ElDiablo14

On the train now, Sunbury line. It's pretty empty for a Friday night regardless of the footy. How's all the other trains looking like?

Hopefully the Saints do the impossible and beat the old cats 😬.

Another Carlton loss would be nice too

Just as the Short Shadows song goes.... 

WOOOOHOOOO HERE COME THE DEES!

C'mon Dees army let's crush those pies tonight!

4 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

There is no chance it will come close to 90.

Crap weather, Covid back it will max out at 75.

I'd love it to be like Anzac Eve in 2017 when it was a shock to get 85.5K.

We just don't have that many supporters. Ticket sales indicated 70K.

Friday nights have also drawn really poorly this year. 

We have 65k members, that should be enough to get us to around 50k. The rest is up to Pies coming on the day, which they will. I expect no less than 75k, but hope for 80k+.

When was the last time we played in front of 80k+? Probably 2018 finals.

All I want for this game is no more obnoxious and pedantic opposition supporters in the corporate suites behind me. I had bad experiences in the Freo and Sydney games. Can't stand a loud mouth Pies supporter for the whole game!

Count me in! I'll be there after missing the last 4 weeks. My better half will be there too although she is not as loud as I am 😬

21 minutes ago, Stiff Arm said:

This has got to be the dumbest shaped 'oval' of all time. Looks like a flat tyre on my car 

Looks like a botched racing track!

11 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

No GA tickets for this Friday’s match. All sold out (already).

Are we thinking 80k+ on the day?

Seems like the broken finger has stalled Oliver's season. I hope he can regain his full form and take the Coaches' and Brownlow home!

2 minutes ago, old dee said:

There is no doubt IMO that we will finish in the top four however I find it difficult to believe we can win the flag this year with the poor state of our KPF's. With Tmac out for probably the rest of this year we are left with Brown and Weideman. Brown is way below his best and enough has been said about Sam. We would need Brown to show form he has not shown all year. I see a prelim loss on the horizon. 

JVR to the rescue!

3 minutes ago, Deeminion said:

How did you rate Nibblers game?

Seems he has zero awareness to the time he has to release the ball. He gets caught way too often for my liking and it happens on a weekly basis.

Once again he had a low possession count, 7 possessions and didn't hit the scoreboard.

Are his pressure acts (31 2nd highest behind Oliver) & his endurance that important to keep him in the side.

I'd love to see what Bailey Laurie can add to the high half forward roll.

Love the Podcast and would love to hear your thoughts on the matter.

This! ... I have noticed ANB form to be lackluster in the last couple of weeks. He is not a damaging player like Kozzy or Spargo. His wastefulness of the footy is infuriating 

10 minutes ago, Demonland said:

That's a question I want an answer to as well.

We haven't played at the G since Round 15 on the 23rd of June (39 days to today and it will be 43 days on Friday). Since that time Collingwood have played 4 games there.

Maybe psychological? The boys want to win it at the G, it could be counterproductive for them to feel the obligation to win at the G in front of the Dees' faithful 

1 minute ago, BDA said:

got an armchair ride to the prelim during covid impacted 2020 and still couldn't get the job done. Serial chokers in the big games

Who chokes more though... Geelong, Brisbane or Port??? 🤔

4 minutes ago, JJR said:

He has the best goal sense in the league, his finishing is beyond elite. His left foot is also the best in the league imo.

Yep, his left foot is golden. He is like the Midas of goal kicking 

3 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Errr ... did you actually read the article?  The author explains how they do it.

That may be the case but it is also unfair to let star players take too many pay cuts. I believe the likes of the NBA or NFL have a minimum salary (max contracts) for star players, so you can't underpay them too much in order to stack up stars in your team.

1) Unfair advantage with their subpar AFL ground 

2) Cap space? How can they keep adding star players with barely no cap space available? (They were trying to get Angus per reports, how were they intending to add an extra 700k to their caps space).

3) For some reason a lot of regional VIC talent likes to go there. Metro VIC has to share the pool of talen between 7 clubs.

I don't know that you can call them successful with the list they've had for a decade with the same coach and their finals resume is lackluster at the very least.

33 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

Same El. I don’t buy it either. They’re in the same country ffs. They have the wherewithal to travel back and forth as often as they like. 
Unlike some families who, say for example, have a son who lives in Europe and a parent who lives in Melbourne and they’re lucky to see each other once every two years. And the son is missing Australia like crazy and the parent is missing the son, also like crazy. That’s just a random example, of course. ☹️
 

The same for me, my whole family is back in Mexico. I just came back from seeing my family last month, how good is that!!

3 minutes ago, Soidee said:

Did Jackson’s head knock stop him from being in the team song?

He didn't want to look bad in front of his new team and supporters.

1 minute ago, Demonland said:

I wasn’t worried about ‘21 Geelong like I am ‘22 Geelong and that’s not even factoring us into it. At the moment they give Dees ‘21 a run for their money. 

Perhaps the G will be the deciding factor but our form on that ground hasn’t been stellar this year so perhaps it’s not such an advantage. 

Just need to listen to the Binman; he can always find arguments for and data to support it!

2 minutes ago, pitmaster said:

Does this mean you're suggesting we abandon the 'selfish" tag? I, for one, am with you, but you better move carefully round these here parts. Or carry a large umbrella.

I don't mind waking in the rain...😆

Can't remember if there's a thread about the importance of Frittata, but he ought to be the most influential offensive player in our list at the moment. Besides his goal kicking, he must have a lot of score involvements.

Should be AA this year IMO.

25 minutes ago, Demonland said:

This season he has gone from the Dees being guaranteed to go undefeated to missing the Top 4 to still a chance to missing the Top 4 again to keeping the faith. If we lose next week his head might explode.

Wouldn't surprise me if he predicted the Dees to be relegated to the VFL if we can't defeat the filth...

Just now, WalkingCivilWar said:

Collingwood AGAIN by less than a kick. 😡

 

Telling you this way of winning won't be sustainable in September. Collingwood maybe one of the worst finals teams percentage-wise in the last decade 

11 minutes ago, Demonland said:

For better or worse loyalty is not a thing to the kids coming through these days. They grow up watching NBA & NFL where players, the champions too, regularly change sides. 

The difference being that in the NFL or NBA top draft picks usually play at the very least 5 or 6 years with the teams that picks them. 

1 minute ago, Redleg said:

The accepted view seems to be that he would stay a couple of years if no deal can be done. It is an opportunity for him to go home and play for the club he barracked for.

IMO we have been pragmatic and started looking at what we can get out of it, rather than keep him for a couple of years and go through all of this again for another year.

We can really  plug some list holes if we are smart.

Didn't he barrack for the Weagles? I thought his idol was Nic Nat