What They Are Saying at Cockburn Central

[Lucifers Hero 38,865]

Not much!!

Of 10 pages on Bigfooty they don't seem to interested in the game or the Dees.  They seem preoccupied with:

• coming to terms with losing two games in a row
• being ordinary in the wet and praying for no rain on Saturday
• team changes and Fyfe's unavailability
• Switkowski's Tribuanl appearance (predictions he will get between 1 and 4 weeks).

But there were a couple worth listing:

• Super underdogs this weekend. Nothing to lose hopefully we throw everything we have against the dee's.
• We have games coming up against Melbourne, Brisbane, and hawthorn and if nothing changes then we're 7-6 and no better than previous years.
• Nice to go into a game as a underdog for a change. Feels more natural, less pressure.😂
• The 'are they the real deal?' question has been answered in the negative and reallocated to Carlton.😉

I will check again in a few days for more worthy quips.

Edited May 24, 2022 by Lucifers Hero

[Fritta and Turner 4,166]

5 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

The 'are they the real deal?' question has been answered in the negative and reallocated to Carlton.

The question may have been reallocated, but the answer I am not sure about

[John Crow Batty 8,763]

5 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Not much!!

Of 10 pages on Bigfooty they don't seem to interested in the game or the Dees.  They seem preoccupied with:

• coming to terms with losing two games in a row
• being ordinary in the wet and praying for no rain on Saturday
• team changes and Fyfe's unavailability
• Switkowski's Tribuanl appearance (predictions he will get between 1 and 4 weeks).

But there were a couple worth listing:

• Super underdogs this weekend. Nothing to lose hopefully we throw everything we have against the dee's.
• We have games coming up against Melbourne, Brisbane, and hawthorn and if nothing changes then we're 7-6 and no better than previous years.
• Nice to go into a game as a underdog for a change. Feels more natural, less pressure.😂
• The 'are they the real deal?' question has been answered in the negative and reallocated to Carlton.😉

I will check again in a few days for more worthy quips.

“Super underdogs this weekend. Nothing to lose hopefully we throw everything we have against the dee's.”

Tired of hearing this defeatism every week.

[Lucifers Hero 38,865]

3 minutes ago, Jontee said:

The question may have been reallocated, but the answer I am not sure about

I think he/she was joking!  I think he/she got it from some media musings.

Unfortunately, there is no 'irony' icon.

[WalkingCivilWar 39,256]

9 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I think he/she was joking!  I think he/she got it from some media musings.

Unfortunately, there is no 'irony' icon.

We need a 🙄 emoji for such occasions. 

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,297]

1 hour ago, Lucifers Hero said:

 

• being ordinary in the wet and praying for no rain on Saturday

Looks lie their prayers will be met.

Saturday looks pretty dry at the moment. 0-1 mm.

[old dee 23,459]

5 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Looks lie their prayers will be met.

Saturday looks pretty dry at the moment. 0-1 mm.

We don't need rain to beat them. Just have our minds on the job. 

[Rab D Nesbitt 8,095]

I'm intrigued as to whether they go with the Hawthorn blueprint to lose to us by 2 goals or the North Melbourne blueprint to lose by 8 goals and whether we attempt to combat this by doing exactly what we've done for the last 10 weeks. 

[Demon3 2,541]

Freo are an ok-good side. Nothing more. They have a good backline which will challenge our fwds. Our Mids have them covered and our defense should cover their fwd line.

I thought we looked a bit sluggish on the weekend, and it was a fairly tough game, so it will be an interesting game.

Langdon will be a key for us, he is elite at the MCG, i hope he is ok to play and i suspect Freo if they had any brains will work him over.

Looking forward to this match.

Edited May 24, 2022 by Demon3

[Lucifers Hero 38,865]

Reckon their confidence could be a bit shot from two demoralising losses.  And they may have 'heavy' legs from two weeks of playing in the wet.  A bit weary perhaps from a 6-day break.

Not to mention the big psychological advantage we have of being so hard to score against, home ground, crowd support.

They play a similar style to us and it should be a good game.

Dees by 4 -6 goals.

[titan_uranus 24,548]

Their last two games were terrible.

But their performances vs Carlton and Geelong are enough to worry any side, including us.

We will, as we always do, be planning for their best, because their best remains top 4 quality, albeit it's disappeared in the last fortnight.

[Rodney (Balls) Grinter 10,631]

I just want to know why this thread isn't more appropriately named "What they are saying at Cockburn Central"?

[Lucifers Hero 38,865]

6 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I just want to know why this thread isn't more appropriately named "What they are saying at Cockburn Central"?

Because I couldn't remember their location!

Fixed!

Edited May 24, 2022 by Lucifers Hero

[WalkingCivilWar 39,256]

53 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Because I couldn't remember their location!

Fixed!

Regardless of their location, they’re not saying much, Luci?

[Lucifers Hero 38,865]

21 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Regardless of their location, they’re not saying much, Luci?

Very true!

Bf is now 13 pages and the chat is till quite introspective.  But I have learnt one nickname:  Switta!  They are understandably preoccupied with his suspension and with fairly moderate reactions. 

Soon they will wake up and realise they play the top 2 teams in the next two weeks and lose those and their top 2 and maybe their top 4 chances are over.

[picket fence 16,624]

Haven't seen anyone come out at Cockburn Central with an " Ouch"  comment as yet😂

[Deepfreeze 208]

Was looking forward to this game a fortnight ago.

A bit has changed since then.

Still, we need to remain composed, respect the opposition and continue do what we've been doing the past 17 games.

Freo are a half decent team who will get their mojo back at some point. They have Brisbane after us.

[Little Goffy 13,937]

It'll be fairly tight early, they'll seem a little on top of us but only score a few goals without preventing us from grinding out a couple ourselves. The margin will be small in their favour at 1/4 time.

In the second quarter we'll peg it back a little and by half time scores will be basically level.

In the third quarter we'll push ahead a bit, peventing them from scoring much while adding three or four of our own.

Early in the final quarter the game will open up just a little, both sides will kick goals, but then we'll get a couple on the trot, they'll realise they are beaten and then we'll kick the last three of the game, pushing the margin out to 50 points without anyone even noticing.

[picture of a metronome]

[Lucifers Hero 38,865]

A bit of bf focus on the game:

• I'm breaking out in sweats knowing what's going to happen in that Thursday team.
• I'm really hoping it's not a blood bath but just heard JLo on the Radio saying some of the boys are low in confidence at the moment
• If Langdon plays, his ribs should be tested first time he goes for a mark above his head.
• Melbourne by 35 points. I'm already prepared mentally.
• The fact that Goodwin has felt the need to manufacture some motivation for the Dee's says he's (somewhat) worried about them struggling in that dept.
• We've got far too many softish players
• Let's back them in and I think we can win in the dry.  Freo by 15 points.
• If it stays dry, not sure we have enough firepower to outscore the Dees, but I guess we'll see.......
• Oh God I can't believe Goodwin is talking up this game. That their players have been looking forward to it.  Without our one and only genuinely classy player forward of centre in Switta this will be over by quarter time. We'll be lucky to kick more than 3 goals for the match against their defence.  Good test for our defence though to see if they can get their mojo back on big ground. Keep them under 100 would be something.

Not Dees Game related but worth including:

• Ginnavin is a graduate from the Selwood acadamy of ducking for free kicks. The combination of ducker and show pony is nauseous.
• Building, creating & sustaining a culture sure can be hard work for the fans.

My favourite:

• You almost want them (Demons) to win the tap, so they stream forward, we win the turn over and expose them out the back...
  • ...yeah that's not gonna happen - it will be more like they win the tap, stream forward, we miss the tackle and then they kick a goal.

Edited May 26, 2022 by Lucifers Hero

[roy11 3,641]

Expose us at the back?  Gee whiz 

[pineapple dee 2,892]

5 minutes ago, roy11 said:

Expose us at the back?  Gee whiz 

There must be some outstanding 'mind altering' substances available to the Freo fans !!!

[WalkingCivilWar 39,256]

43 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

If Langdon plays, his ribs should be tested first time he goes for a mark above his head.

I mean, I know this is what fans say about injured opposition players but geez it burns me up to read this. 😡

[ucanchoose 1,816]

1 hour ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I mean, I know this is what fans say about injured opposition players but geez it burns me up to read this. 😡

Why? It's a contact sport.  If any player has a weakness it should be exploited within the rules of the game in question

[La Dee-vina Comedia 16,642]

On 5/25/2022 at 8:11 AM, Lucifers Hero said:

Very true!

Bf is now 13 pages and the chat is till quite introspective.  But I have learnt one nickname:  Switta!  They are understandably preoccupied with his suspension and with fairly moderate reactions. 

Soon they will wake up and realise they play the top 2 teams in the next two weeks and lose those and their top 2 and maybe their top 4 chances are over.

I refuse to accept that an abbreviation can be called a nickname. It's just unimaginative. Just as unimaginative as many of our players, such as Maysy, Gawny, Vines and Salo. Should be a law against it.

Nicknames should be genuinely imaginative, even if sometimes a little obvious, such as Chomp and Dogga. (Still not sure, though, whether Bowser qualifies as a proper nickname.)

 

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I mean, I know this is what fans say about injured opposition players but geez it burns me up to read this. 😡

This is why we need enforcers in the team. Like Melksham.