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Bobby McKenzie
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10 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Prefer Collingwood over Brisbane if we don’t finish top 2.

Brisbane don’t lose at the GABBA.

Check out our round 23 game last year 👌

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    11 hours ago, Macca said:

    Any team, anywhere, anytime

    I feel the same right now Macca. Up to this point the team has gone 46W 1D 16L in the H & A since 2021, almost 75% which is damn good. 3W 2L in finals.

    Our biggest loss in this period is 38 points including finals and we had a lead of almost 5 goals in that game.

    No team is perfect but one thing we do have, is the ability to be in every game for long periods of time. We don't panic when we are behind, we stick to our method and believe. A great sign against the Tigers came in the last 30 seconds, 4 goals up and Chandler refuses to rest, sprints 20 meters and chases down a Tiger.

    At the moment this team is showing me they will have a red hot crack at anyone in September.

     

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    12 hours ago, Bobby McKenzie said:

    Assuming that we finish 3rd or 4th. Do we want to play Brisbane away or Collingwood at the MCG? Of course getting up to second would be perfect and that's not out of the question. I would prefer Collingwood on the G. What do others think?

    My preference is that the Dess just keep winning games don't care who we play where.

    the season will sort itself out keep winning and you get the cup order doesn't matter if the team is good enough, which they are, and the whole Footy department is focused on that goal

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    1 hour ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    I feel the same right now Macca. Up to this point the team has gone 46W 1D 16L in the H & A since 2021, almost 75% which is damn good. 3W 2L in finals.

    Our biggest loss in this period is 38 points including finals and we had a lead of almost 5 goals in that game.

    No team is perfect but one thing we do have, is the ability to be in every game for long periods of time. We don't panic when we are behind, we stick to our method and believe. A great sign against the Tigers came in the last 30 seconds, 4 goals up and Chandler refuses to rest, sprints 20 meters and chases down a Tiger.

    At the moment this team is showing me they will have a red hot crack at anyone in September.

     

    CW have gone 39/25 in comparison so the Dees are going ok

     

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    I want to finish second and then humiliate port in our first final.

    Next option is playing the pies.

    There is no reason we can't finish second. If port drop a game especially at kardinia then our destiny is on our hands. Just beat Norf and win our last three games. Not impossible by any stretch. 

    The hawks won't be difficult. The blues will be tough and I think even though our record at the scg isn't great, the swans season will be over and Franklin won't be doing some send off game.

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    Deathriding might need to take a break for the next month.

    Lions have Saints and Crows at the Gabbatoir - two likely wins - Pies at the 'G - (loss) - and the Shockers this week out west so we really need them to lose that to give us some insurance.

    Port have Giants and Tigers at AO - not certainties but likely wins - the Cats at Taxpayer Park this week - probable loss - and, wait for it, the Shockers again out west.

    We need to win all four as it now stands to be sure of overtaking the Lions (although three wins and a decent percentage boost would do the trick as well). Three wins might well enable us to overtake Port whose percentage is 15 points below ours, but again, the Shockers can be our Zurich if they can out point Port in the second last round.

    Probably we finish second and face the Lions at the G since they look to have an easier run that Port and like us, much better percentage. That sets up Pies vs Port at the G so the AFL will want the bail laws relaxed to fill the joint.

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    In the eventuality where we don't finish 2nd, which I think is likely because I think we will lose to Carlton or Sydney there are two choices.

    For me I think our best chance is finishing 4th and getting a crack at Collingwood in a QF, beat them there and stay in melbourne, if we lose we would wrap around the draw and have to go to brisbane in a Prelim which is less than ideal.

    Otherwise, finish 3rd, try your luck against Brisbane in a QF up there and hope we aren't mentally scarred in a Semi and cop an in form Carlton.

    Aim surely is don't lose any of our games, get percentage over North and Hawthorn and finish second.

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    14 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Prefer Collingwood over Brisbane if we don’t finish top 2.

    Brisbane don’t lose at the GABBA.

    Except in finals - under Fagan they are 2-4 in Gabba finals.

    To answer the OP, if I could pick any match up it'd likely be Port at the G - we get into 2nd, they slide to 3rd, their late-season form is trending the opposite way to ours. But we don't get to pick, all we can do is win and let the ladder play out.

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    Dees could be 2nd by this Sunday evening. Freo v Lions in Perth & Cats v Port at the cattery.  

    Our destiny is in our hands no others.

    I 'd rather play Pies on the G than the Zorko Allstars at the Gabba. Port appear to be imploding so AO not as daunting now.  

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    We're going to have to beat Collingwood at the MCG somewhere along the line in the finals to win the flag, and FWIW I think we're the only team that can do it.  I'd probably prefer it's early rather than late, I'm not sure I'm ready for a Melbourne vs Collingwood GF.

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    Seriously it is us vs the Pies in the GF, no doubt, and the stress is going to effin kill me. 

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    The stress of playing Collingwood in the GF will be out of this world. The joy of victory will be Otherworldly but even more so. 

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    7 minutes ago, Pipefitter said:

    I’d back us to win interstate .

    Yes over the last two seasons we were 12-0 interstate but not this year, our form hasnt been great out of Victoria and we are 10-1 at the MCG which is our best record at home for decades.

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    Finish 2nd and it doesn't matter who we play 

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    I don't care..I just want to play the Dogs in the Grand Final

    A reset if you will

     

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    Any options bar Lions at the Gabba. Finishing 2nd makes things a hell of a lot easier than 3rd or 4th. 

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    Preference is to finish 2nd and guarantee all finals in Melbourne.

    Agree with the win anywhere, anytime mantra and if that eventuates, so be it, but I want us playing in Melbourne at the mighty MCG for the pure fact of letting the most MFC supporters be there in person.

    How good would have it been to be there for all those finals along the way to the 2021 premiership, particularly the prelim against Geeeelong, which we need to replicate at the G against someone/anyone - I'm not asking for much!

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    Finals preference?

     

     

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    I'd like to avoid playing Collingwood in any final because their scummy fan base would ruin the occasion. At the Sydney game last year I was on an aisle right next to two bays of their fans. They were good craic, a fair number who were members at Pennant Hills and had travelled down for the weekend. It would be nothing like this against the great unwashed. 

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    12 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

    Except in finals - under Fagan they are 2-4 in Gabba finals.

    To answer the OP, if I could pick any match up it'd likely be Port at the G - we get into 2nd, they slide to 3rd, their late-season form is trending the opposite way to ours. But we don't get to pick, all we can do is win and let the ladder play out.

    I remember looking at some stats earlier in the year and the Lions are easier to beat in Aug-Sept timeframe due to the fact the humidity is much lower and the games are a lot less slippery up there. We absolutely killed them in round 23 last year. 

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    2 hours ago, Roost it far said:

    That was a strong one tonight

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    22 hours ago, DEE fence said:

    Seriously it is us vs the Pies in the GF, no doubt, and the stress is going to effin kill me. 

    Yeah there's something about it that really gets my pulse racing, to the point where I don't know if I want it.

    That Grand Final week would be really difficult. The highest high of elation in this sport for me would be beating them in a GF, the lowest of lows and pits of despair would be losing to them. 

    Playing them in a QF or a prelim would still be stressful but more preferable for reasons I can't explain. To each their own but give me Port or Bris in a Grand Final anytime over that. Just my thoughts. 

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