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Hopefully they don't think it will all just happen - it is going to take an big lift in defensive pressure to be any chance 

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    For starters wear the real and only  MFC jumper. The one in the above pic looks awful.

    Has Carlton ditched that all white outfit from last year. Havent seen it this season. They looked like they were running around in their undies.

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    2 hours ago, Sydee said:

    Hopefully they don't think it will all just happen - it is going to take an big lift in defensive pressure to be any chance 

    The short bit of footage the club released from training showed some reasonably high pressure match simulation. Part of me thinks this is the week we see a real step up…hope I am correct

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    13 minutes ago, The Swimming Dee said:

    The short bit of footage the club released from training showed some reasonably high pressure match simulation. Part of me thinks this is the week we see a real step up…hope I am correct

    I think we are all sitting here hoping we see that switch flicked this week.

    If we do it will give me a lot more confidence heading into the end of the regular season and into finals.

    If we don't it's hard to see us getting our best back this season.

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    Winning out is unlikely but hopefully we see more of what we know and love.

    I just don't want to see any 4 or 5 goal leads fluffed anymore.

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    I reckon we're going to love the last month of footy. It's a real chance to play some really strong and desperate teams with finals and top 4 on the line. 

    It's going to be a perfect lead in to the finals and if we want to be a great team like the players talk about, it's time to lift the intensity and run out 4 quarters.

    I expect us to win at least 3 of our last 4 and hit finals with a bang.

    I love that most of the press are writing us off.

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    46 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

    No use flicking the switch of the powers disconnected 

    So few words.

    So many grammatical errors. 

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    2 hours ago, The Swimming Dee said:

    The short bit of footage the club released from training showed some reasonably high pressure match simulation. Part of me thinks this is the week we see a real step up…hope I am correct

    You’d imagine all clubs do high-pressure match sims, right?

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    1 hour ago, binman said:

    So few words.

    So many grammatical errors. 

    So little care. 
    Im usually at work quickly browsing on my phone with fat fingers and I never check what I’ve typed.

    If autocorrect doesn’t fix it. I ain’t.

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    It was a great movie as well.

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    11 minutes ago, Mel Bourne said:

    You’d imagine all clubs do high-pressure match sims, right?

    I don’t imagine that they always do it on a 6 day break. To me it says that maybe we are stepping into a game honing phase and are no longer in a loading phase.

    I could be totally wrong though and don’t claim to be an expert on the matter

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    Dare to dream,                       Dare to WIN

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    56 minutes ago, Jibroni said:

    It was a great movie as well.

    Eh, it was okay. ;)

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    I'd have been more confident with another couple of easy kills like Gold Coast and Adelaide to warm us up.

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    3 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

    So little care. 
    Im usually at work quickly browsing on my phone with fat fingers and I never check what I’ve typed.

    If autocorrect doesn’t fix it. I ain’t.

    Pretty much sums up most of your posts.

    Waiting for another insightful come back.

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    I haven’t heard one good answer on the contested marking drop off. I’d love to hear an explanation for this.

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    2 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    I haven’t heard one good answer on the contested marking drop off. I’d love to hear an explanation for this.

    Could it be that all of May, Lever, Gawn and Jackson have been injured/ill at some point in that period? So we're either missing or below their best?

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    9 hours ago, Demonland said:

     

    Is @binman Riley Beverage's ghost writer?! 

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    7 hours ago, binman said:

    So few words.

    So many grammatical errors. 

    I believe this is the thread appropos thread for that type of thing.

    Perhaps it could end up as a containment thread ala the NO T$ NO BS thread.

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    2 hours ago, Mickey said:

    Could it be that all of May, Lever, Gawn and Jackson have been injured/ill at some point in that period? So we're either missing or below their best?

    And no TMac

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