GRAND FINAL: Melbourne vs Western Bulldogs

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2 hours ago, Superunknown said:

Is there a link to a presser?

Just reading the Sun

[Willmoy1947 3,971]

On 9/12/2021 at 6:04 PM, longsuffering said:

Stefan looked very slow last night and I think Jackson has it all over English so I don't think the rucks will be a worry. It is getting it out of the centre bounce which concerns me. Why don't we tag the taggers for the first 5-10 minutes or what I really liked was starting Kossie in there.

Yes

[Willmoy1947 3,971]

Anyone seen the bont training this week. I think he is injured. I think the media is leaving it alone.I don't think he has free lateral movement.

I also think there will be some announcement after the game one way or another.

[DemonOX 8,701]

I have a feeling we will win by about 35-55 points. 

My reasoning is that the dogs have travelled a lot and it’s their own fault due to missing top 4, they seemed to have really celebrated maybe over celebrated the preliminary final win, had beers too, which is unusual,  Bevo was cranky about Trelors criticism during the week, then he cracked it at one of their staff members showing them celebrating the prelim win and maybe us vs the rest of the world crap might be wearing thin. 

God I hope I am right but time will tell. 

Go Dees. 

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

13 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

I have a feeling we will win by about 35-55 points. 

My reasoning is that the dogs have travelled a lot and it’s their own fault due to missing top 4, they seemed to have really celebrated maybe over celebrated the preliminary final win, had beers too, which is unusual,  Bevo was cranky about Trelors criticism during the week, then he cracked it at one of their staff members showing them celebrating the prelim win and maybe us vs the rest of the world crap might be wearing thin. 

God I hope I am right but time will tell. 

Go Dees. 

40 point win to the DEMONS. We will harry and harrass them in an even first half. in the second, we will pull away with our superior system of pressure and team first play. By the end they will look as old and slow as Geelong.

[Jack7 521]

On 9/15/2021 at 8:12 PM, BDA said:

It's only Wednesday. Still 10 days to go. A 2 week break to the game is too long. I think we should go back to the traditional 1 week between PF and granny. Way too much time to kill

Not possible with the Bulldogs in quarantine until Sunday

[BigFez 1,440]

I have been asked many times this year if the lid is off yet.  My response has always been the same, the lid will be off after the final siren of the grand final if we happen to make it.  Sticking by that, but by gee I wish I had some of your confidence.

I do think the Prelim result has taken some attention away from the dogs' poor form leading up to it, scraping past a Lions team we absolutely smashed, losing their last three games of the H&A season etc.  But at their best they are very good, their midfield is ridiculous.  Bont, Libba, McRae, Smith, Treloar, Dunkley, Hunter.  Crazy depth.

I am going to be a nervous wreck by the end of next week.

[Red and Bluebeard 2,075]

On 9/15/2021 at 12:19 PM, It's Time said:

I joined Demonology in about 2006 using the monicur It's Time and came across here in Feb 2008 using it. It's pretty self explanatory why I chose It's Time because even before Singo coined the phrase for Gough's tilt in '72 it was well and truly Time for another Dees flag and has been ever since. 

Soooooo come about 9.50pm on Saturday 25 September 2021 I am of course truly hoping It's Time will become a redundant name and I'm going to need a new one. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and hopefully delivered in the happy spirit we are living in at present and not any less salubrious suggestions. 

Thanks in anticipation.

It's Time for now but hopefully not much longer. 

It's repeat time?

[titan_uranus 24,631]

10 hours ago, binman said:

Interesting.

Curious that it wasn't noted that both Bruce and Jamarra Ugle-Hagan played in that game. 

Petty was one on one on Bruce for the whole game. Without Bruce in the team,  as bingers noted (and Webber too in another thread), we have the option of playing Petty on Naughton. Or we could go with what Monatgna suggested we ended up doing anyway - letting them have the match up.

There are a couple of other points i'd put to Joey if i had the chance.

One, Monatgna reckons that ring a rosie stuff happened all game. I don't think that is true. I'm sure May had Naughton for large chunks of the game.

Two, I know Monatgna's point was that they were trying to engineer a Lever Naughton match up (and i guess May being exposed on the quicker Hannan).

But Lever ended up with 15 intercept possessions and it seems to me Goody would be pretty happy with that that. Hardly an example of quelling Lever's influence.

And Naughton only had three marks and 2 goals, albeit it in slippery conditions, and Hannan the one goal so hardly a raging tactical success.

Agree on most of this. Naughton was hardly dominant in Round 19 so was that really all worth it for the Dogs?

But one issue to remember is that whilst Bruce won't be there on GF day, Martin playing means English will be in that role. So if Petty goes to Naughton, May has to go to English (assuming we want to keep Lever free). 

[Jaded No More 67,772]

2 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

Agree on most of this. Naughton was hardly dominant in Round 19 so was that really all worth it for the Dogs?

But one issue to remember is that whilst Bruce won't be there on GF day, Martin playing means English will be in that role. So if Petty goes to Naughton, May has to go to English (assuming we want to keep Lever free). 

May will go to Naughton. He all but confirmed it in the zoom call they had with members this afternoon.  Petty on English and I assume Sache will try to take out Lever. 

Edited September 17, 2021 by Jaded

[Superunknown 4,064]

JeeZ you lot arE confiDeNT

i HaV3 a feeLiNg tHis is A D@nger game

[spirit of norm smith 15,250]

Saturday forecast for Perth 

21c sunny.
Dropping to 9c overnight so probably 15-17c around 5-8pm. 

[Kick_It_To_Pickett 3,291]

21 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

Saturday forecast for Perth 

21c sunny.
Dropping to 9c overnight so probably 15-17c around 5-8pm. 

Which begs the question, will Ed Langdon be wearing longsleeves? It’s been troubling me all week 

[Chook 14,998]

17 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

Which begs the question, will Ed Langdon be wearing longsleeves? It’s been troubling me all week 

I had only one worry before now - will we wear our traditional Guernsey?

Now I have twice as many worries.

Edited September 17, 2021 by Chook

[Kick_It_To_Pickett 3,291]

1 minute ago, Chook said:

I had only one worry before now - will we wear our traditional Guernsey?

Now I have twice as many worries.

I’ve been worried about that too. Now I’m worried tht if we wear the red backs, will they even have a longsleeve version with a red back? Im really stressed now 

[Mel Bourne 4,389]

Watching the prelim for the 5th time. May has just come off with a hamstring concern…

I am absolutely [censored] myself about next week (the two are unrelated - I know Maysie’s good to go). 

Man. Two weeks is a long time to make any supporter sweat. But a Melbourne supporter? 

Edited September 17, 2021 by Mel Bourne

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,384]

38 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

Which begs the question, will Ed Langdon be wearing longsleeves? It’s been troubling me all week 

I reckon he will wear the long sleeves.

The precedent has been set as he wore them in warmish twilight games against GWS and Adelaide in the earlier rounds.

Hunt would’ve been questionable but he ain’t playing, sadly for him.

[Mel Bourne 4,389]

7 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I reckon he will wear the long sleeves.

The precedent has been set as he wore them in warmish twilight games against GWS and Adelaide in the earlier rounds.

Hunt would’ve been questionable but he ain’t playing, sadly for him.

Is that official?

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,384]

Just now, Mel Bourne said:

Is that official?

Not at all but surely there will be no change.

Would be a bold call to drop someone after last week’s performance.

[Mel Bourne 4,389]

4 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Not at all but surely there will be no change.

Would be a bold call to drop someone after last week’s performance.

It would, but if anybody’s gonna get an unexpected call I reckon it will be Hunt. 

[Watson11 2,216]

2 hours ago, Jaded said:

May will go to Naughton. He all but confirmed it in the zoom call they had with members this afternoon.  Petty on English and I assume Sache will try to take out Lever. 

I hope that happens with Schache.  There should be more focus on how the dogs will stop our forward line. Watched round 19 again, and BB and TMac worried the dogs defence on a wet day. We had 25 scoring attempts for 9 goals. We would win that game 8 out of 10 times and on a dry day watch out. Schache may be needed in defence.

[Chook 14,998]

1 hour ago, Mel Bourne said:

It would, but if anybody’s gonna get an unexpected call I reckon it will be Hunt. 

I have Hunt over Jordon as my sub. Hopefully it's academic.

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11 hours ago, DemonOX said:

I have a feeling we will win by about 35-55 points. 

My reasoning is that the dogs have travelled a lot and it’s their own fault due to missing top 4, they seemed to have really celebrated maybe over celebrated the preliminary final win, had beers too, which is unusual,  Bevo was cranky about Trelors criticism during the week, then he cracked it at one of their staff members showing them celebrating the prelim win and maybe us vs the rest of the world crap might be wearing thin. 

God I hope I am right but time will tell. 

Go Dees. 

I think we will win because we are a better team.

Anything can happen on the day but we deserve to be favourites.

[binman 42,010]

9 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Agree on most of this. Naughton was hardly dominant in Round 19 so was that really all worth it for the Dogs?

But one issue to remember is that whilst Bruce won't be there on GF day, Martin playing means English will be in that role. So if Petty goes to Naughton, May has to go to English (assuming we want to keep Lever free). 

Truish 

English played more than half the game against the dees in round 19 forward I reckon, so they had to cover him then too. I forget who rucked when he wasn't.