Salems Lot

Love mine, wear it proudly (it irons itself against my rippling body....LOL)

I reckon we can take the Loins, we have form against them at the G and if Brown is missing, it makes it look more doable. BOG Joel Mac! Go Dees 17 points

Next!!!

totally agree, I have a vision of Russian and Gawn revolving through Full Forward and Watts feeding off from CHF. We are going to be exceptional!!

Always thought that the guy was a clown, doesn't he realise the Comedy Festival is over!!

Here is a nice article from the Age about how Col dealt with the stress fracture in his foot. Clearly another of our good characters around the club. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/coping-with-the-stress-20100417-sll0.html

Sylvia in Dunn out

Mate it is 4 points, it is a win, take it!! How many times in the last 3 years have we been in the Crows position? Too many to count; last week we should have had the win and didn't, thats FOOTY Go Dees, 2 in a row!!!!

Tapscott, Gysberts??

Hear, Hear, Good Luck to you and your family

Hmmm, not sure that this is necessary, we don't spend much time worrying about what the blokes look like, why worry about her? . BTW, she had braces which must have been removedover the summer.

774 gave him a real bake about his lack of penetration with his kicking.

My mum took me to my first game in 1969 v the toiges ("make them shoosh mum,its too noisy") I was 5 at the time and had just experienced my first Demon flogging. Through all of those appalling years of low returns, the thing that kept me interested and passionate about the Dees was my own Mother's passion. I learnt about loving the team in spite of victory or loss from her. How often she would say to me and my 2 brothers "oh well boys, there is always next week" It is a conditioning that has lasted through life for me. The closure for us was being with her at the Western Oval in 87 and leaping about like lunatics after the siren when we had made the finals. She even managed to break her ankle in the excitement!! What I am trying to say is that your 6 year old will pickup on your passion and pride in your club just by being there with you. I started taking my son in 2006 when he was 18 months old so at least he saw us play a bit of reasonable footy (LOL), in fact he didn't see us lose for the first 6 games, amazing when you think of it now. Funnily enough, my 2 nephews started following the Dees about 15 years ago when they regularly were experiencing highs. Now we have dropped off the pace, so has their interest...maybe it pays to do the hard yard early so that you really enjoy and appreciate the good times all the more. You keep your faith and she will follow. Go DEES

I love Greeny but I think that with the wealth of young talent coming through, Junior will be replaced as captain by a much younger player rather than a 30 year (as Brad will be by then).

OK deep breath everyone and calm down.

Totally gutted as everyone has said, but the boy Scully really showed what we can expect from him in years to come. I have so many doubts about what the team is doing at the moment but I have no doubt that Numbers 31 and 9 will play some great football for the red and blue in years to come.

I nominate this for the most bizarre thread of the week!! and it is only Monday!!!

But of course that is the point; I was living in London in '89 and I remember the newspapers talking up the series as the battle for the worst team in the world. At the time, no one rated any of the Aussies, they proved themselves just as the MFC must do. Let's hope that the likes of Blease, Gawn, Scully, Watts and Trengove become our equivalent of AB, Boonie et al.

http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/451958.html Being the off season and all, i was reading Cricinfo when I came across this article. It made me think that this is how our boys need to start thinking to achieve the level of success that we all crave. It's not important which sport one follows, belief seems to be 90% of the battle. Happy reading.

Hey leave the female magpie supporters out of it!

Hmmm I picked him as our X factor last year, maybe this year??

Can I point out that Juice was recruited for just that but sadly his potential has not been realised. If he had done what was expected of him, i.e. big strong power forward, we would not be in this position. You win some and you lose some and clearly up until 12/3/2010 we have lost out on Juice. Having said that you can hardly accuse the Fd of not making plans for the forward line, they just didn't work out.

Hmmm, maybe this guy could do the trick in the meantime

I'm with you H, I reckon this kid is going to be pretty special. On a different tack and a little off topic could a number 11 draft pick debut with any less pressure than Gysberts? No one talks about him and with a bit of luck he may just sail under the radar.

Hey thats my boy in the JW photo, cool!! We both had a great time today, the game was really entertaining and the whole day was well organised. I had some great chats with several of the injured players; Sammy Blease says that Luke Tapscott is in Adelaide because his Gran died during the week, other than that he is fit and ready to go. Sam is not bothered by his ankle now and he doesn't give it any thought at all, reckons that he will be back and playing in a week or two. The Big Unit was lovely with my boy and had a good chat with him about school as well as footy. Very impressive over all. Like many of you, I was very impressed with the time on the ball that Trengove displayed on the ball, all class and an early tip for rising star. I was also pleased to see Strauss doing what he does;i.e. accurate clearing kicks from defence. All in all, a great day out and bring on the season.