20 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Who plays on him? Stevie that is??

I think Garland is the best match up for him personally

Dees get toweled up by GWS

Goodwin resigns in disgust as Roos overrode all his prematch strategies.

Club in crisis.

Board all walk.

AFL steps in. Decide to amalgamate MFC with HFC.

Don Scott rips a velcro hawk off a demon jumper. 

MFC supporters burn down Mt Buller Chalet in protest.

AFL decides the merger is off.

Everyone has a bex and a good lie down.

Melbourne comes out in round two and knocks off Essendon by 12 goals.

 

 

 

Titus does it again.

 

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Saturday

Melbourne v Greater Western Sydney (MCG) 1.40pm

 Former Melbourne coach Paul Roos thinks these two sides will square off in a Grand Final within the next three years.

Personally, I’d just like to see Melbourne win two regular season games in a row before I start penciling them in for the ultimate glory. After all, that hasn’t happened since Rounds 13 and 14 in 2011.

Theoretically, they could both achieve this but living up to expectations isn’t something these two clubs have exactly nailed in recent times.

The Giants haven’t been helped in this one by Jeremy Cameron getting suspended for a month, Cam McCarthy being on indefinite leave and Chris Dawes being injured.

Weirdly, I think the Dees can win here but I’m on a high after the meaningless preseason and I’m sure Melbourne will have crushed my positive feelings by round two.

 This bit about Chris Dawes is a p155er

just realized that lumumba shut down Stevie J last year against Geelong.

Wonder if that will come into consideration come selection time.

23 hours ago, drdrake said:

Carlton will beat Richmond

I would love this so much.

On 21/03/2016 at 4:00 AM, Wiseblood said:

Colin Garland to have 30 touches, 12 marks, 15 effective spoils, 100%DE and kick a long bomb goal late in the last quarter to put us up by 10 goals.

And still cop an absolute pasting from Demonland.

22 hours ago, Earl Hood said:

HT wasn't it the Suns in round 1? Didn't think we would win but we did and it reflected accurately that the Suns were average without a fit Gazza. 

Yes it was EH... GCS = Gold Coast Suns ;-)

We have a tough midfield with some battering rams in there. They still have some lighter mids like Whitfield, Scully and Conglio. So I think our best bet is getting on top physically and dominating the clearances with Gawn, Jones, Viney, Tyson, VDB etc.

Of course they still have Ward and Shiel who are both absolute guns, and a few others, so that makes it tough.

Dees will win by 27 pts Gawn 3 Nat Jones 2 Hogan 1. Goals Hogan 5 Garlett 2 Pedo 2  Jones 1 Frost 2 Kent 1 Oliver 1 Harmes 1  others 2  score 17- 12 - 114 to 12 - 15 - 87 ladder position rd 1 6th

48 minutes ago, Forest Demon said:

We have a tough midfield with some battering rams in there. They still have some lighter mids like Whitfield, Scully and Conglio. So I think our best bet is getting on top physically and dominating the clearances with Gawn, Jones, Viney, Tyson, VDB etc.

Of course they still have Ward and Shiel who are both absolute guns, and a few others, so that makes it tough.

Coniglio isn't light. And the last time he tagged Nath Jones he smashed him. 

We aren't physically smashing them in the middle, too many big boys on either side. What we need to do is pressure them all over the ground in to mistakes and then cut them apart going the other way. 

I love that we have some big bodies all over the ground but it's modern footy and time to be a modern team. 

I want to see Melbourne players intercept marking and running through in waves and then GWS players going backwards due to forward pressure. That will excite me.

If we win it will be a good day. 

If we lose it will be another shitz day and start to the season. Something we as a club can ill afford after such a promising preseason. 

Edited March 23, 20169 yr by DemonOX

16 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

If we win it will be a good day. 

If we lose it will be another shitz day and start to the season. Something we as a club can ill afford after such a promising preseason. 

Obviously a win would be ideal, but this is the first year where I don't think it would be season destroying if we lose.

For the first time in many years, I am confident in the direction of the team, and if we lose on Saturday to a good side, I still think we will win at least 4 or 5 of our first 10. I think a loss would be disappointing, but not seasons de-railing, while a win would really set the season up for a shake at the 8.

18 minutes ago, Forest Demon said:

Obviously a win would be ideal, but this is the first year where I don't think it would be season destroying if we lose.

For the first time in many years, I am confident in the direction of the team, and if we lose on Saturday to a good side, I still think we will win at least 4 or 5 of our first 10. I think a loss would be disappointing, but not seasons de-railing, while a win would really set the season up for a shake at the 8.

Would be season derailing if we got our arzes handed to us Forest. Hopefully that doesn't happen. Here's hoping. 

Looking at the side listed by the Footy Show, we're toast.  We've gone in way too top-heavy again against a side that was already looking to run all over us with their superior midfield.  I'm predicting that we'll be trying to win the ball from stoppages and bomb it, relying on the extra height to get the contested mark.  My prediction is that we'll see lots of high bombs being spilled and GWS nailing us with their superior run and spread on the rebound unless the team has a drastic shake-up in the next few days and drops half of those talls. 

Edited March 23, 20169 yr by RalphiusMaximus

These are the different levels I think about this game:

1. We can pick from a nearly full list.
2. We still have Petracca and others (lesser but still) to come back.
3. The team we pick will be full of confidence and have won a couple of Nab cup games together.
4. Pre-season normally leaves me upbeat then broken with a taste of salt and iron in my mouth; it'll crush me this year if yet again, there is no fool like an old fool.
5. Jack Watts will be my preferred Centre Half forward if he repeats his last couple of games and is staunch.
6. We are up against another real up and come-er.

 

 

Just now, RalphiusMaximus said:

Looking at the side listed by the Footy Show, we're toast.  We've gone in way too top-heavy again against a side that was already looking to run all over us with their superior midfield.  I'm predicting that we'll be trying to win the ball from stoppages and bomb it, relying on the extra height to get the contested mark.  My prediction is that we'll see lots of high bombs being spilled and GWS nailing us with their superior run and spread on the rebound unless the team has a drastic shale-up in the next few days and drops half of those talls. 

It was just a squad Ralphy, the starting 18 and the bench isn't set in stone, it's more a guess.

Squads not named yet. Footy Show and League Teams just having a stab in the dark in all games except Richmond/Carlton.

I'm tipping Garlett to kick more goals than Hogan in round 1 and for the entire season.

7 minutes ago, Forest Demon said:

Squads not named yet. Footy Show and League Teams just having a stab in the dark in all games except Richmond/Carlton.

God I hope that's accurate. 

At the end of round 1 Melbourne will be on top of the ladder and Richmond will be 9th.

37 minutes ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

God I hope that's accurate. 

it is...

1 hour ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

Looking at the side listed by the Footy Show, we're toast.  We've gone in way too top-heavy again against a side that was already looking to run all over us with their superior midfield.  I'm predicting that we'll be trying to win the ball from stoppages and bomb it, relying on the extra height to get the contested mark.  My prediction is that we'll see lots of high bombs being spilled and GWS nailing us with their superior run and spread on the rebound unless the team has a drastic shake-up in the next few days and drops half of those talls. 

You've been on this site for years,  but you don't realise that the squads named prior to round one on the Wednesday night aren't club sanctioned ?  Extraordinary. 

Dees by 17 points (has anybody said this yet). On a side track I'm in Shanghai atm. I'm going to watch the game at the big bamboo ( i kid you not). Any other ex pats  likely to join me?

3 hours ago, ENYAW said:

Dees will win by 27 pts Gawn 3 Nat Jones 2 Hogan 1. Goals Hogan 5 Garlett 2 Pedo 2  Jones 1 Frost 2 Kent 1 Oliver 1 Harmes 1  others 2  score 17- 12 - 114 to 12 - 15 - 87 ladder position rd 1 6th

The three goals from Watts (that you forgot to mention) will get it done.

1 hour ago, Emerald said:

At the end of round 1 Melbourne will be on top of the ladder and Richmond will be 9th.

At the end of Round 2 we will have a massive percentage.