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What They Are Saying at Springfield

Lucifers Hero
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Fairly confident but much angst about their MCG hoodoo

  • They will be dancing in the streets of Brizvegas tonight... again
  • Will never win at the G again if we can't salute here.
  • I'll be disappointed if Gunston doesn't outscore the opposition off his own boot for the second week running. Lions by 81.
  • I've seen people say this game is crucial for our season. Crucial for Top 2 maybe, but even if we lose we are still a game clear of Melbourne in 4th.
  • It's crucial also due the last time we'll be playing at MCG before finals.
  • Sick and tired of the MCG bs, even if we make it so easy to write. Let's just get the win to shut the critics up.
  • MCG is a haunted ground. It disgusts me that we are forced to play there at all.
  • It will always be a thing until we start winning there more consistently.  Or win a Grand Final.
  • To maintain a top two chance, we just have to win this one at the MCG.
  • Squiggle suggesting a nice relaxing game ... Melbourne 76 - 73 Brisbane Lions
  • 81 points is our Go To margin.  Don't see anything wrong with sticking to what we know
  • I could have kicked a couple against West Coast and I’m waiting on a knee replacement on my preferred.
  • Tickets bought, off to see another MCG masterclass by the Lions :)
  • Quietly confident on this one, I think it will be a low scoring affair but I think our defence vs their forwards is stronger than their defence vs our forwards - we just have too many routes to goal.  Lions by 18
  • You can't take them lightly because they have many other good players but they'll need to have a night out to beat us. This is ours to take , just need to bring our A game.
  • If you want your eyes to glaze over check out the champion data definitions relating to pressure.
  • Sounds like Grundy is doubtful to play, which isn’t much of a loss for them given his form. It should mean we can get away without having to worry about going in with the 2 specialist rucks ourselves
  • How teams have performed the game after belting WCE by 60+
    • Melb: LOST to Ess by 27
    • Carl: LOST to Bris by 26
    • GC: LOST to Bris by 43
    • Haw: BEAT StK by 10
    • Coll: LOST to Melb by 4
    • Ade: LOST to Coll by 2
    • Syd: DREW with Geel
    • 1 win from 7 games.
    • Big watch on Bris against Melb this wk
  • A huge 16 point Friday night game this week - No.3 vs No.4 !
  • A classic 32 point game!
  • Cant afford to lose this 64 point game and be derided as pretenders for the nth time this year

 

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Some humourous banter from local fans:  :

  • Public service announcement re Friday's game: for any of my fellow Mernda or Hurstbridge line travellers, don't hang around celebrating the win for too long after the match. Bus replacement services will be running after 11pm.
    • Yes, don't go home until the first morning train!
    • Crown is open all night.
    • if we win the game I think I’d happily walk home.

 

 Late Edit:  Dees by 4 goals!!:

 

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    Well based on our form and theirs I’m not surprised they are a little cocky, but we have the potential to turn it on or grind teams down. I hope we find some true form and play some fast attractive football and take it to them.

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    Someone on their Bigfooty forum reckons Dunkley is far more important to Brisbane than Oliver is to Melbourne.

    Whilst I think it’s a nonsense call, I hope it rings true tomorrow night assuming Dunkley misses.

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    I laughed at those last few posts taking the mickey over doubling the amount of points this game is worth.

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    12 minutes ago, gs77 said:

    I laughed at those last few posts taking the mickey over doubling the amount of points this game is worth.

    I LOL at those.  They were my second favourite group of quotes.

     

    As an aside, I don't edit any posts but I try to group related ones together to tell a story.

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    2 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

    MCG is a haunted ground. It disgusts me that we are forced to play there at all.

    Ugh I can’t even

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    45 minutes ago, gs77 said:

    I laughed at those last few posts taking the mickey over doubling the amount of points this game is worth.

    This 128 point game is no laughing matter, gs!

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    6 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Ugh I can’t even

    They haven't heard where the GF is played...

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    1 hour ago, Gorgoroth said:
    • MCG is a haunted ground. It disgusts me that we are forced to play there at all.

    Has to be extracting the urine. Putting aside the fact that they have to play a Grand Final there if they are good enough to make it (and given their ladder position they will have to win a PF there or at AO) do they actually think that they are entitled to play every game at the Gabba?

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    Sophie, one of our awesome DA leaders, is tossing the coin tomorrow night.

    Soph is not one to aggressively disparage opposition, especially individual players. However, when asked about how excited she is to be tossing the coin, she said she’s glad Zorko is no longer their captain since she doesn’t relish the thought of shaking hands with “that evil dwarf.”

    😆

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    11 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Sophie, one of our awesome DA leaders, is tossing the coin tomorrow night.

    Soph is not one to aggressively disparage opposition, especially individual players. However, when asked about how excited she is to be tossing the coin, she said she’s glad Zorko is no longer their captain since she doesn’t relish the thought of shaking hands with “that evil dwarf.”

    😆

    Met Sophie in WA in 2013 (or 2014 cant exactly remember), she was great company! 

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    17 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Sophie, one of our awesome DA leaders, is tossing the coin tomorrow night.

    Soph is not one to aggressively disparage opposition, especially individual players. However, when asked about how excited she is to be tossing the coin, she said she’s glad Zorko is no longer their captain since she doesn’t relish the thought of shaking hands with “that evil dwarf.”

    😆

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    2 hours ago, Demonland said:

    Has to be extracting the urine. Putting aside the fact that they have to play a Grand Final there if they are good enough to make it (and given their ladder position they will have to win a PF there or at AO) do they actually think that they are entitled to play every game at the Gabba?

    Why did that quote me. I didn’t write that… weird.

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    4 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Someone on their Bigfooty forum reckons Dunkley is far more important to Brisbane than Oliver is to Melbourne.

    Whilst I think it’s a nonsense call, I hope it rings true tomorrow night assuming Dunkley misses.

    Not sure about more important than Oliver (though you could certainly argue Neale is) - but Dunkley has been a critical player for them this season in terms of his ability to connect the inside ball winner's with outside runners (like Oliver and Neale, he does both thing super well) and therefore their ability to transition the ball and create scoring chains. 

    And whilst he doesn't have eclectic speed, he is quick enough and certainly not a plodder in the Rich mold - which helps mitigate their pace issue (which, in my opinion, is the main reason why they struggle at the G)

    An excellent trade. 

    I really hope he is not playing. 

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    5 minutes ago, binman said:

    Not sure about more important than Oliver (though you could certainly argue Neale is) - but Dunkley has been a critical player for them this season in terms of his ability to connect the inside ball winner's with outside runners (like Oliver and Neale, he does both thing super well) and therefore their ability to transition the ball and create scoring chains. 

    And whilst he doesn't have eclectic speed, he is quick enough and certainly not a plodder in the Rich mold - which helps mitigate their pace issue (which, in my opinion, is the main reason why they struggle at the G)

    An excellent trade. 

    I really hope he is not playing. 

    All but certain he isn't playing.

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    3 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Sophie, one of our awesome DA leaders, is tossing the coin tomorrow night.

    Soph is not one to aggressively disparage opposition, especially individual players. However, when asked about how excited she is to be tossing the coin, she said she’s glad Zorko is no longer their captain since she doesn’t relish the thought of shaking hands with “that evil dwarf.”

    😆

    But it would have been a great opportunity to throw the coin at him as hard as she could

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    3 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Zorko: “that evil dwarf.”

    Love it!  Very apt!🤣

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    Their confidence is warranted. They’re in much better form than us. Hopefully their MCG woes give us a leg up, but I’m not expecting a win this week. Our whole team defense will need an a grade effort for us to be a chance.

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    14 minutes ago, Lord Travis said:

    Their confidence is warranted. They’re in much better form than us. Hopefully their MCG woes give us a leg up, but I’m not expecting a win this week. Our whole team defense will need an a grade effort for us to be a chance.

    Goodwin would be pretty happy with the team defence ATM.
    One of his KPIs is to keep the opposition under 60pts.
    Last 5 games.
    Carlton 44pts
    Collingwood - 62pts.
    Geelong got a hold of us late - 78pts
    Giants- 47pts.
    Aints - 58pts

    But the question is, can he get the forward line working.
    After X amount of years I have my doubts.
     

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    I don't see why they shouldn't be confident. They are far and away the better team.

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    33 minutes ago, Smokey said:

    Frothing for an update on this thread 

    some choice bigfooty quotes:

    • We play to win to the end and only and I mean only, do we start saving a game when heat is really on and
      its in the dying minute....no more. Playing the saving game with approx 5 minutes to go was totally ridiculous and cost us.

    • When the going got tough - Melbourne's leaders stood up, Gawn and Petraca took the bull by the horns, threw themselves into the battle and did the things that lifted their team mates, gave belief, showed it was possible. Well done them.

      When the going got tough - Lions leaders found holes and crawled into them, gave up, hid behind team mates and whinged.

    • The most gutted I think I have ever felt after a loss. I feel like I need therapy

    • Devastating loss. Will put me in a filthy mood for remainder of weekend.

    • Maybe we need to start wearing Brisbane Lions colours at the MCG to get over the hoodoo.

      • And rename it the 'Gabba.

    • Fagan should expect some tough questions in the presser around what the gameplan was in that last qtr.
      He got absolutely nothing of the sort. As limp as you could imagine. Afl journalists are not real journalists let’s be honest.

    • It's actually the opposite of reactionary. It's the status quo. We still can't get it done in big games away from home. We're still heading towards a 5th straight failed final serious. We still can't run out games. We still can't defend transition. We still go to sleep in the midfield

    • 4.2 to 0.1 in the last 7 minutes. The opposite of clutch. And another psychologically scarring loss for this group to carry.
       

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