Just throwing this out there? Can we do it? 

My honest thoughts are we will play finals and possibly win a final but not quite ready for a real tilt yet. The side is probably to young and may run out of legs. 

Our injury run would need to be much better on the run home to be any chance. 

I think we can win another 5-6 games and finish top 4 of injuries and form stay our way

Getting 500 miles ahead of ourselves. Let's make the finals first.

We win 4 games in a row and suddenly there's talk of prelims and premiership. We are 2 wins above Freo in 12th.

It's great that we are winning but  it's way too early. I'm excited, but have seen many false dawns over the years. Remember Vossy saying 10 or 12 years ago we'd win a flag in the next few years? People here wet themselves en mass. I know I did.

Not gonna be a popular thread. But if not demonland, then where?!

This year? No. In the media all they're saying is we "can" win the flag. Which they're saying for about 11 sides. We're the flavour of the month. Haven't done anything else yet.

I think we're entitled to the excitement. We've been waiting ten years to have genuine cause for optimism.

The bye before the finals should help us. Having the premier ruckman fit & giving us first use in contested battles should also give us a huge advantage in hard fought finals games. Whilst it is hard to believe we can win the flag due to the club seemingly coming from nowhere. The reality is that but for a couple of injuries at the wrong moment we'd most likely be sitting 2nd on the ladder this year. Maybe that is how good we are? I'm starting to believe we can do it. I think it's important for the club to approach it with no ceiling or expectations on what they are capable of, they still have a lot of improvement in them & maybe this is our year where everything lines up. For now though I think I'll try to keep the lid on it & hope we make the 8 first.

Hell .. a few days ago I started a thread on making the finals and now we have one on the BIG ONE.

Ask me after the prelim !!

Oh and I forgot to add what about GWS

Can we please delete this thread before it completely jinxes the team? 

Very strange year. No very good teams. GWS the closest but they have been raped by injuries

We will win the flag, for sure.

Man what a feeling!!!!  First premiership in my lifetime and I assume the lifetime of most Demon supporters..   Such a  rollercoaster ride but it was all worth it.  Ill never forget this season.

Now bring on 2018,  lets go back to back.

No wonder we're so let down and emotional when we lose...

Round 1 if you said finals id have signed on the bottom line.

Ill be stoked with a home final (ie 5th or 6th)

Top 4 and id be over the moon.

But honestly i will be happy just to make finals!!

Still trying to get out of here...

 

 

Nope for me

Having a mazz - and my eyes are rolling back in my head right now thinking about (dream sequence of course) - but much like my propensity to prematurely ejaculate, this is much in the same spectrum of prematurely pontificating.

The only other time Footscray won a flag, Melbourne won five out of the next six.  I see no reason for that not to happen again.

What's the bet some [censored] journo such as Robbo or Purple find a gushingly unrealistic post on here to quote and have a laugh at: "Typical Melbourne supporter thinks they've got it in the bag!"

Patience grasshopper. 

There was always going to be a time when Melbourne and GWS would battle it out over a few years. With other teams such as Sydney and Hawthorn falling away more rapidly than expected this season, that time is now.

I cursed hitting rock-bottom at the same time as GC and GWS were introduced, but I now think the draft buggery and spread of talent across the league is finally having an effect, and has us in much better stead for a longer run at the top than first imagined. Especially with all the also-rans prepared to sell their houses for a star player or two.

As to the flag, who can beat us? Adelaide, Geelong, Richmond and the Dogs will already have serious footsteps echoing in the heads (although Geelong and Sydney are wily enough to remain a concern), and then there's Port and GWS. St Kilda - pfft. Essendon, should they make it, we will destroy. Keep above West Coast on the ladder, and we're set for a genuine tilt.

Can? Possibly. This season is as even as I've ever seen

Will we? Doubtful. I think we are just a little too young for that yet. 

Then again Footscray last year and the 93 Essendon side shows that if you are up and about at the right end of the year all things are possible.

Need to worry about getting there first though

At the start of the year if you had asked me can we win the premiership I'd laugh and say we may or may not even make the finals. Geeeez what a year it's been. I'd love for us to win it hell yeah but realistically I'd be happy just to know what a final feels like again. I was at the 2000 grand final but I was only little but mum said I didn't say a word for the rest of the night. God knows what I'd be like now being older haha 

I preemptively got the tatt I promised myself I would get if we ever won a flag.

We are right up to our necks in this 2017 Season

i can't think GF yet. But i do think we can keep winning

Demon Supporters are going to descend upon the MCG this friday...

Win this Friday and we'll go three-peat. Lose and I'm back to wondering how we could possibly make the finals. No flag in my lifetime (born the year after we won the last) has played all sorts of havoc with my rationality, something I think only a premiership will cure.

Have lived through many false dawns:

1. Norm Smith's mass recruitment, 1966. No big names to emerge, we got smashed nearly every week.

2. Fight our way to 7th (out of 12)

3. Tiger Ridley gets us on fire in 1971, and i lap up Sunday Observer write-ups how we are back in town. Get demolished by CWood on Q Birthday with Len Thompson marking everything.

4. 1976 see us flying to finals under Bobby Skilton only to narrowly miss.

5. Return of Ron. 1980 yields promise but no pudding.

6. The John Northey phenomenonon. Absolutely amazing, but always faltered, maybe didn't have enough belief.

7. Balmey in 1994. Fabulous year with Schwarta but undone in the west. Cruelled by injuries.

8. Neil Daniher - from 1998. A lot of respect but maybe just didn't have the cattle in 98 and 2000.

9. Roos/ Goodwin.  Would say there is heaps of belief now and we are becoming consistent. Never seen such a game as Saturday night, shows we mean business this year. Can realistically hope for success, hope it's sooner rather than later. 

 

Of course we can but, It's one week at a time. 

If we play our best football, we can beat anyone. That means we are a chance. A chance.
Let's just make finals first though. Still nearly half a season to go and it can fall apart quickly. We've got some injuries to key players and if we lost more key players to injury then we're buggered. 

I reckon 2019 is our year personally. Our kids will have matured further by then and older guys likes Jones won't be carrying as much of the load. Imagine Hogan, Petracca, Oliver, Hunt etc with another 50 games under their belt!

Thanks Abe.  If we don't make the finals then I'll know whose fault it is. 

15 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

If we play our best football, we can beat anyone. That means we are a chance. A chance.
Let's just make finals first though. Still nearly half a season to go and it can fall apart quickly. We've got some injuries to key players and if we lost more key players to injury then we're buggered. 

I reckon 2019 is our year personally. Our kids will have matured further by then and older guys likes Jones won't be carrying as much of the load. Imagine Hogan, Petracca, Oliver, Hunt etc with another 50 games under their belt!

13, 14, 15....