Just now, dazzledavey36 said:

Don't know, but holy [censored] its ballsy and I bloody love it.

Definitely a change from within 

It will make me buy another Membership if it becomes a Standard 

8 hours ago, Engorged Onion said:

Not sure what all the fuss is about.

We know how it plays out, we know that when we can win, it staves of the doubt for another 72 hours.. we lose and it confirms that the team doesn't care. And it feels like all the emotional effort put in is worthless (and some would argue it ultimately is anyway).

Ultimately, it doesnt care about 'us', or 'me'  Perhaps that's why I  get so angry, because really, I am angry at myself. Where else in my life would I tolerate heartache like this...?

So here I am on gameday, having an existential crisis. Of all my 41 years of being alive, these memories flood back

• Crying whilst on holiday into my banana milk shake when we heard on the radio Jimmy had run over the man on the mark...
• loving Ricky Jackson coming out of the locker and listening on vinyl to 'some forums' theme tune
• listening to the reserves reports of Darren Cuthbertson wondering how some freak goal kicking, marking machine couldn't get a a run of games (back injuries I believe)
• the sexyness of Steven Tingay...
• kevin Dyson thighs
• guy rigonis hair
• a hero called Allen, another called Garry.
• The anticiaption of a dynasty with David and David as the spine.
• The spruiking of The Reverend, 
• The joy of Brad Green vs Carlton,
• The sadness of Troy,
• Brad Miller kicking 5 against the Saints for my first game back from living overseas, thinking, we've got a superstar here! 
• yze goal square hanger in Geelong whilst we failed to win and merely draw
• The hollowness whilst present to watch 186,
• the inconsistency  of the mid 90's- 2000's.
• the awful skills of 2010 plus
• Aussi Wonnameri vs Freo, 
• First round draft picks...none of them superstars.
• Mark Neelds hard [censored] attitude as the saviour(!?)
• Jack Watts against Collingwood...as a first gamer
• Jack Watts against Collingwood with the titanic
• In bali for the first time, in some seedy bar going beserk when TMAC kicked the final second goal against WCE to start providing some long lost hope
• Dean Kent in the West
• Mitch at the G

It's my football supporting life flashing across my eyes... and it's my Hotel California, unfortunately, whatever happens tonight.. I can check out, but I can never leave.

Postscript... Here is my son..just now. I am still unsure whether I have consigned him to a life of misery..just look at his head...it hangs low. He knows how to do the Melbourne Supporter look well.

I just had to login after a long absence when I read this!  I have a little over 10 years on you Engorged, and all these moments are very very vivid.  And I'm responsible for three kids aged 27,17, and 11 being mad demons, and often heartbroken demons, turning up since they were babies week in week out through the good and bad

 

But there is a common phrase I am reading on this thread tonight that Melbourne "should win".  In my 50+ years its not a phrase I think I have ever used........

5 minutes ago, CHF said:

First time I can recall feeling like this but my care factor for this game is damn close to zero.

I usually make sure I can watch the game live so I can ride every bump, mark, kick and tackle, but not today. I have a lovely day in europe and I am going to take advantage of it and go and have a round of golf.

They will need to show a hell of a lot more than they showed last week for me TGAF.

Same here mate, I am way more excited about going to spend three days on a Dutch island with my in laws than this game

Edit: how good’s this weather?!

Edited August 5, 20205 yr by AmDamDemon

1 hour ago, bingers said:

GF smashings  x 2

That’s what I said bing 

44 minutes ago, A F said:

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/789774/rd-10-before-the-bounce?videoId=789774&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1596611756001

Well done, Benny.

Nice preview

I'm surprised Ben could hold the mike with that massive gold watch weighing his arm down!

Can the mods please suspend any posters discussing their holidays and the weather in Europe??

thanks.

20 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Don't know, but holy [censored] its ballsy and I bloody love it.

Of course it's come from above. ?  We don't have a maverick media guy haha. The website is for supporters, they're giving us what we want. It's good. 

21 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Definitely a change from within 

It will make me buy another Membership if it becomes a Standard 

Lol, well there we go. It didn't take much did it. Perty's done the job.

1 minute ago, A F said:

Lol, well there we go. It didn't take much did it. Perty's done the job.

Hopefully doing the job

Nothing is done

Slaon and B Crouch still out, with Ben Keays and Chayce Jones the named followers and M Crouch in the centre.  With all due respect to them, that should not be a contest over the length of a game.

The missing Crouch and Sloane are also both in Adelaide's top 4 for inside 50s. Their leading tackler is their ruckman

Meanwhile, two of their named forwards have never kicked a goal, and Himmelberg has just one this season. Lynch bags a goal every second game or so.

The only area that they win on paper is their defence, with  Doedee, Talia and Laird providing a core that must be kept honest.

Seriously, they are thin on every line and their 0-9 run is not an accident.

 

I'm so anxious about this game now.

Every reason I see for us to romp it in, I become more nervous.

6 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Hopefully doing the job

Nothing is done

Exactly. I enjoy the videos, but they're not going to encourage me to buy a membership.

I'll buy a membership because it's in my DNA haha.

This, by all rights, should be an absolute thumping. We crumbled under pressure last week, but in the two games we've played against teams in the bottom half of the ladder we've looked a genuine class above - with good ball movement and scoring nous. Throw in a winless team on a short-turnaround and with eight changes and a 50-point plus win should be on the cards.  

1 minute ago, Skuit said:

This, by all rights, should be an absolute thumping. We crumbled under pressure last week, but in the two games we've played against teams in the bottom half of the ladder we've looked a genuine class above - with good ball movement and scoring nous. Throw in a winless team on a short-turnaround and with eight changes and a 50-point plus win should be on the cards.  

We need a forward line to win by that much Sku.

Trac to kick 5 and we'll win by 5.

I just hope i still have a laptop after tonight?

15 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Can the mods please suspend any posters discussing their holidays and the weather in Europe??

thanks.

Agree please suspend me and I can stop torturing myself

31 minutes ago, FrostyBeast said:

I just had to login after a long absence when I read this!  I have a little over 10 years on you Engorged, and all these moments are very very vivid.  And I'm responsible for three kids aged 27,17, and 11 being mad demons, and often heartbroken demons, turning up since they were babies week in week out through the good and bad

 

But there is a common phrase I am reading on this thread tonight that Melbourne "should win".  In my 50+ years its not a phrase I think I have ever used........

Thanks @FrostyBeast -  I was feeling quite emotional about life this morning. My 4.5yo got his top on... we don't really speak footy all that much in our house. But... I cannot think of any stage in my footballing supporter life, when any win felt like a certainty.

We got crushed by Richard Osborne's winless Swans...perhaps 20 odd games they hadn't won... I was maybe 12 at the time. And there have been a multitude of similar performances since, that just reinforces the experience that we are all having before tonights game.

What other godforsaken teams supporters at any level, in any competition, in any sport - would come up against a team 0-9 and go... 'yep, not even slightly a certainty.' 

"Whatever doesn't kill you, causes atherosclerosis."

Edited August 5, 20205 yr by Engorged Onion

28 minutes ago, AmDamDemon said:

Same here mate, I am way more excited about going to spend three days on a Dutch island with my in laws than this game

Edit: how good’s this weather?!

Dutch Antilles? Now that would be jaw droppingly good

WE WILL WIN

 

There.... i said it

4 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

Thanks @FrostyBeast -  I was feeling quite emotional about life this morning. My 4.5yo got his top on... we don't really speak footy all that much in our house. But... I cannot think of any stage in my footballing supporter life, when any win felt like a certainty.

We got crushed by Richard Osborne's winless Swans...perhaps 20 odd games they hadn't won... I was maybe 12 at the time. And there have been a multitude of similar performances since, that just reinforces the experience that we are all having before tonights game.

What other godforsaken teams supporters at any level, in any competition, in any sport - would come up against a team 0-9 and go... 'yep, not even slightly a certainty.' 

"Whatever doesn't kill you, causes atherosclerosis."

I'd wiped this game from my memory.

Reading that sentence was like having flashbacks that could send me over the edge.  What a horror show that day was.

The MFC knowledge in me says these are the games where we mentally beat ourselves. Come on Dees prove me wrong.

Brodie Smith a late out for the Crows, replaced by Ben Crocker.

No late changes for us.

This could be our all time greatest choke 

14 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

Thanks @FrostyBeast -  I was feeling quite emotional about life this morning. My 4.5yo got his top on... we don't really speak footy all that much in our house. But... I cannot think of any stage in my footballing supporter life, when any win felt like a certainty.

We got crushed by Richard Osborne's winless Swans...perhaps 20 odd games they hadn't won... I was maybe 12 at the time. And there have been a multitude of similar performances since, that just reinforces the experience that we are all having before tonights game.

What other godforsaken teams supporters at any level, in any competition, in any sport - would come up against a team 0-9 and go... 'yep, not even slightly a certainty.' 

"Whatever doesn't kill you, causes atherosclerosis."

My kids often wonder why one of my dees highlights was a loss - the third qtr in the 2002 Semi against Adelaide...Travis Johnstone doing it all and the dees coming back from 40 down to hit the front by around 4 goals was exhilarating.  Sadly they ran out of puff.  

Very very nervous tonight but I do not believe we'll stink it up again. The boys are well aware of the ramifications and I'm sure they will get this done.

Expecting to see Tomlinson given an extended run on the wing.

Brodie Smith a late withdrawal.