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Just watched daniher on AFL360 just breaks your heart listening to him, he said it’s probably his last year doing this fundraising if he is still with us he might not be able to talk by then, just a hideous disease I hope the boys come out breathing fire for him 

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5 minutes ago, brendan said:

Just watched daniher on AFL360 just breaks your heart listening to him, he said it’s probably his last year doing this fundraising if he is still with us he might not be able to talk by then, just a hideous disease.

I watched it as well and was also heartbroken, he is made of the tough stuff and a character you can only admire. Hopefully one day they can find a cure.

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Dont want to sound to over confident here, but I cant see the pies getting within 6 goals of us. 

All of our senior players speak of the pain of round 23 last year. I cant see us letting up for a second in this game applying relentless pressure all day siren to siren. 

Our forwards are way too dynamic for their defence and our mids will be harder at it than them I can see us winning contested possession by 25+. 

I think a lot of players are really looking forward to the big stage & want to make a bit of a statement (if the last 6 weeks hasn't been enough) 

 

 

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49 minutes ago, GCDee said:

Dont want to sound to over confident here, but I cant see the pies getting within 6 goals of us. 

All of our senior players speak of the pain of round 23 last year. I cant see us letting up for a second in this game applying relentless pressure all day siren to siren. 

Our forwards are way too dynamic for their defence and our mids will be harder at it than them I can see us winning contested possession by 25+. 

I think a lot of players are really looking forward to the big stage & want to make a bit of a statement (if the last 6 weeks hasn't been enough) 

 

 

The risk is that they actually try too hard, which can be as bad as not trying hard enough.

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29 minutes ago, Undeeterred said:
1 hour ago, GCDee said:

 

The risk is that they actually try too hard, which can be as bad as not trying hard enough.

This pretty much sums up my 'parking' days -rarely found the right rythm. 

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Massive game for both clubs it will decide who is a contender and who is a pretender.

I hate the filth just want to see Eddie fat head when we hopefully belt them.

The Dees by 30 points.

POSSIBLE TEAM

B: J.Lewis, O.McDonald, Vince

HB: Hibberd, J.Smith, Jetta

C : Fritsch, Oliver, Jones

HF: Petracca, T.McDonald, Neal-Bullen

F: Melksham, Hogan, Hannan

FOLL: Gawn, Brayshaw, Viney

IC: Salem, Harmes, T.Smith, Spargo

EMERG: Stretch

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7 hours ago, Allus Monk said:

Overall Melbourne 83 wins, Collingwood 147 wins, 5 drawn

 

Well this caught my attention from the Match Preview. Given the historic strength of Melbourne and Collingwood this is quite a chasm in wins!

 

Thats exactly what i thought. Like to see a graph of when all the losses were. We were pretty bad through the 70s and 80s and lots of other times.....actually, its not surprising now i think about it!!

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5 hours ago, bingers said:

I hate the filth ...

A 'friend' (filth supporter) put a taunting post on her FB page after Round 23 ... Hopefully the smile is wiped off her face on Monday night. 

She cant really be a friend......acquaintance, probably a better phrase. 

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13 hours ago, GCDee said:

Dont want to sound to over confident here, but I cant see the pies getting within 6 goals of us. 

All of our senior players speak of the pain of round 23 last year. I cant see us letting up for a second in this game applying relentless pressure all day siren to siren. 

Our forwards are way too dynamic for their defence and our mids will be harder at it than them I can see us winning contested possession by 25+. 

I think a lot of players are really looking forward to the big stage & want to make a bit of a statement (if the last 6 weeks hasn't been enough) 

 

 

Statistically we're very similar. We streak ahead in contested ball and scoring, but aside from that we have near identical strengths and weaknesses. This is a 50/50 contest. 

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26 minutes ago, forever demons said:

will they announce the teams today with the usual six on the pine

I believe the squads will be announced as per usual.

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They've still got a lot of injuries: Varcoe, Elliot, Reid, Fasolo, Moore, Josh Smith, Howe still in doubt.....no excuses for us

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15 hours ago, Jibroni said:

I watched it as well and was also heartbroken, he is made of the tough stuff and a character you can only admire. Hopefully one day they can find a cure.

Goodwin should be instilling in the group that this might be the last MND for Daniher and that this might be his last chance to see his dees smash the pies so DO NOT let him down

PS don't forget about tackling, like before the ball is even bounced, en masse just tackle opposition to remind oneself

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1 hour ago, BigFez said:

I believe the squads will be announced as per usual.

I can’t remember if we announced an extended squad on the Thursday prior to the QB game last year. Would we announce a squad before our main training session tomorrow?

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We're just going to go for it against the Filth.

The umpires will have ensured that they are ahead at half-time, guaranteed but after that, the Dees will come home where this 'favouritism/dollar sensitivity from the masses' can no longer determine the outcome of any game.

The Filth will slow, noticeably and then throw tantrums and lose their alleged cool. Eddie will signal to the crowd with his own public tantrums in the stand about how outraged he is by the events on the field of play where the Dees kick on, and on, and on to win by over 70 points.

So sayeth the seer, seth he. TMAc to kick 6, Hogan 6, Melk 5.Gawn to cut usunder the Grundy reputation and Clarrie to razzle-dazzle, once again. 

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4 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

I can’t remember if we announced an extended squad on the Thursday prior to the QB game last year. Would we announce a squad before our main training session tomorrow?

I thought I read somewhere that we will be releasing a squad on Thursday.

Now I think about it I realise I have no idea. 

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1 hour ago, sisso said:

They've still got a lot of injuries: Varcoe, Elliot, Reid, Fasolo, Moore, Josh Smith, Howe still in doubt.....no excuses for us

Great. We're in a no win situation again. Win and they'll say we're no good because we've beaten another injury ravaged team. Lose and they'll say we're no good because we lost to an injury ravaged team.

I'll still happily bank 4 points.

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4 minutes ago, BigFez said:

I thought I read somewhere that we will be releasing a squad on Thursday.

Now I think about it I realise I have no idea. 

Haha... you may well be right. I’m struggling to remember, that’s all.

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1 hour ago, sisso said:

They've still got a lot of injuries: Varcoe, Elliot, Reid, Fasolo, Moore, Josh Smith, Howe still in doubt.....no excuses for us

Out of all those players Elliot is the only one I would concern myself with. The replacements they have are probably as good as those players or are playing above themselves.

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17 hours ago, bingers said:

I hate the filth ...

A 'friend' (filth supporter) put a taunting post on her FB page after Round 23 ... Hopefully the smile is wiped off her face on Monday night. 

Quite agree on hating the filth. Problem is that my MFCSS is loaded in overdrive about this game. 

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interesting reading the initial post...and how we were missing Tmac, Viney and Brayshaw for the opening rounds. Easy to forget somehow. Can you imagine if we were missing all three now? we d say how we were decimated.

Dont want to sound arrogant but dees by 50 plus  after a really tight first half. Gawn wins the ruck but Grundy better around the ground. Both players in the best. Phillips to be quiet as he will be outmuscled around the ball. Oliver BOG. Tmac another lazy 5. 90k at the ground.

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1 hour ago, Dee Zephyr said:

I can’t remember if we announced an extended squad on the Thursday prior to the QB game last year. Would we announce a squad before our main training session tomorrow?

we will announce 26 players as usual for games post saturday

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I [censored] hate Collingwood and their grotty fans. I’m pretty anxious about this game, Collingwood have generally had a slow and low scoring first quarter.  Hopefully we come out firing like we did against Adelaide and put them away early. 

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Interesting that Vince played Jenkins against Adelaide,who is obviously a tall, and beat him well. If he could take a similar in the Pies forward line it would allow us to play a medium sized defender to replace Lever e.g. Wagner 

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