Wodjathefirst

I’ll be there to witness the mighty Melbourne Football Club spanking a tanking Hawthorn. GO DEES!!!!!!

Trust JVR will remember all this when his contract comes up for renewal.

Developed a good waiting time strategy Watching the Front Bar and check this forum at advertisement breaks for any updates. Not holding my breath for very obvious reasons

My concern / perhaps paranoia being that Collingwood may be the exception. I could imagine that despite cost of living pressures that their numbers could increase above the average ….team being serious contenders this year, therefore ferals foregoing education, dentistry etc…. to ‘afford’ memberships, not to mention I reckon they breed over and above the average. I could be wrong but who cares

What a journey this has been. Some things are just so far above footy. Having said that, I am so proud that the whole football community gets behind such causes as this. Love to be around the day when they say ‘fight MND’ will no longer be a King’s birthday ‘event’…. because a cure has been found.

And sadly, that is why I am not very confident about what the outcome will be tonight. (I oh so hope I am wrong…again)

The oh so obvious inconsistencies of interpretations of what was okay or not okay in ‘incidents’ across all teams does my head in. The only consistency that I could pick up to date is that if you are an established high profile player, you have a far better chance of getting off (same for not being given free kicks against). If you are a no name player the odds tend to go against you.

Petty, Fritch and Hunter…. all stay in

I may be a little off topic here but in past years I generally used to think the umpiring in the first five or six rounds of each season ‘frustrating’. Then as the season rolled along it ‘stabilised’. Not so this year. It has not improved one iota to date. I’m guessing the contributors are the added pressure on interpreting what constitutes a dangerous tackle. Also having the fourth umpire (I liked the concept) has certainly diminished the talent pool which increases the number of inconsistent / poor decisions being made. My only hope come finals time the situation should improve due to the AFL being able to select the ‘better’ umpires to adjudicate. Fingers crossed.

I’m glad that people are making a distinction between the Cripps and JVR incidents. Reason being that on one hand we the Melbourne supporter base were saying that Cripps was guilty as sin and on the other hand we are saying that JVR has nothing to worry about

I have never come across a commentator that just likes to get it out there as to how great he is (was) and how he is just such an effusive expert on all things football. He really does irk me big time.

Well if that is the case I hope all the demon hater ex Hawkscum reporters have got the gig next week to provide commentary on our game. To add to the atmosphere I hope that their footy department is in full Hawktank mode for that game. I will be there to see us smash the poo and pee and get some serious percentage boost. Then I’ll rush home to listen to the commentary up loud so as to not miss one bit of their whining and whinging.

I must make a mental note not to vent on this forum straight after a close game. I’ve watched the Goody press conference, watched the boys sing our song and read some of the positive posts made here. We got the four points (phew), looking forward to next week (one week at a time and all that jazz). GO DEES!!!

Good question Guess it’s just a reaction to other posters who keep repeating that we are going to smash sides week in, week out

Fingers crossed 🤞

Scratched my brain and came up with a positive…… of sorts. Our three poorest games this year (the two losses and this one) were all interstate games. What is ironic was that in the prior two seasons we were the interstate game champions. Go figure….. (I can’t)

I keep repeating, every game for us is a danger game. We can’t take any side for granted

And it’s too early to put this debacle down to ‘we are in our loading phase’

I’m struggling to find any positives other than getting the four points for a lucky win. The best I can come up with is that they did beat (a depleted Geelong) at the start of the year. Pretty poor, scratch that. Just going to spend the rest of the weekend feeling miserable, as if we had actually lost the game.

Hate to say it, we deserved to lose. We were lucky

We are not playing well, the umpires aren’t great, but what is a certainty is that the commentators don’t like us one iota.

It’s all got very complicated for me. Putting nationality or heritage aside, I used to think I was pronouncing his name correctly but now I’m pretty sure I haven’t been…… so now I’m playing it safe and just call him JVR.

I’m so sorry. I was wrong. My understanding now is that they began leaving mid way through the third quarter. Even better.

Best part of the game? Hearing that Carlscum supporters began leaving the ground at 3/4 time

Totally agree. Definitely will be in the top four at season’s end