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Was thinking more "road to nowhere" tttt lol

Sorry..my gist was/is...are we too preoccupied with them....up our end of the ground ? I understand trying to stop the ball coming back out but it seems all very arze about at times.

No I hadn't...all my own ramblings ???

It didn't even look like we tried. No one there...all busy crowding ourselves up the line

Am i the only one that find it odd that we seem to place more emphasis on worrying about THEIR defence than actually promoting the essence of OUR forward function...i.e...an old ideal i acknowledge...SCORING !!! It ought to be them worrying about us up that end, not other way round. It's essentially a defeatist's outlook.

Take a bow....champ..sorry chump. You dont make any of the rules of life any of us need to be concerned with. You are most welcome to live your Demon life however you wish and more power to you for following the Dees. But don't ever be so presumptive as to judge anyone else. Go Dees

We have better

Joe will come right up the ground if starved of supply. He does this. Also means Ess path to goal becomes weaker...showed up against Pies.

Id try something different. This will not happen as its a 'bridge to far' in terms of anything likely to have been part of trained- structures. The better functioning area currently is defence. It still has canyons through it but its possibly the least dysfunctional. Lewis adds , for mine, a bit of stability. Our path to goal is stalling. Left field perhaps: ( but not untried ..in bits ) Play Weed out of the square as lead up fwd. Max resting there as swap out...ie Weed to pinch hit ruck to rest Max. Max CAN mark. Hed be a bloody nuisance for Ess defence. How to match up..stuffs their structure maybe. Tmac CHF. Just cruise around provide target. He can/knows how to spot up ( in front arc lol ) Hogan as R/R like utility between the arcs... but swap with Tom as a psuedo rotation to keep our fwd 50 fresh...and stuff up their ideas about match ups. If the ball can make it into our 50 enough times Milkshake will have a good time..Spargo will be lively, hopefully wanting to impress... Fritsch is quite capable. Ess were dlcking around the back a lot with the Pies. I don't think Collingwood put nearly enough fwd pressure on this. I can't see us winning by a mile but there's potential for exploiting their mediocrity. This won't happen of course.. we'll be instructed to play dumb again.

An interesting take Actually. He'll need 'minding'. That depletes their stocks.

Which bit ? All smells suss.

Was something that crossed my thinking . Interesting roll of the dice none the less.

Like it or not they'll have to gingerly manage his game time (tmac) on Sunday. Just stupid not to. I like that he's there for what he'll bring...but i would have rather he had 2-3 qtrs in the Magoos first. Beggars can't be choosers i suppose. I worry about these scenarios. We never seem to come off well. Go Dees

Must be me i thought the GF was about a Footy game ....

What for you speak 'em logic man. Common sense has no home here. We're Melbourne...we don't do lessons

Very much so...loser becomes 2018 irrelevant.

@Diamond_Jim..how does that argument go..not playing as bad as Ess ? They've only been thumped once...us twice....in a row They're actually above us...if only just i accept. We should be playing for the NQR cup.... Oh wait... Moorcroft ?

He just can't help himself from bvggering things up. Serial pest .

Yeah..thats him lol Strangely i still think he ADDS to the equation. Maybe that of itself is a worry

.... amazing.... couldn't write this stuff

Composure and direction off the backline. Probably more nous than the box

Phew... I love it....fronting up to a depleted Essendon...going in favourite. We always walk away with the choccies.....?? Whoever loses Sunday is going nowhere in '18 Why can i hear David Byrne.....?

We could use an annoying boomer type. Too much to dream...

Yep...he won it for us...bless his hairy lip

Fair comments to suggest we learnt nothing. Others less au fait might have.