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Here's a sincere shot at a wild prediction -

The Demons/Kangaroos match will be a ridiculous mess, wet and windy and slippery.

Melbourne will go in with only one 'true' marking forward (Hogan) and neither Frost nor Pederson will make the final team.

Waite, Petrie and Brown wont be able to make the most of their marking power.

The radical simplification of tactics in the conditions will lead us to take up a very simple game plan that suits our collection of roughnuts and heavy bodies, where we just keep grinding it forward to wet soggy contest after wet soggy contest.

The score will be low, the football will be awful to watch, and the result will be exactly the gritty, grinding, exhausting, mud-soaked win we need as a club.

It will also include a reminder of why Nathan Jones is our captain.

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    10 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    Here's a sincere shot at a wild prediction -

    The Demons/Kangaroos match will be a ridiculous mess, wet and windy and slippery.

    Melbourne will go in with only one 'true' marking forward (Hogan) and neither Frost nor Pederson will make the final team.

    Waite, Petrie and Brown wont be able to make the most of their marking power.

    The radical simplification of tactics in the conditions will lead us to take up a very simple game plan that suits our collection of roughnuts and heavy bodies, where we just keep grinding it forward to wet soggy contest after wet soggy contest.

    The score will be low, the football will be awful to watch, and the result will be exactly the gritty, grinding, exhausting, mud-soaked win we need as a club.

    It will also include a reminder of why Nathan Jones is our captain.

    That's very wild, romantic almost.

    Six goal loss, no further casualties, bring on the Filth.

     

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    Essendon looked tired tonight. A few fat heads. And I just feel that little bit worse now. Did not know Melbourne could make me feel angry without even playing.

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    13 minutes ago, Mr Steve said:

    Essendon looked tired tonight. A few fat heads. And I just feel that little bit worse now. Did not know Melbourne could make me feel angry without even playing.

    Port beat them by 11 goals without five of their best players. It could easily have been a 20 goal loss.

    Highlights our lack of effort last week.

    One good quarter of footy would have beaten them last week. 

    We hit the lead in the last, despite being killed all day. A 15 minute effort from that point would have given us a win.

    I am still angry a week on.

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    I didn't need to see Essendon this week to know just how bad we were last week.

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