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will win just a matter of how far

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Lose to Essendon & The Bears and 2016 improvement is out the door

We simply must win

go out there and do the job Demons

no bullsh!t just do it...10 goals at least

Qld Football is dead

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58 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

I expect the Lions to come out breathing fire in the first quarter.  Leppa will probably have them up and about and it wouldn't surprise me to see us take a little time to settle.  We just need to keep our focus, get first hands on the ball and make it count on the scoreboard.  If we can put a little distance between us then their heads will drop.  

Everyone needs to do themselves a favour and settle down if they kick the first goal or stick with us early.  It happens.  I am confident we can see of an early challenge.

Looking for big Max to get on top of Stef Martin today and bounce back from last week, while I'm very interested to see how our back line goes after the scrutiny it came under last week.

Dees by 7 goals.

We need to be mindful of the exuberance and effort that 10 new young Lions players will bring into this game.

If we bring really strong physicality at the contest I'm confident it'll set the tone for the game and their youngsters will lose their appetite for the hard ball.

I have a feeling Hogan will get on the end of 6 goals today and Petracca will get an RS nomination.

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1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Lose to Essendon & The Bears and 2016 improvement is out the door

We simply must win

go out there and do the job Demons

no bullsh!t just do it...10 goals at least

Qld Football is dead

Agreed, this round has been a bit of realty check that we're not exactly flying.

We've won 4 matches, but so have Collingwood and Port who have been horrible. Carlton won 4 in a row, I don't think anyone expected them to win 4 games. Richmond are now only 1 game behind us, we need to win games like this and convincingly.

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1 hour ago, Hell Bent said:

True! Lauded as one of the worst games of the year!

 

Last two have been horrible. I said to the lions supporter at work. If it's as good as the last two games and I am not at work Monday morning send a search party to the G as I've been put in a coma. 

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Today the team can take a step towards lifting the "Veil of negativity" and finally win a game we SHOULD win, and win easily.

 

Dees by 8 goals.

 

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An 8 goal win will not lift anything/anyone....

This victory today requires nothing short of 12 goals to be any sort of positive!

That is all :cool:

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1 hour ago, JackoTheMuss said:

Last year against the Bears- remember that hideous game? Most have probably blocked it from their memory .

I believe that game was the impetus for Roosy's 'negativity' speech. I believe that he mentioned after we beat the Lions at the G that he received e-mails from some nuffies stating that they would rather lose than win like that. 

While no one was over the moon with that win, I am sure that if there was one saving grace out of the performance, at least we won.

That's what I'm hoping for today. We need to win. This rot about 'by less than 10 goals is unacceptable' takes me back to an article in the Age last week where Ross Oakley was talking about a club's 'personality'. He was of the opinion that when faced with adversity, a club's true nature is revealed. In his eyes, the Doggies have the greatest of inferiority complexes 'we don't deserve to be at the top, even when the results say otherwise' and Collingwood turn against the world and takes on an almighty persecution complex as to why they have failed (hello Eddie!). 

Believe it or not, of the three club's he referenced, he chose Melbourne to use as an example. What was the example that he used may you ask? The silver spoon. He didn't make snide jokes about holidays to the snow or range rovers but I felt his point was well and truly valid. 

His view was that there is a belief at Melbourne that we will win a premiership as though others will just lay down for us and accede to our greatness. It is our birthright. Any slight blip on the way to that goal just makes life all too difficult. When faced with slight adversity, then we go to pieces and just give up.

If we lose today, I will be amazingly disappointed. If we gut out a 3 goal win like last year, I will be circumspect as to what the win means. However, under neither of those situations will I say that the year will be 'over' and that we haven't improved at all. There are 13 odd rounds left this year. Let's wait till the end of the year before we make up our mind on where we are at.

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Just wanted to clean up a sentence and put a space between a couple of paragraphs.

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I don't expect the lions to be push overs today.  They will be foaming at the mouth, it's really windy today and keys face it we are still mentally fragile. 

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Why is it that whenever one of our players or fitness staff "guarantee" somebody's going to play, they almost certainly miss?

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1 minute ago, Scythe said:

Tyson out, Newton in. Bugger.

So two blokes that have been dominating for Casey get their shot today.  Hope they can deliver

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Nev would have helped too. Oh well, just gotta keep our heads up.

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With our outs I'll just be stoked with a win of whatever magnitude... Ugly or pretty.

i cringe at people here who are gunning for an 80+ point win.

The only positive if we lose is that this site will be compulsory viewing.

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Some big outs for us in this game. Jetta, Pederson and now Tyson. Hoping the blokes dominating in the VFL have a real crack today. Dees by 46.

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8 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I believe that game was the impetus for Roosy's 'negativity' speech. I believe that he mentioned after we beat the Lions at the G that he received e-mails from some nuffies stating that they would rather lose than win like that. 

While no one was over the moon with that win, I am sure that if there was one saving grace out of the performance, at least we won.

That's what I'm hoping for today. We need to win. This rot about 'by less than 10 goals is unacceptable' takes me back to an article in the Age last week where Ross Oakley was talking about a club's 'personality'. He was of the opinion that when faced with adversity, a club's true nature is revealed. In his eyes, the Doggies have the greatest of inferiority complexes 'we don't deserve to be at the top, even when the results say otherwise' and Collingwood turn against the world and takes on an almighty persecution complex as to why they have failed (hello Eddie!). 

Believe it or not, of the three club's he referenced, he chose Melbourne to use as an example. What was the example that he used may you ask? The silver spoon. He didn't make snide jokes about holidays to the snow or range rovers but I felt his point was well and truly valid. 

His view was that there is a belief at Melbourne that we will win a premiership as though others will just lay down for us and accede to our greatness. It is our birthright. Any slight blip on the way to that goal just makes life all too difficult. When faced with slight adversity, then we go to pieces and just give up.

If we lose today, I will be amazingly disappointed. If we gut out a 3 goal win like last year, I will be circumspect as to what the win means. However, under neither of those situations will I say that the year will be 'over' and that we haven't improved at all. There are 13 odd rounds left this year. Let's wait till the end of the year before we make up our mind on where we are at.

I couldn't give a stuff about Ross Oakley's opinions on us. 

If we lose to the Lions like we already have to Essendon the team as a whole is still mentally weak and therefore wastes another year. It is that simple

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I wonder whether Newton will noe play that inside role that he has been playing at Casey.

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FINAL INTERCHANGES
Melbourne: Ben Newton, Jayden Hunt, Alex Neal-Bullen, James Harmes  
Brisbane Lions: Ryan Harwood, Tom Bell, Rhys Mathieson, Billy Evans 


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I'm genuinely very excited about ANB and Newton! Was a bit eh before given I'm certain we'll win. Still am. 

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1 minute ago, Petraccattack said:

FINAL INTERCHANGES
Melbourne: Ben Newton, Jayden Hunt, Alex Neal-Bullen, James Harmes  
Brisbane Lions: Ryan Harwood, Tom Bell, Rhys Mathieson, Billy Evans 

Wow thats a very inexperience bench..

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Great performance by the women's team!

 

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5 minutes ago, Demon Jack said:

Some big outs for us in this game. Jetta, Pederson and now Tyson. Hoping the blokes dominating in the VFL have a real crack today. Dees by 46.

Could be a good thing

these guys may only get one chance to perform this year

make it stick

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