Bitter but optimistic

Just turned on the footy and the first thing I cop is Lynch's stupid mug! FMD! Time for a refill.

Please tell me you're not going to keep this throughout the season Demonstone.

Can't believe some of the above posts. People actually go to the footy and don't drink booze!!! I just opened a Shiraz to help recover from the shock.

A few going for a Melbourne/Filth Grand Final. That would be huge but I can't see it - Collingwood are not good enough. Clarrie for the Brownlow. I would love it but sadly can't see it either. He and Trac just pick each other's pockets too much.

I watched the game against Richmond and actually thought we were too good for pre season - it liked abut round six form. I'll be an interested watcher of the tigers tonight to try and get a gauge on our form.

As usual I shall manoeuvre my prodigious buttocks into my reserved seat on Saturday and drink plenty of overpriced beer. I expect Moonshadow ( a defrocked Demonlander) will also be there ...and possibly Biffen ( also a defrocked Demonlander). I expect nothing less than a comfortable victory over the denizens of Melbourne's less salubrious barrio .

I must say I feel more warped than usual - I just backed Carlton to roll the Tiggers.

Indeed dc - the good old days! Who can forget a day at the footy (or moreso a day at the cricket) with a few mates and an esky roughly the size of a ute's tub.

I'll just add my worst. The price of beer, I believe is going up again. A very moderate intake of say one pregame and one per quarter would leave a $50 plus hole in The Manor's coffers.

In order to get some value in a pre season multi, I have included Port Adelaide in my final eight. Not much love for them above - does anyone else think they can make it?

At the moment, I am planning to hook up The Manor's glampervan and drive to Alice for the game. However, if Melbourne's weather is really depressing around that time , I may watch the game from Thailand - possibly in the company of The mayor of Bangkok @Sir Why You Little! A question though. If I do go to Alice, can I simply produce my membership card to gain admission, or must I make some sort of booking?

Fritsch out mmmmm! I’d like to know just what his injury is.

Please don't donate your empty booze bottles picket - you'd fill the place up.

Pah !!! I can do that with a golf ball. Without trying.

Good on him -he's put his hand up. He just has to keep doing that and hope for an opportunity.

I was only a little kid so I only really remember (sadly) the result. However, I believe there was some strange issue regarding player numbers in that game. ( I don't remember where/why that memory popped up though )

I'm surprised anyone is on Demonland ! ............ I mean , "Geelong the greatest team of all ", is currently showing on Fox !!!

What amazes me about these types of rankings is that Fritsh never gets a mention. FMD! Do they think he flukes 50 goals a year.

I don't reckon Im going out on a limb here but geez I like the look of Sparrow. He appears to have developed/matured and I'm tipping a monster season from him.

Yep, neck and neck battle for chief [censored].

Lynch has to be permanently listed in the [censored] category surely . Never been able to stand him.

"patting' myself ! Patting myself !!!! I had to calm myself with several glasses of shiraz. Redleg's debauched comments about what I should do with my person gave me a serious attack of the vapours . I'm still reeling.

Yep a quaffer.

We certainly don't want this thread taken off topic Tim.