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Over the last 8 years or so this has been the most confident I have been about this team, I feel like we finally have a really good base of players coming through. I'm only 25 so I've only had a few years which I can remember of a good Melbourne team. I went to so many games where I just hoped we played well because I knew we were going to lose, looking for the positives in our game and went to watch certain players like Jurrah and Wonaeamirri. It has been so long since I have felt this way about the Demons, God it feels good to have a half decent team for once!

(I have had more than a few beers so if this gets deleted I completely understand!)

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I'm 50 Rafiki, and you're not wrong. It's a big call, but a new era it is. 

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17 hours ago, Rafiki said:

Over the last 8 years or so this has been the most confident I have been about this team, I feel like we finally have a really good base of players coming through. I'm only 25 so I've only had a few years which I can remember of a good Melbourne team. I went to so many games where I just hoped we played well because I knew we were going to lose, looking for the positives in our game and went to watch certain players like Jurrah and Wonaeamirri. It has been so long since I have felt this way about the Demons, God it feels good to have a half decent team for once!

(I have had more than a few beers so if this gets deleted I completely understand!)

Good post mate, better knowing you've had a few beers as well :)

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Thank Roosy and co.

My god the appointment of Roos was inspired. He has transformed this club. I don't give a sh!t what money he is on. Worth every penny.

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I am sure the depth and pressure to retain your position in the team led to some excellent contested marks by Pedo. And he held on to them!

 

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I think the essendon loss although it could cost as a finals place, could turn out to be the best thing that happened.

You just get the feeling that won't happen again, and every player has that hungry look, THEY WANT THIS 


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Thank you Paul Roos and Peter Jackson,you have set us on the right path.

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I'm not quite willing to rip the lid off yet. I hope we're up for the contest next week after playing two sides bereft of form and confidence. I hope Riewoldt and Montagna get up for next week and we put on a show against a side roughly at the same stage as us. Looking forward to it!

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45 minutes ago, Lord Ivanhoe said:

I am sure the depth and pressure to retain your position in the team led to some excellent contested marks by Pedo. And he held on to them!

 

He has excellent hands, just didn't get it enough in the past. Smart footballer, and improving in this team. 

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10 hours ago, Emerald said:

It's starting to feel like 1987 again.

That's what worries me. I'm only 36, and in my time there was the 1987 excitement, the late nineties leading up to grand final in 2000. Then about 6 years of bubbling along never really doing anything that led to the shoving off of old heads like White, Bruce, Yze and others for draft picks that crippled us for nearly 10 years. That's about it. I was too young to remember the late 80s, so someone would have to correct me on whether or not that's similar to now. The late 90s though, I felt like was probably more legitimately exciting than this crop have gotten YET. Looking back we had Neitz, Farmer and pre-injury Schwartz, who most believe was going to be our best player of the last 30 years. Even this current crop of forwards can't boast those three names. Though Hogan would sit comfortably in that group, he's on his own.

Where I am genuinely excited, and probably more excited than I've ever been is the midfield. I asked a similar aged mate who's the best midfielder we've had in our adult lives, and he said Viney. Todd Viney. He had to go back that far to remember one. There's been a handful of good players, but never really anyone that scared opposition fans and supporters. We've had 3 great ruckmen in a row, but no genuine star mids. If you look at the names in there now, I really think you could end up with 4 or so that will be in the top 5 of my adult life. Petracca apparently could be anything. Viney might be our Lenny Hayes. Braysh is a jet. I love Tyson despite everyone's belly-aching. Oliver is instand blue chip inside mid... I've watched on for years now as grand finalists come and go, and not one, ever, didn't boast a top 4 midfield. And now we have one. Or at least one that threatens to become that.

I'm wondering what demonlanders think. I know the lids off, yeah yeah... but I was excited about this list before the season started. Looked at it overall and couldn't believe it had snuck up on me like it had.

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As we've all said for years it all starts in the midfield.

Viney is now Elite

Gawn is close to if not the best Ruck in the competition.

Tyson is a very clever complimentary type to the the other two going to be Elite Bulls in Oliver and Petracca

Vince and Jones are almost icing on the cake.

Kent is a Gem

Hogan doesn't have to kick a bag every week as Jeffy is in stellar form and responsible for five or six goals every week.

Watts has arrived,and we keep finding them in Wagner and Hunt,big bodies who can run.

Hats off to the recruiters and coaches,who have built this team that has only really just been born.

We now have a good ten years to sit back and watch this exciting group ,to finally give us the Joy we deserve ,and to bring back the love of football to the Demon faithful.

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