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I'm hoping that each game has been sort of focusing on certain aspects of the game plan, and rnd 1 is about bringing it all together.

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Just a point on our slow midfield, if you have been to any training sessions in the pre season, they do work on repeat sprints of varying distances, the top group meaning the guys who could continually do it at high speed included Trengove, Moloney, Jones, Bate and Bail, as far as I can remember in our game you don't tuck the ball under your arm and try and outrun your opponent for 50 metres, that happens inside AAMI Park.....you just need to be able to get to each contest for 2 hours....Blease and Davey hunting in the fwd 50 will do me, and Howe is no slouch either

Not trying to be silly but Trenners, Moloney, Jones and Bate doing repeat sprints at "pace".... repeapt sprints at similar pace doesn't mean at "pace" if you compare against the top midfields from my point of view. I think we are a touch slow at present.

PS wow Hawks Pies game is a fair show skill and class. We are a number of seasons of that pace.

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It always astounds me that 'supporters' on this board will continually denigrate the ability of the MFC players.

This is even before we have kicked a ball in earnest for the new season.

I will wait to see tomorrow, even then I find it hard to 'have a go' as I have never played at that level, so wouldn't know how difficult it is.

As long as a player give 100%, I don't care, just have a crack

Also the obsession with comparing with other teams or other players, why?.....just go along and enjoy the game,.footy is a game, it's enjoyable, I love watching Joel Macdonald coz I have no idea what he is going to do, I would love him to catch a nice simple mark, but that would take away the enjoyment of watching him take on 3 opposition players to get the ball back

We get to have another go next week, no matter what we do this week

........if the performance gets to you, you only have to head south after the game..a nice slow one in the river or on the railway tracks.....

I can only say God speed to the players

Point taken with the negative attitude, and that's what happens when we watch such a poor performance against the top teams like we did last year.

But not comparing our list and our game to other teams?... that's a folly.

This is an 18 team competition and at least half the other teams are doing things much better than us, and we want to know how and why.

So we compare our list with their list, as you do when you watch 36 players on the ground.

If you just watch the MFC, you might think we have pretty good speed and skills. Then you watch Carlton, or Hawthorn or Pendleberry and compare, and you realise we have a very very long way to go.

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Dunno about Tynan. I didn't see him warrant selection. Must have trained hard. Also looks a fraction light...

Posted

Um, footy is not a game, its "more than a game" B)

Footy is not a matter of life or death.

It's much more serious than that.

Posted

It's footy day. Do it for Jimma and yourselves Demons. Nobody else rates us. Lets make the journalists take notice of onfield this year.

Winning Culture starts today.


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It's footy day. Do it for Jimma and yourselves Demons. Nobody else rates us. Lets make the journalists take notice of onfield this year.

Winning Culture starts today.

While I agree with your sentements, I find it funny that you go "Do it for yourselves," then immediately after that you say "Stick it up the journos". I don't think those two ideas mesh.

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i very much doubt they will line up that way.....esp green

you should take advertised team placements with a grain of salt

Yep, take them with a grain of salt, cos they are COMPLETELY, UTTERLY AND TOTALLY IRRELEVANT, and as other posters have said, it is just a waste of posts to comment on the team based on their named positions. Stop doing it.......NOW!
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While I agree with your sentements, I find it funny that you go "Do it for yourselves," then immediately after that you say "Stick it up the journos". I don't think those two ideas mesh.

Where did i say "Stick it p the journo's?"
Posted

lets not get too carried away and put too much pressure on the debutants. look at last nights game, the debutants played no where near like they did in the nab cup. that said that was an amazing game of footy and was hard and quick. today we will show much needed improvement but a long way from the stripes last night.

Posted (edited)

Melbourne vs Brisbane Round 1, 2012 – Team Stats

Total games played

Demons - 1,619

Lions – 1,629

Games Average

Demons - 74

Lions – 74

Height Average

Demons - 188cm

Lions – 188cm

Weight Average

Demons - 87kg

Lions – 86kg

Number of players by category

0-49 Games

Demons - 9 / 23 (number of players/average games played)

Lions - 10 / 20

50-99 Games

Demons - 6 / 76

Lions - 5 / 68

100+ Games

Demons – 7 / 140

Lions - 7 / 156

Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Edited by Rusty Nails

Posted

Let hope for a win. Brisbane normally start the season strongly.

I'm with you and particularly looking forward to the Hudson/ Jamar contest as a lot follows on from that,
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I must say that this is the least excited I have ever been for the start of a season. So much so, that all week I kept forgetting we were playing, made plans, then had to cancel them. Maybe it's the result of years of bitter disappointments, maybe it's me just being an old grumpy [censored]. Bottom line is, what I expect from this season is redemption.

Redemption for wooden spoons, redemption for 186, redemption for Jimmy passing away before he experienced the success he so richly deserved.

If at the end of the season I am no longer bitter about all of the above, then it would have been a successful season.

Of course having said all that, I'll be dragging my sorry arse to the game today despite doctor's orders to stay in bed and rest. No rest for the delusional Melbourne supporter I say!

Posted (edited)

Where did i say "Stick it p the journo's?"

You want the journo's to notice us, but you want us to do it for ourselves. Maybe you don't want to stick it right up 'em, but you do want their attention.

Edited by Chook

Posted

You want the journo's to notice us, but you want us to do it for ourselves. Maybe you don't want to stick it right up 'em, but you do want their attention.

Yes i do. That also means the players have got to want to succeed.

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