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Saw Sylvia after the game , smirking, grinning and laughing..........WTF........Oh thats right we won As you were....

I'd prefer a quote from David King, Paul Roos, Mike Sheahan, Caroline Wilson or even Tony Shaw.

Whatever the case it must be Brad Scott's turn to face the blowtorch this week. After all, it's only a few weeks ago that an insipid Melbourne with about 10 players on its injured list lost to Hawthorn by a mere 66 points. For the Kangaroos, who have almost a full list to choose from, to fall over to the same team by 115 points is a tsunami-like disaster that will no doubt mobilise the media across the nation into dissecting every aspect of the club from top to bottom. I fully expect Caroline Wilson to write a scathing column blaming infighting within the board for the mess they're in. Perched on his couch, Paul Roos will take apart Scott's coaching tactics and strategies by putting together a film montage of three or four instances where his players stuffed up as proof that he can't coach. David King will join the chorus and announce that the game plan's shit and the North Melbourne board blundered by not replacing Scott in the off season with someone like Rodney Eade or even Matthew Knights (after all, both were available) and for the abysmal oversight of failing to make contact with Ross Lyon or elder statesmen like Mick Malthouse or Tom Hafey. Of course, Tony Shaw will pipe in that Scott must give Andrew Swallow the flick as skipper and either reinstate Boomer Harvey or give the gig to Lindsay Thomas to make him happy and help him straighten his kicking for goal. Grant Thomas will blame it on the AFL and Robert Walls will suggest a possible merger with the Gold Coast. This stuff should fill the papers all week as long as Age journos don't continue with their strike action.

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!

OK so I'm not in the country at present but managed to watch most of the game (including all of the second half) Rivers put in one of the best defensive performances I have ever seen from a Demon. Absolutely sensational. In the last quarter, Grimes Jones Moloney lifted and what about that man Garland. EDIT: Forgot to mention Trengove who played his best game of the year and if Watts is a hack then I must have a different understanding of that word. The next Goddard. Sellar too, shoved it up Luke Darcy .. SO happy for Neeld... Suck [censored] Bombers!!!

All of you who bag Neeld - shove that up where it fits. He's the future of this club. Thank you Mark. And bloody good onya!

Neeld Football ... has arrived.

The idea that players were 'natural' was only borne about by their willingness to play the Neeld brand of footy - that's why after 3 months it started to click. The free flowing BS we were all accustomed to was a fool's paradise. Finally, a coach that knows what's needed....(neelded? ha ha ) I thought young Tom Mc was sensational tonight - what a find.

Were you watching the same game as the rest of us? At times Essendon were free flowing, but it was grunt football. The Dees won through body contact and attack on the footy.

The move of Garland forward was pure genius as it turned out.

Your humble pie is in the post Jackie Hope you choke on it

To all the doubters, knockers and haters .... stick that up ya jumpa!!!

Ladies and gentlemen ... this is Neeld Football !!

Watts is going to be a superstar - having another great game. All of you who constantly bag him, get stuffed. Garland up forward is good too. I'm loving this game - c'mon Dees!!

My favorite one

FCS, Hardnut - we played the same way we have played the rest of the season - the boys just happened to trust each other to do what they were supposed to do IN THE GAMEPLAN. They played the contested, long ball footy that they have played all year, and they worked hard to be in right places defensively - which some have said curtails their 'natural instincts.' Well, this game was a sign that their natural instincts are being 'repaired' or 'evolved' into something that helps us do what we never did under Bailey, NEVER: Win a slog of a game of hard, tough footy against a top 4 team (don't laugh they are 8 and 2) in good form. We just did that because the boys are buying into what Neeld is saying and trusting their teammates to do their job.

Being able to defend a slender lead for over 10 minutes has nothing to do with "free flowing football" or "natural footy instincts".

Neeld has been reading your posts - that's the only possible explanation.

Yeah it was a real free-flowing 5 goal-a-piece shoot out lol Show some humility boy and admit you were wrong.

AS much as I hate the Pies and Carlton, ever since the 2000 Grand Final I HATE Essendon. That felt really good tonight. Skillful? - not particularly. Great forward spread? - ummm no. But great gut-wrenching, hard at it, never-give up, mongrel footy and the free flowing Essendon crumbled.

Your next Buckley. Bring on the Pies

and... carlton got smashed by port!

Ok, so I was wrong. Damn that feels good.

It is a fkn grand old flag.

Essendon will be all right if they get a new coach

Monfries looks like a mini lloyd. [censored].

Great result to have Sheahan, Davis and Cook named in the best players but unfortunate that Rory Taggert is back on the injured list. Sheahan has really been the club's big surprise packet at Casey. The good thing about him is that he's been consistent from the practice matches right through to this stage of the season. He finds the ball and uses it well. At the beginning of the season I saw this as a development year for him but now I reckon it might be worth upgrading him and giving him game time in the second half of the season. Nine disposals in the last quarter looks a good return for the youngster whose rookie selection last year now looks to be a real bargain. The good thing from the club's point of view is that players like Sheahan, Cook, Davis, Fitzpatrick and Tom McDonald give us a good bunch of young KPPs so that we can concentrate a lot of our drafting and trading at the end of the season on getting what we really need the most - some quality mids.

Full time and the Scorps win by 55 points and retake second place on the ladder. Casey Scorpions 4.3.27 8.8.56 12.10.82 14.15.99 Northern Blues 2.1.13 3.2.20 4.5.29 6.8.44 Goals Casey Scorpions Cook 3 Bate Lawrence Panozza 2 Davey Fieldsend Fitzpatrick McGough Petterd Northern Blues Mitchell 2 Burgess Jenkins Marcon Visser Best Casey Scorpions Sheahan Panozza Davis J Tynan Davey Cook Northern Blues Marcon Lambert O'Keeffe Bell Visser McInnes Major stats Sheahan 29 Davey 23 Panozza 22 L Tynan 21 Bate 21 I'll be back later with some snippets from the game.

Bada-Bump.

wheres all the love for this bloke!? pulled bellchambers and ryders pants down and took the game saving mark! cops a bit on here but boy jee he looked good down back! id give him first hand on cloke next week. well done james you played a ripper!!

I did. Sad but true. Relief probably more than anything. Felt like vomiting for most of the last quarter. Nearly lost my [censored] when they called touched on the goal line. Who cares why or how we won right now. All that matters is that finally we have experienced some success. Regardless of how minor!

I couldn't even sing the song through a choked up throat and tears in the eyes. Can't remember that happening before

So we're still a mathematical possibility?

Standing by for Lloyd / King / some other douchenozzle to tear into our post-match celebrations.

I'm loving the hardness they are showing at the contest...and I'm loving what Dunn has been doing so far since he came on.

The silence surrounding Sellar's improved showing is almost deafening; not to mention that of Morton.

Is Goddard playing down back for us tonight?

I'm illogically optimistic. I think it must just be hard wired in me to keep me interested.

We will win tonight.

... but you will anyway. Source? It's easy to hide behind a keyboard and claim to be in the know. If someone inside is giving you info about our list changes at the end of the year, they will surely be looking for employment elsewhere as well. Loose lips.

Certainly not suggesting that CM is representative of any other player! He needs to be locked inside a KFC.

By definition Schadenfreude is a German term meaning to take joy in others displeasure and a Roman holiday translates to roughly the same thing. National holidays in ancient Rome consisted of taking the kids to the arena buying them a dubious looking piece of goat on a stick and then spending a good part of the day watching men kill each other. My question to the masses is can you personally still actually go to a demons game and enjoy yourself? I found myself having this drunken debate with a fellow demons supporter at a bar last night with the resolution was yes yes you can, but you have to be a sadist. So the term Schadenfreude needs to become mien (my in German) Schadenfreude or my own Roman Holiday as a rough translation "taking joy in your own displeasure". I work 50-60 hours a week and appear to be genetically pre disposed to be genuinely grumpy. Do I really need to try and wring some happiness or joy from our weekly spanking? In theory it would be nice but the only way to actually enjoy a demons game as a spectacle and not feel miserable at the final siren is to treat the whole things as a farce. Next time you see Morton running down the wing only to kick it out of bounds with no pressure, laugh. Jamar taps the ball directly to an opponent, smile and not approvingly. Molony pulls the old don't argue only to get gang tackled and pinged for holding the ball, cackle like a mad old witch and when some buck toothed opposition supporter informs you in colourful language that your team isn't worth their dental plan sagely agree with them and compliment them on the astute observations. Will I be at the game tonight, you bet, just look for the demons supporter with a big blond beard grinning from ear to ear and laughing like a mad man.

Mate glad you've joined me, I've been doing this on and off for 10 years. Most people I'm sure think I'm mad but if I didn't laugh in the face of absurdity I'd probably have given myself a stroke by now. Oddly I get angrier in years where the Demons are going OK because it annoys me more when for instance we lose twice to bottom placed Carlton in 2006 costing us a top 4 chance rather than in a year where we struggle to win a game at all. I already know where shite this year and no hope of making the finals so what's the point in going grey over it?

But of course in anything that we want to go... from just a beginner to a pro, you need a montage! [media=]

I cant help but watch these two videos and think how far off the Melbourne players are in comparison to actual 'Professional Athletes' WHEN YOU WANT SUCCESS AS BAD AS YOU WANT TO BREATHE, THEN YOU'LL BE SUCCESSFUL. [media=]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpFroMCKiuM&feature=share NO DAYS OFF, NO WEEKENDS, NO HOLIDAYS Get some fu***ng want and success melbourne!!!! Get fired up you blokes! You don't want success.. you just want to cruise along getting a pay check... Makes me sick. Get inspired...

just tell people it's rude to talk about "down there" (unless drunk or stoned or in a relationship)

Poor Tony finds it hard to get anyone to listen to him at the best of times but this latest gem shows what a philosopher of the game he is . Tony comes from a family that thinks Melbourne supporters drive around in Rolls -Royces eating caviar ,drinking champagne and playing golf all day while they go and work in the boot factories where even poor dumb Tony can get a job . Hes Right in my case except its a Range Rover , and in his case the old boot factory is now known as The Herald Sun . Time to pop my bottle of Breakfast Moet and read The Age .

If anyone takes the slightest notice of what the village idiot has to say, then pity help us.

It's an existential question: if you don't get the ball to the forward line, do you have a forward line. In essence - can something dissolve if it never existed?