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ALL EMBARRASSING RECORDS ARE CONSIGNED TO ANCIENT HISTORY THIS IS GROUND ZERO DEMONS IN THEIR RIGHTFUL PLACE SLATE: CLEAN GO DEMONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Here's one: If we win one of the last 3 games for the year, we will finish the season having not lost 3 consecutive games at any point. We haven't done that since 1998, believe it or not.

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1443 points against is also, by a very long way, the fewest points we've conceded in a 22-game season. The previous best was 2018, which was 1749. Also, not including last year's shortened g

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Richmond game - early 90s we beat Pies and Dons in a row. Not sure that was their GF year, but both were flying like us. 
 

Nek minit   - Swans in Sydney, lost 22 straight. Game Osborne convulsed onfield. 
 

Don’t  disbelieve my MFCSS

Now I think of a Viney foot tap to Jackson  or a Harmes pass to Fritta or a TMac goal  

 

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3 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

 

11) Have never beaten North at Marvel

 

This one is crazy, but also has a lot to do with not playing Norf at Marvel in the last few years.

We went through a good decade where we couldn't buy a win there, and now we rarely lose in that hole of a ground. 

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2 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

I don’t think we wanted to, but we were in the habit of falling in a heap. It was certainly our wont. 

Well covered, FD 😄

Gracious, @Dr. Gonzo 👏🙂

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3 hours ago, mauriesy said:

Most of those are borderline ridiculous and beyond my caring.

You've obviously never been teased by a Sydney supporter over the fact that we haven't beaten them on a Sunday at the MCG since 2001.

My non-MFC  mates rib me about that one all the time, and they're not going to stop regardless of how many flags we win. 

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6 minutes ago, Grapeviney said:

You've obviously never been teased by a Sydney supporter over the fact that we haven't beaten them on a Sunday at the MCG since 2001.

My non-MFC  mates rib me about that one all the time, and they're not going to stop regardless of how many flags we win. 

I cop it continually from my work colleagues that we’ve never beaten Hawthorn in the 4:35pm time slot.

Maybe this year might finally be that year.

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35 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

This one is crazy, but also has a lot to do with not playing Norf at Marvel in the last few years.

We went through a good decade where we couldn't buy a win there, and now we rarely lose in that hole of a ground. 

Getting shunted yearly across the Tasman definitely has not helped that record.

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Just now, Demonland said:

I'm taking it one week at a time. 😜

In the past decade I think we've only had 2 home games against the bombers.

 

From 2006-2021 we’ve hosted Essendon twice. 2010 and 2019 were those years.

The reason doesn’t make sense but I recall about 5-10 years ago an MCC spokesman confirmed on radio that the MCC requested to the AFL that Melbourne plays away games to Essendon and Carlton at the MCG and therefore increasing the chances we’d miss out on home games against those 2 clubs.

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9 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

From 2006-2021 we’ve hosted Essendon twice. 2010 and 2019 were those years.

The reason doesn’t make sense but I recall about 5-10 years ago an MCC spokesman confirmed on radio that the MCC requested to the AFL that Melbourne plays away games to Essendon and Carlton at the MCG and therefore increasing the chances we’d miss out on home games against those 2 clubs.

That makes no sense considering we would want home games occasionally against those teams for the gate takings.

It's not as if it saves us from having to play 6 games interstate a year.

I always assume we played Essendon as the away team because they never (or rarely) forced Essendon to don their away guernsey and it was easier to shaft us and make us play in the Bali tops.

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4 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Just a few obvious ones that come to mind:

1) Haven't beaten Adelaide in Adelaide on a Saturday since 2017. Nor a Sunday since 1996.

2) Haven't beaten Brisbane on a Friday night in QLD since the Bears inception in 1987.

3) Haven't beaten Carlton in a home MCG game on a Saturday since 1997.

4) Haven't beaten Collingwood on an MCG Q'Bday game since 2017

5) Haven't beat Essendon in a home game since 2010

6) Haven't beaten Freo in WA since 2004

7) Haven't beaten GWS at the MCG since 2018

8) Haven't beaten Gold Coast on a Sunday game since 2018

9) Haven't beaten Geelong in Geelong on a Saturday in a non COVID affected year since 2005

10) Have never beaten Hawthorn in a Saturday or Sunday twilight game.

11) Have never beaten North at Marvel

12) Haven't beaten Port in consecutive attempts  in Adelaide.

13) Haven't beaten Richmond in an away game since 2015

14) Haven't beaten St Kilda at the MCG since 2017. Have never beaten them at the MCG in the 1:10pm slot.

15) Haven't beaten Sydney on a Sunday at the MCG since 2001

16) Haven't beaten West Coast on a traditional Fri/Sat/Sun game in Perth since 2017

17) Have never beaten the Dogs on a Friday night at the MCG.

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20 minutes ago, Demonland said:

That makes no sense considering we would want home games occasionally against those teams for the gate takings.

It's not as if it saves us from having to play 6 games interstate a year.

I always assume we played Essendon as the away team because they never (or rarely) forced Essendon to don their away guernsey and it was easier to shaft us and make us play in the Bali tops.

It was the Melbourne Cricket Club, not us as a club that requested that Melbourne plays Essendon as an away game at the MCG.

Apparently the MCC also compiles and lodges a fixture request list with the AFL.

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6 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

From 2006-2021 we’ve hosted Essendon twice. 2010 and 2019 were those years.

The reason doesn’t make sense but I recall about 5-10 years ago an MCC spokesman confirmed on radio that the MCC requested to the AFL that Melbourne plays away games to Essendon and Carlton at the MCG and therefore increasing the chances we’d miss out on home games against those 2 clubs.

I remember an AFL or MFC person also saying a number of years ago that we get Essendon away because we get Collingwood home each year. Now that we share the gate with Collingwood and Richmond it's more likely we'll get Carlton/Essendon home games every other year.

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16 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Just a few obvious ones that come to mind:

1) Haven't beaten Adelaide in Adelaide on a Saturday since 2017. Nor a Sunday since 1996.

2) Haven't beaten Brisbane on a Friday night in QLD since the Bears inception in 1987.

3) Haven't beaten Carlton in a home MCG game on a Saturday since 1997.

4) Haven't beaten Collingwood on an MCG Q'Bday game since 2017

5) Haven't beat Essendon in a home game since 2010

6) Haven't beaten Freo in WA since 2004

7) Haven't beaten GWS at the MCG since 2018

8) Haven't beaten Gold Coast on a Sunday game since 2018

9) Haven't beaten Geelong in Geelong on a Saturday in a non COVID affected year since 2005

10) Have never beaten Hawthorn in a Saturday or Sunday twilight game.

11) Have never beaten North at Marvel

12) Haven't beaten Port in consecutive attempts  in Adelaide.

13) Haven't beaten Richmond in an away game since 2015

14) Haven't beaten St Kilda at the MCG since 2017. Have never beaten them at the MCG in the 1:10pm slot.

15) Haven't beaten Sydney on a Sunday at the MCG since 2001

16) Haven't beaten West Coast on a traditional Fri/Sat/Sun game in Perth since 2017

17) Have never beaten the Dogs on a Friday night at the MCG.

That's crazy talk, the only one that stands out that annoys the [censored] out of me is the North at Marvel.

Wouldn't mind beating Port twice in a row in Adelaide to really stick it right up em for the years of torment.

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12 hours ago, BDA said:

We haven't won a granny at the MGC for 58 years. Reckon 2022 is the year to right that wrong

Have to win one on the G for sure. Would be front and center of the players minds.

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Haven't been able to buy a Chico Roll at a Melbourne game since about 1979.

 

They've been banned by the EPA.

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