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The machine seems to adapt very well to whatever challenges are thrown at it, they keep to their system. I expect it will notch up a gear or two in the coming weeks. As an aside, I left the game midway through the last quarter to go watch Richmond v Essendon. I noticed two things. a) The standard of that game was pretty crap, minding less and less if Richmond stay in the eight. b) Sitting amongst that mob of footy fans made me feel more intelligent than I most likely am.

Almost doubled their score…. how disappointing 😎

Always dreamed (perhaps fantasised) for decades of the Mighty Dees winning a GF with a red ball at the G in the arvo….. looks like it’s going to happen this year 👍

No Dusty, no Richmond. Sort of sounds good doesn’t it 😊

Likewise! I’ll be there also. GO DEES

Sure we have quite a few champion players but more importantly we have a champion team. I am so wrapped when people like Spargo choose to hang around for the journey forward. A very important cog in our engine

Likewise, they are my second team now if that makes sense. Used to be the Doggies for a while also but I went off them a few years back

Can hardly wait until 2025 when we will be the first side ever to win 5 flags in a row 😎

Question: Is Jackson worth the money? Answer: Yes!

Biggest winning margin against the Wet Toasts, yet it was another workmanlike performance at best. But all that matters is that we got the four points and bit of a percentage boost. GO DEES!

Still troubles me this rule. Dare I say it I felt for DeGoey in the Pies V Dogs. He pulled his head in real quick, so what’s the big deal? Move on. Still think this could decide a GF when the heat and emotions are hot. If it was a factor in say helping Melbourne win a GF, it would take some of the gloss of the win….unless of course it was against the Pies 😎

A little left field of this thread but another 50 metre penalty that annoys the hell out of me is when a player who takes a mark or gets a free feigns a handball to try and draw a 50 metre penalty. To me that is not football, it is milking the system ….. you go to do a handball…play on!

Just watched the videos of Angus and the press conference of Goody- I am now feeling that much more confident that he will re sign with us. As an aside I am so impressed also how Goodwin responded to a question on how he would feel if Yze wanted to pursue his coaching career elsewhere. This club really does walk the talk when it comes to being respectful- I am a very proud demon fan

I sound defeatist don’t I? Put very simply, I just feel that money talks and it is very hard not to think that what we have right now is a form of professional entertainment that tv : multi media interests have an enormous say in. Football comes second (as do supporters)…… unfortunately

Agree it is inevitable and will happen , it is just a matter of when. But……...I’ve just had it in my head and dreamed (dare I say fantasied) for decades that we would play and win a GF at the G during the day. I would just love to see that dream realised this year and then I would be prepared to accept us winning the next one in 2023 under lights.😊

A comment that I heard on DeeBief the other week. ‘While other teams talk about premiership windows of opportunity being open, we are just going to walk through the front door’ Not even a sniff of VoN. Love it!

Not all that many sleeps to go for you then 👍😊

Could just be me, but I would have thought that Ross Lyon’s ‘use by date’ as a coach has expired and that there would be better options out there

My ‘love to hate’ syndrome is influenced by actual players in opposition sides (eg No1 hate team several years ago and still high on the list, GWS. Why? Toby Greene, Shaw and Mummy, need I say anymore! ). Over the years teams I hate on this basis go up and down my ‘hate ladder’. Every club seems to have a somewhat unique ‘supporter culture’ This is a more stable ‘love to hate’ influencer, for me at least. That is why the classic sides are always up there (eg Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon, Port etc for very obvious reasons ) even though at times I have no issue with their actual team and game style. To be honest I at times can get a little bit jealous of what I see, hear and feel when I experience the passion of those opposition supporter bases when I’m at the footy . Why? Because deep down I know how other teams supporters perceive us to be like and at times it is almost embarrassing and hard to argue against. Examples- a) The whinging whining syndrome- I have and will always hate hearing someone call out ‘come on Melbourne’ in a slow moaning groan tone at the ground. b) fair weather syndrome- when the team gets going we like I guess most supporters of other teams will tend to start coming out in droves, but I reckon (no evidence whatsoever) we would hold off doing this longer than others, waiting perhaps until we are a absolute certainty to make the finals c) similar to the above - the priority syndrome- ‘we are off to the snow’, see you in September d) This is the one that ‘kills me’, the negative Nellie syndrome where you have a fair swag of supporters that you feel almost are happy or wanting the Dees to trip up to prove that they were right (this was overtly apparent last season and still lingers on now this year after now winning 15 straight!). I say all this through my lenses. I came on board the year after Melbourne won the flag in 1964, I was 5 years old. I have suffered like everyone else over the years. The only difference from my suffering to younger supporters is that I had over half a century of it. The commonality with the younger brigade being that we experienced failure for all of our lives, until now. It was real tough. On the upside, I was in a most fortunate position to have the privilege of attending all of Melbourne’s finals they played last year. Sheer luck. What was most noticeable in the last two finals (Geelong and Footscray) was the electric, noisy passion of the people that attended the games. It very much had a strong West Coast feel to it, including all the booing! Gets worse, I loved being part of it. There was noise, positivity, passion). WA hoped on board with the Dees and you could tell and feel this. To try and provide some contrast. I was hoping that at the 1st round GF rematch at the G that having genuine supporters attend that the noise/ passion would go to a new level. It didn’t. (Yeah I know, it was a Wednesday night and all that, but still). I have had to accept somewhat reluctantly that the way that other teams supporters perceive us to be is pretty much on the mark. Having said that, the MFC have actually changed (ie the Board, the coaching staff, support staff and players). They have managed to change their ‘culture’. I feel for want of better words our supporter base has in a sense not as yet hopped on board as much as I would have liked them to. Perhaps we won’t, culture change is very difficult to achieve. But I still live in hope. I am an old bugger and I get it that we have had some [censored] decades and any change, particularly real culture change is hard to achieve. It takes effort. My only hope now is that a lot of newbie’s that don’t carry the scars of the past hop on board the Dee train and lock in on the new culture that our team have created. We have a window of opportunity right now. I want us to become the most respected and at the same time hated team in the competition. Apologies to anyone that I may have inadvertently offended. My only excuse is that I am an old bugger that did not realise how much passion and belief I have for MFC. What I dreamed about when I was a kid is now happening. Time for all our supporter base to hop on board, the team has changed, so can we. Time to burn the VoN. GO DEES

Talk about a man walking the talk ( definitely no pun intended). An absolute legend

Agree. I like Goodwin’s mantra - ‘we respect every team in the competition’ . It would be a big mistake to presume that we have any game won before you actually play the game.

Weightman obviously comes from a soccer background, and if not, he should seriously consider changing codes.

It is so hard to be modest when our team is so bloody good at the moment. I’m failing miserably and I love it!

Sort of. My job is to rock up to as many games as I possibly can to support the mighty Dees. 😎

Whatever the match committee comes up with as to whether he plays or doesn’t, I’ll back them 100%. The whole team be it the board, the coaches , the medicos and the players seem to pretty much nailed it more times than not. They look like that they are one united and determined unit that are on a mission. GO DEES!