Almost forgot but it is a work day after all.

weather not good

Forecast for the rest of Monday

Summary

Max 22

Showers increasing.

Possible rainfall: 2 to 8 mm

Chance of any rain: 80% 

Melbourne area

Partly cloudy. Medium (40%) chance of showers in the morning increasing to high (80%) chance of showers at night. The chance of a thunderstorm this evening. Light winds becoming northerly 15 to 25 km/h in the middle of the day.

Whatever the weather very happy to see us help put the tiges back to where they belong in the land of lower middle ladderdom.

greta to have hogan back and welcome to the club Hibberd - his nickname at the bombers was pig I think so if it does get muddy out there hopefully he feels right at home.

go d's!

Very important game Demons...

Only ten hours of nervous anguish to go....

All good if we lose.

Beat Essendon next week and we jump as high as 7th.

 

#2weeksatatime

2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

All good if we lose.

Beat Essendon next week and we jump as high as 7th.

 

#2weeksatatime

#itsthatsortofmentalitythatgetsusnowhere

pity about the rain, would have gotten over 70K you'd have thought

at least there is heavier rain forecast for the drug cheats tomorrow (bitter much?)

go Dees!  strangely confident but Ive been this way before with disasterous results

I'm not cocky, but I'm not going in with a defeatist mindset either.  I am going in with the confidence that our best footy is far superior to theirs, and that there's no reason that we can't show this tonight.  It's not going to just happen for us, so hopefully the players are ready to put in the effort.  If they are, then we can win this.

Petracca to announce himself on the big stage with 4 goals.

56 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

weather not good

Forecast for the rest of Monday

Summary

Max 22

Showers increasing.

Possible rainfall: 2 to 8 mm

Chance of any rain: 80% 

Melbourne area

Partly cloudy. Medium (40%) chance of showers in the morning increasing to high (80%) chance of showers at night. The chance of a thunderstorm this evening. Light winds becoming northerly 15 to 25 km/h in the middle of the day.

My rudimentary understanding of meteorology suggests that thunder is accompanied by lightning. Does the AFL have a rule that stops play if there's lightning? I can't recall a game ever having been paused for this reason but surely it's an OH&S issue for players and officials if there's lightning about. 

 

PS: Thunder and lightning seem appropriate to get the best out of demons.

Edited April 23, 20178 yr by La Dee-vina Comedia

39 minutes ago, Deemented Are Go! said:

#itsthatsortofmentalitythatgetsusnowhere

No, it's the players mentality that gets us nowhere.

I hope if it does rain heavily, the players and coaches are smart enough to go to a simplified more direct game style.  In the past we've been exposed in slippery conditions by over possessing the footy.

And that was number 1000.  Good on me!

Just now, hells bells said:

I hope if it does rain heavily, the players and coaches are smart enough to go to a simplified more direct game style.  In the past we've been exposed in slippery conditions by over possessing the footy.

quite........need to play wet weather footy

13 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

No, it's the players mentality that gets us nowhere.

The comment was aimed at all stakeholders - players and fans alike 

Very nervous about this one, think it will be season defining. 

14 minutes ago, hells bells said:

I hope if it does rain heavily, the players and coaches are smart enough to go to a simplified more direct game style.  In the past we've been exposed in slippery conditions by over possessing the footy.

Exactly. I would prefer it dry. We muck around with the ball to much for wet weather.

Richmond are our b!tches.

2017 is looking like it will break all records of forced turnovers and this game will add to that - weather another variable to include.

Just get it done around the contest. We have a harder on-ball brigade even without Lewis. Viney will bounce back into form and Jones will easily shake any tag - probably from the C grader Caddy.

I expect our physicality to absolutely rattle the Tigers early on and set us up for a comprehensive win.

Agree with ProDee, I reckon Tracc will shine tonight and Hogan will be unstoppable.

Cmon boys.!

MFC has a reputation of being brittle and deservedly so after the Freo game.

Lose tonight and we will be regarded by Essendon as a very beatable team and we end up 2-4 with season and crowd following in the doldrums.

Time for the team to stand up and deliver its future.

So is it gonna rain or??

56 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

My rudimentary understanding of meteorology suggests that thunder is accompanied by lightning. Does the AFL have a rule that stops play if there's lightning? I can't recall a game ever having been paused for this reason but surely it's an OH&S issue for players and officials if there's lightning about. 

 

PS: Thunder and lightning seem appropriate to get the best out of demons.

They stopped the Melbourne Brisbane womens game due to lightening earlier this year. It has to be pretty close for them to do it though. 

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

My rudimentary understanding of meteorology suggests that thunder is accompanied by lightning. Does the AFL have a rule that stops play if there's lightning? I can't recall a game ever having been paused for this reason but surely it's an OH&S issue for players and officials if there's lightning about. 

 

PS: Thunder and lightning seem appropriate to get the best out of demons.

They paused the GWS/Swans round 1 two years ago due to lightning. Think there was a half hour/40 minute delay 

1 hour ago, ProDee said:

Petracca to announce himself on the big stage with 4 goals.

Agree PD, I think he'll have a big game. We need him to fire with Kent out. Don't see who in Richmond's back 6 could go with Trac, so hopefully he fires up!

Dees by 21 points.

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

My rudimentary understanding of meteorology suggests that thunder is accompanied by lightning. Does the AFL have a rule that stops play if there's lightning? I can't recall a game ever having been paused for this reason but surely it's an OH&S issue for players and officials if there's lightning about. 

 

PS: Thunder and lightning seem appropriate to get the best out of demons.

I would imagine that the MCG with its exceptionally high stands on all sides containing tones on metal would act like a lightning rod and take the hit rather than the  players or fans. Having said that they would probably err on the side of caution and wait until the lightning passes.