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After decades of being a long-suffering Demons supporter, I had a shell, the standard protection that a supporter of a perennially losing team adopts. You know, the Monday morning wry smile, the shake of the head when opposition supporters zero in on another Melbourne loss or - worse - give you a sympathetic pat on the back where the condescension is laid on thick. It's the attitude that lets us endure, somewhat, another loss, whether it was a shellacking or a noble defeat. It's repeating to oneself 'Be gracious in defeat, noble in victory' but rarely knowing the latter part of this mantra. This state of mind looks forward to the trade and draft period now that the home and away games are done, the finals being an irrelevancy, obviously. It's the defence that means you pore over every detail of a recruit's background, looking for hope. Likewise with wins in practice matches. If a co-worker says your team looks like March Champions, you accept it with pride knowing, deep down, that it won't last.

As of September 25, that's ended. I've shucked my shell. I don't know how to behave as a supporter of a dominant team, the ultimate victors, the titleholders, the reigning premiers - but I'm more than willing to learn.

And I'm loving it.

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16 hours ago, layzie said:

Honestly I'd prefer just sitting in chair and thinking about how good that win/flag was than turning attention to the other sports I'm into or trade period right now.

 

I haven't been able to get into the NFL yet, far too distracted still

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14 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I’m SO pleased to hear this! I wasn’t sure if it is ‘normal’ to still be in disbelief 11 days after the fact. At least twice a day I stop and think, ‘bloody hell, we actually won the flag!’ Or ‘WE are the reigning Premiers’ or similar. I don’t know how long this will continue, but I have a feeling it’s not gonna wane anytime soon. ❤️💙

I don't think it will fully sink in for me until we are at the G round 1 - I think not being at the game has fuelled this disbelief even further

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15 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

I haven't been able to get into the NFL yet, far too distracted still

It's been difficult. This is coming from a big NFL fan as well. 

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“This is a rivalry full of nastiness and there’s a few things that stem from it. There are senior players from both sides that don’t particularly get along”.

What’s he talking about? If there is bad blood it was not translated to the game. One of the cleanest GF’s I can remember.

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Not sure if I'll be arrogant.
Smug definitely.

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18 minutes ago, John Crow Batty said:

“This is a rivalry full of nastiness and there’s a few things that stem from it. There are senior players from both sides that don’t particularly get along”.

What’s he talking about? If there is bad blood it was not translated to the game. One of the cleanest GF’s I can remember.

Agree.  The only nasties were the hit on Clarry (which while deliberate and reportable, was in play) and the sling of Max.   Neither of which would you call the result of some nasty rivalry. There was very little of the -off-ball and in-packnasty behaviour we often see in matches. 

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6 hours ago, Mr Steve said:

So the Bulldogs aern’t happy….

Care??

Beat them up again 

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16 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I’m SO pleased to hear this! I wasn’t sure if it is ‘normal’ to still be in disbelief 11 days after the fact. At least twice a day I stop and think, ‘bloody hell, we actually won the flag!’ Or ‘WE are the reigning Premiers’ or similar. I don’t know how long this will continue, but I have a feeling it’s not gonna wane anytime soon. ❤️💙

Had the second Pfizer jab last night so decided to take today off feeling a bit funny. I'm just consuming everything again, I actually now don't think I've either watched the game enough or consumed every bit of media enough!

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1 hour ago, John Crow Batty said:

“This is a rivalry full of nastiness and there’s a few things that stem from it. There are senior players from both sides that don’t particularly get along”.

What’s he talking about? If there is bad blood it was not translated to the game. One of the cleanest GF’s I can remember.

Sam McClure also said this:

 

Sam McClure S L A M S the sad state of AFL reporting: AFL

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16 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

Sam McClure also said this:

 

Sam McClure S L A M S the sad state of AFL reporting: AFL

Yep projection. Seems to be a blight in modern media now as well as politics. Blame others for ones own indiscretions, untruths and outrages. [censored] the horse from both ends. Done with all seriousness without a hint of irony. A devolved creature of the media swamp he is.

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20 minutes ago, layzie said:

Had the second Pfizer jab last night so decided to take today off feeling a bit funny. I'm just consuming everything again, I actually now don't think I've either watched the game enough or consumed every bit of media enough!

There’s no such thing as enough!! 😆

btw, congrats on being fully vaxxed!

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We sang about twenty songs in the aftermath of the GF/ Who cares

Nonetheless the Dee crowd should sing Freed from Desire in unison when next we play them.

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1 hour ago, jnrmac said:

We sang about twenty songs in the aftermath of the GF/ Who cares

Nonetheless the Dee crowd should sing Freed from Desire in unison when next we play them.

That would be legit brilliant. 

Perhaps Demonland can engineer a 'spontaneous' chorus of  Freed from Desire at the 20 minute and 21 seconds mark of the first quarter when we play the Dogs for the firts time next year.

By the by, i had never herad of that song befire and tried to listen to it th eother day. Coudnlt do more than about 90 seconds. One of the most god awful songs i've heard in along time. The dogs cursed themselves once they chose that to sing post their grand final.

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2 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Nonetheless the Dee crowd should sing Freed from Desire in unison when next we play them.

I’m disappointed.

Surely the song we should be singing in unison is ‘Kumbayah’!😄


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6 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

“This is a rivalry full of nastiness and there’s a few things that stem from it. There are senior players from both sides that don’t particularly get along”.

What’s he talking about? If there is bad blood it was not translated to the game. One of the cleanest GF’s I can remember.

Well to be fair, if the allegation of nastiness comes from us singing that song, that didn't happen until after the GF.

It was petty, us singing that song, but if the Dogs don't like it they should refrain from getting on the [censored] and chanting songs after they win games that aren't Grand Finals.

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1 hour ago, FritschyBusiness said:

Hi @Deebymistake , would you be able to use your lip reading skills to inform me what was said in the conversation between Goody and Burgess during the third quarter. If you click the link below it will take you right to the moment

There's an interview with Burgess somewhere where he addresses it - they were just discussing rotations.

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Burg: "Bit of a problem, mate. They reckon they won't have enough hamburger buns."

Goodwin: "Christ. The boys won't be happy. How many burgers can they make?"

Burg: "They reckon 40. But they've got plenty of chiko rolls and dim sims."

Goodwin: "Alright. Change the order. Take the 40 burgers, get 20 pizzas, family size, and all the dimmies they've got. And a large chips. And a bottle of Coke."

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