Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Tyson was good. One of the few for us that can hold their heads high.

On today's effort I agree. All we needed to do was shut down or out mucsell them in that fieat Qrt. ..but Goody still has a while to run on his tenure.

That's saying something, because I thought the first Qtr/half was worse.

What a load of BS. Was Tom Mc Donald solely responsable for our whole first Qtr? That's where the game was lost. ---------- I agree first quarter was of course where the game was lost. But the game was in the balance at the end, we had the opportunity to come back from it or at the very least mitigate the %. He's a leader, hell he was temporary captain, he had the chance to take a kick from 48-50m out directly in front and chose to kick it to a 3 on one. This was not long after he butchered a kick out that went straight to Cox, who he proceeded to get stuck into. How about worrying about your own game Tom? Perhaps unfair to say "he cost us blah, blah, blah" but FMD dead he was disgraceful with those 2 efforts (plus embarrassingly getting into Cox). Pates, I don't nessasrily disagree that T Mac had a major brain fade with that kick, but he was by far alone. If we are realistic about this, then both Garlett and Gawn missed (a number of) regulation set shots in the second half that would have completely changed the whole completion of the second half. Even our poster boy No.14 had a few shocking moments today. T Mac may be amounget the guilty, but he shouldn't be blamed soley. This is like the 87 prelim witch hunt all over again. It's unbefitting. ... and we haven't even elimited our selves from the fight just yet.

Eating my words a bit here, this was a game we could have and should have won...but didn't. BUT for all their bragging rights today, we are still 'currently' in finals. Collingwood have fallen way short over the journey. West Coast still need to win and win reasonably well tomorrow against the Crows to knock us out.

What a load of BS. Was Tom Mc Donald solely responsable for our whole first Qtr? That's where the game was lost.

[censored] that.

Have been doing my best Lleyton Hewitt COME-ONS all the back half of that quater. You are better than this filthy SHIIT demons. Make it happen.

Keep it comming Demons

We can still win this. We were completely on top of them that quarter. Dominated, but just couldn't take our opportunities in front of goal. They got every freakish half chance possible.

Get lost. The footy gods hate us today

That's the value of Jack Watts. He is playing well and contesting hard today.

That's more like it

It is, but we have done it before and they are good at capitulating. Come on DEMONS

What a shocker of a quarter from us. Umpires were absolute stinkers too.

Great work Jack Watts

Fair enough. While I appreciate the effort you've gone to, I wasn't happy when I saw the title of your topic. For a second I thought that Nathan had announced a shock retirement or something, really put me off my cornflakes. ...BTW, "An ex girlfriends lament"? Wondering how Nathan's wife feels about this tribute?

Time to release this would have been two weeks ago when Nathan had been out of the side for 6 weeks, 6 weeks too long. From his game last week, he's clearly back and pretty close to his best again.

YouTube popped up an add for a book "Rewire your anxious brain" ... must have picked up on the mood from some posters here. Lol.

I was there that day as 9 yo Jack. Still one of my favorite footy memories and pretty hard to beat from that perspective. What great day of drama. Standing up the back of the hill, up against the corrugated iron fence at the back of the Western Oval. The Demons mascot running round pre game with the Flower Power sign on his back, for what I was told by my father to expect was probably the late great Robbie's last game. The come back, people listening to their radios and then the second round of roars and cheers when the results of the other games fell our ways. In all honesty, I don't actually remember that much of the actual game, but the rest will stick with me forever. The elation of my fellow Melbourne supporters that day, was something I have only seen surpassed after we smashed Carlton out at Waverley a year later to make the GF. I don't think I'll ever be able to truly match those moments again until we finally win a flag in my lifetime, but should we win today and make finals after such a long and painful 11 years, it will certainly be a real smell the roses moment.

Hanging out for 1:45pm big time. CAR'N THE MIGHTY DEMONS

Realistically this result changes nothing, win we much and win we should. I would be in a somber mood all week next week if we loose and go through anyway, any contemplation of a shalacking first week of finals. Got to find that intense desire and form from mid season tomorrow and take that onto the week after.

What about they wear white? Now that would be novel. Hugh clash with white and most jumpers... except those crap away/clash jumpers! Maybe that's why they call them clash jumpers.

If anyone has been listening to Bruce go on about the retiring players, in the words of his co-hoast BT "WOWEE"... please get the man some tissues, I don't think he can handle much more (cough cough).

Some kind of boy wonder, future superstar? Melbourne should give him the same treatment afforded to Jack all those years ago.