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25 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I have, actually. Once you get past the changing dirty nappies phase It seems it’s smooth sailing for the rest of the journey! That is, if you lay the right foundations. 😉 I have three beautiful sons who have been nothing but an absolute joy to raise. I’m ridiculously proud of the men they’ve become. I manufacture great humans, even if I do say so myself. 😁

just a crying shame none of them like footy 😭

Good work. Wcw.

How refreshing to hear a parent wax lyrical about their kids these days.

My son only plays and follows some American game called basketball.

Thankfully my daughter loves Afl and is a proud Dees woman.

Her finance follows Hawthorn  but I suppose you can't win em all.

Edited by leave it to deever

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    27 minutes ago, praha said:

    We're now outsiders with Sportsbet. Price rising.

    When was the last time we went into two games in a row as underdogs?

    We were $2.20 last weekend and the Cats were $1.80 then around the middle of the weekend it flipped and we were the favourites. Now it’s flipped again as the game got closer (potentially a lot of people saw value in Geelong). I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen our odds fluctuate that much.

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    Just now, At the break of Gawn said:

    We were $2.20 last weekend and the Cats were $1.80 then around the middle of the weekend it flipped and we were the favourites. Now it’s flipped again as the game got closer (potentially a lot of people saw value in Geelong). I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen our odds fluctuate that much.

    Maybe the Oliver omission became a factor in the interim. 

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    What's your view on the betting odds @binman?

    Is it quite unusual for the market to flip flop like it has on this game?

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    31 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    I have, actually. Once you get past the changing dirty nappies phase It seems it’s smooth sailing for the rest of the journey!

    You're lucky you only had sons and no teenage girls.

    Would take 1000 dirty nappies over a day with 13 year old girl.

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    3 hours ago, dl4e said:

    I hate Geelong.

    ….and Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon etc, etc…. but I know….one team at a time

    GO DEES

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    2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    I’m actually not going tonight. ☹️
    I have to do that thing, what’s it called again, oh yeah… parenting. 😁

    My son is performing at his school music festival tonight and really wants me to be there. Besides that, it’s his 18th birthday today.

    If I had to choose one match I can’t attend this’d be it. I’m not exactly lamenting being unable to go to Mordor to be treated like scum by the most unwelcoming ground staff on the planet in the most inhospitable arena on the planet with the most hostile hosts on the planet. 

    Have you never been to filth park, windy hill or moorabin ?

    I don’t want to think too much about this, but I get the feeling Cameron will have a night out against us.  Pettys inclusion worries me, not match fit.

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    1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Heading down the highway again where I hold a 2-11-1 record in terms of MFC success. What's the definition where you keep doing something and expect a different result?

    Highlights include watching us kick 4 goals in an entire game of footy in 2013 in pouring rain, Getting beaten after the siren, getting beaten by 80 points the following year where we all thought we were flag contenders and fare-welling the coach that got us back to AFL relevance with an 111 point belting.

    (by some sheer stroke of luck or destiny I pulled out of 186)

    Other than that I'm supremely confident.

    That is damn impressive! I haven't been for a Cats v Dees game since 2010 but would go quite often before that. Including that bloody draw.

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    2 minutes ago, A F said:

    What's your view on the betting odds @binman?

    Is it quite unusual for the market to flip flop like it has on this game?

    I wouldn't characterise it as flip flopping.

    It has changed a bit, but that is par for the course with betting markets, but had remained close to even money - we were slight favs and now they are.

    Personally I think the current odds (cats 1.88 dees 1.92) are pretty close to th3 true odds.

    The late support for the cats might perhaps a late out for the dees (that the sort of inside info that can result in the pros jumping in)

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    1 hour ago, A F said:

    Good on you mate. But surely West Coast or Adelaide or Port are more inhospitable and hostile than that mob?

    The fans? Yes. Especially Port.

    But in every other respect Geelong is hands down the worst. Apart from being put in a sh!ttty part of the ground, not being allocated enough tickets, the tickets costing twice what we pay for interstate matches and the overall horribleness of being at that godforsaken cow paddock, the ground staff are extremely rude. Any other ground and both banner crews wait together in the race in perfect harmony. Last year at Geelong we were made to wait around the corner in a freezing narrow breezeway for ages under the watchful eye of a very loud and very little man. Yelling at us to move out of the way every time one of those ride-on buggy things came past, must’ve made him feel 10 feet tall. It’s like, dude, you put us here in the first place. Quit your barking. 😁 Then they snap at us while we’re on the ground, telling us to hurry when it’s them who’ve kept us waiting.

    In contrast, their counterparts at Adelaide Oval are the best. 

    11 minutes ago, dl4e said:

    Have you never been to filth park, windy hill or moorabin ?

    Was it Windy Hill or Princes Park that was reputed to have the longest public urinal in the world i'd seen it but cant remember  which ground.  I recall some footy diehards being upset when it was dismantled. Where would you put it  ffs?  In a museum?

    18 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    You're lucky you only had sons and no teenage girls.

    Would take 1000 dirty nappies over a day with 13 year old girl.

    Yep chalk and cheese once they hit 13ish!

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    1 minute ago, Deebauched said:

    Was it Windy Hill or Princes Park that was reputed to have the longest public urinal in the world i'd seen it but cant remember  which ground.  I recall some footy diehards being upset when it was dismantled. Where would you put it  ffs?  In a museum?

    This museum, perhaps? (Warning: It's a genuine museum in Iceland, but careful who you open this link in front of)

    3 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    It takes a special skill for the AFL to schedule a match in Geelong on the night of the winter solstice.

    It takes a special type of moron to schedule a game in Geelong on the night of the winter solstice when the MCG is vacant until Sunday. 

    Just play it in Siberia and call it a day.

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    19 minutes ago, dl4e said:

    Have you never been to filth park, windy hill or moorabin ?

    All of the above. But that was as a little kid with big brothers. Windy Hill was about the only ground they wouldn’t take me to. My mum wouldn’t allow it. The things I used to see and hear that my brothers would tell me to keep quiet about would have her rolling in her grave, even now. Princes Park was our most frequented ground, my brothers being diehard Carlton fans. One time I was caught up in a crowd crush at a Carlton vs Collingwood match when oppo fans were brawling at a narrow exit. I passed out and came to in the hands of the St John’s Ambulance ppl. I had bruised ribs and a broken toe yet my mum never found out about it. 😁

    I wonder if Hawkins has his nose picking finger strapped tonight?

    Could get a heavy workout in the wet weather.

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    3 hours ago, biggestred said:

    I think Smith will get the job on Cameron. 

    That is not stupid, as you need a mobile player on him, who can go with him from FF to nearly HBF and suddenly back again.


    5 minutes ago, leave it to deever said:

    I wonder if Hawkins has his nose picking finger strapped tonight?

    Could get a heavy workout in the wet weather.

    Hawkins is actually a really really nice down to earth guy off the field. He's spent a lot of his own time with a friend's kid in the last two years who was battling aggressive cancer, and is a mad Geelong supporter.

    But for some reason, when he plays football, he is just the worst. Maybe it's the stuff he gets away with, the blatant holding and pushing, the 'accidental' elbows, and the greasy limbs that do my head in. 

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    27 minutes ago, Deebauched said:

    Was it Windy Hill or Princes Park that was reputed to have the longest public urinal in the world i'd seen it but cant remember  which ground.  I recall some footy diehards being upset when it was dismantled. Where would you put it  ffs?  In a museum?

    Windy Hills urinal circumnavigated the oval ;)

    If youd been there, you'd know

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    23 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    It takes a special type of moron to schedule a game in Geelong on the night of the winter solstice when the MCG is vacant until Sunday. 

    Just play it in Siberia and call it a day.

    The game does not have to even be at the MCG. We could have played this match at the Cattery on Saturday night to give us an actual Bye.

    Could have played Sydney and WCE on Thursday night. WCE don't need a long break after the BYE and Sydney would have had a 6 day break made up by an 8 day break into their Friday night game next week.

    Oh yeah I forgot, TV rights. No one wants to see the Eagles in Prime Time.

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    4 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    Hawkins is actually a really really nice down to earth guy off the field. He's spent a lot of his own time with a friend's kid in the last two years who was battling aggressive cancer, and is a mad Geelong supporter.

    But for some reason, when he plays football, he is just the worst. Maybe it's the stuff he gets away with, the blatant holding and pushing, the 'accidental' elbows, and the greasy limbs that do my head in. 

    I've heard this too.

    He's also a whiner on the field appealing for free kicks like an entitled Eagles fan.

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    46 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

    You're lucky you only had sons and no teenage girls.

    Would take 1000 dirty nappies over a day with 13 year old girl.

    I’ve got a 13 year old girl and she’s an absolute sweetheart 

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