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Almost impossible to win over there in cold, wet southerly buster weather. An ageing creaky Jones and a hobbled Viney are a real worry. Hard to see any turnaround from them and to who will step up with real leadership. Hope I am wrong. 

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    We can take it right up to them, even on their own dung heap and in dirty weather,  but a return to our 2018 style of hard contested footy, and playing for eachother, is a prerequisite!  Just do it Dees!

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    Really don't want us to drop to 0-2. As silly as it sounds having such a big game in round 2 but this side feeds off confidence, if we go 0-2 & the next month isn't exactly easy the group could drop their bundle & we could be 1-4 after 5. 

    I'm interested to see how Goodwin & the playing group respond. Obviously it's seriously tough to win down there but the conditions actually may favour us, turn it into a contested slog. If we get our brand of footy going we'll be tough to beat it's just which Melbourne shows up. 

    I'm not concerned about the cats.. dees by 19 in a low scoring game.

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    33 minutes ago, GCDee said:

    I'm not concerned about the cats.. dees by 19 in a low scoring game.

    Could you let me know what you had for breakfast GCD

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    I have a natural pessimism every game day. Hey... I’ve been a Supporter fr 47 years so anything else would seem like inviting trouble! That being said, win lose or draw I want to see them aggressive and switched on tonight. Seasons can slip away fast. Early losses lead to loss of confidence and game plans fall apart when players begin to second guess themselves. It’s easy to start sliding down these slippery paths. 

    So I’m hoping they play less like it’s a practice match tonight and more like it’s a season that matters. 

     

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    The Dees love to bounce back. Consistency will come when our core are more mature. 

    I’m expecting a bruising contest and a win.  hopefully Jetta takes out Selwood like last game and he drops his bundle

     

     

    I don’t think a loss is the end of the world. If we show dramatic improvement in all facets of last week and lose a close game, then hopefully we can build some momentum into 3 winnable games coming up.

     

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    Can we get Eddie McGuire to toss the coin down at the cattery? I hear he's an expert tossar

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    I'll keep it simple. 

    If our structures are smart and performed well, and our best 8 players play well we'll win. 

    The match will be decided by the performances of Gawn, Oliver, Brayshaw, Viney, Tom McDonald, May, Jetta, and Harmes ability to negate Kelly or Dangerfield. 

    I think our best is better, so hopefully the best version of ourselves turns up. 

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    46 minutes ago, Rusty Nails said:

    Could you let me know what you had for breakfast GCD

    Cheerios.... :)

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    If we look anything like the MFC of 2018 we should be markedly better than last week and could well win.

    Our next three (Essendon, Sydney, St Kilda) are all winnable but we have back-to-back six day breaks from today, which isn't going to make catching up on fitness any easier.

    Today is important.

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    Going in with pretty low expectations today. The three ins should help but I can’t see us overcoming them down there based on our overall form and player fitness. 

    Cats by 20 pts. 

    Can’t see us winning tonight I think we are some way of our best and too many of our players are under done, will be looking forward to an improved performance from our boys. I went to the Geelong Collingwood game last week and the amount of  times the Geelong players played for free kicks made me sick, I have no doubts they are drilled by the coaching team how to draw them. Miers should have been cited for staging but or course wasn’t. Not looking forward to the lob sided free kick count tonight .


    Don’t know if it’s been mentioned elsewhere but congratulations Jack Viney on 100 games. Let’s hope he turns it on.

     

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    Geelong arent all that good we can win this if we bring the heat

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    It’s raining cats & dogs, so Demons better play with a bit of mongrel and desire.

    Normally I’d much prefer better weather for Melbourne to play in, might just help us tonight. Often seems like the team that really wants it, comes out on top in the rain, let it be the Dees!

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    I will be waiting for next week. Our form was so bad last week that it can't be overcome in a week so early in the season. Being cold and wet may help with the tightness of scores but we will get done.

    Unless he’s carrying a mystery injury, I’m confident of Max responding strongly which means if he’s giving our mids first use we are a decent chance.


    1 minute ago, P-man said:

    Unless he’s carrying a mystery injury, I’m confident of Max responding strongly which means if he’s giving our mids first use we are a decent chance.

    Hope your right

    2 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    If we outplay them, we will win. Make no mistake. 

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    The Dees are harder to predict than earthquakes! I have no idea what is going to happen. I think it will be close at 3/4 time. From there its anyone's guess.  We play better on the away grounds and Cat Park is no hoodoo anymore. Hopefully Max can dominate.

     

    ...."feeling like a dead duck.......spitting out pieces of his broken luck, oh Aqualung."

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    Yeah why do we save a lot of our best efforts for ones where the majority of our fans arent there (finals aside last year)


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