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I was already hurting and now you've ruined my one claim to fame.

Champion. You would have been shouted to multiple drinks by now if I was in residence.

@AmDamDemon. Beer soon. Borders have been a little bit bit more important than footy this year. Not much though.

To keep myself busy during the breaks and before the match I went on tinder. Six matches by the end of the game. Should try it everyone.

Season is a bust. Was proud of the effort tonight. Now I go on my long-tern off-season holiday. See you next year champs.

Is front-on contact an actual rule?

Riveting football. I'm strapped in. Go Dees!

Unfounded optimism. Nervy pessimism. Plenty of humour. Posters checking in from various points of the globe, posters getting themselves pumped. BBQ and beverage reports. Crazy score predictions. Pre-game routines. For as long as I can recall and even at the worst of times - this is what I had come to expect of the game-day thread. A ritualistic shedding of the emotional baggage of the prior week and a chance for re-set, at least for the few hours leading up to first bounce. Somewhere I could come feeling little interest in the match ahead and leave excited and fully committed to cheering my [censored] off. Now it's just a bunch of people moaning. I hope our players have their minds on the task at hand and not taking a negative attitude into the game, as we ask of them week in week out. For many of us the football and watching our club is greatest escape we have from the workaday - why not enjoy the fantasy? Go Dees.

"Demons coach Simon Goodwin proved the catalyst for change, even if May originally reacted angrily to the tough love." "I was a bit surprised, because he got me down to the club and I thought he had my back, but he just hit me between the eyes and told me I needed to start owning up to my actions."

I missed the 2004 - 2007 seasons entirely. Reading about our wild 2006 in week-old newspapers was still a little bit exciting. Gained access again in 2008. Perfect timing.

You poor barstard. Maybe only 15 or so games now (covering four states) but the last time I recall seeing us win live was in 1992. Yay Darren Bennett.

Beat me to it Wiseblood. As the OP spoke of only H&A games I had (and this is subjective based on emotional highs at the time, in chronological order): 2017 Rnd 1 vs. St Kilda. The first round always has added emotional weight. We came out with an attacking and exciting brand. 2017 vs Adelaide @ Adelaide Oval. An unexpected win against the odds with bonus comeback and everyone contributing. 2018 vs Adelaide @ Alice Springs. We had beaten up on some lowly teams prior. Came out here and looked truly sublime. 2018 vs West Coast @ Optus Stadium. Holding our nerve to secure finals. A win which defied our psychological profiling. 2020 vs Collingwood. Evident proximity bias plus. But they genuinely put the heat on us and we responded. A pleasing win.

Two points. It was mentioned a couple times early on in the Sydney-Melbourne broadcast that the game was being played in straight lines down the ground - i.e. the players were too afraid to attempt inboard passes and switches in the wind. Does this impact our game-plan and level the playing field somewhat? Also, it was noticeable in the first quarter that May was frequently hovering around half forward and up the wing. Does playing with the breeze force our defensive structures further up the ground in order to cut off relief kicks which are being held up? After St Kilda, our structures looked completely shot.

Saw a dozen broken tackles in the first five minutes and knew we were done.

They were our best performers across the day. Oliver and some of our other defenders also helped get us across the line and Langdon didn't stop. Has no relation to what I posted. Langdon looked to have plenty of cookies on Thursday. Heat and humidity will effect different people in different ways. It's accepted as pretty normal fact of civilian life.

Great. I agree. I said it in 2016 and 2017 and then stopped. You think you can influence selection by banging on about it? You need to vent - then do it in the post-game or weekly changes thread.

Oh wow. I was evidently on my personal off-season break by then. Would recommend.

To be honest Better Days I don't know. But I think so. Usually when I arrive back in North Queensland I head straight for the pub to get acclimatised. To add context to my earlier post when first training up far north - it was early February - so much harsher conditions and the ball would also slip straight through the hands. There were a handful of us completely on our haunches within 15 minutes of the first session - and the local boys kept running past and joking about the 'Mexicans' (anyone from down south). It's also when they informed us we couldn't drink the water due to giardia.

Pretty sure we beat Sydney last year with Jones playing a starring role.

Haven't read a word of this thread. Don't really want to. But did anyone notice a number of our players looking completely spent in the first half of the first quarter? May and Trac spring to mind as a couple of examples, trying to suck in air in the first ten minutes. Flying into Cairns and playing a couple hours later is not cool at all (coming from someone who has spent a good part of their adult life in FNQ). Acclimatisation is a must. Have many of you guys played footy in the tropics before? I get that it's still September but I think Lynch mentioned that it was a particularly muggy day. What happens is that you simply can't get in the oxygen you need. (My first few weeks training with the Port Douglas Crocs was a mess). It was an embarrassing schmozzle yesterday but we weren't given a chance. A small disadvantage can cause a huge break-down in modern footy, and that's exactly what it looked like: impotence.

Same could be said of Brown. We got 99 problems but the Mitch ain't one.

Is a llama a type of fish?

Never been a fan of Oscar and I've let my feelings been known over the course. Also not a fan of bumping every thread to continually rag on a single player wherever possible. What's the purpose? Seriously? What do people hope to gain?

With all this talk of swimming pools and [censored]-bars, Jack Watts must be kicking himself right now for missing out on hub-life on the Gold Coast.

Goodwin ahead of the game bringing in an extra tall down back or the Swans matching up?