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dieter
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Fellow Demonland lunatics, let us now go quietly into the next few nights, let us cogitate and hope, let us not get carried away with despair or prem rejoicing, let us take what comes with calm and sober equanimity. We have been here before, to have our pulses ruptured in 1987, our guts ripped out in 1988 and 2000. There were false dawns in between - I recall an Anzac Day game against Essendon in 1991 or so, 49 points ahead at three quarter time and getting dumped down the gurgler - and I recall an infamous final against the Crows where we were 50 points behind, then 50 points in front and still got dumped down the trash can.

Che sera, sera. If we beat the West Coast let us hold our breath because then we will have to beat either the E Colli Wobblers or Riche Monde and always the umpires.

We cannot rely on miracles. We can only rely on the fortitude and nous of our front line troops. 

Ora Nobis. 

 

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    1 hour ago, dieter said:

    Fellow Demonland lunatics, let us now go quietly into the next few nights, let us cogitate and hope, let us not get carried away with despair or prem rejoicing, let us take what comes with calm and sober equanimity. We have been here before, to have our pulses ruptured in 1987, our guts ripped out in 1988 and 2000. There were false dawns in between - I recall an Anzac Day game against Essendon in 1991 or so, 49 points ahead at three quarter time and getting dumped down the gurgler - and I recall an infamous final against the Crows where we were 50 points behind, then 50 points in front and still got dumped down the trash can.

    Che sera, sera. If we beat the West Coast let us hold our breath because then we will have to beat either the E Colli Wobblers or Riche Monde and always the umpires.

    We cannot rely on miracles. We can only rely on the fortitude and nous of our front line troops. 

    Ora Nobis. 

     

    Nah, stuff that! Enjoy the ride! Roar your lungs out! Que sera indeed, but when life is good, you have to smile!

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    I agree with his. The middle ground of excitement and tempered expectations.

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    11 hours ago, Chook said:

    It's just a footy game bro.

    Therefore more important than everything bar your partner and your kids, and that is assuming they are good kids.

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    10 hours ago, bingers said:

    A pessimist is, in fact, a well informed optimist ... 

    A pessimist is what an optimist calls a realist.

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    Unsure why people continually refer to football players as things like "front line troops".

    Football and war are not similar, enough with the war-like metaphors I reckon. Its football, not Gallipoli.  
     

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    27 minutes ago, Smokey said:

    Unsure why people continually refer to football players as things like "front line troops".

    Football and war are not similar, enough with the war-like metaphors I reckon. Its football, not Gallipoli.  
     

    Agree 100% - it is actually quite pathetic that especially the commentariat on 25 April keep pumping up the Druggies and the Pies along the lines of emulating our ANZAC heroes.  FFS what rot.

    Sure it takes some courage to even walk out onto an AFL field, but it is nothing even remotely like going out knowing you are going to be shot at and bombed perhaps over a few years if you are lucky enough to survive the initial onslaught, just for starters. 

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    52 minutes ago, Smokey said:

    Unsure why people continually refer to football players as things like "front line troops".

    Football and war are not similar, enough with the war-like metaphors I reckon. Its football, not Gallipoli.  
     

    Couldn't agree more. Let's not get too serious, chaps, it is ONLY a game called Australian Rules....

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    On 9/16/2018 at 9:35 PM, Tony Tea said:

    Che Sera Sera was a Marxist fatalist.

    Che Will be Will be. Que? 

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