Wodja

I catch a train in and make a stop at Springvale to buy a pork belly roll. Then back on the train to the G. Love it when someone at half time asks me where did I buy that from.

Neale Daniher’s comment comes to mind- ‘after all that is said and done , more is said than done’ (or words to that effect). I hope plenty of us turn up. It is undoubtedly the best most tangible way that we the supporters can actually help our team on game day. Home game, home crowd advantage. If you can, be there loud and proud! It would ‘urinate’ me off if we were vastly outnumbered on the day.

When we beat north, I felt flat. Losing to Brisbane, strangely I felt a touch of hope. The win against West Coast felt just right. Looking forward to next Saturday night. I feel somewhat optimistic about our next game despite Essendon having a two day longer break than us between games Hoping there are many like-minded people as me that intend going to the game and making a lot of noise. After all it is our home game! Hope it feels like a home game for our boys (and supporters). GO DEES!

Only if we lose 😉

Would she mind much if you dragged her along to all our remaining home and away games?

Go kick [censored] Jake !

Not sure when the number of umpires were increased to four (which I thought was a good idea at the time- to pick up legitimate frees deep in forward/ defence)- which has proven to be an abject failure. This stretched the talent pool which increased the likelihood of more poor / inconsistent decisions being made. Add to this the fine line interpretations required to determine what is a handball / throw and players milking the system for frees (eg driving their own head into the ground) it all just looks / feels worse than the standard 10 years ago. Seems like quite a few games results this year were directly impacted by some very bad calls late in the game. Such a shame for those of us that watch football because we love football (as opposed to the ‘professional entertainment’ game that it had sadly morphed into).

I think it will become less fraudulent in the coming two weeks.

Umpires really stuffed up a good close game in that 3rd quarter (ESS v Cats).

Being realistic we cannot be considered serious contenders this year. (Sydney is and perhaps any one that ends up top four at season end). Strange game this. I felt gutted by last week’s win, but gained some hope with this week’s loss. Hoping that we can somehow make the finals. Not caring or thinking about higher draft picks if we finish lower. Just want to see us play finals. You got to be in it to win it (but refer to my first sentence). It is a long off season. GO DEES!

Being realistic we cannot be considered serious contenders this year. (Sydney is and perhaps any one that ends up top four at season end). Strange game this. I felt gutted by last week’s win, but gained some hope with this week’s loss. Hoping that we can somehow make the finals. Not caring or thinking about higher draft picks if we finish lower. Just want to see us play finals. You got to be in it to win it (but refer to my first sentence). It is a long off season. GO DEES!

Rug up, roll up and be loud.

Going to bed now. Tomorrow morning I’ll enjoy seeing what Scott said at his press conference

Danger will get off. Different story of course had Kozzie done the same.

Spot on. All now gets down to what result is in Melbourne’s best interest. So in a very little voice ‘go Carlscum’

Come finals, ABC. Simple as that for me now.

And equally as good, particularly when it’s an ‘away game’ 1 point. Actually almost better. We smash ‘em and a lot of them would have left well before the final siren. I want to have the full crowd experience.

I still can’t get over their chanting when Gus was knocked out cold. I want our team to focus on playing their guts out and beating this mob. We can do it. My job at the ground tomorrow is to give it to Maynard and any other feral shyyytes in the crowd near me that back him up …… and feel their hate when we win. And yes, I’ll cheer for you. GO DEES SMASH ‘EM!!!

Need motivation? Do it for Neale, Gus, Goody, supporters, beating effing Collingwood….. self pride. Take your pick, or mix and match. Season defining game

For me high up on the ‘hate list’ is Cox and Maynard (and used to include Ginnivan). That aside they are a very good side and play an exciting brand of football. It is their supporter base that l absolutely despise. No better example was when the ferals last year started chanting ‘Collingwood’ while Brayshaw was knocked out cold. It made me very angry. Still am! The KB game for me is ‘our little final in June’. I just don’t want us to win, I want to see Collingwood get smashed….so that I can soak up the crowd atmosphere. (Even better in some ways when we will be vastly outnumbered). GO DEES.

Just saw a photo of Goody in The Age. Boy has he aged. Looks like he took a big one for the team. The boys owe him one. Hope they turn up next Monday and play their hearts out for him.

Can we start a crowd funding thingy on in internet to cover any loss of income? I’d pitch in. What is big bad Carl Ditterich up to nowadays? It’s got to be a big hit. He only has a few brain cells. if all that is not possible, just beat the bastards.

Phew, thank goodness. I thought we were in a spot of bother after that shellacking. As an aside, how big is our game next week versus the Ferals!

And on that ‘ludicrous’ theme, the game has changed so much over the decades and even in recent years. Football that was played in the sixties (that is as far back I can go) is almost a totally different game to what is played today. And then to try and nominate (and objectively justify) the best of all time!…….good luck

The other elephant in the room is the handball rule. Years ago a handball was a handball and ‘flick passes’ were actually deemed a throw. Bemusing how the interpretation has been allowed to change over the years. (Guessing the hand ball rule has actually not changed, but happy to be corrected). Nowadays there is a very fine line between what is a handball and what is a throw. I actually feel for the umpires on this one. But I won’t let them off the hook completely. As we all know some players get targeted and pinged, others always seem to get the benefit of the doubt.