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Dee Zephyr   19,145

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Our captain will be breathing fire today!!

No one on our list deserves it more than Nathan Jones. 

No longer nervous,  just excited to see this  great man lead his men out there today.

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Whispering_Jack
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There's a sense of history about today - much like it was with the final round of 1987 when many of us travelled to Footscray and watched Melbourne's famous victory. Back then, we depended on Hawthorn

Rodney (Balls) Grinter
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I was there that day as 9 yo Jack.  Still one of my favorite footy memories and pretty hard to beat from that perspective.   What great day of drama. Standing up the back of the hill, up aga

Deeoldfart
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The magpie in the gum tree out the front was warbling at 4:30 this morning .......... taunting me.  But he's silent now!  

Nascent Redleg

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Working all day today unfortunately. Can't even call in sick as the better half would then demand my presence at an afternoon bbq. It seems I'm stuck with occasional score updates on the app and if we have a loss I'll be doing the same tomorrow with the Adelaide game :-(

Just get it done today boys so I can watch the replay at 2am a happy man.

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10 minutes ago, DemonAndrew said:

absolutely packing it...

pretty confident, as per demon77, that jones will NOT allow us to lose today

Thats an interesting aspect. He needs to bring the effort/effect of that suns second half, but from the outset. We have shown we CAN be mercenary and we need to be today ( good practice ) 

Just put these filthy interlopers to the sword early...and then bury the bastards !!!!

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20 minutes ago, Demon77 said:

Our captain will be breathing fire today!!

No one on our list deserves it more than Nathan Jones. 

No longer nervous,  just excited to see this  great man lead his men out there today.

I want to see watts breathing fire. After all he's copped and the team has copped. Beating the pies the team who attacked him to lock up finals

if jack can't find motivation to rip a game apart today, he never will

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I expect the boys to play to the occasion and et the job done. Just hope all as many Melbourne fans possible turn up and cheer them on.

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44 minutes ago, Abe said:

Dees by 30 points. 

Harmes, petracca, hogan all kick 3 

nathan jones guides us home with 35 touches and 2 goals 

Watts, Garlett & Pedersen all kick 4

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Nervous about Collingwood's pace among their small forwards. Clearly they brought in Kirby to try and expose Jetta, Salem aND Oscar's lack of pace. Rather than going with another tall in Reid. Hope we can keep the ball in the air and deny them midfield possessions 

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1 minute ago, Mud Dogs Gonna Win said:

I'm quietly confident. They are missing 7-8 of their best side.

Meanwhile we are basically full strength with Viney not getting up.

I think we'll come out like we did against Port & StKilda!

Don't worry about who they are missing Mud as it always seems that have the opposite affect on us. 

Its all between the ears. 

Lets hope they r switched on from the opening bounce and just keep going for 4 qrts. 

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35 minutes ago, Demon77 said:

Our captain will be breathing fire today!!

No one on our list deserves it more than Nathan Jones. 

No longer nervous,  just excited to see this  great man lead his men out there today.

Do it for jones , the lad deserves it. May not be able to watch, too nervous. Might get a tooth pulled instead! 

Go dees and a big game for petracca and watts. 

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Dont know why so many of you are worried. We are playing half a team whose season is already over. Dead-man-walking Coach etc etc

Have not felt this confident since the last time we played North.

 

 

 

 

 

Ahhhhh cra.p

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10 minutes ago, ding said:

Dont know why so many of you are worried. We are playing half a team whose season is already over. Dead-man-walking Coach etc etc

Have not felt this confident since the last time we played North.

 

 

 

 

 

Ahhhhh cra.p

Has to mention North didnt you :)

But seriously your first sentence summed it up pretty well. We will win, Jack will kick 2 goals and Tyson BOG.

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51 minutes ago, Demon77 said:

Loved it back then and it's pumped me up so much I'm heading to the gates now!!!

One of the best AFL club promos ever. Still gets the Demon heart beating faster.

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I was at the Western Oval Match in 1987. Today doesn't have the same feel.

1987 was at a suburban  oval which Demons  had to win after a long run .of wins. And was dependent on Hawthorn beating Geelong.

If Demons lose today, they will in all likelihood still make the finals.

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The last few weeks i have written we will see how much the boys want to play finals. Well today will definitely will tell us. 

21 players when running out today just need to look at the person they will be running behind today wearing the number 2 jumper. I know Jonsey has played finals for us but if anyone deserves to be there its him. He has stayed loyal to us and has led this club well. 

also it would be great for someone like watts to reap the rewards and for Jesse to at least have something go right for us this year. 

Collingwood will want to wreck it for us but I hope at the 25 minute mark at the final term we have an enjoyable lead and can sit back and smile we are playing finals footy. 

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Will be at the Cameron Rayner Cup at the Gabba. Earphones in of course listening to our game. Very exciting times. Bring it on. 

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11 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

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also it would be great for someone like watts to reap the rewards and for Jesse to at least have something go right for us this year. 

 

Extra motivation for both to play well.

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