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Our competitor fans are back in the doldrums when facing the mighty dees!

Bigfooty:

  • "We need to beat them in clearance" and "Lewis Young to ruck number 1" are mutually exclusive.

  • Start the transitioning process by getting rid of the players who won’t be (or shouldn’t be) on the list next year.

  • Pitt for TDK a no brainer.  The rest is the ol' deckchairs on the Titanic.

  • Pittonet is a must, I don't mind JSOS around the ground but should be a huge no at the centre bounce. Harry should ruck in the F50 instead of sitting 2m off the contest as if he's going to rove it. Infuriating.

  • Needs to watch some Jeremy Cameron footage. If the ball doesn't get to him he finds it himself. Harry has been far too one dimensional lately.

  • Melbourne will be on the rebound, after their loss to the Pies too & a top 4 place in jeopardy, can’t see Demons dropping this one , the game could get nasty, quickly . Keep the fingers crossed we don’t lose Cripps.

  • I'm tipping by the end of this game percentage won't be anything to worry about compared to the doggies, they'll be well ahead. Dees will slaughter us. 

  • Slowly emotionally checking out for the year. The highs were exhilarating and the lows demoralising. I feel exhausted. Still love em.

  • Struggling from above the shoulder

  • Feel we are going to get torched by their smalls on transition.

  • Melbourne:  Oliver, Viney, Petracca, Brayshaw, Gawn, Jackson.  Us: no Hewett, Kennedy, and possibly Cripps...

  • Strange as it seems giving Cripps a week rest(susp) and going all or nothing v the pies appeals to me

  • We will get smashed out of the middle. Going to take something incredible to be otherwise.

  • This could very well be a 15 goal loss. Melbourne will absolutely spank us.

  • Backs to the wall, undermanned, season on the line, MCG, big crowd, ton of support.  These are the games that define clubs.  We pull this off & it’s up there with the great Carlton wins.  Keep the faith, people

  • their form is as poor as ours but they have most of their cattle. not without a shot but could hardly expect us to do too well given the last couple of weeks. more likely we're the team melbourne springboard into the finals from.
    • Poor form?  Beat Freo by plenty at Optus and just lost to red hot Pies. Please can we have some of this “poor form”..

    • exactly, if they are in poor form then what the hell are we in ?

  • Dunno if it’s mentioned already, but we could put all our eggs in the Pies game.  Identify and rest those players this week who would most benefit from the extra recovery (and basically concede this week’s game), and have one last final crack against the Pies.

  • Im the eternal optimist but sadly the season is done. Our 1 wood of clearance and contested ball is seriously compromised without Cripps, Hewitt, and Kennedy. I just don't think it can be recovered from here.

  • I'd give some serious consideration to dropping Harry this week. Omitted. Send him to the ressies and tell him to start taking some actual marks.

    • We aren't going to risk one of our biggest commodities in some suburban cow paddock when its all on the line the next week. Imagine the backlash if he got injured.

    • Seems a bit too bold for Carlton though (fans included). We’d rather go down as a slow sinking ship. In our desperation to see some success, we seem willing to tolerate far less than 100% from our stars, while placing the blame elsewhere by swapping around our ‘bottom 6’. It’s a really bad practice imv.

  • Our form compared to when we played them in the preseason is completely different.  We look a totally different side.  Think they might really get a hold of us

  • Think we got to the bye, then started looking at the fixture & projecting wins, when all we were doing early in the year was taking each game on its merits.  Gunna be tough, but we can win this

  • Almost hoping Cripps gets 1 week, then fingers crossed v the pies we get back a fresh Cripps, Hewett, Kennedy & Zack Williams

  • Melbourne are 4 wins and 6 losses in their last 10 games just like us but I agree after yesterdays performance it feels a world apart in terms of where both sides are at.

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I was at the practice game at Docklands when Carlton beat us and their supporters carried on like  they won the GF in March!  

I’ve been waiting all season for this game.   Their supporters, they really irk me. If there wasn’t a Collingwood, they most certainly would be the team I love to hate the most. GO DEES!

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3 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Slowly emotionally checking out for the year. The highs were exhilarating and the lows demoralising. I feel exhausted. Still love em.

As Dees supporters we can all relate to this one ⬆️ right? 😭

 

Thanks for compiling this, Luci. ❤️💙

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Living in Adelaide most of my friends and colleagues are either Crows or Power supporters. One of my workmates is a Blues fan who didn't shut up for the first 10 to 12 weeks of the season. Haven't heard boo from him in a month or so. Also helps that the two [censored] stain teams here are imploding too.

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Can understand why they're not very confident about this game, missing almost their whole midfield, this will be an absolute belting in the middle by our bulls.

There is no way we lose this if we play with last week's intensity, it'll all come down to the lions game.

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37 minutes ago, Deenooos_ said:

Can understand why they're not very confident about this game, missing almost their whole midfield, this will be an absolute belting in the middle by our bulls.

There is no way we lose this if we play with last week's intensity, it'll all come down to the lions game.

Carltons odds are wayyyy too short. Which is actually more a reflection on us than them. Punters are confident in Melbourne but not TOO confident. Carlton should be in the $4+ range. 

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26 minutes ago, praha said:

Carltons odds are wayyyy too short. Which is actually more a reflection on us than them. Punters are confident in Melbourne but not TOO confident. Carlton should be in the $4+ range. 

Yeh but Carlton are still a top 8 team... Hard to see odds of $4+ for two top 8 teams going head to head. I get what you're saying though, if we converted all of that midfield dominance into scores against Coll we'd be talking completely difference odds. That's my point, if we can deliver the same and not cough up opportunities we should be golden.

Just look at Saints 9th ($2.36) vs Lions 5th ($1.60) or even Tigers 8th ($1.37) vs Hawks 13th ($3.14) at the MCG.

We've drifted to $4 for the flag though, time to chip in lol?

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10 hours ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Can we get a Cripps verdict update from Royal Pde?

A few words were used that will fail the DL auto censor!  The repeatable ones:

  • Won't play finals now so he's back in 2023, how depressing

  • Not worth getting upset over friends. 

  • Life is too short. Don't give them the satisfaction

  • I guess he does wear a navy blue jumper so the verdict shouldn't surprise anyone. ******* w***ers!

  • If you really think He got weeks just for being a Carlton then you are truly delusional.

  • If Carlton supporters want to show thier dissatisfaction, don't attend this weekends Melbourne home game.  20,000 at the MCG will be the feedback the AFL needs and will listen to.

    • Team goes better with supporters support. Roar of affirmation makes it more likely to get free kicks. So make us even marginally less likely to win by some sort of ridiculous boycott .

  • Not surprised he didn't get off the MRP and Tribunal have never given us a break in recent years

  • No don't think he got weeks because he's a Carlton player...Think he got weeks because he isn't a Geelong or Richmond player...

  • And people try to tell me we aren't absolutely shafted by the AFL on a continual basis. If Cripps wore a red or yellow sash he wouldn't have even been sighted. I ******* hate this league. * the AFL.

  • Call it an AFL conspiracy all you want, but once the player is concussed from that action, there was really no coming back from that. Not with how the current rules are implemented, anyway.

  • If Crippa’s name was Trent Cotchin and he played for Richmond, this wouldn’t have even been cited by the MRO.

  • So are we going to contest the tribunal verdict with a further appeal on Thursday night?

  • You are totally correct with what you say about Cotchin & Lynch as they truly are snipers who take cheap shots at players but don`t get pinged for them!!! Selwood takes some cheap shots and is never suspended either, but at least he is not a weak [censored] like those two....

They sound just like DL when an MRP/Tribunal decision doesn't go our way...

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  • We were robbed, the Rioli precedent was supposed to save us
  • I hate this league, everyone's against us, even though we've had more help than you can poke a stick at
  • If we miss the finals, last one in to Naughton's is a rotten egg. 
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1 hour ago, Lucifers Hero said:

A few words were used that will fail the DL auto censor!  The repeatable ones:

 

  • Won't play finals now so he's back in 2023, how depressing

     

  • Not worth getting upset over friends. 

     

  • Life is too short. Don't give them the satisfaction

     

  • I guess he does wear a navy blue jumper so the verdict shouldn't surprise anyone. ******* w***ers!

     

  • If you really think He got weeks just for being a Carlton then you are truly delusional.

     

  • If Carlton supporters want to show thier dissatisfaction, don't attend this weekends Melbourne home game.  20,000 at the MCG will be the feedback the AFL needs and will listen to.

     

    • Team goes better with supporters support. Roar of affirmation makes it more likely to get free kicks. So make us even marginally less likely to win by some sort of ridiculous boycott .

       

  • Not surprised he didn't get off the MRP and Tribunal have never given us a break in recent years

     

  • No don't think he got weeks because he's a Carlton player...Think he got weeks because he isn't a Geelong or Richmond player...

     

  • And people try to tell me we aren't absolutely shafted by the AFL on a continual basis. If Cripps wore a red or yellow sash he wouldn't have even been sighted. I ******* hate this league. * the AFL.

     

  • Call it an AFL conspiracy all you want, but once the player is concussed from that action, there was really no coming back from that. Not with how the current rules are implemented, anyway.

     

  • If Crippa’s name was Trent Cotchin and he played for Richmond, this wouldn’t have even been cited by the MRO.

     

  • So are we going to contest the tribunal verdict with a further appeal on Thursday night?

     

  • You are totally correct with what you say about Cotchin & Lynch as they truly are snipers who take cheap shots at players but don`t get pinged for them!!! Selwood takes some cheap shots and is never suspended either, but at least he is not a weak [censored] like those two....

 

They sound just like DL when an MRP/Tribunal decision doesn't go our way...

Geez they’re a lot more switched on than I expected

 

Especially re Cotchin and Lynch and the whole “world is agin’ us “ Schtick. They sound like many Melbourne supporters BD *

 

*Before Droughtbreaker

 

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On 8/9/2022 at 2:51 AM, praha said:

Carltons odds are wayyyy too short. Which is actually more a reflection on us than them. Punters are confident in Melbourne but not TOO confident. Carlton should be in the $4+ range. 

Melb now $1.24 vs Carl $4.10 drifting as expected.

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11 minutes ago, CYB said:

Dont want to get too cocky. Im just starting to feel a bit uneasy about this one. 

We should comfortably dispose of Carlton and Brisbane. Nothing against those two. We are a top 4 side that needs to start getting real.

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