn't have been far off second youngest on the ground .

    AAarrrr .... Shouldn't have got me started . :mad:;)

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    Wiz should never have gone back to WA. Appalling (footy) decision.

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    As much as I hope and pray that the OP is incredibly insightful, sadly I think it is incredibly unlikely. Might alter my view ever so slightly if we actually play well today and manage to string two wins together, but still seems rather fanciful.

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    Sorry, but we didn't actually win 10 in a row. After getting flogged by Carlton, we won three in a row, then lost by a point to North in crushing fashion (seem to remember Troy Makepeace at the end for some reason) in Round 17. We then won 5 in a row to finish the home and away season.

    I like the premise though! Hopefully we take advantage of a fairly soft draw and can win 6 or 7 of our last 10 to squeak into the 8. The Geelong, Carlton and Hawthorn games will be very tough so we can't afford many other slip-ups.

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    We started our run after Carlton thrashed us by around 100 points,

    if i remember correctly i think we had 2 100 point losses that year and still made the GF

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    After getting flogged by Carlton, we won three in a row, then lost by a point to North in crushing fashion (seem to remember Troy Makepeace at the end for some reason) in Round 17. We then won 5 in a row to finish the home and away season.

    Bizarre match. North kicked 14 goals to win by a point, but kicked 11 goals in the second quarter (which seemed to go for about 40 minutes, allowing North to kick a bundle of late goals).

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    That team was the fittest MFC team I have ever seen. How many teams did we run over in the 2nd half of games that year - great memories.

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