Just now, SaberFang said:

Geez, because there's just so much positivity to discuss after our stunning upset defeat last week, isn't there?

It's a discussion forum where people can express themselves however they like. If you don't like it, leave!

It wasn't an upset to me half way through the first quarter, I could tell we hadn't turned up, not sure which bit some supporters don't get about modern footy, the good teams turn up week in week out, that is the difference, not the skills, fitness etc.....it's intent

That goal umpire needs his eyes checked if that needed a score review. Clear goal!

1 minute ago, Wiseblood said:

 

You told him he should stop posting if he didn't like it.  That's the very definition of telling someone that they aren't entitled to their opinion because you believe he is whinging.  What he posted was his opinion and, last time I checked, it's not your job to tell him that he shouldn't post because of it.

You're the very definition of a hypocritical poster.

You are doing exactly the same champ, suggest it is getting dark, turn off the lights and have a good lie down.....either that or discuss footy

Calling it now....Cloke will have a blinder and the Pies will win when we play them next.

Richmond and Collingwood have looked as awful in the first three weeks of the season as we have in Q2, Q3 vs GWS and the entire game last week.

 

Saints are good to watch - contest hard and run hard to spread, hit targets by hand and foot. 

2 minutes ago, SaberFang said:

That goal umpire needs his eyes checked if that needed a score review. Clear goal!

Think they must have to do a certain number of goal reviews over the weekend.

5 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

It wasn't an upset to me half way through the first quarter, I could tell we hadn't turned up, not sure which bit some supporters don't get about modern footy, the good teams turn up week in week out, that is the difference, not the skills, fitness etc.....it's intent

The problem with last week is how predictable it was that we wouldn't turn up to that game. So many posters called it months before the season even started; to see it unfold so inevitably in reality was like watching a car crash in slow-motion.

After Port's breathless win last night, I think it's perfectly understandable for Dees supporters to be feeling doubly filthy about last week's game and express themselves as such.

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by SaberFang

17 minutes ago, DSP said:

Touchy arent we?

Its a forum, you know, for discussion?

I'll be sure to run by any topics I may want to discuss with you in the future. Or you could ignore it and move on. Either or.

Hey DSP - you're welcome to your opinion any time you like mate.  This is a discussion forum after all.  Don't worry about the hypocrites.

4 minutes ago, SaberFang said:

The problem with last week is how predictable it was that we wouldn't turn up to that game. So many posters called it months before the season even started; to see it unfold so inevitably in reality was like watching a car crash in slow-motion.

I think it's perfectly understandable for Dees supporters to be feeling doubly filthy about the game today and expressing themselves as such, especially after Port's breathless win last night.

Port's skills last night were awful, Essendon's worse, Port just battered their way through to a win

That is why we are not a good team yet, I had hoped after the GWS win it might change, but not quite

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Satyriconhome

And it's great to see Richmond getting smashed as well.  Many said it last week, but why the media creams their pants over them at the start of every season is beyond me.  They've been average for 5 years.

Well if today's anything to go by (and the last two rounds, really), Collingwood and Richmond are simply garbage re-heated.

Two opportunities for a win in the foreseeable future. Let's just hope we've re-built some momentum by Anzac Eve, because it sure as hell came crashing to the ground last week.

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by SaberFang

I'm so thankful for Richmond. 

 

6 minutes ago, SaberFang said:

Well if today's anything to go by (and the last two rounds, really), Collingwood and Richmond garbage re-heated.

Two opportunities for a win. Let's just hope we've re-built some momentum by Anzac Eve.

And off we go being lulled again, similar to Essendon, that all we will have to do is turn up and the win is assured, sigh

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Satyriconhome

At least we know that Jeremy Howe wasn't just lazy for us because he wanted a trade, he's a lazy ineffectual footballer in general. 

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by Seraph

I'm not saying we just need to turn up for a win, don't put words in my mouth.

Essendon was an opportunity for a win we let slip, badly. Richmond and Collingwood are opportunities for a win that we sure as hell better convert. But even the worst team in the league will defeat us if we don't turn up, as has been proved time and time again for the best part of a decade.

3 hours ago, Satyriconhome said:

You can get your point across, but if you are not really interested anymore why bother, what is the point in bemoaning something that you don't care about, makes it more about you than the footy club..............when I arrived in Australia many years ago was told there wasn't a class system to worry about, you seem to contradict that notion

you have that notion (class)  as you are a recent arrival Saty.  so it comes to who told you.

In the 50 - 60's there wasn't a real class system.  but since inflation crept in & investing became a way of life amongst Aussies,  including the stockmarket,  & since family homes have since been flung onto the investment bonfire,  with the new attitudes of getting ahead (ahead of whom) competing against other families has become common place,  fences have gone from 5 foot high to up around over 2 mtrs high,  to shut out your friendly neighbors.  So I guess there can't be a class system,  can there. 

Keep those feral Tigers & Pies outer, here.

 

No,  in the old days we all rubbed shoulders at the footy,  in the rain.   With banter cheek, good cheer & laughter.

Collingwood and Richmond are both average sides, at best. Collingwood is a Richmond choke away from being 0-3 and has looked awful for large parts of all three games. Richmond aren't too much better.

I'd love to see some fight and spirit from us tomorrow to show that, even if we don't win, we have a genuine chance of getting ourselves to 3-2 by the end of Round 5.

Just now, dee-luded said:

you have that notion (class)  as you are a recent arrival Saty.  so it comes to who told you.

In the 50 - 60's there wasn't a real class system.  but since inflation crept in & investing became a way of life amongst Aussies,  including the stockmarket,  & since family homes have since been flung onto the investment bonfire,  with the new attitudes of getting ahead (ahead of whom) competing against other families has become common place,  fences have gone from 5 foot high to up around over 2 mtrs high,  to shut out your friendly neighbors.  So I guess there can't be a class system,  can there. 

Keep those feral Tigers & Pies outer, here.

 

No,  in the old days we all rubbed shoulders at the footy,  in the rain.   With banter cheek, good cheer & laughter.

I went to a game at Victoria Park in 77 don't remember there being much of that there

34 minutes ago, Seraph said:

At least we know that Jeremy Howe wasn't just lazy for us because he wanted a trade, he's a lazy ineffectual footballer in general. 

On the radio over here they described him as a passenger. Fair to say not much has changed.

2 hours ago, SaberFang said:

Pendles was being tackled from behind, then blatantly ducked/nudged his head against the laws of physics straight into the tackler's arm. Umpire immediately paid a free kick to him 40m out directly in front of Pies' goal.

Saints player cracked it, dumbass umpire looked at replay and goes, "yeah, he probably ducked, but it's a free kick."

I was listening to the radio at the time and Luke Ball I think it was said that Pendles practices this at training. He said it was a legitimate tactic....

I've been watching scully play these three rounds and he just runs and runs and runs, he is starting to become a player. puts himself in the right spots and runs that much his opponents can't go with him. cousins esq.

37 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

And off we go being lulled again, similar to Essendon, that all we will have to do is turn up and the win is assured, sigh

Just as well we're not playing 'Sat'...I would hope a professional football team don't think like this.

15 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

I went to a game at Victoria Park in 77 don't remember there being much of that there

In the early days i didn't got to Vic park.  As I was the only Melbourne supporter around my way.

But around '77,  I started going to the footy every week with 2 St-Kilda supporting mates,  watching the Saints.   I loved it when Melbourne played the Sainters,  & Robbie would cut them new ones,  & turn them inside out.

 

Melbourne Wins were few,  & very frustrating watching year after year of,  I don't know what.  

But with my Sainter mates,  I got to study all teams & learn what the differences were,  as i didn't have to focus on my team.  Except maybe twice a year.

Amazing what you observe & learn about clubs,  when you aren't overly involved in your own teams issues,  whilst at footy grounds.

 

So,  Vic Park,  didn't get they're many times.  but remember like yesterday being there with my Sainter mates,  & Don Disher was dealing it out to the Pie players. 

On one run,  he ran from the outer back flank where we were,  toward the centre & then to CHF,  dropping about 5 magpies along the route. 

It was one of the funniest things I've seen in all my times watching footy.  And did the pies supporters squeal & chortle.... whining all the way.  

Pies players were treading carefully that day. 

 

 

Edited April 9, 20169 yr by dee-luded

Just now, rjay said:

Just as well we're not playing 'Sat'...I would hope a professional football team don't think like this.

Roos already said he thought a couple were thinking like that before the Essendon game, which is a sad indictment on the playing group

4 minutes ago, dee-luded said:

In the early days i didn't got to Vic park.  As I was the only Melbourne supporter around my way.

But around '77,  I started going to the footy every week with 2 St-Kilda supporting mates,  watching the Saints.   I loved it when Melbourne played the Sainters,  & Robbie would cut them new ones,  & turn them inside out.

 

Melbourne Wins were few & very frustration watching year after year of,  I don't know what.   But I got to study all teams & learn what the differences were,  as i didn't have to focus on my team.  Except maybe twice a year.

 

Amazing what you observe & learn about clubs,  when you aren't overly involved in your own teams issues,  whilst at the footy grounds.

 

So,  Vic Park,  didn't get they're many times.  but remember like yesterday being there with my Sainter mates,  & Don Disher was dealing it out to the Pie players.  on one run,  he ran from the outer back flank where we were,  toward the centre & then to CHF,.  dropping about 5 magpies along the route. 

It was one of the funniest things I've seen in all my times watching footy.  And did the pies supporters squeal & chortle.... whining all the way.   Pies players were treading carefully that day. 

 

 

In the seventies some family friends who were Collingwood members used to take me to Victoria Park for a few years when we played there. Unusual for a Melbourne supporter I got to sit in the members about 15 rows behind the Johnston St goals. They were a better class of supporter there but I kept quiet of course.  There was no way my parents would let me go there on my own to watch from the general admissions area.