old dee

Late yesterday i had taken about all I could concerning AFL Football and the MFC. So I made myself a promise that I would Ignore anything to do with the AFL and the MFC for 24 hours. All was was going well till I picked up todays Hun and wham what a head line. But I held fast and did not read any of the story ( that was really hard ), I avoided radio by listening to a CD when out in the car. The result has been unexpected, I feel very calm and I have a new prospective on my liesure time. You know there are 1 billion people in China who do even know that the MFC exists. So I am now looking at the MFC in a new light. DO NOT OBSESS We are a football club that is towards the bottom of the competition in a number of areas. So what I have had a lot of fun times as well as a lot of crap. We may well be crap for the balance of this decade but i have been here before I know what to expect. I find it hard to believe we will win on saturday in Perth but who knows the margin might be less than I think. I get a lot of fun out of Demonland and the majority of you dees supporters out there even if as a football team we are very ordinary. I cannot change what happens to the MFC, if it fails to exist in 2020 so be it i might not exist either. The up side is enjoy life do not let the Bloody AFL get you down. Carn the Dees

No seems the same to me Redleg

Have not tried for some time so lets see what happens

I am going OS in two weeks oh how I wish it was this weekend. The next week is going to be agony.

Redleg I feel like a towel that has just come out the washing machine. Unless the informant is discovered / outed before saturday we could easlier produce another 186 performance. And if they are outed it is still on the cards. I thought I had been through some black periods but this must take the cake

No Striker but that may be because mine are not as important to me as they were 10 years ago

That was why I made my comment here Redleg but seems I am on my own with trying to keep the thread count down. Sorry you and me Redleg

Last time I had one was January 1971. Now that is a long time ago Me and three mates drove across the Nulabor, 300 miles of dirt in those days for Summer holidays. No air con in the HD Arh those were the days

No problem OMEB hope it has some small effect. By the way can you still get "Emu Bitter"

No Redleg but I reckon they might be ok in the forward line

I can only imagine what it will feel like this time next week DC As strange as it sounds there were times yesterday when I would have happily gone back to the DB game plan.

You know the one about your uncle and aunty

Well the first tragedy of 2012 is now almost 24 hours ago And there has been an explosion on new threads so I thought I would put my thoughts on this one. Not sure if it fits but here goes. I ask myself what has changed in the last 48 years? For the majority of that time not a lot. Here we are after game 1 of 2012 with a bad loss to a bottom four side from last year. A list of average players at best. A new coaching panel ( how many of those have there been over that 48 year period ) A game plan that I have no idea how it is meant to work, I doubt the players do either. A depresseing year awaits me. With the prospect of another rebuild. "Hang in there fellers we will get there" is again the cry. So as I said not a lot has changed. But there is one big change for me. I AM ALMOST WORN OUT BY THE MFC I have had it with the 40 medicore years of the last 48. I no longer want to wander off to the G with hope in my heart and then wander home with the same sick in the guts feeling that once again I am supporting a team of modest performers who tear my guts out. Once again I will be the butt of jokes from other club supporters. What has faithful support for 48 years got me! 8 years of joy and 40 years of misery. I have a solution to save my sanity. I have put away my new maroon and blue scarf, I have placed my members card at the back of the draw. I have taken the stickers off my car. I will return to the MCG when the MFC shows they deserve my support. Until then ( if I live long enough ) I will be an anonymous citzen in the fabric of Melbourne. Away from the scorn of the general football world. no more "carn the dees" Put up MFC and I will show up

Aint that the truth.

Business as usual for the Blues 7 goal winners over the Tigers. The more things change the more they stay the same

This is getting way off the thread DC but if you raised this subject with my father he would go right off. His experienced was that the vast majority of bad people he met in the army where bad soldiers The first to go Awol, last out the trench and almost always let you down and put your life at risk. It did not improve them as people. I can hear him right now. " why inflict these idoits on good soldiers and put there lives at risk, the spot for them is Jail"

My guess on those options is 25 a winning margin of 5 points

What is a good crowd RL?

I was not suggesting you was getting abused HT but you seems to be holding up one side of the discussion on your own. As you probably noticed I am pretty much flattened by the subject. I do not know what can be down, it depresses the crap out of me as the only thing that seems to change is the size of the problem. PS Is "Flattened" a word

Gee I bet you are glad you raised this one HT! people are falling out of the sky on you. The footy starts in 2 days so something else to talk about.

No you are probably right. I just struggle with the problem these days. To be honest I am worn out by the problem

I think hardtack that Ben has had a very large amount of compassion over the last few years. I have a couple of people close to me who have suffered drug addiction. Their problem has been an on going thing for 10+ years there is no easy out for most people. One has been clean for 2 years now and the other has recently been released from Jail. He has stated "this will probably kill me in the next few years". Both of their lives have been ruined. They have made their parents lives and numerous others ( wife and children in one case ) lives a absolute misery. After 10 years I now struggle with compassion.

Is anyone surprised!

Now there is a surprise!

Can never quite work out why everyone dislikes this bloke so much!!!!!