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  On 07/09/2020 at 08:07, M_9 said:

Are you the bloke asking $450 for jousting sticks?

With COVID, it's a buyer's market. People are flogging off things cheap to make ends meet. Don't pay any more than $350, and make sure they do contactless trade. Get photos to make sure the sticks are made of pine or cypress -- if it's gum or something hard, it's dangerous and fake! Don't be a statistic.

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      On 07/09/2020 at 06:53, 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

     

    Something tells me you didn't excell at maths P2J

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      On 07/09/2020 at 07:19, 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.

    I believe we stayed 

     

    Probability of making finals is around 0.28 in my guess

    based on 70% win probability tonight

    50% against GWS and 80% against the Bombers

    Would be interested to know what odds the bookies are giving for us to make the 8.

    Edited by Diamond_Jim

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    Just watching 360 on fox ,have never watch for to long before that robbo is totally [censored] in the head ,needs help

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    I'd like us to just focus on something we were no.1 in the league a couple of years ago........ guarding space. It all flows from that. If we get on the front foot early and guard space well, I think we win.

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      On 07/09/2020 at 08:40, forever demons said:

    Just watching 360 on fox ,have never watch for to long before that robbo is totally [censored] in the head ,needs help

    You have only just realized 

    Slobbo has severe trouble getting one word in the right order

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    Unfounded optimism. Nervy pessimism. Plenty of humour. Posters checking in from various points of the globe, posters getting themselves pumped. BBQ and beverage reports. Crazy score predictions. Pre-game routines. For as long as I can recall and even at the worst of times - this is what I had come to expect of the game-day thread. A ritualistic shedding of the emotional baggage of the prior week and a chance for re-set, at least for the few hours leading up to first bounce. Somewhere I could come feeling little interest in the match ahead and leave excited and fully committed to cheering my [censored] off. Now it's just a bunch of people moaning. I hope our players have their minds on the task at hand and not taking a negative attitude into the game, as we ask of them week in week out. For many of us the football and watching our club is greatest escape we have from the workaday - why not enjoy the fantasy? Go Dees.  

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      On 07/09/2020 at 08:40, forever demons said:

    Just watching 360 on fox ,have never watch for to long before that robbo is totally [censored] in the head ,needs help

    I love Robbo!

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    just win tonight for a little bit of pride. Doubt finals but at least one more win.  Should beat the Bumers  as well

      On 07/09/2020 at 08:51, Sir Why You Little said:

    You have only just realized 

    Slobbo has severe trouble getting one word in the right order

    And yet he is Chief Football Writer for a major paper 

    Clearly basic literacy is no longer important!!!

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    Hard to see us winning with this team. Plus Freo are not that bad!

    The big guns will need to play out of their skin...


    Robbo said the bombers lost so badly based on their fixture ???

    It's close to start time and I'm getting a  bit of a twitch in my ....... err nethers.

    Call me a [censored] but I also have money on the Dees.

    I reckon we'll crush them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Do i have to watch this.....

     

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