POSTGAME: GRAND FINAL vs Western Bulldogs

[old dee 23,541]

19 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

I still can’t get my head around the fact we are the premiers.

You are not alone. I still wake some mornings and wonder if it really happened. 

[WalkingCivilWar 39,266]

Please, there’s no need to panic. This is not as bad as it looks. At least, that’s what the medicos will tell Tracc, similar to how they didn’t tell Maysie how bad his hammy tear was. So, rather than “decapitated” let’s say he’s “incapacitated.” Obviously his preseason will look a little different but from all accounts he should be cherry ripe by Rd 1 of season 2022. 
 

[Fritta The Hair G.O.A.T. 510]

21 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

I still can’t get my head around the fact we are the premiers.

You know at the start of every season how Ch7/Fox do promo footage of each captain in a TV studio holding the cup, looking at the cup, ect? I'd always think "Why bother doing it with the Dees, it will never happen, waste of time"..... well, they better schedule Gawny to be first up next year before any other captains get their grubby mitts on OUR cup. It's the little things that make a premiership so great!!!

Edited November 3, 2021 by Doggas front teeth

[Cassiew 1,903]

It was a great night. Was one of my uncles last happy moments. So glad he got to see this before he passed away. I guess it must have been fate

[Fork 'em 6,974]

2 hours ago, Doggas front teeth said:

You know at the start of every season how Ch7/Fox do promo footage of each captain in a TV studio holding the cup, looking at the cup, ect? I'd always think "Why bother doing it with the Dees, it will never happen, waste of time"..... well, they better schedule Gawny to be first up next year before any other captains get their grubby mitts on OUR cup. It's the little things that make a premiership so great!!!

I never enjoyed seeing a our captains over the years posing with a cup they never looked like getting near either.
You gotta earn that right IMO.

[WalkingCivilWar 39,266]

Rn I’m watching the second half of the prelim again coz… why not? I was just thinking about how the word ‘legend’ gets bandied around a lot. So much so that it’s kind of lost its potency. But… Maxy Gawn. I mean seriously, from the winner after the siren in Rd 23 through the prelim with his five goal haul and on to captain the Mighty Dees to an historic Premiership victory. This is the stuff of folklore. 
MINSTRELS WILL WRITE SONGS ABOUT HIM!

🏆❤️💙😁❤️💙🏆

[DeeZone 9,151]

Coincidentally WCW I watched the PF as a warm up prior to watching that Magical last 40 minutes of the GF again and Maxy was right out of the tree in the PF. It was the perfect Captains game by some margin whereas the GF everyone was out of the tree at the same time. I have tried to watch the QF but just can’t get the same adrenaline rush.😀❤️💙

[Dees_In_October 3,346]

1 hour ago, DeeZone said:

Coincidentally WCW I watched the PF as a warm up prior to watching that Magical last 40 minutes of the GF again and Maxy was right out of the tree in the PF. It was the perfect Captains game by some margin whereas the GF everyone was out of the tree at the same time. I have tried to watch the QF but just can’t get the same adrenaline rush.😀❤️💙

The goal kicking heroics were a sight to behold, but I think most of all I loved that run-down tackle on the boundary. That's captain stuff, especially from a ruck.

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,675]

10 hours ago, DeeZone said:

I have tried to watch the QF but just can’t get the same adrenaline rush.😀❤️💙

I watched a few quarters of it again the other day.  Your right, it's hard to get that same rush from it, but worth watching from the perspective of being impressed about just how under control we had the game for most of the time and what a complete and dominant finals series it was that we played.  Couldn't have scripted our finals series better if I tried. 

Over all, we were just so impressive and dominant that we basically crushed the life out of every side we played, even though a few of them challenged and pushes us for parts of each respective game.  Also evident what awsome finals series both Freitch and Patracca had, probably closely followed by Oliver and Gawn.  Fritta kicked bags of 4, 2 & 6, including some crucial momentum shifting ones and similarly, Trac was dominant out of the middle and also kicked a couple of crucial goals against the Lions to seal the game.

[Timothy Reddan-A'Blew 4,834]

11 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Rn I’m watching the second half of the prelim again coz… why not? I was just thinking about how the word ‘legend’ gets bandied around a lot. So much so that it’s kind of lost its potency. But… Maxy Gawn. I mean seriously, from the winner after the siren in Rd 23 through the prelim with his five goal haul and on to captain the Mighty Dees to an historic Premiership victory. This is the stuff of folklore. 
MINSTRELS WILL WRITE SONGS ABOUT HIM!

🏆❤️💙😁❤️💙🏆

That oughta be good for a 100-or-so-post tangent for this thread...😁

Edited November 3, 2021 by Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

[dees189227 12,296]

Do people find the more they watch it the more you just can't believe that we actually did it and won a premiership? 

[Flemo56 396]

Being a footy tragic as I am and total demon it’s not hard too say that the forty odd minutes of the granny we dominated WAS the best team football I HAVE EVER SEEN, bias, totally, and the scary thing about that is the team is so young. We have set a new bench mark that only we can match, at the moment! Others teams are surely gunna come for us but when we switch too beast (Demons)mode, I haven’t seen anything from other teams that will match us for a full game, sure they may get a run on, like the dogs did, but as Daisy said we don’t have an off switch until it’s game ova. I’m certainly not one to get ahead of myself, one game at a time, and I’m finding it very hard that game ain’t this week. 🔴🔵🟥🟦

[John Crow Batty 8,826]

3 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I watched a few quarters of it again the other day.  Your right, it's hard to get that same rush from it, but worth watching from the perspective of being impressed about just how under control we had the game for most of the time and what a complete and dominant finals series it was that we played.  Couldn't have scripted our finals series better if I tried. 

Over all, we were just so impressive and dominant that we basically crushed the life out of every side we played, even though a few of them challenged and pushes us for parts of each respective game.  Also evident what awsome finals series both Freitch and Patracca had, probably closely followed by Oliver and Gawn.  Fritta kicked bags of 4, 2 & 6, including some crucial momentum shifting ones and similarly, Trac was dominant out of the middle and also kicked a couple of crucial goals against the Lions to seal the game.

Charlie Cameron moderated the loss for Brisbane somewhat with his superb solo effort of 5 goals. Still they never had a realistic chance of overtaking us. 

[58er 6,089]

47 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

Charlie Cameron moderated the loss for Brisbane somewhat with his superb solo effort of 5 goals. Still they never had a realistic chance of overtaking us. 

Another poster said we were on the lucky side to win!!!  Another 3rd quarter goal and we would have been in trouble!!

I felt that we were about a 6/8 goal better side than the Lions but didn't convert quite as well as in the PF and GF.

The "Charlie " factor was large and Hibbo May well have been a better choice than Joel Smith to mind him. 

But pleasing  for Joel he has improved IMO and should get more games next season in a 8/10 man defensive unit UNLESS he gets injured again 

[durango 1,992]

I just looked at Tom McDonald record he has played 193 games for the MFC and Bowey has played 7 Games the irony is that Tom is 7 short of 200 whilst Bowey 193 games short of 200 but both can say they played in a premiership.

I was reminded that when the channel 9 footy show was hosted by Gary Lyon he privately stated that he envyed players like Dermott Brereton who played in 5 premiership but Lyon was 3 times AA and would have given them all up for just 1 premiership.

[dees189227 12,296]

42 minutes ago, durango said:

I just looked at Tom McDonald record he has played 193 games for the MFC and Bowey has played 7 Games the irony is that Tom is 7 short of 200 whilst Bowey 193 games short of 200 but both can say they played in a premiership.

I was reminded that when the channel 9 footy show was hosted by Gary Lyon he privately stated that he envyed players like Dermott Brereton who played in 5 premiership but Lyon was 3 times AA and would have given them all up for just 1 premiership.

How do you think Dangerfield feels, he's achieved everything in footy except a flag & must look at bowey & sparrow & shake his head. It gives me a laugh that they are premiership players & danger isn't.

[WalkingCivilWar 39,266]

1 hour ago, dees189227 said:

How do you think Dangerfield feels, he's achieved everything in footy except a flag & must look at bowey & sparrow & shake his head. It gives me a laugh that they are premiership players & danger isn't.

LOL at the NAB mini legends ad. with Dangerfield saying that being picked for mini legend is “bigger than medals, bigger than money, bigger than premierships” and I can’t help but think how the bloody hell would you know, Paddy?! 😆

[Beetle 4,560]

Well boys and girls, I just had a VERY SPECIAL visitor to my house…..the Premiership cup presented to the players on the night!!

A moment I will never forgot! I couldn’t put it down! (Except for this photo)

 

 

Edited November 4, 2021 by Beetle

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,675]

2 hours ago, Beetle said:

Well boys and girls, I just had a VERY SPECIAL visitor to my house…..the Premiership cup presented to the players on the night!!

😯 like how!!??

Soo jealous.

Think you could broker a Demonland / MFC member cup house tour?

[Beetle 4,560]

1 minute ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

😯 like how!!??

Soo jealous.

Think you could broker a Demonland / MFC member cup house tour?

My champion Premiership coach from 21 years ago recalled I was a staunch Demons supporter and went out of his way. Legend.

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,675]

7 hours ago, Beetle said:

My champion Premiership coach from 21 years ago recalled I was a staunch Demons supporter and went out of his way. Legend.

Awsome - is that Richo?

[Cards13 9,117]

9 hours ago, Beetle said:

My champion Premiership coach from 21 years ago recalled I was a staunch Demons supporter and went out of his way. Legend.

Thanks bloody brilliant!!! This club is so good.

[Wells 11 5,305]

On 11/3/2021 at 3:56 PM, Lucifers Hero said:

Simple:  it is easiest to relax on the couch and watch the game on Foxtel and mute it when I know I won't like what is happening (which usually results in fast forwarding from qtr time to the 15 minute mark of the 3rd qtr) and I'm mesmerised all over again.  The vision never lets me down.

But when I know that there is a better commentary of that last minute, I'll happily go and listen/watch, again...

Imo your view is too narrow LH. it’s like loving  van gough so much you never bother to look at a rembrandt! Beauty is described in so many ways! there’s joy waiting out there fr u . 

[dees189227 12,296]

10 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

😯 like how!!??

Soo jealous.

Think you could broker a Demonland / MFC member cup house tour?

I read yesterday Alan Richardson was driving around with the cup & if he saw a painted red & blue fence he'd pop in with the cup.

I hope at some point they have popped into Neale's house

[Lucifers Hero 39,049]

2 hours ago, Wells 11 said:

Imo your view is too narrow LH. it’s like loving  van gough so much you never bother to look at a rembrandt! Beauty is described in so many ways! there’s joy waiting out there fr u . 

Ha, ha:  when on a good thing, stick to it I say!  🙂🙃  

The best part of any call of the third qtr bliz is that the vision never changes.  A joy to watch.  

...I'm a big fan of the Old and New Masters but favourites are the late 19th c and 20th c Impressionists.