• No offence Melbourne fans reading this, this all the hallmarks of a mid-season coach firing.
• If May doesn't get up we should win it easily IMO.
• Looking at both forward lines it could end up the lowest score in AFL history.
• The Cairn's catastrophe was where we took Melbourne's last glimmer of finals hope last season and flushed it down the toilet.
• Max Gawn likely to do battle with the inexperienced Lloyd Meek. If Meek can just not get absolutely smashed by Gawn then we are in with a good chance.
• Gawn best on. Tabs will be double teamed by May and Lever all day.
• Lever seems to be made of the same brittle substance as Sturt.
• Unfortunately, I think Melbourne win this by 2-4 goals. Too many injuries and no forward line for us.
• I'll be very surprised if we kick 65 points.
• They also have no forward line at the moment only Mcdonald who looks very ordinary now days and Fritsch.
• The hype-train has us playing finals. If that's going to be the case, this game is a 'must win'.
• The biggest error the club made in the last 5 years was trading for Hogan instead of picking Ben King at the draft.
• It is highly likely this weekend's AFLW game between the same two clubs will have a bigger scoreline than Melb v Freo in Rd 1.
• I don't think that either team is going to do much damage in 2021 .... except to their supporters.
• Melbourne are trash! I hate to say it but If we lose to them we are in the back alley right alongside them!
• I think we should be good enough to beat Melbourne. Their pre-season has been awful and I don’t see any growth coming in that list from last year. We should win.
   

Save the last two bullets... Pretty fair?

Normal insular comments from a supporter group. To be expected and certainly no worse than those on here who post that we are top 4 material.

The first comment was a beauty and spot on. Goodwin would be looking for a real estate agent if Freo rolls us this weekend as I think they might.

Now that’s a group of supporters that have a healthy respect and a large amount of admiration for the MFC...

Cockburn will never stop being funny

I don't think too much of that is wrong to be totally honest.. 

Realistically it's hard to see either team scoring a whole lot, Gawn is likely to dominate the ruck but we've seen that doesn't mean we will do anything with that dominance. 

I think our best chance is to play Petracca forward quite a lot. pound for pound he's our best avaliable forward, and we've gotta hope Clarry, Gus and Harmes can get on top in the middle. 

Ouch, that's hot

1 hour ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

• No offence Melbourne fans reading this, this all the hallmarks of a mid-season coach firing.
• Looking at both forward lines it could end up the lowest score in AFL history.

Enjoyed these two. ?

35 minutes ago, Pickett2Jackson said:

Cockburn will never stop being funny

If it stops being funny, contact your doctor

3 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Enjoyed these two. ?

I love it. Footys back and so comes all the rubbish that goes with it. 

For some reason as a member/supporter you do take offence when really you have almost zero responsibility for how the result will turn out. Likewise, it's absolutely great to give my mates a heap of [censored] when their team is hopeless.

- Christian Salem is going to give us #3rd degree burns off half back, if we don't put a clamp on him

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 17, 20214 yr by John Demonic

I like the AFLW comment. Probably true.

14 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

The hype-train has us playing finals. If that's going to be the case, this game is a 'must win'.

They must be writing their own articles over there! Have not heard this once!

14 hours ago, John Demonic said:

- Christian Salem is going to give us #3rd degree burns off half back, if we don't put a clamp on him

 

 

 

 

 

3rd degree Cockburns

15 hours ago, DubDee said:

Enjoyed these two. ?

Probably fairly accurate. 

Fritta will stand up and kick 5, mark my words.

Who?

Would love to see Clarry pushed into the Forward line for resting spurts if his shoulders are up to it.

I would love to see these pre-match supporter comments from the opposition re-visited at the end of the year, with awards for comedy, delusion and grammar.  Colingwoad sure to be very short in the latter market.

Here's one for the same thread on their board:

- Apart from Fyfe and Mundy I haven't heard of any of their players

21 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

• I think we should be good enough to beat Melbourne. Their pre-season has been awful and I don’t see any growth coming in that list from last year. We should win.
   

Really?  I thought it was quite decent when we beat Richmond despite having half a dozen of our first team sidelined.  I do agree that we were smashed by the Doggies, but Fremantle don't have anywhere near that level of class on their list. 

For a team that has been pretty poor and had a mediocre season their supporters are surprisingly optimistic.

I will be bitterly disappointed if we lose this game given their outs and the fact it's at the G.... don't let me down Dees

I know it's dining out on past glories but we have 12 premierships cups in our trophy cabinet. How many does Freo have? That's right. NONE. Losers

Win the game by 15 goals MFC

Get Serious 

57 minutes ago, Better days ahead said:

I know it's dining out on past glories but we have 12 premierships cups in our trophy cabinet. How many does Freo have? That's right. NONE. Losers

Because of that statement, BDA, you may have now sentenced us to lose against Freo. How could you have been so thoughtless?