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Lift the tone-stick your neck out now where will Dees finish in 2012.

thaipantsman
in Melbourne Demons

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I'm confidently tipping "the eight". That is, the bottom eight.

Wouldn't it be ten now? Not really true to your name either ;)

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    I'm confidently tipping "the eight". That is, the bottom eight.

    I like it BbO

    A little humour never goes astray

    Particularly this week

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    I'm confident that our team has improved and overall we'll give a stronger, more committed and consistent contest.

    Unfortunately, a lot of other teams are improving at the same time. (Tigers, Crows, North will be better than last year).

    It's just our lack of A Graders and foot skills - especially in the midfield - So I suspect we'll finish around 11th this year.

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    I think we'll win 10 games. That'll sit us around 10th - 12th.

    We should be looking for greater consistency of effort this year. Narrower margins in losses etc ...

    We'll make the eight in 2013.

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    Wouldn't it be ten now? Not really true to your name either ;)

    No I meant bottom eight. And, as to being true to my name - it's a ying and yang thing. At the moment "optimistic is not in the ascendant.

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    No I meant bottom eight. And, as to being true to my name - it's a ying and yang thing. At the moment "optimistic is not in the ascendant.

    Keep them coming BbO

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    I'm tired of hearing all this crap about our mids .

    Jack Trengove (Captain)

    Brent Moloney (B+F) Most clearances in the league

    Mark Jamar (AA ruckman)

    Nathan Jones ( improving each year)

    The two Jordies

    Good Times (Captain on the rare occasions he isn't injured)

    Bates-rated more highly by other clubs than our own .

    What more do you sad sacks want .

    I expect us to win more games than we lose .I think we will play 4 quarters rather than two .

    We are fitter ,we have a key target up front .

    We have a plan and a new coach .

    We have the best talent in the land.

    We just need a streak to build some confidence and then ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE .

    Nay-sayers abound on this forum ,which is fine as there has been much suffering .

    Remember-this is sport .Fairytales can and do happen all the time .

    I believe we can get into the finals and win one or two .

    SIXTH

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    I'm tired of hearing all this crap about our mids .

    Jack Trengove (Captain)

    Brent Moloney (B+F) Most clearances in the league

    Mark Jamar (AA ruckman)

    Nathan Jones ( improving each year)

    The two Jordies

    Good Times (Captain on the rare occasions he isn't injured)

    Bates-rated more highly by other clubs than our own .

    What more do you sad sacks want .

    I expect us to win more games than we lose .I think we will play 4 quarters rather than two .

    We are fitter ,we have a key target up front .

    We have a plan and a new coach .

    We have the best talent in the land.

    We just need a streak to build some confidence and then ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE .

    Nay-sayers abound on this forum ,which is fine as there has been much suffering .

    Remember-this is sport .Fairytales can and do happen all the time .

    I believe we can get into the finals and win one or two .

    SIXTH

    Then how come we get walloped at centre clearances week after week

    and how come we got belted so often in 2011

    Can you tell when the last fairytale team won a flag?

    Back in the seventies The pies went from Last to the Grand Final.

    Did they win NO

    I don't believe in Fairy Tales and neither do you.

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    We got belted in 2011 because we had a stupid coach and a traitor in our midst-and no clear plan .

    This year is different .

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    We got belted in 2011 because we had a stupid coach and a traitor in our midst-and no clear plan .

    This year is different .

    Will two of those might be true

    I think the reasons are a little more complex than that.

    Edited by old dee

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    10th maybe

    Possibly 8th

    could easily be 13th

    siht my mood has dropped over the last few days with regard to this club.

    I miss Jimmy

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    Based on the fact we won 8.5 games in 2010 and we were 'meant' to take the next step in 2011, and for whatever reasons we didn't, I struggle to understand how people do not think we will finish much better than our 2010 season given the fact most of the players on our list that year are still with us, and are in fact further developed (as opposed to having already reached their peak and on the decline). Based on that fact, in addition to our reasonable draw in 2012 (i.e. only playing 1 finalist - St Kilda - twice; a side likely on the decline anyway! and. . playing GWS twice, and not once at their real home ground), I find it difficult to see how we cannot aim for a minimum 11 wins, and even perhaps 12-13 with a good run home. That, to my reckoning, would mean we would finish 7-8th!

    Of course things can go wrong (i.e. aweful run of injuries, etc), however I do not expect last season's off-field dramas to reoccur as out off-field structure appears as firm as anyone now. Further to that point, we seem to have a coaching group with a realistic game plan - something we somewhat lacked under the Bailey regime. .

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    Somewhere around the 8th to 12th mark, I'm tipping.

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