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4 minutes ago, old dee said:

It is asking a lot of a guy who has only played scratch matches this year to suddenly come in and play a very good game first up. 

True, I should have prefaced it that it's more based on feeling. I think he possesses some great attributes that we're lacking at the moment and he could make a solid impact right away. I suppose we shall see!

 

Dees to go at 100% efficiency in the breezy conditions.

Baker to take 19 bounces from the back pocket to the forward pocket and then kick one over his head, using the breeze to guide it through.

Preuss to have 30 hit outs to advantage.

Bedford to kick 7 straight.

Dees by 10 goals.

Get around it.

Well its going to be interesting to watch how a couple of the new inclusions go.

Also keen to witness how the 2 ruckmen experiment works. If both on they will be hard to man up. My reservation with Max up fwrd is his lack of goal accuracy so Im hoping its the hybrid.

I do think we will win this. The boys have been sufficiently berated.

Hoping for a long time for Weid to kick a bag. Please let it be tonight.

 
9 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Anyone else get the impression from Goodwin yesterday that the club doesn't think it will play finals?  Three things I noticed:

1. He started talking of the condensed fixture, travel, Alice, late arrival at Gazaly and conditions.  It was like excuses are in the pipeline.

2. When asked about focusing at this intense time he talked about the opportunity for the club to grow, to develop, to continue to evolve, to be consistent and that is our aim.  Lots of teams vying for finals and we want to use it as an opportunity to get better.  No sense of expectation to play in finals.  Hardly filled me with confidence. 

3. When asked about the list he talked 'this year is about building ourselves up' and play in some games that will define us 'whether we play finals or not'

4. Selections.

Have very little confidence in a win tonight.

Point 2 is always his standard answer in press conferences about the situation.

Avoids circumstances and events just glosses over their impact on the situation 

Frustrating under Value ing  importance of occasion! 
 

This may have been covered elsewhere, but can someone tell me if we have stayed in Cairns the past week, avoiding the travel that supposedly sapped our energy, according to Goody.


49 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

If we stink it up tonight, this thread could become the biggest pile of slop this site has ever seen.

Now that would be an achievement.

52 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

If we stink it up tonight, this thread could become the biggest pile of slop this site has ever seen.

Except that this site will be witnessing the biggest pile of slop ever seen

15 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Dees to go at 100% efficiency in the breezy conditions.

Baker to take 19 bounces from the back pocket to the forward pocket and then kick one over his head, using the breeze to guide it through.

Preuss to have 30 hit outs to advantage.

Bedford to kick 7 straight.

Dees by 10 goals.

Get around it.

Delusions of grandeur- May I suggest Lithium 

 
40 minutes ago, Jontee said:

24 degrees, quite pleasant, still windy but it has dropped, trying to drizzle....after last weeks non performance I'm not going....

Sorry Jontee typical Melbourne supporter!


11 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

This may have been covered elsewhere, but can someone tell me if we have stayed in Cairns the past week, avoiding the travel that supposedly sapped our energy, according to Goody.

Yeah they have.

16 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Fremantle aren’t all that bad, it’ll be a tough, close scrape. Dockers by 89 points. 

You picked the swans by 27 points last week and I can only say that you maybe right on the Dockers but only by 50.

This really is it for the dees. Saying that I expect they may even turn up to the wrong ground.

41 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

 We would have to win 7 straight games.  Including 4 finals, which includes a prelim and a granny.

The odds would be 1 million to  1 a best

 

dumb and dumber there's a chance GIF | b-reddy.org

Demons to come out strong, be challenged in the second but steady to win by 32 points

9 hours ago, old dee said:

You are far from alone LH and another Foxtel game I am surprised we have one sponsor left.

Fox just don't not broadcast games 

Sponsorship would be arranged well in advance by the broadcasting partner/s. 

They  haven't Given up on Adelaide or Kangas Or Hawks. 

What a strange statement negative as usual.


Geez if we lose to Freo on top of already losing to the Swans we sure as hell don’t deserve to be in finals. 
 

If this happens it’s adios Goody and take your assistants with you. He will hopefully take a lot of learnings from it. 

Was planning on having a nice relaxing evening until I logged on and discovered this game was tonight. Now I'm going to go through various stages of dread, worry, optimism, disgust, and (probably) finally, hatred.

 Demonland is bad for my health.

EDIT: We might win though! (There's the optimism covered)

Edited by Chook

51 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Dees to go at 100% efficiency in the breezy conditions.

Baker to take 19 bounces from the back pocket to the forward pocket and then kick one over his head, using the breeze to guide it through.

Preuss to have 30 hit outs to advantage.

Bedford to kick 7 straight.

Dees by 10 goals.

Get around it.

That's a tad pessimistic Wise.

What about our inside 50 conversions? Which has been our bane.

You'd probably say in the low 70 -80 %.

Edited by kev martin

55 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Dees to go at 100% efficiency in the breezy conditions.

Baker to take 19 bounces from the back pocket to the forward pocket and then kick one over his head, using the breeze to guide it through.

Preuss to have 30 hit outs to advantage.

Bedford to kick 7 straight.

Dees by 10 goals.

Get around it.

Are you the bloke asking $450 for jousting sticks?


3 minutes ago, M_9 said:

Are you the bloke asking $450 for jousting sticks?

Nah, I'm after the pulpit.

 

We'll scrape in a win coz we've got something to prove after last round. Our players are burning! (This sensation lasts a max of one week.)

We'll beat GWS because we'll be the underdogs and have something to fight for.

We'll fall flat on our faces against the Bumbers because that's the do-or-die crunch  game and we'll expected to walk all over them. The ultimate MFC ****up scenario. Our players will taunt them, asking where they'll be spending their October holidays, even while EFC pile on an insurmountable lead (which we'll gradually claw back and wish we could play a 5th quarter).

3 hours ago, Soidee said:

Have stopped buying into this club.  The leadership still ordinary, the coaching bewildering and the list has too many inconsistent types who can’t kick.

Tom McDonald totally out of favour whilst on big coin.

Fremantle will go past us, as have other clubs while we continue to talk it up.  Goodwin has not met expectations and frankly how long?

love to know the percentage of members supporters who do not trust this group from week to week.  

Ah yes, the old "go past us".

Did we "go past" St Kilda when we beat them?

Has Sydney "gone past us" despite being in the bottom 4 whilst we will be in the 8 if we win tonight?

3 hours ago, Demonland said:

Forget the mathematics. If we can't win these last 3 games then we don't deserve to be playing in the finals.

We should not be rewarded for our competition falling over.

Bradbury be damned.

AltruisticLeadingHornshark-size_restrict

My view on this is very different.

At the end of the season, whoever finishes in the top 8 deserves to play finals. That is, indeed, the entire point of the top 8.

It's even more so in a season like this, where everyone plays everyone else once.

If we make it on 9 wins, at least two of St Kilda, Collingwood, GWS and the Dogs is going to similarly lose some games over the next two weeks. Whoever finishes the season with the 8th or better record of the 18 clubs will have deserved their finals spot.


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