Clayton van Oliver

Not embarrassing at all. "Bawling my eyes out if we win" is a dead-set certainty

Been trying to decide. We are not in any lockdown over here. Options are: Coco's, a travesty of an Australian bar that once went through the entire hottest 100 until number 2, and then turned it off because 'we need to make a party'. Hotbed of band-wagony filth and Essendon supporters. Drover's Dog, a more upscale Australian restaurant bar, but run by Sydneysiders who couldn't give a [censored] and likely to be told not to make so much noise. Mate's house on the big screen. Successful option taken for both finals so far. Contained in a box of nervous energy, with homemade meat pies and a [censored] tonne of beer. Likely option. Meanwhile, have two weeks to choose which local statue of a Dutch notable is going to get a Dees scarf around 'em.

Double down on the Demon delirium?

Most amazing day of my life. Celebrated hard, Demonfolk. @AmsterdamDeesFan and I took to the canals of Amsterdam and made sure everyone could get familiar with the lyrics of the song in prep for the Granny in two weeks. Need fifteen hours of sleep before I watch the replay for the third time. One more win! Go you beautiful, magnificent Demons

You build up a lot of karma points being a Demon in WA. Hopefully what is coming, what you all might get to enjoy, is redemption for every smug look of pity and off-hand comments each of you has ever endured.

I have been quietly thankful to Josh Mahoney during the course of this wonderful season. He did a lot of hard yards in bygone years from which we are now reaping the benefits. Hope he gets the AFL gig. Seriously capable fella.

What amazing times. It ain’t easy being a Dees supporter in WA and, I imagine, SA. Stoked that those of you among us get this kind of opportunity and there is no doubt that you will do the job for the lot of us.

Only just got a chance to watch First Crack. Either he is being given contentious lines to say by a producer or he is doing lines of something out the back.

What a day yesterday, you bloody beautiful MFC faithful! A lifetime of Kardinia trauma was unexpectedly treated in the space of 34 minutes. After collecting myself from the blubbering mess I had been reduced to, I then spent chunks of the day intricately explaining the magnitude of the moment to scores of baffled Italians, Germans and Canadians who were paying me to hear about Dutch history but instead were regaled with tales of the historic warriors called Max Gawn and Clayton Oliver. Found myself riding through West Amsterdam at 5am belting out Grand Old Flag in the rain. A day for the ages. I [censored] love you all and I [censored] love this football team.

Yep.

Yep. The Clarko Cluster - [censored]

Oh no look how [censored] we are, sitting at the top of the ladder

Quite right. Fortunately, that is not the point or aim of the EU ?. Sorry to everyone who is having to go back into lockdown. It truly, truly sucks.

In the last two weeks I have been in Hungary, Germany and the Netherlands. They are all at different stages in their different responses to the pandemic. Not a single country has had the same approach as another. Even here in NL, things were starting to ramp up again, they opened clubs and now there’s massive spread through the young adult demographic. Soon we will be dark red on the “countries that are [censored] with corona map”. So it’s different everywhere.

Yea it might happen, but it might not. We smashed Brisbane and the Dogs. Reality is, that is the same team that has lost to two bottom of the table teams and one other team in the eight. Gotta love it, anything can happen and I’d rather be here than in the position of any of those other teams, who are all chasing us.

I think it was a good, long term ploy to get Richmond out of the eight. Worst thing about this kind of loss is that it gives the wrist slashers reason to clean the cobwebs off their keyboards and foist the extremities of MFCSS on the rest of us. The thing is, we ARE still top of the ladder, not sitting 5th like many seem to think. Obviously there are things to work on, but the beauty of having 10 straight wins to start the season is that we can afford to be exposed now, rather than at the pointy end when it will really matter. Call me an optimist, but once you’ve done that, go check out the ladder again.

Unfortunately I have read your above posts. Incorrect, it forms a platform for you to put in your opinion and get a result that suits it.

Filling out a ladder predictor is not analysis.

Yuck. Please no

He is not a Dees supporter, most of his family couldn’t care less and those who do are Freo all the way

I do not mind picking up a flag as we work on all the deficiencies we seem to have.

Excellent. Breakfast game here with a 7:20 am start, shakshuka and fresh coffee on the menu. What a round so far, with so many close upsets. May this not be another one of them, but rather a casual belting of the old enemy. Go Dees

Clearly they will just have to talk about Collingwood more.

I can't tell which of these teams is Collingwood. Is it the one in black and white?

Was extremely angry straight after, but have settled without the MFCSS kicking in too much. It's about how we respond to this and I am curious to see it.