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GAME DAY - Round 3, 2017

Josh
in Melbourne Demons

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No work this weekend, body clock has me up though and I've got 10 bucks on the 40+

 

I think today we show the rest of the football world that we have arrived...

Edited by Josh

 
15 minutes ago, Josh said:

No work this weekend, body clock has me up though and I've got 10 bucks on the 40+

 

I think today we show the rest of the football world that we have arrived...

Hallelujah brother.

I agree! I have a strange level of confidence about today! I reckon petracca might announce himself today in a strong win for the dees 

 

I truly do not know what to expect. 

I'm not confident nor do I think we will lose.  Like the saints game ours anyone's to win. 

I'm looking forward to the advent of another Smith onto the MFC stage because the name is synonymous with success at the Melbourne Football Club.

The great Norm Smith was a key forward who came to the club in 1935. Over the next three decades he was involved in ten premierships, four as a player and six as coach. He twice won the club's best and fairest, the Keith 'Bluey' Truscott Medal (1938 and 1944) and was a four time leading goalkicker, the last three in premiership seasons and he led the club as captain from 1945-7 and coach from 1953-67. Until recently when it was overtaken by David Neitz, he held the club's goal kicking record (546). Incredibly, he was only 183cm tall but he left a long shadow over the club and remains its last premiership coach to this day.

Since then Smiths of various types have come and gone to the club. In Norm's time we even had the eminently suitable (for a top end of town club as we once were) Dick Fenton-Smith, Norm's son Peter, a defender from the Bombers in Ray Smith, current MCC President Steve Smith who captained the club, won a 'Bluey' and like Norm started as a key forward, the high flying Shaun Smith and more recently his son Joel whose career has literally been encapsulated in fifteen minutes of fame before he injured his shoulder in the opening round of this season. The late Kim Smith played four games for three goals in 1975 and then became a legend at Prahran where he booted 610. 

Today, another Smith will strut the AFL/VFL stage in the red and blue colours in our latest key forward Tim Smith who like Kim Smith comes to the club as a mature age recruit from the second tier of football competition.

A plumber from Upper Ferntree Gully, Tim Smith was already of comparatively mature age when he arrived at the Casey Scorpions (now Demons) in 2012. He was named the "Bull" by a previous coach, Brett Lovett, because he charges into contests like a “raging bull’’. It took a while for him to become really serious about his game but it finally happened under Justin Plapp who came to the club in 2015 saying he was intent on having at least one player drafted in 2015. In the end, three were rookied at the end of 2016 - Declan Keilty is the other at Melbourne.

The 192cm, 88kg Smith made it after an outstanding season last year when he kicked 31 goals in 19 games, represented the VFL, was named in its team of the year and helped the Scorpions reach the grand final.

He could easily have been back fixing hot water services but the "Bull" is now about to take to the big stage filling the large size shoes of the "Hulk". 

We need him to fire today.


Strange feeling of confidence today I think we will win, how good would it be to go 3-0 the media hype would be large next week if it happens 

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For anyone wanting to fill in time why not throw on a home brew? I am going to attempt an oatmeal stout and an Aussie larger, will give me 150 long necks...

God help me if we win

When looking at the fixture and the ladder, today offers a real opportunity. I think that we'll have six teams 0-3 and four teams 3-0. A win is a real chance to embed ourselves in the 8.

 

That being said, and it's possibly the MFCSS talking, but I still just can't actually bring myself to think we'll win. I have a hope or a dream but it doesn't feel like a reality or an expectation. 

 

Also I think Hogan out is not necessarily a bad thing.  Last week we really struggled with our forward 50 entries.  So the change in players should make us think more about how we are approaching this.  A little less predictable may not be a bad thing, especially after coming off two wins. 

My son loves Dangerfield, he use to follow Sydney has jumped off them, can't make him follow the mighty Dee's kids love a winner, time for the tables to turn, so my son can follow the red and the blue. His turns 10 on the 13th of April, he was born on a Friday. 

Am going to the game luckily I got two free tickets from triple m bendigo.

Also back when norm smith played 183cm was a lot more taller then the average heights of today, Tim will kick two goals today.


Does anyone know when we last won three in a row?

4 minutes ago, don't make me angry said:

My son loves Dangerfield, he use to follow Sydney has jumped off them, can't make him follow the mighty Dee's kids love a winner, time for the tables to turn, so my son can follow the red and the blue. His turns 10 on the 13th of April, he was born on a Friday. 

Am going to the game luckily I got two free tickets from triple m bendigo.

Also back when norm smith played 183cm was a lot more taller then the average heights of today, Tim will kick two goals today.

People can change the team they follow?

Edited by Bombay Airconditioning

1 minute ago, deanox said:

Does anyone know when we last won three in a row?

Last year just before we lost to Carlton and Geelong.

If I was Goodwin I'd be sending a group text to everyone playing today that would simply read : Mindset Mindset Mindset

I have to work today and will get home about half an hour after the bounce. I'm going to record it and watch it from the start so if everyone could please refrain from posting during the game that would be great. 


So excited for today! Playing local footy at 12:30 then straight after I'm finished gonna drive down to Etihad (hopefully before the first bounce but it'll be close) to watch my first live game of the season and see my man Bull in action!!!

4 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I have to work today and will get home about half an hour after the bounce. I'm going to record it and watch it from the start so if everyone could please refrain from posting during the game that would be great. 

Even better would be to delay posting and post in Ethan time

2 hours ago, Josh said:

No work this weekend, body clock has me up though and I've got 10 bucks on the 40+

 

I think today we show the rest of the football world that we have arrived...

Wishful thinking.. I have money on us between 1-19.. And I'm not confident in that at all.

35 minutes ago, deanox said:

Does anyone know when we last won three in a row?

Cmon man.. did you start following us this year? We won 3 in a row last year before Carlton embarrassed us..

35 minutes ago, don't make me angry said:

My son loves Dangerfield, he use to follow Sydney has jumped off them, can't make him follow the mighty Dee's kids love a winner, time for the tables to turn, so my son can follow the red and the blue. His turns 10 on the 13th of April, he was born on a Friday. 

Am going to the game luckily I got two free tickets from triple m bendigo.

Also back when norm smith played 183cm was a lot more taller then the average heights of today, Tim will kick two goals today.

Mate ur kid is 10 years old he shouldn't have a choice of who he follows. 

Do the right thing like most of us and brainwash ur boy into following the demons. 


Just woke up and have a first class hangover. Bit of a rookie error when we've got very rough seas in front of us.

If this wind doesn't drop off I might be searching for a pub in Geraldton with Foxtel.

Yep my son has been brainwashed, I told him if he wants to go to the footy it's dees or bust, not taking him to watch anyone else it seems to have worked 

Really don't know what to expect.. Exactly like the saints game. Telling myself we are going to lose to avoid the depressive state that would follow but deep down feeling we will win.. Like every game of football, it will be won or lost in the middle. They may have "dangerwood" but our midfield runs deeper & we will dominate the ruck

 
53 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

If I was Goodwin I'd be sending a group text to everyone playing today that would simply read : Mindset Mindset Mindset

He could just put it in the group chat. 

26 minutes ago, Mud Dogs Gonna Win said:

Cmon man.. did you start following us this year? We won 3 in a row last year before Carlton embarrassed us..

Yeah i think those last two rounds really put a dampner on my memory of the end of last year! Haha


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