GAMEDAY - Preliminary Final vs Eagles

[Neitz the Great 525]

GET UP IT'S GAME DAY YOU MIGHT DEES, LET'S BOOK A SPOT NEXT TO CENTRELINK IN THE GRANNY!!!

I am soooooo nervous. At the start of the week I was relaxed and happy about how the team had exceeded expectations but as the week went on all I wanted to do was to see us bury those smug eagles.

Oliver BOG, Milkshakes with 3, Gawn some crucial marks and Frosty to keep JK to 3 or under. Dees by 9

Ladies and Gentleman, It's time to clip some wings. GO DEES

Edited September 21, 2018 by Grapeviney

[DeezNuts 624]

I can’t sleep...

[Neitz the Great 525]

2 minutes ago, DeezNuts said:

I can’t sleep...

Neither ... hence the early thread

[picket fence 15,414]

I feel a little crazy
I feel a little strange
Like I'm in a pay phone
Without any change
I feel a little edgy
I feel a little weird
I feel like a schoolboy
Who's grown a beard

I'm livin' in the 70's
Eatin' fake food under plastic trees
My face gets dirty just walkin' around
I need another pill to calm me down

I feel a bit nervous
I feel a bit mad
I feel like a good time that's never been had
I feel a bit fragile
I feel a bit low
Like I learned the right lines
But I'm on the wrong show

I'm livin' in the 70's
I feel like I lost my keys
Got the right day but I got the wrong week
And I get paid for just bein' a freak

I feel a little insane
I feel a bit dazed
My legs are shrinkin'
And the roof's been raised
I feel a little mixed up
I feel a little [censored]
I feel like a barman that can't drink a beer

I'm livin' in the 70's
I feel like I lost my keys
Got the right day but I got the wrong week
And I get paid for just bein' a freak

 

I AM PETRIFIED !!

[layzie 29,309]

Oh man, I am not going to sleep tonight..

[Maxwell Edison MD 143]

9 minutes ago, DeezNuts said:

I can’t sleep...

 

6 minutes ago, Neitz the Great said:

Neither ... hence the early thread

Just popped on to say the same haha. 

[Maxwell Edison MD 143]

Nice ad haha, wonder if they've stopped the printing of  the 2018 edition yet? 

[GCDee 3,064]

I am so nervous about this arvo. Hopefully the players aren't as soft as me hahaha. 

 

[GCDee 3,064]

Heres a question.... what the hell are you all going to do to fill your day until 3.20???? 

 

[layzie 29,309]

2 minutes ago, GCDee said:

Heres a question.... what the hell are you all going to do to fill your day until 3.20???? 

 

Got absolutely no idea. Wanted to get a good nights sleep, get up reasonably early for a run and have a nice brunch. At this rate I might fall asleep at 5 and wake up on Grand Final day.

[Forest Demon 4,681]

I usually sleep like a log, but I've been tossing a and turning for a couple of hours.

[whatwhat say what 19,315]

can't wait

so excited for what later today brings

we have a crack at the contest - i expect we'll give it our best, as we have in pretty much every game since the queen's birthday fiasco...even the horrid saints game we were still trying to win it til the bitter end

they're pretty good, but i reckon we can take em but i have no idea whether we will or not; i feel exactly like i did against geelong

 

[Precard 10]

Can’t wait but the selections are stupid 

[SaberFang 7,141]

I have no idea what to expect really. I went into both previous finals thinking we would fight hard but struggle to overcome the opposition's experience. After watching our resolve thus far, I can't help but feel confident about tomorrow's outcome, despite the odds stacked against us.

There's been a recurring theme of storytelling trilogies since Goodwin took charge, culminating in the last two weeks. After two heartbreaking losses against the Cats this year, we overcame them on our third attempt when it mattered most. After two losses against his old team since joining the Dees, Lewis finally beat them on his third attempt. If we win today, it marks our third consecutive win against the Eagles in Perth after 9 consecutive losses. It would mark our third consecutive finals win for the first time in 18 years.

I know the fairytale endings don't always come true, but I'll be sending the team every ounce of positive energy I can tomorrow. So good luck, Demons. All we ask is you give it everything you've got; that'll be enough for this Dees supporter.

Edited September 21, 2018 by SaberFang

[Demon Disciple 11,082]

Out of our control and all up to the boys now.

FWIW, I think the Weagles might start cacking themselves thinking of playing the Pies at the G come GF day, reckon our boys would relish it.

[SaberFang 7,141]

The Eagles will be absolutely flogged next week by Collingwood if we lose tomorrow. Their form tonight was electric (sadly).

[Pates 9,537]

Honestly I was fine all week. As opposed to the build up to the cats game where it was all I could think about, for this game I was feeling really chilled and simply proud of the team and the club.

After watching the other prelim final and seeing Collingwood get into that one day into September it actually hit me, we are there, we are a BIG CHANCE. We can most definitely do this.

I'm going to be watching the game at 6:20am in the UK, I don't think I'm going to sleep a wink. Going to test my computer out before I go to bed to make sure I can get the stream of the game with no problems and no delay.

There is pride in the jumper again, pride and belief. They have Kennedy back, this is true, but we have Viney as different from the round 22 game. He has been arguably one of the stand out finals players this year.

Raise Hell Dees!!!!!

[bing181 8,204]

24 minutes ago, Pates said:

I'm going to be watching the game at 6:20am in the UK,

I get an extra hour in France: just time to walk the dog and grab a baguette and settle back for what I hope will be a champagne breakfast.

I happened to be up in central Paris today, so called into Belushi's where they have AFL on the big screen, and watched most of the other Prelim. Never again! Those Pies' supporters really are something else, I'd forgotten.

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

Well im not sleeping cause its only 6pm here in the Netherlands, so its great to be able to read the gameday thread already !

I dont know....ive been really confident in both the Cats and the Hawks matches and the boys did us proud. Could not have stood losing to either of those putrid teams and their coaches and the football world not taking us seriously again. But now we are in the last 3 teams left. Somehow we are ahead of Richmond which is just great.

But this is the hard match. Teams can play bad one week and unbelievable the next as Collingwood have just shown. I think we have another gear to find yet. Will that happen tomorrow? Im not sure. I wasnt in the slightest bit confident last time we played them and we won, so im not totally pessimistic. But it seems so strange that after beating them over there that we have to go and do it all again.

The result could see one of the best Grand Finals or one of the worst.

[SaberFang 7,141]

The AFL would be salivating at the prospect of a Collingwood v Melbourne Grand Final. The first showdown between both clubs in a Grand Final since Melbourne's last premiership 5 decades ago! Nothing would be more fitting.

There's such rich history between the clubs (both as rivals and of themselves) and fantastic stories across the entire ground. The two best rucks all year going head to head. Howe playing against his first team. Weideman playing against his heritage.

It would also be the first all-Victorian Grand Final in 7 years and only the 5th time that's happened since our last Grand Final appearance.

Alas, all the dreaming is for nought if we can't get the job done today. The Demons have their destiny in their hands, it's up to them now.

[chook fowler 18,359]

43 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

Well im not sleeping cause its only 6pm here in the Netherlands, so its great to be able to read the gameday thread already !

I dont know....ive been really confident in both the Cats and the Hawks matches and the boys did us proud. Could not have stood losing to either of those putrid teams and their coaches and the football world not taking us seriously again. But now we are in the last 3 teams left. Somehow we are ahead of Richmond which is just great.

But this is the hard match. Teams can play bad one week and unbelievable the next as Collingwood have just shown. I think we have another gear to find yet. Will that happen tomorrow? Im not sure. I wasnt in the slightest bit confident last time we played them and we won, so im not totally pessimistic. But it seems so strange that after beating them over there that we have to go and do it all again.

The result could see one of the best Grand Finals or one of the worst.

Sleep is over-rated. I don’t know how the players are able to.

The Team has been getting rid of so many hoodoos. The next one to fall should be our grand final performances. 1988 and 2000 were shockers.

[bing181 8,204]

Anything can happen in finals. If the players all lift and it clicks ... you only have to look at the Dogs a couple of years back, even Richmond last year. We can certainly improve on last week - but will we?

I'd love to get into the GF, if only to see Bernie Vince come in, throw caution to the wind in his last match and wreak havoc.

[John Demonic 4,854]

2 hours ago, bing181 said:

I get an extra hour in France: just time to walk the dog and grab a baguette and settle back for what I hope will be a champagne breakfast.

I happened to be up in central Paris today, so called into Belushi's where they have AFL on the big screen, and watched most of the other Prelim. Never again! Those Pies' supporters really are something else, I'd forgotten.

Greece here, I'll watch it on delay after I wake up tomorrow and have breaky (which will be 6 or 7pm melb time) - Just have to not accidentally and catastrophically check the news out of habit. I hate live streams for their penchant to drop out on my slow mobile network and for my inability to fast forward due to nerves.

Edited September 21, 2018 by johndemonic

[John Demonic 4,854]

3 hours ago, SaberFang said:

The Eagles will be absolutely flogged next week by Collingwood if we lose tomorrow. Their form tonight was electric (sadly).

They were, but Richmond were also lamentable. All our 'we can beat them' thoughts as dees supporters since that Anzac game victory back in 2016 came home to roost last night. Average clearance midfield that hacks it up in the air. GOt destroyed by a great midfield. 1 tall fwd line style that expired within a year, and an overrated defence with 'the best defender of the decade' who can't play one on one. I think the Eagles would put up a better performance esp with McGovern blocking Cox run, not that we'll let em. Gawn will be there blocking Cox from his aerial threat. Go Dees

Edited September 21, 2018 by johndemonic

[Superunknown 3,371]

Thank goodness for mornings filled with chores like tiling and spraying bindii and whipper snippering and Saturday bunnings runs