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The thing you’re most tired of hearing


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8 minutes ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

I’m sick of hearing about Caleb Bloody Daniel. Yes he has great vision and awareness, yes he’s a reliable kick, but he’s a reliable 11 metre kick. Most of kicks don’t go the required 15 metres, and I personally don’t see him as damaging as some of the other back flankers.

Im also sick of hearing that the Dogs have the best midfield, on Saturday there’s a couple of slackers that go by the names of Oliver, Trac and Viney who I think will put this myth to rest. 

I am praying we run someone on Caleb Daniel's hip on Sat. You cannot let handball recieve players cut you up in a GF...must give it to him physically.

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I'm sick of hearing about how brave the underdog Bulldogs have been to get this far.  And how they've had to travel from Tassie to Brisbane to Adelaide and now to Perth.

No one has gone back and reminded them that it was self inflicted and that had they not lost the last game despite leading by 15 points late in the last quarter they would have had the same "trip" that the Demons have had.  

But it doesn't suit Bevo's narrative of us against them.  I just wish someone would bring it up at a press conference.

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I'm over non-supporters trying tell me stuff about MFC.

"1954 was the last time you won a premiership".  Wrong.  It was 1964.

"You got smashed the last time you played in a grand final"  Yes.  I'm aware, I was there.  Was there for 1988 too.

 

And I'm not embarrassed to say I have zero sense of humour about Saturday.  Once it's all done and over that'll be different but right now - it's deadly serious.

 

 

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1 minute ago, hells bells said:

I'm sick of hearing about how brave the underdog Bulldogs have been to get this far.  And how they've had to travel from Tassie to Brisbane to Adelaide and now to Perth.

No one has gone back and reminded them that it was self inflicted and that had they not lost the last game despite leading by 15 points late in the last quarter they would have had the same "trip" that the Demons have had.  

But it doesn't suit Bevo's narrative of us against them.  I just wish someone would bring it up at a press conference.

This.  This 'hard done by' narrative is always given to them.  That's why I can't stand the club or their supporters.  You won a premiership in 2016, you ain't hard done by.  

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1 hour ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

Technically, it’s an acronym. 😉

If it's pronounced as a word and not spelt out (for example, FBI) it's considered a word. See 'radar'. Plus, it's in the dictionary so I'm counting it as a word. 🤧

 

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53 minutes ago, loges said:

1 game in four weeks, when the reality is on grand final day it will be our third game in 5 weeks and their fourth.

Great summary Loges.  This is the big red herring.

Dogs by the same logic have played 1 game in 21 days. Again, this isn't true.

The agreed best conditioner in the AFL, Darren Burgess, will have addressed this,

and in the first few minutes on Saturday night , at least one commentator will say"..Gee the Dees are really on tonight..",  or "... this break seems to have had no effect on the Dees...", or "...Gee I think the longer break has actually helped the Dees..."

and finally "....gee don't the Dogs look tired, and keath has just re-done his hamstring...",  and "...Stefan Martin could sure have used a few more runs before the GF the way Max and Luke are running him around the park..."

or some other similiar bleedingly obvious cliches.

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People telling me how long ago 1964 was. 
And I shall never Forget Whorethorn Supporters I worked with, at Halftime of the 1988 GF, they were Celebrating winning the 1989 GF!!

AND IT HAPPENED!!!

 

Win the Dam thing Demons…

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This might be a repetition of complaints against perceptions of elitism, but I essentially want a realization that those stereotypes belong in a bygone era of a completely different Melbourne (the city, not the club).

I appreciate that there are links to certain historical anti-egalitarian aspects of Victoria with our club. The MCC is itself an offshoot of the Melbourne Club. No doubt we did provide troops to the war effort (both 2 and 1), but I’d also suggest that a lot of our players were commissioned into the officer class or air force pretty quickly. If you understand the class dynamics of WWI in particular and world history of the time as well, you can understand why that was the case. I think the fact our golden era is associated with an time of deeply entrenched cultural conservatism, fogeyism and conformity doesn’t help either.

But by the way media talk about things, you would think that Collingwood and other ‘working class clubs’ are still run by  blokes like Ted Parker from the local pie factory ala ‘The Club’. I guarantee you that ALL clubs have links to the big end of town in one form or another. Hell, while the Dogs have a female president, she’s the head of the Walt Disney Company in Australia; a studio that gobbles up intellectual property rights like most people consume Doritos and was founded by a bloke who supposedly had his head cryogenically frozen after death. Look at how Collingwood (who at one stage were sponsored by Emirates Airlines and Rotten Ronnies; two tribunes of working class life) dole out voting rights for their board meetings and tell me that’s not exclusionary. I could provide more examples but we’d be here all day.

Meanwhile, we contribute money to help Top End communities, helped found the AFLW, reach out into multicultural communities in the CBD and beyond, and find ourselves as one of very few clubs that voluntarily shed an asset base which produced a predatory revenue stream. Yet people still think that our club and all of it’s supporters are some hideous mutation of Sebastian from ‘Brideshead Revisited’, Prince George from Blackadder and Charles Foster Kane.

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3 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

 

Meanwhile, we contribute money to help Top End communities, helped found the AFLW, reach out into multicultural communities in the CBD and beyond, and find ourselves as one of very few clubs that voluntarily shed an asset base which produced a predatory revenue stream. Yet people still think that our club and all of it’s supporters are some hideous mutation of Sebastian from ‘Brideshead Revisited’, Prince George from Blackadder and Charles Foster Kane.

I've now got an image in my mind that's going to be hard to remove of Hugh Laurie prancing around with a teddy bear he calls 'Rosebud'.

That's my workday ruined.

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1 minute ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I've now got an image in my mind that's going to be hard to remove of Hugh Laurie prancing around with a teddy bear he calls 'Rosebud'.

That's my workday ruined.

Complete the quadrella by having him driving around in a Range Rover with one of those little navy and red membership stickers, and you may never have a good night’s sleep again. 😄

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Being told the MFC will never win another premiership because of what I wear to the game - I fail to see how adhering to the Long Room Dress Code impacts on the team's on-field performance.

Years ago I had the pleasure of meeting legendary Demon stalwart Shaun "Duxy" Dux (see below) at the Cricketers Arms when we were all having Won Beer* after a then rare win (against GWS). Duxy stated that he thought that my jacket, collar and tie was part of what was holding the MFC back. However, Duxy did have the good grace to concede my point that if the players were all looking up in the stands to see what I was wearing then they really didn't have their minds focused on the game anyway.

* Got home at 2am, wife was confused by my voicemail...she thought that I'd be home after one beer.

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Better days ahead Duxy!

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30 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

If I have another person saying something like -

“A bit of success and demon supporters come out of the woodwork “

or

“ getting on the bandwagon eh? “

I think I shall punch them in the [censored] mouth .

Just go pre-emptive on em Uncle. Drop a 'Go Dees' on em as you walk away.

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32 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

If I have another person saying something like -

“A bit of success and demon supporters come out of the woodwork “

or

“ getting on the bandwagon eh? “

I think I shall punch them in the [censored] mouth .

If that happens, you may have to change your handle to ‘Bitter But Optimistic While Also Infuriated’.

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5 minutes ago, DeezNuts said:

“But seriously.. how good is Bontempelli?!”

I'd suggest that you smile sweetly and respond "yes he is quite good, that's why the AFL coaches votes had him tied equal 2nd with Ollie Wines...13 votes behind Clayton Oliver".

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2 hours ago, Forest Demon said:

I love all the Range Rover, snow field, cheese platter gear. It's just harmless banter.

Now I am over them,   its been 20 years since I drove up to the snow, and not in a 4WD   it was a BMW 325 and mid week at that.

And if they mention the platter at least qualify the type of cheese and what glass of red wine goes with it. 

And we do not just deserve to win this game.  Our players need to "turn up" for the hardest game of the year. And I think some of our supporters need too as well. We are good enough to win, its got nothing to do with the past 57 years, its all about this year and NOW.   Go Dees

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3 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

I'd suggest that you smile sweetly and respond "yes he is quite good, that's why the AFL coaches votes had him tied equal 2nd with Ollie Wines...13 votes behind Clayton Oliver".

Says it all doesn’t it!

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