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Slim pickings this week:

Bigfooty:

Little hope, less enthusiasm

  • Daunting proposition this game. If ever a mercy rule should be allowed it's this game.
  • Very strong possibility we have our biggest loss of the year and kick our lowest score. Which is scary given we've had a 109 point loss to Richmond and scored only 30pts against the Lions.
  • Still somewhat hopeful that we play a young & enthusiastic group who put the effort in, so we can look past the final score.  
  • Any chance we can kick more than 4 goals this week ?? 
  • …against Brisbane in the wet wasn't a record breaking lost but this week could be.   Melbourne look scary good with fast run and carry. The opposite to what we have. Slow stop start style with no one to run with any sort of pace except Ryan and Jones. This will be very ugly. Dee's have around 10+ players that are very fast. Nothing we can do when we have Cripps Foley Gaff Darling Barrass and co chasing them all day.
  • Any chance for some rain again to save us. If not I'm seeing 150+ margin 
  • Love how we are working hard to avoid any close losses in order to minimise the risk of being called out for tanking.  We are going to be walloped… 
  • Gawn might be out so that's a positive 
  • We're still a chance!

My favourite:

There isn't one, all fairly unimaginative.

Their Eagles fan forum hasn't started a thread yet.  Will add to this when they do.

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Would love to keep them scoreless/goalless like they did us in our 2018 prelim till 3qt 

Tis the season of revenge 

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18 minutes ago, MrFreeze said:

Would love to keep them scoreless/goalless like they did us in our 2018 prelim till 3qt 

Tis the season of revenge 

Hard to hate the perf sides now, after the way they embraced us for the Grand Final.

 

Actually, I lied. [censored] the eagles. Lets keep the bastards goalless all day.

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I know its not our style but i would love it if we put our foot down and thrashed this mob by 100 points. Icing on the cake would be a full house of demented Eagle fans to witness it

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5 minutes ago, BDA said:

I know its not our style but i would love it if we put our foot down and thrashed this mob by 100 points. Icing on the cake would be a full house of demented Eagle fans to witness it

If you were a WCE fan, would you be turning up?

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If I were a dockers fan, there's no way I'd miss this - a chance to see the benchmark in the flesh and a chance to see my most hated arch-rivals get torn limb from limb.

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Dees by 80+

Bookmark it.

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9 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

If you were a WCE fan, would you be turning up?

Yes. It's a chance to see the premiers and i'm an optimist as well so despite the odds i'd still be hopeful. Explains why i turned up to see the Dees belted on more than a few occasions

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Torn between seeing us absolutely flogging them or doing pretty much what we have with other sides- strangle, take control and then just maintain control.

Same again against North the following week, because after that we have got four big games coming up.  (Freo, Sydney, Pies, Brisbane)

And… for the crowd to get bigger and bigger each game. If or should I say when we win all these games, I believe would be 21 consecutive wins- something that has never been done before  (happy to be corrected on this - I’m too lazy to research) GO DEES 


 

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53 minutes ago, ding said:

Dees by 80+

Bookmark it.

Wanna have a wager on it?

I reckon our "system" does not really lend itself to huge scores. We are thrashing sides without it showing on the scoreboard because of our defence-first game.

I'm thinking around 40-50 pts barring Covid interruptions. Might even be closer.

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1 hour ago, faultydet said:

Hard to hate the perf sides now, after the way they embraced us for the Grand Final.

 

Actually, I lied. [censored] the eagles. Lets keep the bastards goalless all day.

Agree with the first part of this. Would normally want to punish a big club like WC but surely thousands of them supported us at the granny.

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4 hours ago, BDA said:

I know its not our style but i would love it if we put our foot down and thrashed this mob by 100 points. Icing on the cake would be a full house of demented Eagle fans to witness it

 

Won't be a full house, Wet Coke fans are soft as butter. If they had snow in WA?  Margaret River winery's would be the equivalent

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2 hours ago, faultydet said:

Wanna have a wager on it?

I reckon our "system" does not really lend itself to huge scores. We are thrashing sides without it showing on the scoreboard because of our defence-first game.

I'm thinking around 40-50 pts barring Covid interruptions. Might even be closer.

Didnt you also think the Saints would beat us?

Yeah i actually think we can destroy Meth Coke.

 

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Off to our other dancefloor in Perth. Don't use that expression around the Weagles as it may confuse 'em. 😉

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It's probably more important to keep the opposition to low scores these next two weeks to help keep our % up whilst also using the time to fine tune our forward 50 entry connection in advance of the Freo game. 

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58 minutes ago, Larry, Moe or Curly said:

 

Won't be a full house, Wet Coke fans are soft as butter. If they had snow in WA?  Margaret River winery's would be the equivalent

Hopefully the thousands of “neutrals” in Perth who embraced us last September will turn out again, and outnumber the Eagles fans. 

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35 minutes ago, ding said:

Didnt you also think the Saints would beat us?

Yeah i actually think we can destroy Meth Coke.

 

Yes I did.

Money / mouth.


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3 hours ago, faultydet said:

Yes I did.

Money / mouth.

We know who the mouth is.

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I doubt we will belt them. We are just keeping our powder dry like we did last year.

I'll bet anybody we win the the semi or prelim by more than we beat west coast or North in the next 2 weeks.

No need to show our hand.

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10 hours ago, Larry, Moe or Curly said:

 

Won't be a full house, Wet Coke fans are soft as butter. If they had snow in WA?  Margaret River winery's would be the equivalent

Be interesting to see the uptake of Melbourne supporters living in Perth from last year. Depending on the admittance fee I would not put it past the Freo supporters go along with their Dee's scarf's just to rub it into the "Chardy/Franchise" supporters. Maybe mid 30's crowd.

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I think we be on cruise control for a comfy 40-60 point win.

No point going flat out at this stage of the year. Try a couple of different tactics where we can.

Would prefer to be playing Freo over there for a real test.

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If I was a West coast fan, I wouldn't be fearing a 150 point loss, that's not the Melbourne way.

What I might be fearing is sitting there at 3/4 time without a goal on the board. Guarantee that'll be the only number Melbourne cares about.

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1 hour ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

If I was a West coast fan, I wouldn't be fearing a 150 point loss, that's not the Melbourne way.

What I might be fearing is sitting there at 3/4 time without a goal on the board. Guarantee that'll be the only number Melbourne cares about.

Do they even have any threats up forward? I am sure we have all of their small and tall forwards covered with our elite back 6.

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11 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

It's probably more important to keep the opposition to low scores these next two weeks to help keep our % up whilst also using the time to fine tune our forward 50 entry connection in advance of the Freo game. 

What I want to see this week more than anything else is Wet Toast being kept to 3-4 goals max. whilst we rack up 18-20 ourselves .

We need to boost the % to the max while we have the chance !!!

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