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The look-at-me-I’m-overseas thread.  捋管/捋管儿........

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    Love it when we get the ball. Great when we are fighting for it. Just a little worried when the opposition has it. Sometimes our zones don't work, they get out the back or hit easy lead ups.

    We can move the ball very quickly, so scoring shouldn't be a problem, so long as we are accurate and get the easy goals. Missing the easy ones kill our momentum and confidence.

    It will be manic and hoping the opposition can't go with us given they have had a soft lead up to the finals and we have been beating good teams. Our recent style is proven, they are getting ahead of themselves.

    Control the momentum, score after they get one and be front runners.

    Crunch and hussle, then bring on the skills.

    Go Dees

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    2 hours ago, ProperDee said:

    The look-at-me-I’m-overseas thread.  捋管/捋管儿........

    ProperDee - just because aeroplanes didn't exist when you were born doesn't mean that anyone else thinks boarding one is worthy of boasting about. :)

     

     

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    For me it will be interesting to,see,the first few contests around the ruck. We will need to work out very quickly the tactics Geelong intend to use. They will know that Max will dominate the taps and will need a tactic to shark them to win the clearances. We will need to be super aware and react quickly. 

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    31 minutes ago, CHF said:

    For me it will be interesting to,see,the first few contests around the ruck. 

    It will be a ripper to me as well. Don't miss it. How switched on are we? How hard are we going to be? Will we be leading or chasing? Hope we settle quickly and don't let them in. Viney with the first clearance. Selwood to be the first that vander's smashes then Ablett. Gawn hitting to our players with his 360° taps and his footy smarts. 

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    Well it’s now 810am London time, time to get on a red double decker to head into the City of London for work. It’s trempting to attempt to say something profound but hell, skip it, just want to say good luck one and all Demons, keep the faith whatever happens tonite. Go Melbourne!!

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    58 minutes ago, CHF said:

    For me it will be interesting to,see,the first few contests around the ruck. 

    And the personnel involved. Predicting both teams will start with a midfield star in the forward line for at least the first bounce. 

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    14 minutes ago, Skuit said:

    And the personnel involved. Predicting both teams will start with a midfield star in the forward line for at least the first bounce. 

    I think we will keep our mids in the centre (maybe tracca? but he is a fwd most of the time). The centre is where it will be won and we need and have cohesion. Play the roles at the right time. Later may use Clayton fwd. They may push their old ones down forward but our forward line is very good.

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    4 hours ago, ProperDee said:

    The look-at-me-I’m-overseas thread.  捋管/捋管儿........

    I think you'll find for those of us who are overseas it means nothing more than the inconvenience of having to find somewhere to watch the game. Would much rather be at the ground.

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    I have a lot of confidence when I see Gawn, Harmes, Oliver and Brayshaw walking together towards the center square bounce having a chat. It also gives me confidence that we have a lot of quality rotations that can more through there. Jones Tyson, Petracca, Viney plus a few others.

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    16 minutes ago, 000 said:

    I think we will keep our mids in the centre (maybe tracca? but he is a fwd most of the time). The centre is where it will be won and we need and have cohesion. Play the roles at the right time. Later may use Clayton fwd. They may push their old ones down forward but our forward line is very good.

    From what I can recall, Viney started the match forward on his previous return from injury this year.

    Probably a directive from Workplace Victoria though. 

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    Heading/walking off to the "G" now. Go Dees. Good luck with rational thread.

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    6 minutes ago, 000 said:

    Heading/walking off to the "G" now. Go Dees. Good luck with rational thread.

    Damn. I wish I was doing the same. Watching it live will be the best I can do from where I am.

    Hope you have a good evening.

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    What if they isolate Hawkins. Really isolate (pagans paddock style) I know the midfield battle is crucial but I'm more worried about the raw 1 on 1in their forward line

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    See here's the thing @Skuit 

    Many of the irrational types firmly believe that they are rational thinkers whilst viewing those who are rational as often being completely irrational.  Let's face,  we're all quite mad in our own peculiar way. 

    So we could have a sort of 'class-system' of game day threads ... reserved for different types. 

    • The miserable pessimists
    • The silly optimists
    • The arrogant realists (I almost certainly fall into this category)
    • The know-it-all's
    • The worry-warts

    etc etc

    Anyway,  Go Demons!

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    12 hours ago, Skuit said:

    Cheers London Demon. But it's not a matter of rejoining. I'm engaged as ever, but I've avoided the Gameday thread as best I could for the past three years. It's basically pointless but as an emotional outlet. I have bricks and TV at home for that.

    I hopeyou didn't pinch thosebricks from the Ankor Wat

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    I am going on the position that we will lose by 45 points, on a bus to the game from echuca dam bus running 30 mins late. We must come out hard lay our tackles, hit them hard.

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    30 mins out from the bounce channel 7 showing some bloke cooking

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    All Cats first 5mins, but our pressure meant they only got a point, then we cut them open. After they had first 5inside 50s, we got 9 of next 10, many playing well, Weid had quarter of his life and kicked 2, 33-2 qtr time

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    So in the spirit of an emotion-free thread; we're doing okay I suppose. 

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