
Everything posted by The Cult of Disco Turner
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GAMEDAY: Rd 11 vs Sydney
Melbourne-based Swans supporters make us look like an incredibly blue collar team by comparison. Theyāre next level posh.
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NON-MFC: Round 11
Boy, the sport gets a lot easier when you can just sprint 30 meters into the goalā¦
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PREGAME: Rd 11 vs Sydney
Nah Iāve lived down here for several years as my partner is from Melbourne but I try to get to a game or two at Lambeau (wearing my cheesehead, of course) when I visit family. The Packers are genuinely like a religion for Wisconsināthe roads are completely empty and some businesses even shut down during the games. If the Packers lose the entire state on Monday morning has a very similar vibe to post-loss Demonland. But one of the many, many things I love about living here and supporting the Dees is that I never have to ask myself ādo you love this team enough to go sit on a concrete bench for 4 hours when itās -20C and snowing?ā (I will shut up now and we can go back to talking the Sydney game, everyone)
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PREGAME: Rd 11 vs Sydney
Yeah, my family has had Packers season tickets since the 60s and Brett Favre has been an [censored] for years but the CTE is certainly making it worse. My non-evidence based take as someone who grew up around and played American football as a lineman is that the hard helmets can and often do make things worse via a false sense of security and the brutal impact that one hard helmet has when it hits another. Some players in the NFL have started wearing an additional soft āguardian capā on top of the helmet which looks an awful lot like the soft helmets used in AFL and NRL. The NFL, of course, does not really care about player safety and has been working to protect itself from these lawsuits for years. But at the same time, there is only so much you can do in a sport where the objective is to repeatedly line up and crash into each other at full speed.
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NON-MFC: Round 11
Has been the same story for us a number of timesāgotta take advantage of your chances. 17 behinds is brutal. But at the same timeā¦frees being 26-12 is just appalling. And I reckon if you look at where/when those frees were paid it was just as appalling.
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NON-MFC: Round 11
Iām here to complain about the umps.
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Media Madness
Yeah I think youāre right that the winning is definitely the lionās share of itāyou win a few and suddenly the vultures start looking elsewhere. And I could absolutely be full of [censored] with the rest of itā¦maybe Iām just so excited to have good vibes back that I am giving a bit too much credit. But at the very least thereās finally been some positive momentum recently both on and off the field and we havenāt ruined it with unforced errors which, given all the nonsense off the field in recent years, feels like a Herculean accomplishment worthy of some praise.
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Media Madness
From a PR/media standpoint it feels like we are on the front foot for the first time in a long time. Iāve been frustrated with the club for some time over this as some of their behaviour in the recent past has been flat out weird and not at all best practices. At some level PR is made easier through winning, but also: -Goody has done a really good job steadying the ship in recent pressers and media appearances by providing a good level of transparency into whatās happening while also ensuring they keep closed ranks. -We seem to be sending a clear message that we wonāt be screwed with by teams like Freo anymore by floating our own rumours right back at them (come on back Luke). -Weāve actively got our players beyond Max doing relatively polished appearancesāTracās presser, Kozās interview with his dad, Langfordās appearance on Demonland pod and XL on the other podcast. There seems to be a really authentic love of the club conveyed in many of these appearances too. Itās not all perfect and we will never be a media juggernaut club who can keep themselves out of the spotlight regardless of the size or scope of a scandal, but this is a helluva lot better than the silence or the ānothing to see here!ā we got when everything was so chaotic late last year. Kudos to the PR/Media staff.
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POSTGAME: Rd 10 vs Brisbane
I have no idea how weāll go in the actual game but I am desperately hoping the āmature age bullocking psychoā gets a chance to stay in the side and give our regards to that blockheaded goon Maynard in a few weeks.
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We're Not Dead Yet - The 2025 Season
WELL WELL WELL
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GAMEDAY: Rd 10 vs Brisbane
This is gonna hurt so [censored] bad.
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Time to go Goody?
I started posting fairly recently but for the last several days I have been debating just deleting my account. I joined and started posted because I thought having this community was very cool and talking Dees is great funāespecially for someone like me who doesnāt have many other Dees supporters to talk to in their life. But Ghostwriter is rightāIāve come to really hate the constant negativityāespecially when directed at people trying to be positive or at least not so cynical. I get that weāre not winning and thatās unpleasant for all of us, but thatās not why I donāt want to engage anymoreāin fact, losing kind of makes me want to engage/discuss with the community even more. I still love the training reports from Ghostwriter and others and love the actual analysis from Adam the God, Binman and several others. But the number of people who come here to be angry and incessantly negative and shout down anyone who doesnāt feel the same way is pretty unpleasant. When I come here I often leave feeling wayyy more negative about the MFC and thatās a weird feeling to get when talking to folks who are supposed to love this club.
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CLARRY IS NOT A TAGGER
Goody said he thought Clarry did an outstanding job⦠Havenāt you also been hypercritical of Clarry many many times for months? Now heās suddenly back to being so incredible that he canāt tag in one game?
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POSTGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
it being a development year yet there being no such thing as an honourable loss in your eyes is kind of contradictory, no? Development often requires losing in order to learn and grow. This lossāin which we were the better side for the majority of the game despite the umpiringāagainst a side who I think is top 6 and wonāt last long in finals but MAYBE could be top 4 is far better than the early season losses. Thereās clear growth, progress, and learning. For a team thatās developing and not competing to win a grand final this year, thatās absolutely an honourable way to lose.
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POSTGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
Kade Chandler, Jake Bowey, Daniel Turner, Harrison Petty. Langford and Lindsay already developing remarkably well in year one. In terms of who still gets categorised as being a good young player we are developing even if not so far better than last yearāWindsor, McVee, Rivers.
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POSTGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
Look I donāt mean to sound flippant but can you explain to me what your expectations are for this team this season? I genuinely cannot figure it out. I feel like Iāve seen you say many times that we donāt have the list to make a run this year. But then you and so many others still seem enraged when we donāt win and there are shortcomings on our list. So is it not better to be pleased by the fact that we played better than a likely top 6 (maybe 4) team for much of the game and, with better umpiring, likely wouldāve been up by quite a bit coming into the 4th? I donāt expect to win a premiership this year. I expect us to play fairly well in spurts. And we did that today.
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POSTGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
Nobody knows more about having bad takes than you so Iām genuinely honoured that youāve finally passed on the title to me š¢āthanks chief. Iād like to take this opportunity to also thank myself for seeing the many many positives in our game instead of being a bitter angry poster who shows up on this forum solely to week after week say our team and half the players on it suck.
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POSTGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
We absolutely were the better team. But you are right that the key forwards are a problem. We dominated for 3 quarters in nearly every aspect of the game except once we had to do something with it inside 50.
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POSTGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
I know we werenāt accurate but I genuinely think if you pull together all the outcomes that were changed by absolutely shocking umpiring, we win that game. Or at the very most we lose by a goal. We were the better team today. Theyāll finish 6th and go out in the first round of finals.
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POSTGAME: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
Lost when the gambling industry got its hooks into the sport.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
I agree our goalkicking was atrocious and we were generally sloppy but with better umpiring weāre up by 2+ goals at half and we are absolutely not tied at 3q time.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
I left. Couldnāt keep my temper. No point in staying to watch the umps hand them the game over and over.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
Look we havenāt been accurate kicking for goal but at this point the umpires are genuinely keeping them in it
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GAMEDAY: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
It wonāt be because it happened to us and not a popular club, but that blatant trip with umpires standing right there watching should be all over the footy shows and media this week to show how horrific the umpiring continues to be.
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GAMEDAY: Rd 09 vs Hawthorn
Heās got an all time case of napoleon syndrome.