TEAM SELECTION AND MATCH PREVIEW - ROUND 2

[Chook 15,022]

I like that match preview simply because it includes lyrics from (in my opinion) the greatest song of all time.

[dieter 3,325]

I feel it in me bones that this year is different. This time last hear we'd fluked a win against GWS - they kicked like crocks while they were slaughtering us in play during the 2nd and 3rd quarters - and we had come off a 7 win year. 

The Demons slaughtered the Saints on Saturday, coming off a much more significant win/loss year. The players now have belief and they play like they do.

Relax...

[Engorged Onion 10,223]

1 hour ago, Wadda We Sing said:

I feel sick again....

it'll be a weekly occurrence this year I think...

[Tram 74 80]

Stkilda led by 23 points at quarter time last week and would have been a little smug in the huddle, they were badly hurt by their complacency. If Carlton are in front by any amount at quarter time on Sunday don't expect them to to suffer the same level of complacency and they can win. It can happen again, don't expect one game to dissolve all of our past sins. Having said that me and my boy are coming over from Perth to watch so we can't lose, can we??????

[brendan 3,437]

As some posters have said it just has a different feel about it this year, I remember last year before the bombers and Carlton game just having that uneasy feeling that we would lose, not feeling at all like that this year even before saints game I felt we would win, dees by 60 plus for me I just want to see us put a side to the sword has been a very long time 

[titan_uranus 25,046]

I won't stop being nervous about this game until it's quarter time and we're in front.

[Earl Hood 6,101]

Apparently Hogan didn't train today, The Age,  ankle problem but expected to come up. We trained today but oddly no reports. 

[Tram 74 80]

8 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

I won't stop being nervous about this game until it's quarter time and we're in front.

Being in front doesn't help. We led StKilda in a lot of our recent losses and lost convincingly. We need to make every game a 4 quarter game and we will begin to win more. Until then I share your anxiety roman. Sad isn't it.

[titan_uranus 25,046]

23 hours ago, Tram 74 said:

Being in front doesn't help. We led StKilda in a lot of our recent losses and lost convincingly. We need to make every game a 4 quarter game and we will begin to win more. Until then I share your anxiety roman. Sad isn't it.

The thing I find with these sorts of games is that we are often "off" from the start. You get that sense in the first quarter if we are having one of those "off" days and it then becomes a disaster from there on.

[Redleg 41,616]

On 3/28/2017 at 6:47 AM, Demonland said:

Whispering Jack predicts that a twelve year hoodoo will fall by the wayside on Sunday ...

 

A DOZEN DEAD OCEANS by Whispering Jack

 

"Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son?

And where have you been my darling young one?

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains

I've walked and I've crawled on six crooked highways

I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans

I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard

And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, and it's a hard

It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall." - by 2016 Nobel Poet Laureate Bob Dylan (A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall)

 

 

Best version of the song, believe it or not, was by the talentless pretty boy, Brian Ferry and his band Roxy music.

[Whispering_Jack 30,732]

10 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Best version of the song, believe it or not, was by the talentless pretty boy, Brian Ferry and his band Roxy music.

 

[At Least I Saw a Flag 5,280]

I like Leon Russell's version.   (RIP)

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,909]

If you believe in omens, here's something in the media today for you. Bob Dylan actually accepting the Nobel Prize was considered as unlikely as Melbourne winning a round 2 game. Until now.

[Jaded No More 68,974]

I don't think it will be a smashing, I reckon we will win by 5-6 goals and move on from the win as quickly as we did last week.

We have a massive challenge in round 3 against Geelong (a game I'm going to miss and need to hunt down a pub down the coast where I can watch it). 

[Engorged Onion 10,223]

The AFL website predicts us to win by 6 goals...cant help but be filled with dread.

[stevethemanjordan 6,952]

I'll be disappointed if we don't win by 40 +

If we're serious about challenging for finals, that should be the minimum. 

[Pates 9,661]

An honestly incredible record and one I'd imagine few people would know existed. I think so many fans are focused on round one that once that is out of the way it all just bleeds into one. 

But this is definitely an important record to break, we need to back up last week's promising performance and approach this game as if it's all started again. First game at our home and first opportunity to get on a roll, the Blues will be stinging from last week's start to the season and wanting to prove their doubters wrong. 

I was concerned last year, but we were clinical last week. If we bring that same professional attitude then we will win very comfortably. I feel Oliver will pick up where he left off and will start making a name for himself very quickly. 

Would dearly love Hogan to kick a bag as well. 

[Nasher 33,617]

A win by 100 points should do.

[ArtificialWisdom 4,045]

12 minutes ago, Nasher said:

A win by 100 points should do.

We need one this year. I dont care who its against but i just think we need to absolutely thump someone. I want to sit back during a 4th quarter and watch them completely embarrass somone, its been done to us more than our fair share. Have to admit I would rather it happen in round 12  could be a coach killer in that case  

[Skuit 10,031]

It's more than that. And I don't want to upset the psychologically superstitious by talking out of school, but we do need to keep an eye toward our percentage this year. It's likely to be an incredibly tight season at the top - just a quick skip ahead and it's possible there could be as many as six teams on 5-1 - and we really did ease up last week in the final quarter.

[hemingway 7,632]

The best games are always the ones  where the supporter is not worrying about defeat but thinking of percentage.  Where the refrain from the stands is "not more goals Demons" but "percentage Demons".

[The Chazz 4,077]

Relax, I'm not going, so we will win.

Went to 4 games last year, Essendon, St Kilda, Carlton and Geelong.  Haven't seen us win live since 2011.  Hopefully I can get that monkey off my back at some stage in 2017, but it won't be this weekend as I have other commitments.

[ArtificialWisdom 4,045]

Just now, billy2803 said:

Relax, I'm not going, so we will win.

Went to 4 games last year, Essendon, St Kilda, Carlton and Geelong.  Haven't seen us win live since 2011.  Hopefully I can get that monkey off my back at some stage in 2017, but it won't be this weekend as I have other commitments.

Should we add this to the embarrassing records thread?  

[The Chazz 4,077]

10 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

Should we add this to the embarrassing records thread?  

Might as well!  Just as big a disgrace as some of the other "records" on that thread!

[Deeoldfart 8,067]

Reading that chronology made me feel cold and empty.  God knows how I would feel if Carlton somehow beat us on Sunday afternoon ........ but thankfully they wont!  This is the new Melbourne!  We are too united, too professional, too driven, too focussed, too talented and too well coached to let that scum prolong our dreadful run of round 2 losses.