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Melbourne - premiership contenders?

dazzledavey36
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I am still very positive and feel that we have a real chance at top 4, it is up to the coaches and players to share belief and resolve, things can turn around real quick if you believe.

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    listened to the footyology podcast this week; neither rohan connolly nor mark fine thought we were a chance of finals, let alone premiership contenders

    mark fine is a saints nuffy tho, and his views are almost universally terrible - but he's right that we've been consistency mediocre for a long time

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    the article was conceptually very good identifying basically where our weaknesses are, but made the huge assumption these problems are now fixed with the 3 draftees we brought in, injecting pace and precise kicking. We are a longggg way off any of them becoming regular players.

    he's right if those players and Ben Brown fire then we wouldn't have too many glaring weaknesses. and if your Aunty had...

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    I think the list is the best since 1998, the players like Jackson, Rivers and Pickett must step up and improve and BB needs to be on the park soon.

    As for winning a premiership lots can happen between now and September, we need our list to be relatively injury free and have at least 16 of our top players who play nearly every round and the finals.

    Premiership teams always depend on the core players and the bottom 6 must at least be competitive and make a contribution to the success of the team.

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    1 hour ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    listened to the footyology podcast this week; neither rohan connolly nor mark fine thought we were a chance of finals, let alone premiership contenders

    mark fine is a saints nuffy tho, and his views are almost universally terrible - but he's right that we've been consistency mediocre for a long time

    But both of them are jaded self employed sad sacks.

     

    Didn't mind connnolly on SEN, but his twitter presence is too much!

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    2 hours ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    listened to the footyology podcast this week; neither rohan connolly nor mark fine thought we were a chance of finals, let alone premiership contenders

    mark fine is a saints nuffy tho, and his views are almost universally terrible - but he's right that we've been consistency mediocre for a long time

    Just listening to this now and I think they've undersold us a bit but I get it, if you bet on us to miss finals each year for the last 56 years you'd have made a decent quid.

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    2 hours ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    listened to the footyology podcast this week; neither rohan connolly nor mark fine thought we were a chance of finals, let alone premiership contenders

    mark fine is a saints nuffy tho, and his views are almost universally terrible - but he's right that we've been consistency mediocre for a long time

    RoCo is unhinged. Unstable at best. Viney has a red switch. Those two will end up in a punch on with each other one day.

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    1 hour ago, durango said:

    I think the list is the best since 1998, the players like Jackson, Rivers and Pickett must step up and improve and BB needs to be on the park soon.

    As for winning a premiership lots can happen between now and September, we need our list to be relatively injury free and have at least 16 of our top players who play nearly every round and the finals.

    Premiership teams always depend on the core players and the bottom 6 must at least be competitive and make a contribution to the success of the team.

    If Jackson, Pickett and Rivers progress and Brown plays and the rest show a bit we are a real chance. We just ned to play smarter and not bomb the ball but lower the eyes. 

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    Some are brewing the bathwater.

    Hope we don't drink from the faguzi fountain

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    We have been building the list since Paul Roos took over  in 2014 -16  and Goody  from 2017  - current.  

    IMV l see it as the strongest list that has been put together since the early 60s yes l was around.56 years ago .

    We are in it to win it,  We are in that so called window,

     

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    Premiership contenders? Premiership certainties more like it.

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    I must agree we set ourselves a team and style to grind over teams with a battering ram, high endurance style in 2020. That was taken away from us with shortened quarters and even still only our own mental fragility in Cairns has us miss the finals by a slender margin. Assuming a good run with injuries and the natural development of the list and the connection between them with game style it is not an unreasonable call.

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    Doubt there has been a premiership team in history where there's been noise that players 'want success or they'll leave'. Never heard that from players at Haw, Coll, WCE, Syd, etc. even during lean periods.

    Until we get the right mix of players who take responsibility for the success of this club we're not winning anything. We are way off with this group.

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    1 hour ago, rufus said:

    Doubt there has been a premiership team in history where there's been noise that players 'want success or they'll leave'. Never heard that from players at Haw, Coll, WCE, Syd, etc. even during lean periods.

    Until we get the right mix of players who take responsibility for the success of this club we're not winning anything. We are way off with this group.

    And how many have openly stated that on our list? 

    Rufus name all the names please.

     

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    On 2/4/2021 at 9:41 AM, furious d said:

    Made a $1000 bet 9 years ago that we’d win a flag within a decade. Last year of the bet this season. Hope this article is correct.

    That would have been made as 186 happened and Neeld was put in place; you would have got some good odds...

    What a great way to spend $1000.

    Confused Jon Stewart GIF

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    On 2/4/2021 at 3:35 PM, Bay Riffin said:

    he's right if those players and Ben Brown fire then we wouldn't have too many glaring weaknesses. and if your Aunty had...

    Not sure you can quote that line anymore     In this enlightened day and age.

    K nuts,    She might really be your Uncle.        

    but I definitely understand where you are coming from. Hope those players do fire up. 

    I will not be holding my breath until we get into the finals, then,      then I might start hyper ventilating,   A long way to go I think.

    Good luck to us all.

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    On 2/4/2021 at 6:34 PM, Roost it far said:

    We’ll either win it or go very close

     

    What the wooden spoon??????

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    As Melbourne supporters we are all jaded!!

    Since 2006 I have known we have not had the cattle. Every win was a great day, any final was an outperformance.  But this is no longer my thoughts.  I believe we have the best list we have had since the mid 90s.  We have the combination of experience and raw talent required to win a premiership. The core of our group are peaking.

    We no longer have excuses.

    Only poor player management, bad coaching or extraordinary bad luck (of non soft tissue injuries) will see us outside of the top four. 

    We should expect top 4. Anything less is a failure.

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    Nothing like going back to the fifties in a time machine . All aboard.

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    On 2/7/2021 at 6:38 PM, COOLX said:

    Nothing like going back to the fifties in a time machine . All aboard.

    I’m so in but just for the footy and the natural environment 

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