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Posted
Just now, Gorgoroth said:

You are my inspiration... I wanted to get “Jolly” tonight ?

Well I am a fine role model.

My advice -

         1. Switch to shiraz.

         2. Give your missus/sheila a jolly good flogging.

 

Posted
50 minutes ago, Deeoldfart said:

Gee life's good right now.  2010 St Henri.  Those who know their wine will know what I mean.

Had one last week. I’m genuinely jealous. 

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Well I am a fine role model.

My advice -

         1. Switch to shiraz.

         2. Give your missus/sheila a jolly good flogging.

 

I like Shiraz, but would have whiskey any day of th3 week over it, and my wife set this up. 

Comments from this moment on may not make much sense... wait, mine never do... ha ha

Posted
2 hours ago, Demonland said:

How about that?

We've won one in a row against North!!!

Yeah good...  now   have to win at least one from hawks and Tiges.  Worried first 15 minutes but the job was adequately done after that.  Happy Bugg and kent did well. lewis better too.      Beauty Gawn and Hogan !!         should be 3  and 0   but thats life !!!

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I liked Goodwin's comments after the game that they had embraced the hoodoo and he had spoken about this being an opportunity to continue to change the culture around the footy club.  We've allowed to be beaten mentally for too long, and this is another step on our way to being a mature team that embraces a challenge, rather than allowing it to consume us.

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Posted
44 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

 

Not turning up until we were 15 minutes into the game worries me.

I'll consider getting carried away if we clean up Hawthorn next week.

I,ve suffered too many false dawns.

Lets just let the lid sit on this bin until at least the halfway mark,,, get excited on games, but NOT the season....  until we are loaded up in the top 6 teams come rounds 14 or 15.

 

Until then it is all just blowing warm air over our bits.

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Posted
35 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

My night...

 

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GO.....GGO....... I can see four bottles in this beautiful array of Scotches which I have in my cupboard right now. You have very good taste. A dees fan. Should I have doubted it ???

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Posted
28 minutes ago, ProDee said:

This won't be popular, but I still can't wait for Bugg to go back to Casey.

Happy he kicked some, but by God he's awful.

As you know I'm very pro Bugg being in the team right now but also very pro the team moving on without him asap. His desire to run and lead creates space with the other forwards and he's willing to pressure. Skills and decision making are a complete mess, all goals are a bonus and his hands look painted on. Keen to see VFL reports on Charlie Spargo, if we're replacing Bugg I don't think it can be with a flighty player like Hannan, think it has to be a player that brings that competitive edge.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Deeoldfart said:

Gee life's good right now.  2010 St Henri.  Those who know their wine will know what I mean.

Let  me know if it's reasonable to drink now because I'm very tempted...

Posted
1 minute ago, DeeSpencer said:

As you know I'm very pro Bugg being in the team right now but also very pro the team moving on without him asap. His desire to run and lead creates space with the other forwards and he's willing to pressure. Skills and decision making are a complete mess, all goals are a bonus and his hands look painted on. Keen to see VFL reports on Charlie Spargo, if we're replacing Bugg I don't think it can be with a flighty player like Hannan, think it has to be a player that brings that competitive edge.

Spot on, DS.

I'm a Bugg fan, but I think it's clear now that if we are to replace him it needs to be someone who is willing to do the same things he does, only better.  Hannan isn't the one for that role at the moment, Spargo probably needs a little VFL time to get going and who knows where JKH sits.  Buggy, as you say, provides excellent pressure, he knows how to lead and move to the right spots and he has a knack of hitting the scoreboard, something he did really well today.

It's clear that we play our best footy when we get great pressure from our medium and small forwards, and Bugg is part of that right now, for better or worse.

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Just home from the game and really pleased. Not many games I’ve been able to relax like I did today during the last.

All players played their role and it is extremely hard to pick anyone who needs to be dropped.

Gawn, Hogan, Salem, Lewis all terrific, I give Lewis a hard time but his contribution was excellent.

Bloody please for Bugg as I think he’s an important part of the 22.

Special mention to Oscar for his role on Brown, stats aside, he did an amazing job.

Struggle seeing any changes, match ups aside, being made for next week.

Cant recall coming home from the footy as pleased as I am today.

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

Poor post really  bias you're one of those posters that have an opinion about somebody and even if said player has the best game ever played, your  opinion  is they  are still crap, when making a statement put some facts and not just hate.

Were you at the game, or watching on TV ?

Posted
2 hours ago, Jaded said:

[censored] yes! It’s like winning a [censored] grand final. Rejoice! 

I’m gonna drink all of Malaysia airlines champagne tonight to celebrate.

GO DEES!!!!!!!

 

At least when the plane goes down, you will die happy,

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Posted
49 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

 

Not turning up until we were 15 minutes into the game worries me.

I'll consider getting carried away if we clean up Hawthorn next week.

I,ve suffered too many false dawns.

Exactly. North are shizen and we played some dumb footy as well. We were good at the clinches and in the middle but some of our outside work was poor. Ithaught our forward line looked like it had rabies. We definatly need another tall in the forward line wether that be Pedo or weed. Hawthorn will make us look silly if we play like that next week. Were 10 times better last week. On a positive note we got rid of that hoodoo. Hogan, Gawn and Jones were fantastic.

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Posted
41 minutes ago, DV8 said:

Only issue with that is it's not Norms curse. 

 

The curse was of those, who sacked Norm Smith...   those poll-itically correct cussed's.

They are the bastardo's who brought all this political correct rubbish, and dumped it on this club.

I was sitting next to an old fella today who left school in the early 50’s... my grandfather was a Dees man during this time as well. They were incredibly lucky to see that era.

I sat just behind Ronald Dale and Hassa Man, in the room were Greeny, Hoppy and a few others, after the siren Neita and Trapper dropped in plus plenty of 90s North players in the room too. Great day plus the win. 

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Posted
4 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

As you know I'm very pro Bugg being in the team right now but also very pro the team moving on without him asap. His desire to run and lead creates space with the other forwards and he's willing to pressure. Skills and decision making are a complete mess, all goals are a bonus and his hands look painted on. Keen to see VFL reports on Charlie Spargo, if we're replacing Bugg I don't think it can be with a flighty player like Hannan, think it has to be a player that brings that competitive edge.

Poor post, go past him thats just stupid, he is young man, give him credit for they way he plays,  his got good hands, pro bugg you are not even close to pro bugg, hater pretending to be a liker 

Posted
3 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

I was sitting next to an old fella today who left school in the early 50’s... my grandfather was a Dees man during this time as well. They were incredibly lucky to see that era.

I sat just behind Ronald Dale and Hassa Man, in the room were Greeny, Hoppy and a few others, after the siren Neita and Trapper dropped in plus plenty of 90s North players in the room too. Great day plus the win. 

Well done Cards13, that sounds like a brilliant day.

Posted

I love that they are putting Lewis through the middle a little more this year - his impact is his decision making into the forward line. At the minute, he is one of the few that seem to hit a target in there.

We don’t have many passengers but our mid tier players need to do more, especially for those of you with the ‘let’s drop Lewis’ fever dream you have from time to time. He ain’t going anywhere when he has to do so much.

60+ Inside 50s again... Ummm, we really didn’t make the most of the advantage, much like the Geelong game. We still don’t have a discernible structure and that is to be expected with our CHF out. It just frustrates me when I see Hogan running into THE spot ‘competing’ in the air with his teammates from all directions... 

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Posted
11 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

I was sitting next to an old fella today who left school in the early 50’s... my grandfather was a Dees man during this time as well. They were incredibly lucky to see that era.

I sat just behind Ronald Dale and Hassa Man, in the room were Greeny, Hoppy and a few others, after the siren Neita and Trapper dropped in plus plenty of 90s North players in the room too. Great day plus the win. 

Lucky buggger

Posted
2 minutes ago, rpfc said:

I love that they are putting Lewis through the middle a little more this year - his impact is his decision making into the forward line. At the minute, he is one of the few that seem to hit a target in there.

We don’t have many passengers but our mid tier players need to do more, especially for those of you with the ‘let’s drop Lewis’ fever dream you have from time to time. He ain’t going anywhere when he has to do so much.

60+ Inside 50s again... Ummm, we really didn’t make the most of the advantage, much like the Geelong game. We still don’t have a discernible structure and that is to be expected with our CHF out. It just frustrates me when I see Hogan running into THE spot ‘competing’ in the air with his teammates from all directions... 

It seems to me we are experimenting with our structures, to find what suits us the best at this stage,,, so let just enjoy the differences/changes, and see watt comes of them.

We are becoming a more mobile side with run, so far.  So the entries into the forwardline are also imo experimenting,,, until we get other players back available.

Posted
54 minutes ago, ProDee said:

This won't be popular, but I still can't wait for Bugg to go back to Casey.

Happy he kicked some, but by God he's awful.

Depends who replaces him. He's definitely no star, a good ordinary player, but he's a good 16th-22nd player. The coaches would love his defensive work especially across half forward. He has to kick like today though, missing set shots from 30m out is inexcusable. 

I'd prefer him to Hannan at this stage though, Hannan has better attributes but needs to work out how not to fade in and out of games.

Posted
29 minutes ago, pineapple dee said:

GO.....GGO....... I can see four bottles in this beautiful array of Scotches which I have in my cupboard right now. You have very good taste. A dees fan. Should I have doubted it ???

Which four? We are doing a tastin if each bottle tonight. Gone through the two The Glenlivet and the Aultmore, onto the Oban14.

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