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PREGAME: QF vs Collingwood



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49 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Does he not know both clubs got equal allocation and the game sold out within hours? 

Collingwood....intellect....meh....

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4 hours ago, 640MD said:

Love your optimism,  We are as good as anyside in this finals race, Now I think whoever wins Thursday will win the last one.  So its all out there as I see it.  No holding back. And I think we have been hiding our ability a bit.

While I do not like the wet weather, we have time to prepare for it and the Colliwobbles have to play it it as well. So their  plans are stuffed.  just as much as ours might be,  Go Dees onto the flag..

Concur... winner of thursday wins.....it 😉

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3 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Yeah nah, can’t see the Club signing off on that. Waaaay too inflammatory for the delicate sensibilities of your average Dees supporter. “Be afraid, be very afraid”  (last week’s banner) is about as menacing as we’d get. Cut to 8pm tonight and I’m posting sneak peeks of this week’s banner which says “And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead” 🤣

*That’s the name of a band so there’d be copyright issues, for one. 

In that case can you put a giant pair of sunglasses on the reverse side?

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36 minutes ago, Bates Mate said:

Anyone catch Craig McRae on Sen this afternoon on the run home ?

It's 32 minutes can't bring myself to listen to it but wouldn't mind a summation 

https://pca.st/podcast/8038e720-b075-0133-2e49-6dc413d6d41d

 

I haven't listened to it, but I'll have a go:

Everything we've done, we've done to qualify. We've achieved that and we start again.

Geez, you wouldn't want to be anywhere else than Melbourne in spring.

Nick was desperate to play, and might have if this was an elimination game

No, no,  no reason to be anything but positive.

 

 

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2 hours ago, bandicoot said:

This is the most bizarre stat…

collingwood haven’t played in the rain in any of their 23 games this year.  

Melbourne have played 6 games in the wet.

How can a side go all year and avoid the rain? 

in any case, Thursday night might be the first time all year collingwood have played with a greasy football. 

I want to know, Collingwood, have you ever seen the rain?

 

 

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1 hour ago, beelzebub said:

Collingwood....intellect....meh....

I assume you're referring to Scotty's comment about being a pies crowd as in a home game.

If so Scott's degree in rocket science must still be in the mail.

From the University of Damoa I guess. Like Saul's law degree.

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24 minutes ago, Wadda We Sing said:

In that case can you put a giant pair of sunglasses on the reverse side?

Excuse my ignorance (not firing on all cylinders atm) but I don’t get it. Why sunglasses???

 

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Every Collingwood fan I know or have seen write on bigfooty have been painful.
I don’t know if I should even turn up.. apparently there’s no way we beat them.

Also been reading post on bigfooty and Facebook by Collingwood fans trying to get the word out to start the collingwooooooood chant a minute before the game. God help me haha

Low key would love for them to do that and lose and we can all gracefully give it back 
 

 

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Rd’s 21-23 the Pies conceded over  100 points, the only other 2 teams to concede over 100 points three weeks in a row were North and the Eagles. 
 

Rd’s 22-24 we conceded 60, 60, 56.

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1 minute ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Rd’s 21-23 the Pies conceded over  100 points, the only other 2 teams to concede over 100 points three weeks in a row were North and the Eagles. 
 

Rd’s 22-24 we conceded 60, 60, 56.

Most relevant form line I have ever seen to suit my emotional agenda. 🙌

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10 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Excuse my ignorance (not firing on all cylinders atm) but I don’t get it. Why sunglasses???

 

Taking the [censored] out of Mason...

..or maybe we get the players to all run out wearing sunnies instead haha

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23 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

We also need an answer to this question.

 

 

While we’re asking questions, how about this one…

https://youtu.be/lXmsLe8t_gg?feature=shared

Seriously…

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?

Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?

Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop?

Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip?

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On 9/3/2023 at 2:30 PM, YearOfTheDees said:

Pies trying to suggest that Nick Daicos  will play. 

Let him play ….. twang at the first contest. 

On 9/3/2023 at 6:10 PM, Dee Zephyr said:

The boys won’t care how wet it is. In the first 8 weeks of 2021 we played in the rain about 4-5 times and won them all.
This season we’ve lost a couple of close ones in the wet and some of our best footy came in the pouring rain during the third quarter of the Port game where we piled on 7 goals. 
Us being no good in the rain is a little overblown I think.

We beat Collingwood in the GF 1960 in the wet so this could be a good omen. 🙄.    They were credited with 2.2.14 but if there was score review back then, yes even the garbage they have today, it would have been 1.2.8.  

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4 hours ago, Mel Bourne said:

this band really needs a lot of explosions and a very dark arena to pull the whole thing off. 

That's pretty much my dating strategy in a nutshell.

Just wheel them on stage unplugged & play the 'Dynasty' album over the PA system. 

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Listening to Jono Brown and Buckley having a crack at Garry Lyon over whether the Melbourne fans will turn up on Thursday on Fox Footy makes me wanna throw up. What is with these morons. The game is a sellout! Have they any idea? This myth about us having small crowds has been dispelled by stats again this year. Pizz of Bucks and Brown. Then having Lyon bow to there jibes and urge Dees fans to show up, just get stuffed 

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KISS, bloody hell I was listening to them in the roller disco, Mornington in 1982, the world has turned. I am old, but it doesn't mean I need to see someone playing from my vintage. It needs to be Australian, however the best of our stadium rockers have gone past it, in terms of live performance (Oils try hard though).  Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Barnes, Crowded House, Nick Cave, would hate to see them have a go and just reflect faded glory.

So I reckon Hilltop hoods, while not rock, have a big sound and a couple of songs that would suit: (1955 is a favorite for a reason) but read to the lyrics from 'The Thirst'.

We have the thirst
We have the hunger
We dive head first into the wonder
We have the thirst
We have the hunger
We dive head first into the wonder

 

 

 

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11 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

Listening to Jono Brown and Buckley having a crack at Garry Lyon over whether the Melbourne fans will turn up on Thursday

Remind me again how many premierships FIGJAM won as player or coach? Oh that’s right 0.

Just like the amount of clue he has.

 

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1 hour ago, DEE fence said:

KISS, bloody hell I was listening to them in the roller disco, Mornington in 1982, the world has turned. I am old, but it doesn't mean I need to see someone playing from my vintage. It needs to be Australian, however the best of our stadium rockers have gone past it, in terms of live performance (Oils try hard though).  Midnight Oil, AC/DC, Barnes, Crowded House, Nick Cave, would hate to see them have a go and just reflect faded glory.

So I reckon Hilltop hoods, while not rock, have a big sound and a couple of songs that would suit: (1955 is a favorite for a reason) but read to the lyrics from 'The Thirst'.

We have the thirst
We have the hunger
We dive head first into the wonder
We have the thirst
We have the hunger
We dive head first into the wonder

 

 

 

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard need to do a GF. King Stingray would be great too.
 

No Kings Of Leon, though. And for the love of god, keep David King away from the stage. 

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Here are the AFL and Melb's average tackles and contested possessions per game for the past three H/A seasons:

2023    AFL Tackles  61.8     Melb  61.7        AFL Cont.poss  136       Melb  145.7

2022    AFL Tackles  58.3    Melb  56.5       AFL Cont.poss   136.9    Melb  148.4

2021    AFL Tackles  57.4     Melb  62.2        AFL Cont.poss  136       Melb  148.6

Over these three years, Melb consistently had the highest contested possessions. Our tackling was in the mid-range this year(better than last year), but we had two recent high numbers: 88 tackles against Carl in Round 22 (Carl 87), and 79 tackles against Syd in Round 24 (Syd 76). In the Sydney game, Viney, ANB and Mills(Syd) each made 12 tackles, the highest individual number among all the games in Round 24. I reckon ANB has never laid so many tackles in a single game before(his average tackles per game was 4.7 this year). He is in great form.

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6 hours ago, Roost it far said:

Why Kiss FFS?? There are literally  100’s of Australian Bands I’d prefer to see. The AFL are lucky the product is so good otherwise it’d be bust.

U are kidding right? One of the worlds greatest EVER bands! Place will be pumpin!

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