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We are a contender this season

Billy
in Melbourne Demons

Are we a genuine contender for the flag this year? 161 members have voted

  1. 1. Are we a genuine contender for the flag this year?

    • Hell Yeah
      28
    • No Way
      71
    • Too Early to Tell
      58

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I've watched a fair bit of footy this year and I reckon we are about a 10-12 team. We simply can't win games when we are expected to, and until that changes we won't play finals.

 

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    Hahahaha even if we somehow fall into the 8, we will get pantsed in a final. We are weak as [censored] when the pressure is on us!

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    I take it all back, l should've known better.

    Im so sick of this rubbish!!!

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    OP needs a ban. We need to make the 8 first and not get ahead of ourselves!

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    Close thread. 

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    2 minutes ago, Pates said:

    Close thread. 

    Yep. A contender for what ??????

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    I said we need to win 2 of the next  3, and then get Gawn and Hogan back and come home with a head of steam.

    Our next 2 games are Gold Coast and Collingwood and both are absolute must wins now if we want to play finals.

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    9 minutes ago, Forest Demon said:

    I said we need to win 2 of the next  3, and then get Gawn and Hogan back and come home with a head of steam.

    Our next 2 games are Gold Coast and Collingwood and both are absolute must wins now if we want to play finals.

    And both will be losses if we can't play 4 consistent quarters 

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    5 minutes ago, brendan said:

    And both will be losses if we can't play 4 consistent quarters 

    Don't worry, I agree. My tip is we will get a spray this week, come out and win. And then roll out thinking we are gods gift to footy on queens birthday and get rolled.

    And then rinse and repeat, it's the Melbourne way.

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    Yep we will be smashed in the media this week claiming we are mentally weak, and deserving it will be 

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    On 20/05/2017 at 8:33 AM, ProDee said:

    I don't know what's funnier, posters thinking a team that makes the 8 this year literally has no chance of winning or posters thinking the existence of a thread like this could harm our chances. 

    And when confronted with the last sentiment a poster says they mean this type of thinking "getting in players minds". 

    Let me tell said poster it needs to "get in the players minds", because they'll have no success without it getting in their minds.  We become our thoughts and those that don't think or dream big generally achieve nothing. 

    What garbage. Big difference between visualising success and drinking your own bath water. Petracca, Oliver, Watts are guilty of the latter. 

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    Garry Lyon is spot on. 

    I know many on here do not like what he said, but it is correct. 

    The MFC cannot handle "expectation"

    and haven't done so for decades...

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    6 minutes ago, Watts Jurrah Dunn? said:

    What garbage. Big difference between visualising success and drinking your own bath water. Petracca, Oliver, Watts are guilty of the latter. 

    Yes i read the Petracca Double spread this morning and knew what was going to happen. 

    It panned out perfectly. 

    I am kicking myself i didn't put $20 k on Nought to win. I knew thew would at midday...

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    Contender for biggest disappointment of 2017!

     

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    2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    Garry Lyon is spot on. 

    I know many on here do not like what he said, but it is correct. 

    The MFC cannot handle "expectation"

    and haven't done so for decades...

    Haven't since 64 -and he certainly didn't in 88 and after that. 

    That's why the club has invested in Viney, Hogan, Oliver, Salem, Petracca, Hunt etc.  They are super competitive.

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    5 minutes ago, grazman said:

    Haven't since 64 -and he certainly didn't in 88 and after that. 

    That's why the club has invested in Viney, Hogan, Oliver, Salem, Petracca, Hunt etc.  They are super competitive.

    We hope they are. It isn't ingrained in them yet...

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    I think it is, they are young and with youth comes inconsistency, but when we were charging in the last quarter all were prominent.   

    Watts could learn something about attacking the ball in the air from the likes of Hunt and Hogan.

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    1 hour ago, grazman said:

    I think it is, they are young and with youth comes inconsistency, but when we were charging in the last quarter all were prominent.   

    Watts could learn something about attacking the ball in the air from the likes of Hunt and Hogan.

    No the starts are too slow

    We are not on the front foot yet, always easier to chase than set the pace. 

    But that means we are yet to control games. I thought the Adelaide game had changed that perseption. But todays first Q showed that we are still reactive as a team....

    Leadership is often vacant

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    i thought the Adelaide game was our line-in-the-sand game... turns out it was nothing more than an aberration.

    maybe next year or the year after..... or the year after that...... maybe..................

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