In Harmes Way

32 minutes ago, pineapple dee said:

Dees by 17 points.

Now some alternate predictions for the day,

1)   One of Oliver, Petracca or Brayshaw will play and play a blinder.

2) A GWS player will try to snot Bugg and be put on their arze.

3) Watts will startle a lot of onlookers with his performance.

4) Max will have a day out.

5) A noted forward or a noted back will go to the opposite end of the ground and dominate.

6) Hogan  4 Goals 3 behinds

7) I will not be told by an MCC official to pull my head in.

6 out of 7 wouldn't be bad (not sure No 7 will get over the line....)

20 hours ago, kryton101 said:

I'm flying in from Sydney especially for the game with my daughter.  I predict I'm going to enjoy the living hell out of it, oh and a Dees win!!

Kryton,

If your daughter is in the age bracket between 5-12, then I'd suggest you email the club ([email protected]) and see if they can squeeze her in to the guard of honour (they still had spots when I emailed them last week). My boy is taking part, did it last year and loved it. More broadly, for anyone interested, link to the guard of honour for remaining 2016 games here: http://melbournefc.formstack.com/forms/2016guardofhonour 

This time last year I was equally nervous as to our R1 chances - the game last year was my fondest memory of 2015. Sitting behind the punt rd goals with my boy in the sunshine, Viney slams GABJnr, Wattsy kicks a beauty from the pocket, Hogan takes a nice grab in the third and kicks his first goal in league footy...if we have a day like this on Saturday, and I can't see why not, then I pity anybody who can't make it.

Where's Skuit? He was spot on with the St Kilda nab challenge game tip?? I'll defer to him....for me, Dees by 3 goals, but I'm one eyed.

Also would like to understand if Geelong can beat Hawthorn for my smokey this week in the footy yips?

Chuffed that Brayshaw got through unscathed. Given he didn't play in any of the nab challenge games, did he look rusty at all? Didn't pick up anything negative in the reports above (thanks guys). Would you reckon he's a lock for round 1?

11 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

As an aside, it surprises me how many so called experts in the media expect Melbourne to improve upon last year while still predicting that we'll finish 14th this year.

Agreed WJ - my definition of improvement is with respect to everyone else, not improvement from our own team last year

Like so much of what we're doing at the moment (as compared to the past) it isn't rubbish or cringeworthy but contemporary. I'm really proud of our club at the moment on so many fronts, and I think this ad is broadly appealing as well.

Andy, great idea - I think they look terrific. I wanted a large t shirt but unfortunately sold out (I reckon dume to the membership drive in parallel). Went for a polo instead, but I'll get a t shirt (large) as well if you do another run. And a stubby holder.

Thought I might get Stuie written on mine

Me too

I think the fitness of the team and the way they've run out all three of the games is a big win from my perspective

55 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

That is the one I'm asking about, might see if I can get along. Would love to see Trenners run out.

It's an intra club at Casey Fields on Sat 26th. Whilst the scorpions website doesn't have a time for the game listed, I think it would be a stretch to be at both Casey and the G for the round 1 game on the same day. Much as I'd like to see Trenners and Petracca have a run, I'll happily wait until round 2 for their debuts against the cheating scumbags

I rang the club during the week as me and my boy are heading up to the Gold Coast in May for the game - they said they were really happy with the take up in interest with approx 15 people going on the advertised trip. Said they typically only get 5 for the NT games. I'd have thought if it were truly collaborative, that the club would be doing more 

3 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Why's it harsh? He's a member of an outlaw motorcycle gang. They're criminals involved in drug trafficking, extortion and many other illegal activities. 

Good riddance.

It's only harsh from the point of view that all the other citizens out there with tattooed faces who aren't criminals have been unfairly portrayed

10 hours ago, low flying Robbo said:

I'll be tying the knot midway through the first quarter. I expect someone to kick goal of the year to celebrate....

I'm sure you considered turning up later than the bride (by about 3 quarters)...I wouldn't either.

dont forget to thank six6six in your wedding speech for the pictures of the boys at training.

1 hour ago, Vanilla Gorilla said:

Had a chat to Clarry Oliver on the night. I put it to him that his hanger against the Doggies was a ripper - to which he coyly replied that he "didn't even get off the ground."

Either the guy is seriously humble, or we have the next Nic Nat on our list...

I'll go with seriously humble, had a great chat with him at the family day about being a young kid from the country dealing with city life and afl expectations on top of that . He's a gun and a gentleman.

8 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Maybe Barry Hall was stooping over?

 

Under the weight of his IQ, presumably 

Welcome aboard (no pun intended Sailing Demon). 8 wins by round 12 last year would have us 4th on the ladder. Agree the second half of the year is tougher and that we'd need something like this by the bye to give us momentum and confidence towards making the finals

1 minute ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Interesting our Vice captain from last year Lynden Dunn has been left out?

Very interesting dd, not sure who the new vc is (or even if there is one?)

good mix of ages and skill sets in that group

1 hour ago, Curry & Beer said:

Seriously that must be a demonland poster. No non-MFC supporter would be aware of that information. Info from either game, yes, but both? No

If he is, can someone show me how to use the ignore button...

With the amount of advertised outs from the dogs, we should do this easily

The only grand final I've been to in my life was the 1988 game against Hawthorn. There's nothing I'd love more in my life than to return the favour but smack them by 100+

5 hours ago, Deeoldfart said:

I understand what you are saying od, but evaluating how we are tracking by playing against strong opposition, and winning, are not mutually exclusive.  I'm greedy and want both! A win is indeed a win, but more meaningful (and satisfying) against better opposition.

You can win ugly like we did against Brisbane last year, win beautifully like we did against Geelong - I'll take them both (but remember the good stuff)

If that is the case, we still got more out of him on the park this year than Richmond did with Yarran

I've been to the last three with my boy - they are definitely getting busier and busier. This one typically well done and it was good to talk with the new brigade (esp. after a win). Would be good to see if the membership numbers spike a bit as a result.