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Dont do it to yourself.... its way too late. We are done.

Dont know why you are torturing yourselves... i stopped watching at half time. Cheap grog and Youtube music for me. I am caring less and less with each passing mouthful.

BWAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You made a funny.

5 goals down and its game (Season) over. If we cant beat the Swans with their injuries we have zero hope against WCE and GWS. Cant wait for the presser describing the "learnings" from today. Actually thought we could win today.... i really did. Guess that will teach me to believe in this mob. Lesson learned.

Sorry mate i dont know. I cant watch as my blood pressure is going through the roof, and i have already had one heart attack. Cant go through another.

Well, i tried being positive for the last couple of months.... doesnt seem to be working. I picked a bad week to give up glue sniffing.

Swans have now kicked the last 7......... How very Melbourne.

Plenty left in this game, particularly with the Swans 2 rotations down. We can still win, but gfc we need to stop panicking when we have the pill. I havent given up, .................... yet.

Jones has been rubbish so far. Just terrible. We have no composure at all. None. Started well enough, but its looking ugly atm. Panic, turnover, repeat. All Sydney right now. Our shocking misses in the first qtr were always going to bite us on the ass. Will take a huge turnaround from here. This is the OLD Melbourne i am watching..................

Grimshaw. Shes the new club mascot. Didnt you hear?

The results so far this weekend really have given us a golden opportunity to ( almost) guarantee a finals spot with a win today. The old Melbourne, the one we know only too well, would come out today flat as a tac, and not look like threatening for the entire game..... But thats the Old MFC..... Isnt it? Today we can show we are the real deal. Its time... Go Dees.

Im drinking a bottle of Whiskey, and taking a few Temazepam tablets i had,..... ummm,..... "left over" at work tonight. ( They cant swallow them when they are already asleep can they..?) Sleep wont be a problem

Onya Bern! Thanks for playing for MFC. Cant have been much fun for the majority of your time with us. Love the way you put in. If nothing else, you got your MCC membership !!! Thanks matey.

Im sure many make their rating of ANB the same way they rate most others... their highlight reel This kid will never have the flashy fend-offs, the huge pack marks, the big spoils etc etc... He just isnt that type of player. What he does do better than most is run to contests, run to make space, run to fill space, run to block, run to present, run run run. Every team needs players of this type, and i reckon we are very lucky to have him. Reminds me a lot of Cotchin in that regard... Not a huge highlight reel, but heaps and heaps of repeat efforts that others dont or cant provide. Get around him.

North will take anyone who is prepared to come to them. It's not that much different to MFC from 5-10 years ago. The main difference IMO is that Norf is getting in before they bottom out, whereas we thought we were on the bottom and thought we were on the way up with all our high draft picks. North has performed well this year due to an easy draw, not because of their list. They KNOW they don't have much time left before they bottom out big time. It will be a long rebuild for the Kangas if they cant snag a couple of guns with all the cash they are offering up, but even then, a couple of good players won't get them a premiership. This time around, we have gone about it the way good teams do... build the basis of a premiership team from the draft, and trade for the missing pieces. Norf are us from a few years back... paying overs for decent players just to get someone to take the bait. (First signing will probably be Aaron Hall on big coin). Sainters will be the same this year. I have never been a fan of being "patient", in fact the last decade has shitted me to tears, but the Dees are showing that a slow, considered, focused rebuild is really the best way to go about it. Im a believer.

This was obviously meant to read GWS instead of GCS. Cant edit that post for some reason. Either way, we will play finals

We will win this game and make believers of plenty who still dont rate us because "we havent beaten anyone". Those same people will jump off us again when we drop one to the Eagles, and will jump back on when we beat GCS in rd23. I bet my scarf on it.

Watch the Nathan Jones interview on the club website and it also has a couple of hints that we are certainly in the hunt. I have very strongly suspected for months that we are a huge chance, and nothing from the past couple of days dampens that hope.

They didnt want Melbourne punished for something we had no hand in?

So he gets 10 weeks and plays his first game for us in round 4 or 5 Might just debut in the same game that Lever returns. I can live with that

Unfortunately, sometimes you bring back a little something you picked up by mistake... Its doesnt always "Stay in Thailand"...........

Im loving the journos having a dummy spit about Gaff being able to bypass them. So you didnt get to shove your microphone into his face and ask stupid questions you idiots ?? Guess you will just have to act all offended that he was "whisked away by a police escort" or something like that. Peanuts.

It wasnt that long ago our team would walk off the ground, week after week after week, with a hangdog expression on their faces because they had just copped another flogging. It must have been bloody hard coming to work every week knowing you would feel [censored] at the end of the day. Now that things are changing for the team (Due to their own hard work, it hasnt been gifted to 'em), i reckon its great to see smiles on their faces after a game. This team is forming some really strong bonds that hopefully will help us get us a cup or 3. If they want to have a bit of an in-joke after smashing the opposition, thats ok by me.

Refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh.................

If nothing else, it shows how far our expectations have lifted. After years of being a terrible team (and probably club) its great that we have improved so much that some expect more, even with such a huge margin. I get where they are coming from, but personally im wrapt with today's result.