Delusional demon 82

In the meantime Essendon has recently hit a major milestone..... 6000 days without a finals win ? ? https://www.neds.com.au/blog/2021/02/the-world-when-essendon-last-won-a-final/?fbclid=IwAR2tW2LHSqk_zteM_4aOnPzXWNzh8inuBabMqUp0ha8FfQ31XQxHSYImsXM

Death , taxes and Melbourne away at Geelong and West Coast

FWIW Gawn was asked on afl 360 tonight and said that he asked Clarry at the Brownlow count, and he told him that he was staying , joked something to the effect about Trac getting more attention this year and that got misconstrued in the wrong circles etc

Oooooozzz .... Love this appointment ... just for kicking skills alone ! fritsch will be slotting goals left foot on the run , along the boundary line blindfolded next year !!!!

Check your junk mail ... seems gmail also suffers for MFCSS

Thank [censored] this [censored] of a season is now over here’s hoping for some footy at the G next year, hopefully we’ll be able to go along too !

First 5 mins will tells us everything today

Agreed - but our form over the past month feels a long way away from that, I just see it like Essendon going over there last year in the elim final , albeit Optus stadium having maybe only half of it’s normal snakepit vibe with the crowd reductions

Let’s just remind ourselves of the prize on offer this weekend - basically the opportunity to go over to Perth and probably get smashed by the eagles in an elimination final . this is quite different to 2017 we hadn’t made finals in 11 years and we had half a chance to actually see our team play finals at the G - that’s not the case now (with the exception of a few that might be lucky to see a final live) id love for us to make it but I’m not emotionally invested or attached to the results this weekend like I was 3 years ago or in 2018. at the moment we are a middle of the road side , my biggest concern is that much of the playing group will be satisfied with just making the 8 , we have a lot of improving to do given the talent on this list

No previous loss before that a a few weeks earlier was after the siren down at the cattery ?

We blew a golden chance the week before at the G playing sydney which we were eco expected to win ( remember Henney took mark of the year over Hogan after Peterson our the ball up perfectly for him in the last quarter ?) anyways we all then thought we were screwed then having to go to Perth and then play GWS the following week only needing one more win

One of the very few times we have stood up in a crunch must win game , and we also had a bit of luck fall our way that day IIRC (darling went off injured early, no Kennedy) still one of my favourite all time MFC wins , breaking a 12 year finals drought I think part of it to was that we weren’t expected to win that day, compared to rd23 2017 and the last 2 games where we were favourites - mentally does this playing group handle pressure of a must win game or when the opposition bring the pressure ? I still don’t think so

Frankly this is just full of platitudes i guess pert isn’t going to acknowledge and explain the rationale for baffling selections and team strategy e.g throwing Pruess up forward in the wet and what the coaching staff might have been thinking making ~17 changes over the last 3 weeks Pert fumbled a bit when asked about whether Goodwin would be coaching rd 1 2021 - refused to indulge in any hypotheticals if we lost our last 2

Just had a look before I think you need to subscribe to the podcast in the podcasts app and then the more recent podcasts appeared in my podcast feed, took a few minutes

We got some more ‘learnings’ tonight

Hopefully hawthorns 2nd round pick we get has better foot skills

Sorry to hear that mate, that’s terrible and heartbreaking please don’t mistake us joking over those two muppets making arses of themselves as being flippant around the wider issue here impacting many families , you’re spot on the hypocrisy here is astounding , you have every right to be filthy that sportsmen are being offered such privilege which in the scheme of things ought not to be considered priority over saying goodbye to loved ones

Must be an essential service

I now want to know how they paid for the second order of kebabs?

Oh come come Deemented you are being far too cynical. I’m sure lots of sober people crave a delicious kabab at 3am down Cavill Avenue , washed down with a raspberry Powerade . It’s just coincidental that the kebab shop happened to be located next to an exotic entertainment venue.

So Tom Brown is saying the merchant terminal should really be taking the fall ?

I think this incident really highlights the double standards with which the exemptions that the football community has received to be able to move across borders relative to the rest of us in society (except those with money and influence). It’s actually just plain wrong , part of me wants Anastasia to just pull the pin on this season , morally there is something that doesn’t sit right with me that the afl will find a [censored] way to wriggle out of this like they always do, they treat the public with contempt the afl are arrogant, maybe a harsh lesson is required here

Obviously the message isn’t getting through , perhaps taking premiership points might actually deter this? Seriously what a bunch of imbeciles

Either way its not worth being embarrassed week 1 of the finals and papering over coaching and list cracks in this club , I think making finals we’ll be far too easily satisfied just like the players