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3 hours ago, rpfc said:

While I think your summation is fine, you can’t have certainty of our fitness and how well drilled we are after 2 practice games.

 

Fair enough on how well drilled we are, though we have been a well drilled team for the last 2 years and looked super well drilled in both practice matches.

So in all probability we are well drilled.

But I have no doubt about our fitness levels.

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This is going to be my 5 week old son’s first MFC match. He’s been a member since the day he was born! I hope his lifetime of Dees supporting is more successful than mine.

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I have it on good authority that Travis Johnstone will be presenting Bailey Laurie’s debut guernsey tonight.

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First child born on Thursday so her indoctrination as a little Demon starts tonight.  Winnie and Daddy will be barracking hard from the couch! Will of course be trying to be on my best behaviour…

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12 hours ago, Tarax Club said:

 Swooper would have this in a heartbeat. DBA4D5C6-E70C-4B24-9D2A-939B25DE8E01.jpeg.4223fb54d5eef77eec506ee3e0a6a96e.jpeg

Redundant communist era propaganda from the brain’s trust at the Footscray Soviet. 

Demons we are not intimidated by the bully boys from out west. Throw this puerile nonsense back over the Maribyrnong. The taller the monolithic facade the greater the fall. 
 

 

All that is missing is a gigantic figure of Grawndy coming in from the right to kick the dog's enormous bum :-)

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Something new the Club is trialling this season is the use of Bay M4 for Melbourne supporters only at all Melbourne home games at the ‘G. (The adjacent bay is M3 where the cheer squad is.) It’s not officially Melbourne supporters only but it’s not listed as a GA bay on any of the sites, nor is it listed as a reserved seat area.

The idea is to try to fill both bays with as many Dees supporters as possible.

So if you wanna get up close and personal with the action but aren’t keen on losing an eyeball or being concussed by errant balls, come to Bay 4 where you’ll be surrounded by fellow Dees peeps. 👍🏽❤️💙

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22 minutes ago, binman said:

Fair enough on how well drilled we are, though we have been a well drilled team for the last 2 years and looked super well drilled in both practice matches.

So in all probability we are well drilled.

But I have no doubt about our fitness levels.

It’s all comparative to the best teams of 2023. And we just can’t be certain yet, that’s all I am saying.

The proof is the pudding eating as they say.

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Excited for tonight. Weather should be in the low 20s by kick off so will be a beautiful night to be in the crowd.

We got >58k to our season opener last year on a Wednesday night. I would hope for a similar or greater number seeing that Saturday is a far more convenient night and less overall worry about covid. Having said that is was the grand final replay.

Does anyone know how they do their crowd predictions? I'm going with 6 people tonight with only 2 of us being members and the rest will be buying tickets there. Can't imagine they could account for these people but I guess they have a predictive forulmula of some description.

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4 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Well that would be underwhelming, surely it could have more than last year's R1 (it was a Wednesday night).

I would be surprised if it tops 45k. Night game and poor public  transport will hamper the numbers. 

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2 hours ago, layzie said:

Well if it's windy the Dogs might have issues with all the set shots they'll be expected to take on our 'no name' backline. 

Lucky us we're used to the ridiculous wind from training out at Casey 🤣

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Tommos opponent will likely kick a few goals whether he plays a blinder or not - our system should minimise the discrepancy  between May and Tommo defensively. It’s the rebound that I’m not sure about, we don’t really have a playmaker now that both May and Salem are gone. Bowey’s a good kick but lacks the experience required to pull it off as consistently as May and Salo do on the rebound.

My gut tells me Brayshaws game will have a large bearing on whether we win or lose tonight. 
 

Dees by 1 point.

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1 hour ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Give him a jolly good thrashing before the first bounce.

He's 14, I'm sure he has given himself a jolly good thrashing today, multiple times.

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1 hour ago, Yze_13 said:

I have it on good authority that Travis Johnstone will be presenting Bailey Laurie’s debut guernsey tonight.

What a dream 😍

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7 hours ago, dl4e said:

I love the optimism some of you have. The 4 outs are too important players. No side in the AFL can cover such losses. My MFCSS is spiralling around the milky way atm. I see a 5 goal loss. Hope I am wrong.

I am REALLY concerned about Tomlimson and Laurie, if our stars shine we should be ok. Our midfield is 10 x better than dishlickers

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2 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Who is suddenly feeling nervous?

Yep. Just got a little gut twist now. I'm all clear of other duties and activities for the day and two more hours of undistracted anticipation is just a little bit too much.

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3 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Who is suddenly feeling nervous?

Just now??? I wish the nervousness was just starting now.

My standard GameDay breakfast…

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