1 minute ago, dl4e said:

I am staying off the beer until the game has finished.

You’ve lost it man

D Day

Do it Dees!

Edited August 19, 20186 yr by Tarax Club

2 minutes ago, dl4e said:

I am staying off the beer until the game has finished.

I swore off the grog till the season ended for us, or we had a win in the last 3 games.... I even made sure i had nothing in the house so i couldnt sneak one "by mistake". Working an afternoon shift today that finishes at 10pm, but there is one bottle shop that is open till 11pm in town, so if we DO win, im there straight after work to buy a nice bottle of the sponsors product to celebrate with.

Sadly, im expecting to drink coffee when i get home.

7 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

You’ve lost it man

having a nervous scotch ,bit early but what can you do

For the third week in a row Asia misses out on watching the Dees.

Instead we have the big ones.

 

Either we turn the corner today, or fulfil yet another prophecy of disappointment. Just can't see it happening unfortunately. Sorry fam.

After last week walking from the MCG I thought of supporters from Eagles, Swans, Hawks, Geelong.  Wow they have had so much enjoyment over many years in finals.  I ask why not us, I am a passionate and paid up supporter of the Dees and renew membership every year.  They say the competition is meant to give all a chance, but here we go, Sydney make the finals again, same with Hawthorn and Eagles, Geelongs soft draw will allow them too.  

Their supporters now sitting back waiting to buy finals tickets...but alas dees supporters do not have that luxury.

life sucks been a dees supporter.  

Are any our second tier players big game performers?

Hope a few take the game on and have a big impact. Alex Neal-Bullen, Sam Frost, Aaron vandenBerg, Dom Tyson, Bailey Fritsch as possibles. It will set us well for a finals campaign (if we make it) as the A list can't do it without them.
Time for them to be accountable with a minimal error count, plenty of 1 percenters, heavy defensive pressure and some take the game apart moments.

We can't do it with passengers, all 22 with their footy brains turned on, plus the coaching staff proactively adapting our structures.

Big test today. 

Go Dees!

2 hours ago, Jaded said:

I just can’t see us winning this. I hope I’m  wrong but I’m going in with minimal expectations to avoid disappointment.  

Don’t worry Jaded we will win this one just so they can really ramp up the disappointment next week when they find some new an unusual way to just miss finals. 

1 minute ago, FarNorthernD said:

Don’t worry Jaded we will win this one just so they can really ramp up the disappointment next week when they find some new an unusual way to just miss finals. 

If we win today, we’re in.

Very good story in the Age today by Gleeson.  Exactly Melbourne’s problem!

Sydney are rubbish and we should have won.

Port are rubbish and we should have won.

Geelong are rubbish and we should have won.

I can't remember another era with so many rubbish top 8 teams.  Ever

West Coast are rubbish and we should win.  I believe we will.  Time to flex a little bit of muscle and show we belong in the finals.

Pure Stats Predictor

Team Form Comparison (team score last round adjusted for Ins/Outs)

Demons:  61.4   Eagles:  55.0

Team Differential:   Demons +6.40

                                                     Pure Stats Predictor:

                                   Pure Stats (no umpire Bias) - The Demons by 12 points

                                   With Umpire Bias - The Eagles by 12 points

 

 

2 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

Pure Stats Predictor

Team Form Comparison (team score last round adjusted for Ins/Outs)

Demons:  61.4   Eagles:  55.0

Team Differential:   Demons +6.40

                                                     Pure Stats Predictor:

                                   Pure Stats (no umpire Bias) - The Demons by 12 points

                                   With Umpire Bias - The Eagles by 12 points

 

 

Lucky there's no such thing as umpire bias ?

6 minutes ago, ProDee said:

Sydney are rubbish and we should have won.

Port are rubbish and we should have won.

Geelong are rubbish and we should have won.

I can't remember another era with so many rubbish top 8 teams.  Ever

West Coast are rubbish and we should win.  I believe we will.  Time to flex a little bit of muscle and show we belong in the finals.

I've lost my positive about our Dee's but fairdinkum why call out others when we are no better? We didn't beat any of them or the Aints either, yet you bag THEM for being rubbish, sorry but i find it amusing until WE CAN beat them and become relevant.  

46 minutes ago, ding said:

I swore off the grog till the season ended for us, or we had a win in the last 3 games.... I even made sure i had nothing in the house so i couldnt sneak one "by mistake". Working an afternoon shift today that finishes at 10pm, but there is one bottle shop that is open till 11pm in town, so if we DO win, im there straight after work to buy a nice bottle of the sponsors product to celebrate with.

Sadly, im expecting to drink coffee when i get home.

There’s one in riversdale road Hawthorn that’s open later than that.

What we must do is start well. Plenty of pressure and put score on board early to take out crowd which in turn will take out umpires. Weid to assist Gawn with 3 goals between them and plenty of others from Tom Mac etc. and we win. SIMPLE.

5 hours ago, low flying Robbo said:

Whatever we do, we CANNOT let them take intercept marks in defence. That killed us again last week . I like the idea of Weed playing on McGovern

It’s happened all year especially vs top 8 sides, we smash teams in the clearances but we have players starting off the back of the square. I don’t get it

54 minutes ago, dl4e said:

I am staying off the beer until the game has finished.

Please tell me how you can possibly do that?

I start out like that but after 4 quarters of torture I  to the succumb to the demon drink.

 

3 minutes ago, DaveyJones'sLocker said:

It’s happened all year especially vs top 8 sides, we smash teams in the clearances but we have players starting off the back of the square. I don’t get it

Please explain

48 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

For the third week in a row Asia misses out on watching the Dees.

Instead we have the big ones.

 

The middle game is never  on FTA there. Plenty of venues that have the footy. Where are you?

this is a must win for us. If north roll adelaide which they probably should do then have stkilda next week which again they should win then we are out of the finals. if this team wants to be part of the september action then today is the day they need to step up the pressure and win.

 

25 minutes ago, Chook said:

Lucky there's no such thing as umpire bias ?

If only Chook!   Pretty sure a top 8 spot would be locked in now if so

1 hour ago, dl4e said:

I am staying off the beer until the game has finished.

There’s still time for redemption!

Four cans before the game starts and you should be semi relaxed, we’re going well just a leisurely can a quarter, not so well, an extra can a quarter and a few at half time and by the end of the game you won’t care!

Slightly more difficult if it’s a close match!

34 minutes ago, ProDee said:

Sydney are rubbish and we should have won.

Port are rubbish and we should have won.

Geelong are rubbish and we should have won.

I can't remember another era with so many rubbish top 8 teams.  Ever

West Coast are rubbish and we should win.  I believe we will.  Time to flex a little bit of muscle and show we belong in the finals.

What does it say about us that we can’t even beat these rubbish teams or that we might miss out on finals altogether when so many teams in the top 8 are rubbish?

We can’t be excluded from this list of “rubbish” teams presently.