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I prefer the hate over the laughs. It means we're heading in the right direction.

Good. They can stop talking about us. Positive and negative and we'll do all the talking on the field. On the plus side we're relevant again. Bring it on.

Edit (The Reveal):

My non-Melbourne mates have been heavily reminding me that there is no silverware for May champions despite me being relatively subdued in their company. I'm under no illusions that we will probably have some stumbles but I'm wrapped with the way we've been playing for the past month and where we are heading. I have one of the worst cases of MFCSS and even I'm seeing a light at the end of my one-eyed tunnel vision.

Would you prefer to hop in a time machine and go back to 2012?

STATISTIC MELBOURNE NEXT-BEST Kicking efficiency 69.8% Brisbane 67.8% Kicking efficiency differential +6.5% Brisbane +3.8% Disposal efficiency 74.8% Collingwood 74.7% Marks inside 50 18.8 Richmond 13.6 Marks inside 50 differential +10.4 Port Adelaide +4.2 Contested possession differential +21.6 West Coast +13.4 Clearance differential +9 Fremantle +6 Inside 50s 65.2 Richmond 61.2 Scores per inside 50 49.1% West Coast 48.2% Goals per inside 50 31% West Coast 28.5% Points for 133 Richmond 98.6 Intercept points 84 Richmond 68.8 Clearance points 44.6 West Coast 32.6 Defensive half to score 19% Richmond 14.7% Consecutive quarters won 18 West Coast 15 Offensive one-on-one win 39% GWS 35.7%

Hibberd extremely stiff. I thought he was excellent off half back. All-Australian form.

I get that. I'm just not used to being happy about Footy. I need to be angry about something. ?

This is what [censored] me. I understand these sentiments and they may have some truth to them. But on the same night that some of them were saying those things about us they were pumping up Esssendon's tyres for beating an injury riddled and extremely out of form GWS conveniently forgetting that the Bombers lost to the same team we pumped by 109 points a week apart. Not all animals are equal.

I think the Dees have aboout 135,000 people liking their Facebook page. Imagine if you could turn all of them into members. Obviously this is not possible and there might be a chunk of those that don't follow the Dees or are Russian bots but at least the Dees have the opportunity to reach that number of people with messages. I am aware that not every post on social media reaches all of your followers due to changes in the Facebook algorithm and other factors but social media allows the club to reach a larger audience that has already opted in to follow them for a fraction of the cost of advertising on TV or radio to an audience that is made up largely of people who don't care about the Demons. Social media and advertising on the web allows you to target your audience more directly. LIKES can pay the bills and winning is the best way to achieve more LIKES.

Watson gives no credit. He takes it away.

I agree that we need to take a big scalp or two at full strength to gain the full respect of the wider footballing community. Heck we need to do that in finals. Hell we need to make finals. Having said that we should be getting at least a little bit more respect for some of the wins we have had this year than we are currently getting. Other teams aren't trouncing Gold Coast and Carlton like we have. We comprehensibly beat a team that was 4th on the ladder, albeit with some injuries, that made a grand final last year and had 14 or 15 (I think) players playing from that Grand Final. This was no GWS circa 2013. We had Hogan, Gawn and leaders out for chunks of the year last year and still managed victories and if we didn't win we certainly didn't get flogged. Yes we need to show more and we have that opportunity in the next 2 weeks and in the back half of the season.

In this day and age LIKES are everything. Join the digital revolution. ?

I'm not sure it is a PR exercise. I think they take the opportunity to make it a PR exercise by parading the signatures around on social media (which I don't mind). I have confidence in the list managers that this is an exercise to sure these guys away now so they can concentrate on the guys coming out contract in 2019. Sometimes moves on a chess board don't seem important but are building to something else bigger.

I think you've got to assume that the list managers know what they're doing. I doubt these 3 signings would jeopardise the signing of the remaining big 3 in terms of cap or dollars to spend.

You can't celebrate the good without reliving the bad. There'll be alot of revisiting the past on this road to glory. The media love that stuff.

That celebration got me too. It was the type of celebration you make when you win a game by a point on the siren.

Spargo has been fantastic and I'm sure his nomination will come but to tell you the truth I'd prefer our results the past few weeks with many shining lights than the Bulldogs results and one shining light.

3 mins? That's generous.

It's almost like having a new recruit in the team. So happy for Gus.

We have not had this luxury for a long long time.

It's possible that it has something to do with the mail settings on the new server as I'm not receiving notifications of PMs via email either or notifications of reports of posts. This is way above my pay grade. This sounds like a job for @Nasher