It's Game Day and the Demons are in Adelaide for Gather Round to take on the winless Bombers who are on a 17 game losing streak. What do you want to see from the Dees today?

This will be closer than you think. Dee’s by 137 points.

Pre-breakfast game for me with a 5.15 ball up. It will all be over in time for a celebratory coffee. Good way to start the weekend (I hope).

Pretty confident we will get the 4 points. We are a different team to the one from seasons past that would usually drop a game like this.

I think we win by 7/8 goals.

Gees, I’m impressed. I sound confident!

Go Dees!

What an opportunity hey?

4 & 1 staring us in the face ... a win and we might be a contender (maybe)

A loss and it's another re-start

Seize the day!

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by Macca

Of all the teams I hate.
I hate Essendon the most.
Must win game.

2 hours ago, Fork 'em said:

Of all the teams I hate.
I hate Essendon the most.
Must win game.

Are you serious?? You hate them more than the filth??

Beating Essendon in Gather Round for a change, won’t that be the sch!ttt. Beating Essendon period, for that matter.

Words can’t adequately express how I feel about Essendon. There aren’t adjectives in our lexicon that can sufficiently convey the intense hatred I have for them. In the absence of such this will have to suffice:

GO OUT THERE AND GIVE ‘EM SHEER HELL DEES!

MAKE THEM SUFFER LONG AND HARD.

GIVE THEM 120 MINUTES OF PAIN AND HUMILIATION.

Us by any margin, the bigger the better.

15yo me is hoping the fat slags who bullied her mercilessly at school are at the match today sitting in torrential rain watching their team get brutally taken apart by the mighty Dees.

1 hour ago, At Least I Saw a Flag said:

Are you serious?? You hate them more than the filth??

I certainly do! And I’m sure me and Fork ‘em aren’t the only ones who do.

I don’t just hate them more than I hate the Filth, there’s daylight. There’s 10 Lapland summers worth of daylight.

If we have to drop a match I’d sooner lose to Collingwood than Essendon.

Essendon are a poor team and I reckon will be wooden spooners this year

But every dog has its day and for some reason they have the wood over us during gather round

We need to be ready and switched on from the get-go. Don’t give these suckers an even break. They have no answers for Max and Kossie. Or for our pressure.

Unless we get complacent, we should win this comfortably.

Dees by 30-50 points

6 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

This will be closer than you think. Dee’s by 137 points.

I’ll be happy with a “WIN”!

However a 137 point win would make me De - lirously’ happy!

2 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Beating Essendon in Gather Round for a change, won’t that be the sch!ttt. Beating Essendon period, for that matter.

Words can’t adequately express how I feel about Essendon. There aren’t adjectives in our lexicon that can sufficiently convey the intense hatred I have for them. In the absence of such this will have to suffice:

GO OUT THERE AND GIVE ‘EM SHEER HELL DEES!

MAKE THEM SUFFER LONG AND HARD.

GIVE THEM 120 MINUTES OF PAIN AND HUMILIATION.

Us by any margin, the bigger the better.

15yo me is hoping the fat slags who bullied her mercilessly at school are at the match today sitting in torrential rain watching their team get brutally taken apart by the mighty Dees.

Your 15yo note gives your hatred context but the filth and Maynard honestly 💩🤮🤮🤮

I think we'll win, but this will be an interesting watch. Most teams this year have played "keepings off" with Essendon recording huge uncontested mark tallies. We're a low disposal but highly efficient team. If we win clearance and inside 50s I think we win. I think Brad Scott may try and play keepings off against us (they had 160 marks against us last gather round), although that hasn't been their style this year. Thankfully there's no Jy Menzie (now delisted) running around to kick 4 goals against us...

Hoping for no rain - I feel that always favours the opposition.

I also hate sitting in the rain :.)

Looking ok outside for the moment - fingers crossed we are allowed to use our skill and it’s not a slog fest like the other games.

There's a beautiful expression that "the opposite of love isn't hate, it is indifference".

Collingwood are an enemy, a toxic liability to Australian football, a combination of grotty inbred sneering inferiority and the unaccoubtability of the rich moron shielded by family lawyers and devoid of civic virtue. It is a duty of all football supporters to do harm to the Collingwood football club.

Essendon are an inconvenience. With due respect to Ghosty's personal glorious vendetta, success this week is to play our way, earn the four points and move on.

Fact is, if Essendon were dropped from the AFL the only thing we'd miss would be the memes.

Demons by 50 with the coach putting the focus on winning every quarter and learning to not let inferior teams get a look in.

Essendon on the canvas and the Dees with expectations to win. What could possibly go wrong.

This is the game that will start to show me how much our mental fragility has strengthened. Last year we lose this.

Interested to see how much we back up our manic pressure from last week from the get go this week.

Also how we choose to use Melksham (congrats on 250) and Fritsch together and what it does to the forward dynamic.

I’m not sure about anyone else but im very nervous for today’s game. I’m not sure if it’s because we haven’t beaten Essendon the last few times we’ve played them in gather round or how there were the games we were expected to win under Goodwin and dropped. Please dees don’t get complacent, I know we can beat them but again these are the games we would always drop the last few years. Go Dees

Nice to have a Saturday game!

5 hours ago, At Least I Saw a Flag said:

Are you serious?? You hate them more than the filth??

Add me to the list that hates them more than the filth.

7 minutes ago, Winter Dan said:

Nice to have a Saturday game!

Except no tv coverage…. Which sucks!

13 minutes ago, Dees051321 said:

I’m not sure about anyone else but im very nervous for today’s game. I’m not sure if it’s because we haven’t beaten Essendon the last few times we’ve played them in gather round or how there were the games we were expected to win under Goodwin and dropped. Please dees don’t get complacent, I know we can beat them but again these are the games we would always drop the last few years. Go Dees

It will be interesting to see if a wet deck and heavy pill have any effect on our capacity to run at speed.

I have a feeling that complacency may have played a part in our first qtr against Freo. I'm hoping they haven't lost the eye of the tiger!

5 hours ago, At Least I Saw a Flag said:

Are you serious?? You hate them more than the filth??

I hate the pies and Essendon equally