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So I don't know whether "fear" is exactly the right word, but given where we've been for so long I became accustomed to looking at the fixture and dreading certain teams. I feel that amount of teams has diminished a lot for me over the last 12 months.

Hawthorn is still the team I look at on our fixture and think, how can we beat such an amazingly powerful team? More than that I probably still think how will we stop it from becoming a rout?

Fremantle and West Coast in Perth are always a power, even when they aren't playing the best football the trip over there, hostile territory, and they are both up there currently as teams to beat. Fortunately we only play West Coast in Perth.

Adelaide and Port USED to be teams I concerned myself when playing in Adelaide with but us beating the Crows there is 2014 and almost beating Port there in the same year, I don't have that same fear anymore.

I feel this year could be a big turning point for our club and the team in this respect where we no longer look ahead on the fixture and think "oh crap".

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Right now, the games I 'fear' the most are the ones we are the favorites for.  The losses to Essendon and Carlton last year were very hard to swallow.  Until we can regularly win (and win well) those games, they will hold the biggest fear.  When we become a consistent performer that wins those games, then I'll start to worry about teams that seem to have the wood over us like Geelong did for so, so many years..

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It's the lower teams, Carlton, Essendon and Brisbane for sure are the teams we expect to beat and we have a habit of losing to those sides, if we beat carlton and essendon last year we could have had a ten win season

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29 minutes ago, Pates said:

So I don't know whether "fear" is exactly the right word, but given where we've been for so long I became accustomed to looking at the fixture and dreading certain teams. I feel that amount of teams has diminished a lot for me over the last 12 months.

Hawthorn is still the team I look at on our fixture and think, how can we beat such an amazingly powerful team? More than that I probably still think how will we stop it from becoming a rout?

Fremantle and West Coast in Perth are always a power, even when they aren't playing the best football the trip over there, hostile territory, and they are both up there currently as teams to beat. Fortunately we only play West Coast in Perth.

Adelaide and Port USED to be teams I concerned myself when playing in Adelaide with but us beating the Crows there is 2014 and almost beating Port there in the same year, I don't have that same fear anymore.

I feel this year could be a big turning point for our club and the team in this respect where we no longer look ahead on the fixture and think "oh crap".

 

I fear this is the damage done from following a club like Melbourne Fuscia's has had on most, (including me once)  since Smithy was finished up.

 

imo i think the idea is to let go of 'fear', (the right description),  & then to see things as challenges,  to take on those challenges,  & to take a no prisoners attitude on field.

Ruthless comes from this attitude.

 

I'd like to see our supporter base start to display this attitude to our footy onfield opponents.

 

thats a start,  & our players can then feed off our new positive aggressive energy,  instead of feeling our apprehension.  They CAN feel the vibe onfield,  & the vibe certainly does effect them.   The negative,,,  or the positive.  

 

This is the meaning of quieting the opposition crowds.  it does Effect.

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19 minutes ago, Peter Griffen said:

It's the lower teams, Carlton, Essendon and Brisbane for sure are the teams we expect to beat and we have a habit of losing to those sides, if we beat carlton and essendon last year we could have had a ten win season

We should have had a 10 win season. I fear our side most when I suspect they wont turn up to play never mind the opposition. 

 When is this is likely to happen?

1. After any win.

2. Playing sides we are fancied to beat.

3. When media hype suggests we are improving.

4. When the maths say we can't make the finals and the players shut up shop.

 

 

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You're right - "fear" may not be the right word here. 

I am certainly "sick" of losing to the following teams:

North Melbourne - they've done nothing for years and somehow we seem unable to come close. 

Hawthorn - understandable seeing as they have been dominant in recent history but I live for the day we can not only match it with them but take a hard fought win to the bank. 

St Kilda - have been around our mark for a few years now and we have gone close but we should be burying them what with all the old hacks they have running around (though they have cleared out quite a few now I guess)

Freo/WC - seems like these two teams have had the edge on us for years. I want to win and win over there. 

Could probably do one of these for virtually every team that we've lost to in a small way (even though we've had some good wins in the most recent history) but seriously this year feels like the closest we've been to fielding a "competitive" team.

 

2016 has been a shocker of a year so far on most other levels personally so really hoping that footy will be the positive light this year. 

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1 hour ago, dee-luded said:

 

I fear this is the damage done from following a club like Melbourne Fuscia's has had on most, (including me once)  since Smithy was finished up.

 

imo i think the idea is to let go of 'fear', (the right description),  & then to see things as challenges,  to take on those challenges,  & to take a no prisoners attitude on field.

Ruthless comes from this attitude.

 

I'd like to see our supporter base start to display this attitude to our footy onfield opponents.

 

thats a start,  & our players can then feed off our new positive aggressive energy,  instead of feeling our apprehension.  They CAN feel the vibe onfield,  & the vibe certainly does effect them.   The negative,,,  or the positive.  

 

This is the meaning of quieting the opposition crowds.  it does Effect.

Good grief

 

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I have us penciled in for 13 wins 9 before the bye in round 14. The start of the season is vital if we want to move up the ladder

If we don't perform we will be in the bottom 3 or 4 again.

This means  we beat Collingwood, Richmond, Saints, Lions and Port at MCG

The teams that really scare me are Carlton, North and Sydney. I only concede to the Hawks, Geelong, North,Freo and Port in Adelaide. All other teams are beatable by the Dees

13 wins may creep  us into finals but I am expecting around 9 or 10th

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Yea, though we play in the shadow of defeat, I will fear no team : for if you are with me, your  scarf and trident  doth comfort me !! :lol:

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6 minutes ago, Members' Wing said:

Good grief

 

I'd say thats a common complaint from the conservatives on your side MW,,,  those who keep the 'status quo',  even if it hurts you,  keep controlling,  but you will never control someone like me.

yours is the same conservative attitude that keeps the churches troubling its kids.  just keep on doin the same old,  no matter what.  don't rock the boat will you now.

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44 minutes ago, dee-luded said:

I'd say thats a common complaint from the conservatives on your side MW,,,  those who keep the 'status quo',  even if it hurts you,  keep controlling,  but you will never control someone like me.

yours is the same conservative attitude that keeps the churches troubling its kids.  just keep on doin the same old,  no matter what.  don't rock the boat will you now.

You really are sick DL

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2 hours ago, dee-luded said:

 

I fear this is the damage done from following a club like Melbourne Fuscia's has had on most, (including me once)  since Smithy was finished up.

 

imo i think the idea is to let go of 'fear', (the right description),  & then to see things as challenges,  to take on those challenges,  & to take a no prisoners attitude on field.

Ruthless comes from this attitude.

 

I'd like to see our supporter base start to display this attitude to our footy onfield opponents.

 

thats a start,  & our players can then feed off our new positive aggressive energy,  instead of feeling our apprehension.  They CAN feel the vibe onfield,  & the vibe certainly does effect them.   The negative,,,  or the positive.  

 

This is the meaning of quieting the opposition crowds.  it does Effect.

 

52 minutes ago, dee-luded said:

I'd say thats a common complaint from the conservatives on your side MW,,,  those who keep the 'status quo',  even if it hurts you,  keep controlling,  but you will never control someone like me.

yours is the same conservative attitude that keeps the churches troubling its kids.  just keep on doin the same old,  no matter what.  don't rock the boat will you now.

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1 hour ago, Robot Devil said:

You're right - "fear" may not be the right word here. 

I am certainly "sick" of losing to the following teams:

North Melbourne - they've done nothing for years and somehow we seem unable to come close. 

Hawthorn - understandable seeing as they have been dominant in recent history but I live for the day we can not only match it with them but take a hard fought win to the bank. 

St Kilda - have been around our mark for a few years now and we have gone close but we should be burying them what with all the old hacks they have running around (though they have cleared out quite a few now I guess)

Freo/WC - seems like these two teams have had the edge on us for years. I want to win and win over there. 

Could probably do one of these for virtually every team that we've lost to in a small way (even though we've had some good wins in the most recent history) but seriously this year feels like the closest we've been to fielding a "competitive" team.

 

2016 has been a shocker of a year so far on most other levels personally so really hoping that footy will be the positive light this year. 

North Melbourne definitely is the team that I'm most sick of losing to. Every year I turn up to Etihad stadium with my best mate (who is a North Melbourne supporter) hoping we can at least come close, but also scared of the outcome. But we just get repeatedly spanked every time. We put up no contest until some point we come out and kick a couple of goals in a row but by then its already over. All their average players seem to have field days against us.  

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3 hours ago, Members' Wing said:

You really are sick DL

The whole idea of the fenced in members mcc,  is to keep those 'fearful' sheltered & controlled,  away from the mainstream.

 

The concept is built on fear,  fear of being ordinary (normal), & upon a sort of snobbery.  a false status.

 

this is where our past board members congregate,  & no coincidence,  its where those who sacked Smithy were from,  & its no coincidence that since Smithy was finished up,  we have failed time and again,  with our boards derived from that area.  That fenced in mcc area.  This is where our failing boards have come from over  50 years,  & so its where our failing attitudes come from.

 

 

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