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Round 18 - How it will play out..?

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Round 18 - How it will play out..? 104 members have voted

  1. 1. Which of the following options will describe our fate this year?

    • Demons lose - Demons out
      12
    • Saints lose, Demons win (but not by enough), Doggies win - Demons out.
      19
    • Saints lose, Demons win (but not by enough), Doggies lose - Demons play finals.
      2
    • Saints lose, Demons win (by enough), Doggies win - Demons play finals.
      13
    • Saints lose, Demons win (by enough), Doggies lose - Demons play finals.
      7
    • Saints win, Demons win, Doggies win - Demons out.
      41
    • Saints win, Demons win, Doggies lose - Demons play finals
      5

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Demons will lose. Doggies will win. Saints will win. Dees out. Chook Fowler will blow a gasket festering in the red wine he’s cooked in.

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    Interesting that around 50% of the votes have the Saints losing tonight, but just 10% the Doggies losing on Sunday...

    So it largely rides on tonight's game, and on us following it up with the Dons tomorrow... 

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    Demonlanders have us at 70% chance to miss out on finals... so 30% reckon we're a chance... ?

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    2 hours ago, PaulRB said:

    Interesting that around 50% of the votes have the Saints losing tonight, but just 10% the Doggies losing on Sunday...

    So it largely rides on tonight's game, and on us following it up with the Dons tomorrow... 

    Tonights game has 1 team with massive finals experience (GWS)  vs a team with none (Saints)  - with Zak Jones out.

    Thats what I'm hanging my hopes on why GWS get.  

     

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    4 hours ago, binman said:

    This is the sequel.

    Like godfather two a rare example of the sequel being better.

    This time without my sarcasm, I do believe that 2021 will be better.

    If we can pick up another decent full forward and an expeeinced crumbrr then things should fall into place.

    Weid still needs to improve substantially but my hope is is increased due to the pergormace of our backline.

    Our mids seem to be functioning much better.

    Trac has finally gone to another level. The great revruiting of Jackson, Langdon and Rivers should really pay off.

    3 more quality players and things should really start happening. 

    Like Covid, we have stemmed the worst and we as Goody would say:

    Moving in the right direction.

    We will win tmrw but as others have mentioned it will be too late.

    We must be strong and take a sharp axe to the list.

    Players like Trac, May, Max, Langdon, Oliver   Hibberd, Salem and Lever deserve as much support they can get.

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    Look it is quite simple. One must follow the MFCSS doctrine in these circumstances. 

    Saints lose by about 26 points and demons win by about 23 points and we end up being .01 % behind the saints. All is resting on the freo dogs game. They draw.

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    1 hour ago, PaulRB said:

    Demonlanders have us at 70% chance to miss out on finals... so 30% reckon we're a chance... ?

    About 29% more than I would have expected. So much negativity for no reason whatsoever.

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    3 hours ago, PaulRB said:

    Interesting that around 50% of the votes have the Saints losing tonight, but just 10% the Doggies losing on Sunday...

    Not surprising. I'm not relying one bit on Freo winning.

    Beveridge is a fantastic coach who motivates his players in the crunch games and there's no way known the Dogs will lose to Freo.

    Freo have been a pretty good story of late but the facts are they're an ordinary side that gives effort week in week out. They'll have a red hot crack against the Dogs but will lose in a low scoring scrap.

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    Let’s just remind ourselves of the prize on offer this weekend - basically the opportunity to go over to Perth and probably get smashed by the eagles in an elimination final .

    this is quite different to 2017 we hadn’t made finals in 11 years and we had half a chance to actually see our team play finals at the G - that’s not the case now (with the exception of a few that might be lucky to see a final live)

    id love for us to make it but I’m not emotionally invested or attached to the results this weekend like I was 3 years ago or in 2018.

     at the moment we are a middle of the road side , my biggest concern is that much of the playing group will be satisfied with just making the 8 , we have a lot of improving to do given the talent on this list 

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    Reckon we'll win (if you can ever say that) but won't get any joy  from the other games. I still remember 1976.

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    3 minutes ago, adonski said:

    I actually think every result will go our way

    and you post on demonland? Weird. (But welcome.)

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    18 minutes ago, loges said:

    Reckon we'll win (if you can ever say that) but won't get any joy  from the other games. I still remember 1976.

    Thats 10 years before my time, what happened?

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    29 minutes ago, FritschyBusiness said:

    Thats 10 years before my time, what happened?

    We had to beat the Pies in the last round and Carlton who were on top had to beat the Bulldogs who were 5th and we were in on percentage. The game was at Princess park so you'd reckon they were good things but Carlton in there arrogance only pulled their finger out in the last quarter. We took care of the Pies after Wearmouth knocked out Laurie Fowler. The Blues just failed to overtake the Dogs when a late shot hit the post, the game ending in a draw and we missed out by 2 points.

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    2 hours ago, Delusional demon 82 said:

    Let’s just remind ourselves of the prize on offer this weekend - basically the opportunity to go over to Perth and probably get smashed by the eagles in an elimination final .

    this is quite different to 2017 we hadn’t made finals in 11 years and we had half a chance to actually see our team play finals at the G - that’s not the case now (with the exception of a few that might be lucky to see a final live)

    id love for us to make it but I’m not emotionally invested or attached to the results this weekend like I was 3 years ago or in 2018.

     at the moment we are a middle of the road side , my biggest concern is that much of the playing group will be satisfied with just making the 8 , we have a lot of improving to do given the talent on this list 

    The prize is an opportunity to knock the Weagles out of finals on their home deck... That would make me very happy, and go some way to atoning to the humiliation out west at the end of 2018. 

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    Dear oh dear some of you guys just have not been following this club long enough. Giants win easy tonight  Fremantle belt the doggies on Sunday but the Bomber get up in a stunning upset tomorrow. Im really sorry but you all know it will happen. 

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    1 hour ago, PaulRB said:

    The prize is an opportunity to knock the Weagles out of finals on their home deck... That would make me very happy, and go some way to atoning to the humiliation out west at the end of 2018. 

    Agreed - but our form over the past month feels a long way away from that, I just see it like Essendon going over there last year in the elim final , albeit Optus stadium having maybe only half of it’s normal snakepit vibe with the crowd reductions 

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    3 hours ago, FritschyBusiness said:

    Thats 10 years before my time, what happened?

    I was at that last match. We beat the pies at vicpark but other games didn't go our way to make finals.

    The upside was it resulted in the Pies winning their first evet wooden spoon. Not much consolation though.

    Monday’s Herald Sun headline after the game wad  "Demons spoon feed Magpies". 

    The great Laurie Fowler was knocked out cold in the first quarter. 

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    1 hour ago, Mr Steve said:

    Dear oh dear some of you guys just have not been following this club long enough. Giants win easy tonight  Fremantle belt the doggies on Sunday but the Bomber get up in a stunning upset tomorrow. Im really sorry but you all know it will happen. 

    As night follows day.

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    12 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

    I was at that last match. We beat the pies at vicpark but other games didn't go our way to make finals.

    The upside was it resulted in the Pies winning their first evet wooden spoon. Not much consolation though.

    Monday’s Herald Sun headline after the game wad  "Demons spoon feed Magpies". 

    The great Laurie Fowler was knocked out cold in the first quarter. 

    I was there that day as well. We needed top of the ladder Carlton to beat the Dogs who were 6th. We hang around after the game to find out who had won. They put the goals up first 15 each then slowly wound the points up 17 for Carlton and 14 no 15 no 16 no 17for the dogs, It"s a draw and we missed out. The Collingwood crowd went mad cheering and we went home on the train feeling like we had lost that day. I have hated Collingwood and Carlton ever since. 

     

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    17 minutes ago, Demon17 said:

    I was at that last match. We beat the pies at vicpark but other games didn't go our way to make finals.

    The upside was it resulted in the Pies winning their first evet wooden spoon. Not much consolation though.

    Monday’s Herald Sun headline after the game wad  "Demons spoon feed Magpies". 

    The great Laurie Fowler was knocked out cold in the first quarter. 

    Footscray and Carlton drew at the western oval. Had carlton won by a point then we would have made it. Thats why I think the dogs and freo will draw this weekend.

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    I've chosen the obvious choices, Saints really should be beating GWS and as for the Dogs, I can picture Jesse Hogan having a shot from directly in front to win the game after the siren and missing.

    We have to do our job, and just beat Essendon. I think they may come out with a bit of fight, they seem to love nothing more than turning things on for us even when they play pure $h!t against everyone else.

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    It’s the MFC, there is nothing surer than us making a real mess of this. 
    Ess have won 1 out of their last 9, will most probably beat us, then dogs lose. 
     

    #fistedforever. 

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