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Mazer Rackham
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So now you know what is MFCSS ... but how does it work? Example. We could be leading at half time by 15 goals to 1. After half time ... if Carlton get the first inside 50 ... cue the comment

Dee Dee
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Kreuzer at his best (even after injury) should never be taken lightly, he can be very damaging. 

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It's a battle of the midfields, if Carlton win the midfield battle it'll be a tight game if we win it'll get ugly very quickly. 

I suspect we will see a burst of goals from us at some stage 

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Does Carlton have a midfield ? 

They have some names for sure. Not much cohesion or clout though.

Boos might as well stay home and rest.

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13 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Does Carlton have a midfield ? 

They have some names for sure. Not much cohesion or clout though.

Boos might as well stay home and rest.

Their midfield tore us apart last time if I recall correctly. Gibbs and Cripps did the job. Murphy played well against the Tigers last week also.

we should have a lot more depth but we know what happens when we think we have it in the bag.

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9 minutes ago, Stinga2 said:

Their midfield tore us apart last time if I recall correctly. Gibbs and Cripps did the job. Murphy played well against the Tigers last week also.

we should have a lot more depth but we know what happens when we think we have it in the bag.

we forgot to turn up to play on that occasion. Wont ever happen again I suspect.

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1 minute ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Gibbs smashed us last year as did Cripps.

Bit like the Saint had the wood on us. That was then..this is now.

The Saints DO have  a midfield.... got clobbered last week I seem to recall.  Our form last year was a rollerc oaster

The matchup in the JLT is actually more a predictor Id suggest

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11 minutes ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

I said that after the Essendon game...

this is THIS year..is this such a hard concept for all.

 

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28 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

this is THIS year..is this such a hard concept for all.

 

Yes... but you can forgive people for being a tad skeptical until we see them back it up each week. Haven't done it for a decade or so.

I am optimistic, but it is a long season. We were good last week, but Saints were not at their best. We can still improve. We should [censored] Carlton.

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7 minutes ago, homsar said:

Yes... but you can forgive people for being a tad skeptical until we see them back it up each week. Haven't done it for a decade or so.

I am optimistic, but it is a long season. We were good last week, but Saints were not at their best. We can still improve. We should [censored] Carlton.

I think that's the thing, all indications are we should win and win easily. Last year against Essendon all indications were that we should win and win easily. 

Losses like that are burnt into our supporters brains, that won't change for quite a while. I will say this though, there was something different about the team last week. Once we got in front we just looked comfortable, like whatever the saints sent at us we'd just shrug our shoulders and get on with it. The win last year against GWS was arguably very lucky, there was nothing lucky about our win against the saints. We were good, and we didn't allow them to be good. 

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Kreuzer - is a donkey, well diplomatically 'serviceable' who'll have 3 better than good games per season... Max however is echelons above him and is quite frankly disrespectful to Max to even consider the two in the same breath...

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Just now, Pates said:

I think that's the thing, all indications are we should win and win easily. Last year against Essendon all indications were that we should win and win easily. 

Losses like that are burnt into our supporters brains, that won't change for quite a while. I will say this though, there was something different about the team last week. Once we got in front we just looked comfortable, like whatever the saints sent at us we'd just shrug our shoulders and get on with it. The win last year against GWS was arguably very lucky, there was nothing lucky about our win against the saints. We were good, and we didn't allow them to be good. 

I might be in the minority here Pates, but I didn't really feel that way last year.  I tried to talk myself into it, and probably looking back on my post history for that round would suggest I was confident, but I was trying to convince myself more than anything.  Our win over GWS was great, but we didn't exactly play well, and I knew the Bombers would be up and about.  That proved to be correct.

This week feels different, which is what you have alluded to above.  We played ripping footy and we have a pretty fit list to choose from as well.  We are cleaner, slicker and have that killer instinct that I don't feel we had last year.  I'm far more confident going in to this week than I was at this time last year.

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Difference this year and say the Ess game was we all thought it wasca lay down misere. Funnily enough we started game late. Carlton..again...had it won before the game, forgot to turn up.

F fwd to now. We're pretty switched on. Players on notice its all 100% or go home.

Got this by 10 goals. 

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7 minutes ago, Danelska said:

Kreuzer - is a donkey, well diplomatically 'serviceable' who'll have 3 better than good games per season... Max however is echelons above him and is quite frankly disrespectful to Max to even consider the two in the same breath...

Back on topic. I essentially agree.

The great Blue marvel is in reality an agile plodder who has an occasional day out.

Max is the leagues new benchmark.

Chalk and cheese

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We will win and win easily, but it won't just be Big Max and the midfield that will do the job for us it will be like last week, a full team effort.

This is a different Melbourne and one I haven't seen for many years, they have self belief and ability, together with a game plan equipped to handle the current day's style of play. We handled them in the JLT and they had most of their top players in at the time, so I can'r see any reason why we shouldn't do the job again.

What happened last year and previous years has nothing to do with what will happen from here on in, we are a different club and it will take a god side to beat us, Carlton aren't a good side.

 

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This is the kind of thread that supporters reference to mock overly confident fans after their club gets an upset win over them. (see BomberBlitz round 10 2012).

Hello in advance to BlueZone (or whatever their community forum is called).

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