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3 Things we can bank on next year

Gawndy the Great
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I’m bored, away for work and there is nothing but the Queens funeral on the ****ty hotel TV.

There a few things that keep coming to mind about things we can bank on for next year. Be creative, semi serious or whatever tickles your fancy. I’ll get the ball rolling:

1. We will get an even shorter break after the bye round.

2. Every double game we play will be against top 6 sides (inc the 2 outside the 8, which will have Collingwoodesque improvements in form, whilst Geelong will have an even easier draw.

3. One positive - we will finally win the free kick count against Footscray.

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    46 minutes ago, CYB said:

    3. One positive - we will finally win the free kick count against Footscray.

    That's probably enough of the mini bar for now!!!

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    Clayton oliver

    we will wear red and blue 

    we will play home games at the mcg

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    1. We will be fitter. We won't suffer so many injuries to key players, touch wood*

    2. We will tinker with our method, I refuse to believe our coaches won't change things. They know our stars are in the window for 4 years and won't take any year for granted from now on.

    3. We will blood youth

     

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    51 minutes ago, Deenooos_ said:

    1. We will be fitter. We won't suffer so many injuries to key players, touch wood*

    2. We will tinker with our method, I refuse to believe our coaches won't change things. They know our stars are in the window for 4 years and won't take any year for granted from now on.

    3. We will blood youth

     

    Tbh, at some point, the board will look at the coaching staff and expect innovation

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    2 hours ago, KingDingAling said:

    I’ll play it safe and say I’m confident you’ll see us continuously bomb the ball inside 50 without lowering our eyes.

    I reckon our recruitment of Grundy all but confirms that we do plan to do this, but do it far more often from clearances and stoppages than currently we did with LJ. And therefore make up the 2-3 goal margin we are behind all top 4 teams this year :laugh: Improve goal kicking accuracy and add in a few key forwards and hopefully that adds the 5+ goals that puts us ahead of the pack. The old carpet bombing method.

    Hoping for a little more tweaking/innovation/positional changes and yes lowering the eyes more!... Or it will probably come back to bite.. again.

    Edited by John Demonic

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    3 things to bank on next year

    1. Clarry

    2. We'll finish top 4

    3. We'll win at least 1 final, no straight sets exit

     

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    The sun will come up.

    Gil will be gone from the AFL.

    There will be no announcement on our home. 

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    Pickett Fence becoming Charlie Spargo’s number 1 fan

    Drysdale Demon becoming all soft and cuddly

    No negativity on Demonland.

    Edited by chook fowler

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    12 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

    Pickett Fence becoming Charlie Spargo’s number 1 fan

    Drysdale Demon becoming all soft and cuddly

    No negativity on Demonland.

    What have you been smoking?

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    Someone will get injured

    Someone will get a new contract

    Someone will leave

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    all summer there will be the usual suspects on Demonland bemoaning the fact that we draft incompetently, our coaching team is stubborn and wont tweak our game plan, our medical and conditioning team is second rate since Burgess went to Adelaide, Kosi is going to Port next year, and our premiership window has already closed.

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    10 minutes ago, spalding said:

    all summer there will be the usual suspects on Demonland bemoaning the fact that we draft incompetently, our coaching team is stubborn and wont tweak our game plan, our medical and conditioning team is second rate since Burgess went to Adelaide, Kosi is going to Port next year, and our premiership window has already closed.

    Exactly, can't wait for it!

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    6 hours ago, KingDingAling said:

    I’ll play it safe and say I’m confident you’ll see us continuously bomb the ball inside 50 without lowering our eyes.

    Let’s hope so. Maybe that’ll work next year

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    1. We will win the flag.
    2. We will win the flag
    3. We will win the flag

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    1./ We will start round 1 in a bracket of 4 teams as fav to win the flag. 

    2./ At some point in the season people will ask “ is goody the right guy?” 

    3./ We will play Geelong at Geelong 

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    1.  MFCSS will cause posters to look for the dark cloud around every silver lining.

    2.  Gameday threads will be best avoided.

    3  Clintosaurus will singlehandedly keep the tin foil industry in business.  :D

     

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    1   At some point Demonland will call for Goodwins sacking

    2   The Kozzie trade page will reach 200 pages

    3   JVR will rob Carry of Brownlow Votes. 

     

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    8 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    LJ will get 35 touches and boot 5 goals against us. 

    Yep, this will happen. 

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    3 Things we can bank on next year

     

    1. Clarry

    2. Trac

    3. Gawn 

     

    *Injuries not included

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    10 hours ago, von said:

     

    we will play home games at the mcg

    You reckon they’ll move the MCG to Alice Springs just for a weekend?

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