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I;d say so, it's the only Saturday night game on this weekend, anyone else going on Saturday?

I will be there!

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Who do we think Clint Jones will go to lock down? Jones must surely be thinking " please not me for once "

He'll go to Jones, but he'll go [censored], and Vince and Jones will run a rampage, i can't wait, do you think we'll get a decent crowd?

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I don't rate Blease. At all.

Same for Byrnes.

I held high hope but he hasn't got it. Isn't a natural ball winner and can't get to good positions often enough. And although I missed the Hawks game he certainly didn't do anything to enthuse in the other two games.

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To be really honest, the state of the club has had me so bent out of shape, I have been thinking about little else since last year when Roos was appointed coach. I have never been so anxious (including the two GF's that I have seen) for the game to be over and done with, so I can deal with my hopes and fears in a practical way.

Every day I think, leave the bloody website alone it an addiction, my wife thinks I must be surfing porn or something but it is merely anxiety about the impending season, but am going nuts at some of the comments recently about players.

But what I really want to implore others about, is that there is no justice, and we are owed nothing because of what has previously happened. To say that our horse should get up now, because we did our mortgage on all the previous races and must surely be deserving of God's mercies now, will be a faith based disaster (Even though the [censored] really really owes us, and

Norm you bitter old dead bugger, would you please lift the curse).

This is year zero, I wish it wasn't, but I really think the only way we can stay sane and reduce the pressure on the club, which with the AFL's help, (as much as that riles me) has taken action and deserves a chance to start anew, as well as the players. As much as it feels like a cosmic [censored] take when we have another injury, lets just pull together and support the club.

Mate, you need to get out more, and stop worrying so much!

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Bringing the whole family to the game on Saturday night, as we live in country vic just wondering the best place to park near Etihad. Plan to get down there about 5.00, find something to eat and then wonder over to watch our boys start our season off with a win.

take a V-line train Oneday, food eateries above the southern station. comfy V-line trains.

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Round one Melbourne team v St Kilda
B: Dean Terlich, James Frawley, Jack Grimes
HB: Lynden Dunn, Tom McDonald, Bernie Vince
C: Jimmy Toumpas, Jack Watts, Dom Tyson
HF: Rohan Bail, Jack Fitzpatrick, Daniel Cross
F: Shannon Byrnes, Cam Pedersen, Jeremy Howe
FOLL: Jake Spencer, Nathan Jones, Jack Trengove
I/C: Viv Michie, Matt Jones, Jay Kennedy-Harris, Alex Georgiou
EMG: Daniel Nicholson, Sam Blease, Michael Evans
NEW: Daniel Cross (Western Bulldogs), Alex Georgiou (Norwood), Jay Kennedy-Harris (Oakleigh Chargers), Viv Michie (Fremantle), Dom Tyson (Greater Western Sydney), Bernie Vince (Adelaide)

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Round one Melbourne team v St KildaB: Dean Terlich, James Frawley, Jack GrimesHB: Lynden Dunn, Tom McDonald, Bernie VinceC: Jimmy Toumpas, Jack Watts, Dom TysonHF: Rohan Bail, Jack Fitzpatrick, Daniel CrossF: Shannon Byrnes, Cam Pedersen, Jeremy HoweFOLL: Jake Spencer, Nathan Jones, Jack TrengoveI/C: Viv Michie, Matt Jones, Jay Kennedy-Harris, Alex GeorgiouEMG: Daniel Nicholson, Sam Blease, Michael EvansNEW: Daniel Cross (Western Bulldogs), Alex Georgiou (Norwood), Jay Kennedy-Harris (Oakleigh Chargers), Viv Michie (Fremantle), Dom Tyson (Greater Western Sydney), Bernie Vince (Adelaide)

Thanks dees at the same time the thread came out.

Timing is everything.

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No Montagna, No Jack Steven, No Lenny Hayes, No Sam Fisher, No Sam Gilbert.

Yeah I'm preeeety confident.

I'm hoping for victory, but you never know what really will happen until the final siren...

Also if you add those players to their 22, then there team is not the basket case that people are making out.... Looks like the strong leadership that we've been crying out for, for seven year...

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No Montagna, No Jack Steven, No Lenny Hayes, No Sam Fisher, No Sam Gilbert.

Yeah I'm preeeety confident.

I'm pretty sure a side under Roos won't lose to St Kilda.

You are bordering on hubris, you are so overly confident.

If ever there was a team that a young, rebuilding St Kilda side could beat behind a dominant performance from the one star forward on the ground - it is fledgling Melbourne coming off a 2 win, 54% season.

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It would sure shock the crap out of me.

That's fair enough, but it's just a suggestion and as usual certain posters take it as though i am stamping it as a certainty, and make a snide comment which i think is just uncalled for.

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Notice Georgiou on the bench i wonder if he might play forward at times..

I reckon they'll shuffle the arrangement of posi's, as normal. but I would have thought Le Toump would have come off the bench. I s'pose the saints have a lot of newbies & inexperience as well, which changes things.

I posted a team a few weeks back pretty close to this squad & lineup.

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That's fair enough, but it's just a suggestion and as usual certain posters take it as though i am stamping it as a certainty, and make a snide comment which i think is just uncalled for.

its the same old guard which has overseen the Melbournefc attitudes for the last few decades of success. stuck in the mud ruts ways of doing things around the grand old .

peter giles would never have gone forward? defensive forwards, what rot?

having defenders who can sneak forward to kick goals is a bonus. harry taylor says high.

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IT"S FINALLY GAME DAY!!!!!!

All the talk can finally stop! All the speculation, all the rumours, all the news stories, all the "training the house down", all the "Mark Neeld era", all the admin can finally STOP!

IT'S FOOTY'S TURN TO TALK!!!!!!

Round 1 2014 is a fresh slate. The past years mean nothing. Right now we are in the exact same position as every other club. Today we are as close to a flag as anyone and its what the 22 lads who pull on the red and blue do between now and the last Saturday in December that makes the difference. Today we get back to what all of this right here is all about and that is 120 minutes of the greatest game there is. The Demons future starts today.

GO DEES!

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