I think the predictions of a huge win are OTT. I hope the team arent thinking the same way, just expecting it to happen like we have in the recent past.

It would be great though, wouldnt it?

Us by 18. 

48 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Gee 15:20 is a balls starting time.  Feels like I'm sitting around all day waiting for it.

As others have said, my 18month old was just as pumped and has had me awake since half 4 with the only positive Nasher is I should be pulling into Greytown NZ at about that time (Aust time) so hopefully can catch the whole game on the watchafl service.

Most Melb games have been some kind of "statement" game over the last 12-18 months (breaking hoodoo's and curses and long losing streaks at venues and to teams). We have started to push the needle in the positive direction in these "statement" games, today is another chance for us to make a statement. Belting the Blues by a good margin and pushing ourselves into the top part of the ladder early doors of the season.

1 minute ago, ding said:

I think the predictions of a huge win are OTT. I hope the team arent thinking the same way, just expecting it to happen like we have in the recent past.

It would be great though, wouldnt it?

Us by 18. 

I've always maintained that as supporters, we should be welcome to get as carried away as we please.  It's our own emotions we are putting on the line.

You are right that the team must not think this way, and I really doubt they are.  

2 minutes ago, ding said:

I think the predictions of a huge win are OTT. I hope the team arent thinking the same way, just expecting it to happen like we have in the recent past.

It would be great though, wouldnt it?

Us by 18. 

I don't agree.  

Richmond conceded 14 goals to Carlton, which was poor.  I'll be disappointed if we concede any more than 10.  I also expect us to kick over 100 points.

Dees by a minimum of 40 points.

I expect that I'm like most Demonlanders:  dreading the possibility of a loss, expecting a 5 or 6 goal win and hoping we give them a damn good belting.

Keen to see oliver and Cripps go head to head 

I believe having 1 Jordan Lewis on the ground sets the required intensity needed to beat this mob. Incredible defection for us!

 

If we lose it'll be because Carlton were too good.

Very anxious this morning. I'm alternating between"we can't possibly lose this" and to the possibility I won't enjoy my dinner tonight. 

We will smash em today,cant wait we OWE THEM BIG TIME.  

Well I am nervous. Murphy, Gibbs and Cripps is a decent midfield. They have done it to us before.

35 minutes ago, Nasher said:

I've always maintained that as supporters, we should be welcome to get as carried away as we please.  It's our own emotions we are putting on the line.

You are right that the team must not think this way, and I really doubt they are.  

Has been said that players of the Neeld era we're mentally scarred and the same could be said of us MFC followers as a supporter group.

Personally I'm starting to regain the confidence in the team that winning most weeks and comfortably beating/smashing teams below us are the base expectations we should have of our team.

12 minutes ago, dl4e said:

Well I am nervous. Murphy, Gibbs and Cripps is a decent midfield. They have done it to us before.

Have they? I can't recall Simon Goodwin's Demons ever being beaten by Carlton.

Blank slate as far as I'm concerned.  Last week proved that.

39 minutes ago, america de cali said:

Very anxious this morning. I'm alternating between"we can't possibly lose this" and to the possibility I won't enjoy my dinner tonight. 

Having brussels sprouts are you?

47 minutes ago, dl4e said:

Well I am nervous. Murphy, Gibbs and Cripps is a decent midfield. They have done it to us before.

Reasonable yes but the blues are coming from a very long way back talwnt wise. They simply do not have the cattle. Nor do north, freo and to a much lesser extent tigers and magpies. Gols coast do but their issues liw elsewhere

18 minutes ago, Ted Fidge said:

Having brussels sprouts are you?

Brussel sprouts are delicious after a win.

100+ point win coming up today.

Hogan will kick 8

Watts 5

Oliver will have 40 touches, 25 of them contested

Viney to dish out a huge bump on Murphy

Weitering to be pumped for the Dee's and quietly sing the MFC song back in the Carlton rooms.

Demons on top of the ladder.

On a train city bound, lunch in Richmond before heading to the ground. Haven't been to a game in Melbourne for 2 years, I'm bloody pumped....

48 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Have they? I can't recall Simon Goodwin's Demons ever being beaten by Carlton.

Blank slate as far as I'm concerned.  Last week proved that.

Saints nearly rolling Eagles in Perth, is good formline for us.  

2 hours ago, Nasher said:

Gee 15:20 is a balls starting time.  Feels like I'm sitting around all day waiting for it.

 

2 hours ago, Krazy Jaeger O'Smeara said:

That's because we are! 

No we're not. 

Emailed Roosy after this game last year - im sure he listened , Frustrated at us letting cripps rum amok without putting a bigger body in there early in the game to halt his influence, and predictable centre clearance work resulting in us being disposessed easily . 

Also threatened to cancell membership. Poor form really . 

1 minute ago, CityDee said:

Also threatened to cancell membership. Poor form really . 

What were you hoping to achieve by threatening to cancel your own membership to the senior coach?

1 minute ago, Nasher said:

What were you hoping to achieve by threatening to cancel your own membership to the senior coach?

To not lose to carlton when we are clearly a better team . 

Attention seeking really as i said poor form on my part , i do remember Roosy commenting on his fox footy segment that he had recieved alot of feedback from members after that game and that he gets it but . 

 

4 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

My TV avoided having empty beer cans thrown at it last week by the team beating the saints.

I recently went out and bought from the toyshop, 4 foam TV Remote controls. I will hurl them at the screen at a later time, thus completing the Cathartic effect of frustration and Aggression theory in practice !!  But not today, as I will be in attendance at the HOME of footy, as distinct  to the abyss that is, "Shitihad Stadium" a cold souless world of a place not even a Dalek would feel at home at!

Edited April 2, 20178 yr by picket fence

17 minutes ago, CityDee said:

Also threatened to cancell membership. Poor form really . 

How does one "cancel" a membership ?