1 red eye 1 blue eye

Me and the Fam heading to the G shortly in good form with the Prelim and GF wins at Subiaco our most recent Finals 👍

Thinking the loss of Gus early unsettled us last week, expecting our defensive pressure to be dialled up considerably this week and will be too much for the Blues over 4 qtrs.

Go Dees

Working on my IPad.

21 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

 

Our best is the best, you could see it tonight in those outburst of goals, we couldn't sustain it though 

We look spent from midway through the third and that has been the trend in our losses, I’m really questioning our fitness.

1 hour ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Currently workshopping in my mind a joke about Brisbane being Queenslanders and therefore nicknamed bananas, who are battered by Fritsch and somehow we get banana fritters in batter.  (Clearly the joke is a work in progress.)

Fritters batters the bananas?

Hooley Dooley jimmy crickets what a sublime team effort, back to our suffocating best and we expand out from that. Great win boys.

Been biting my finger nails hoping he’d get through and it’s happened, very happy.

Bayleys off the pack for me, my fist pump is at its most vigorous on that one. Clarrys a close second but for the opposite, an emotional welling up response. Tracks dribble a cigarette paper third for the gobsmacking WOW, that was right over the top of the centre mark on the goal line. 

Geez I’m loving these feelings 😁

Great to see the old boys up and about and enjoying the moment. Clint the Biz was awesome for us, does anyone else feel similarly chuffed seeing him with us? Does anyone know if he is popular down the hwy? He did only play 10 or 11 more games for us than the puddy cats. 

I’m happy to go with the latter there daisy cos I’m disappointed to see him go.

Surprised by this, said on here after talking with him at the pre gf training session that Geelong had in the past come calling, but a move there was was probably “too big a one for his family to make” and that he was looking to “enjoy being around for the Clubs successes” Offer too good to refuse?

On 10/17/2021 at 7:53 PM, daisycutter said:

yeah that was good video, but it's hard to tell exactly when it passed the goal line as max kicked it well above the goal post.

i'd say it's inconclusive as it's possible it was directly above the goal post at the time it passed the goal line, which would make it a poster.

so to me it was either a virtual poster or a goal depending on exact time it passed the goal line which i couldn't be 100% certain of.....if that makes sense

From my position in that pocket with the ball coming toward me, it looked like it was over the top of the post, even marginally behind it!

8 hours ago, Stiff Arm said:

One small advantage of having pick 17 (which will prob end up being 19), regardless of it being for our 2022 1st rounder, is that if MA happens to be available at that pick the club will likely have the ability use 19 on another draftee and match for MA with later picks

Agree Stiff Arm, we’ve traded ourselves into a sweet spot. Clubs will be excited by him but I see most if not all will be willing to risk it. MA will have been closely followed by the MFC and he knows the rule changes have seriously stifled our ability to recruit him. He’ll be happy to go to whoever drafts him of course but the fact he has been within our NGA and that we are the reigning Premiers who boast an elite Ruck division that will allow him to develop is the best case for him and us. If an interstate Club drafts him they’ll back themselves to integrate him but the ability to retain him will be an uncertainty too. Surely recruiters will be nervous spending a first round pick here. I see a Vic Club as his most likely suitor but do those with an early draft pick have the luxury to develop him? Having said all this, worst case is the 18th best player in the draft drops to us.

Me too, he took some strong grabs and played well in the Sat night game sim at Lathlain.

3 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

Once again, many thanks to our WA supporters who gave the boys such a great reception. They deserved to play in front of a big crowd backing them in, and they got it!

GO DEMONS!!!

Thanks Mazer you are front and centre re appreciation mate and you are spot on, the support was sensational!

To Deeoldfart and Dante, their generosity allowed a group of us to attend what was a stunning, emotional and historical event and was something so very special and will be cherished by us for the rest of our Dee loving lives. Thank you.

It’s been a tremendous few weeks attending whatever we could re MFC starting with that magnificent Preliminary Final. We’ve attended closed and open sessions and those weeks have culminated in the penultimate, an MFC Premiership and it was incredible! The celebrations in the City today with the boys, the cup, and staff was well attended and fun. Goody has already set his sights on the preseason and continued improvement. We have held the baton here for a brief, necessary and ultimately glorious period. I’m sure all Demons are happy with our efforts but the baton returns to its rightful place now and we sincerely look forward to seeing Melbournians in particular experiencing it too.

 Go you magnificent Demons.

Jacqueline has just let me know that she secured the last ticket at the Tower Hill venue! She's going to phone there to see if she can get a ticket for her partner, an English boy who's curious and keen to join the spectacle!

On 9/21/2021 at 3:51 AM, CityDee said:

 

Had a lazy 20$ on Kossie for the Norm Smith 

$20 you are annoying,  just lying about, you are lazy and I'm going to teach you a lesson!

I'm putting you to work at the the betting shop!

You'll need to come back a winner, otherwise........don't bother coming back at all!!

I've been passing on this info to my daughter and hopefully she'll get to meet a few of you. I've suggested she attend the event near Tower Hill 👍

That's awesome guys and very helpful thanks,  I'll pass that info on to her, please keep the suggestions coming!

Wondering if there are any Melbourne supporters there in London? My daughter and boyfriend are looking to hopefully link up with some Dees and watch the game together. Cheers 

Steve and I went and we guesstimated around 100 Demons over the far side, 200 Demons in the guts there and another 100 or so on this side, around 400 fans give or take. The boys were in the red strip today, and one singular man in blue, Angus. Is there a smidgen of a chance he'd actually enjoy being the odd one out? Or......orchestrated it? He was on the ground and involved in a handball feeder role.

As Pennant posted it wasn't a testing session, light duties really., I think the rehabbers Tomlinson and Nietsche had a tougher work load than everyone else. They were involved with the group kick to kick and when that broke, started half ground sprints with around 4 others. Then the pair did a number of cone drills which were based on change of direction, calling for and leading to a coach who would pass the ball. 

It wasn't easy to concentrate on anything in particular as they were split into small groups all over the ground. Perty was addressing the fans and bringing players over in pairs to have photos and a chat. I was mostly just out of ear shot but was able to pick up initially that the group needed to keep a little distance and not sign autographs which was at the request of the AFL. Choco had a chat too but once again I wasn't able to hear what he was saying but I'm sure it would have been entertaining.

I was able to have a chat with Shannon Byrnes, I mentioned it was great that he stayed and was still at the Club, he said he loved being here. I asked if Geelong had approached him and he said yes a couple of times but he was happy at Melbourne and that a move to Geelong would be a big move for him to make, "and anyway, I want to be here through this period,  I've been through the ordinary ones too".  I also asked if Nathan was likely to stay on in some capacity, apparently that hasn't been discussed as yet but he has completed coaching courses and is interested in coaching.

As mentioned the session included a soccer match which was fun to watch, skills were not too bad actually, Clayton layed off a lovely back heel pass which was impressive. Salem was the goalie for the reds which had me scratching my head, surely he'd be a gun soccer player right? The red team must've read my mind as Salo got moved to the midfield. Hunty was on the orange team and was involved in some nice plays including the only goal kicked. It coincided with Salem having just been moved out of the goals, unfortunately he just couldn't be everywhere. He had the final word that I presume was directed to his goalie which was "what the [censored] was that" Hunty best on for mine!

Maysie trained

No snakes

Go Dees

21 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

"The learnings we learnt" made me laugh. And the rest of your post not only made me smile but made my day. Thanks for giving the rest of us our necessary fix.

No worries mate I enjoy these threads as much as everyone else so I knew it would be appreciated. 

I saw that footage too daisy and you're right he could've trained before I arrived. We'll start getting a better picture of where he's at on Friday.

43 minutes ago, Baghdad Bob said:

Did May do the session?

No BB he didn't do any training but was in training kit and looked ok. 🤞

2 hours ago, Hell Bent said:

Awesome stuff, but any snakes to report?

Oh yeah snakes, forgot about that HB, sorry Picket.I will do better next time.