Wrecker46

Happy birthday to every great Demon and supporter who has missed milestone birthdays in Victoria.

In a rare oddity my daughter who has a birthday in February got a birthday party the weekend before lockdown 1 and every other kid in her class missed out on their birthday party due to lockdowns and my daughter got a 2nd in a row in February this year. No other kid had one in between. It's the only time ever I hope my daughter doesn't get a Hattrick.

Watching it with family who including myself have all been double vacinated. My daughter who is 7yo hasn't but she can't be.

Being going my whole life with them and had to sit through the last to GF's with them.

Not worried about a fine I'll win more on my pre season Melbourne bets anyway.

3 minutes ago, deebug said:

Someone needs to also give the great Norm Smith one, for good luck😇

If we win the GF I'll climb up the Stynes one and put one around him myself

Jack Trengove rang Paul Roos and instigated a meeting with him to beg him to consider coaching us and Roos agreed to meet with him to get the ball rolling.

Trengove has played a bigger part in where we are at the moment that what alot of people realise.

Great person and Melbourne Football man.

Kudos to whoever got the Melbourne scalf around the Barassi statue at the G.

It wouldn't have been easy to get it up there.

Travis Johnstone's goal in a semi final against the drug cheats from 50m on boundary line after Whelan just flattened Hird and still handballs it to TJ

May won't miss September

We will destroy them.

My biggest concern about the game is Bailey Smith has the best mullett and Libba has a better Mo than lever.

Other than that I am confident about the result.

Mirror, mirror on the wall who is the greatest Demon of them all?

We will find out in 2 weeks. 

I have a feeling BB will play his best ever game on grand final day. He probably still won't win Norm Smith because Oliver, petracca or Gawn will take that.

13 minutes ago, Maldonboy38 said:

I just watched the replay, and decided at one point to watch the Cats rather than the Dees. Very difficult, but I just wanted to understand how so many really quality players could play so poorly.

They were atrocious. I mean MFC Mark Neeld bad. Dangerfield was very good, and at least Selwood was getting to contests and gut running. But the rest of the team were as bad defensively as Gold Coast at their worst. In particular:

• Giving Kozzie so much room on so many occasions - he ran through forward stoppages unmanned time after time after time.
• Very rare for them to put a third man up to spoil our marking forwards.
• Sparrow so often left unmarked, unchecked running through stoppages and around the ground like a 19th player.
• Total lack of defensive pressure around stoppages. How many time did Trac and Clarry run forward of a stoppage with no-one within 3 metres?
• Why didn't they tell Stanley of Esava to run with Gawn? Ridiculous game awareness.
• And you know that modern thing when a player disposes of the ball and then gets run into so he can't get to the next play? They rarely did it. Viney ran to contest after contest with no-one checking his run.
• And that marking "contest" between Langdon and Menegola in the last quarter - total embarrassment for Menegola. Summed up Geelong on the night. 

They have more than age to worry about if guns like Selwood and Dangerfield can play so well and the rest of the team can't fire up.

My most concerning point from your post is it seems you have only watched the replay once.

7 minutes ago, Supreme_Demon said:

Family must come first.

He needs to be there for his Wife and the birth of his twins.

Hopefully the Melbourne Football Club consider giving Nathan Jones one last season so that we as Demons fans get to see him off properly.

Either way, Nathan we love you mate, you have been an incredible and loyal servant of the Melbourne Football Club.

 

Do we know if they are boys or girls?

Either way father son or daughter rule.

We only started following Kalany White when he was 9 years old. In the embryo is where we should start.

7 hours ago, adonski said:

Tagged by Selwood

I think when we rate the tagger on Oliver or Petracca they play selfless football and are more of a decoy at the centre bounce. 

We didn't want Selwood at the centre bounce contests so Oliver just let Petracca and Viney get it without Geelong's best contested footballer near it.

Clark Keating.

After the Grand Final we should just rest him until the finals in 2022.

11 minutes ago, binman said:

Finding it hard to be productive at work.

But still want to contribute to the. economy.

So I think I'll go online and spend $1000 on dees merch.

Is that on Oliver to get 20 plus possessions at $1.01? Good investment. 

The first game I can really remember was in 1987 when Jim Stynes ran over the the mark and we lost the preliminary final after the siren.

When we got back to the car we also had a parking ticket. Dad had the good sense to write a letter saying we were related to Jim Stynes from Ireland and didn't understand the parking restrictions. We got off.

My best win is coming this month.

On 8/24/2021 at 10:36 PM, Redleg said:

Well, we enter a finals series in the most strange circumstances, where most of us will not be allowed to attend.

The TV sets in Victoria will be getting a heavy workout during the finals.

Surely after 57 years this is our year.

Go Dees.

One of the reasons to leave home under lockdown is for care and compassion. I have a family who need that after 57 years.

5 minutes ago, Supermercado said:

B: Whelan, May, Lever
HB: S. Febey, Ingerson, Salem
C: Tingay, Oliver, Woewodin
HF: Petracca, Schwarz, Bruce
F: Davey, Neitz, Lyon
Foll: Gawn, Jones, Yze
Int: Stynes, Jakovich, Green, Wight
Emg: Robertson, Johnstone , White, J. McDonald

Almost tempted to slaughter the sacred cow and go for Jeff White over Stynes but I don't think the resting ruckman will need to kick too many goals with that forward line.

Hayden Lamaro and Isaac Weetra stiff to miss.

What about Brent Grgic?

Btw no way Jeff White is ahead of Stynes, accept for not running over the mark and all.

1 hour ago, dieter said:

 

Ergo:

Whelan, May, Johnson

Lovett, Neitz, Lever

Yze, Bruce, Tingay

Green, Schwartz, Petracca

Davey, Lyon, Framer

Gawn, Oliver, T.Viney

Stynes, Jones, Jakovich, S.Febey, 

 

I don't think Bruce would get a a game at his peak in the current squad, let alone best team since 1990.

J Viney would be more deserving.

Where's the Wrecker?

I hope my daughter can stay awake for it.

I have no concerns for Nadia Bartel, she will stay awake to see it.

In 2018 Clayton Oliver was our best player.

In 2021 Clayton Oliver is the best player in the league.

It's not a one man team we have good players and systems around him but it helps.

I don't think Baker is a fail. You can't play everyone on your list. Baker and Weid will both get 2nd goes at another club after not being able to hold a spot in a near injury free season from the top team in the league.

So has Jayden Hunt fractured his finger like poster were suggesting?

Not that it matters you can play with that easy anyway.

When I was playing a very low level grade of football my late grandfather who would have turned 100 today on father's day, drove from regional Victoria to watch me play a game. I broke my index finger in the first quarter but played on because he was there. I even took overhead marks after it. The following day I got x-rays and needed surgery because the bone was split down the middle. All the beers I drank probably didn't help with the swelling either.

Interested to know if Hunt does have a fractured finger but that won't stop him playing if we want to select him.