Melbourne - Sydney

[DEES RULE!]

We didn't play too well, lucky for us neither did Sydney and in the end we were probably lucky to get away with a 32 point loss!
Travis Johnstone, Clint Bizzell and Craig Ellis were the only "un-injured" players who didn't play. Johnno was obviously a late withdrawal and we saw Biz, Ellis and Vardy all walking around the ground. Febes and Wardy also made an apperance but they were just there for moral support I guess.
Ok well we got there about 10 minutes into the game, by that time we were down 21-8 or something similar and at one point they were beating us by nearly 50 points, but during the last quarter we came back increasing our score from 18 at 3 quarter time to 52 I think it was by the end of the 4th quarter, at one point we were only 10 points down and we thought we were gonna win but well yeah that did happen...
Anyways there were no really encouraging signs besides Powell who made his return and did pretty well playing only the 2nd half. Our accuracy has gone from bad to worse, with Greeny, Robbo and Neita all missing from pretty easy set shots!!! The other encouraging sign was again how well our young guys were playing, Armstrong did pretty well although he didn't get much ground time and Clarky did pretty damn well too, at one point he was even put on O'loughlin and did considerably well!!
Ummm thats about all I can remember, I was pretty pre-occupied with this cute little 3 year old boy who was singing to us ... and other nice views!!!
Over all it was a pretty fun day, hopefully we can pick our form up for round 1 and have a great season!

GO DEES!

 

[dees*gal]

che chem, i'd already done one...

 

[DEES RULE!]

Originally posted by dees*gal
che chem, i'd already done one...

Yeah and yours said.... oh we suck.......

 

[dees*gal]

Originally posted by DEES RULE!


Yeah and yours said.... oh we suck.......

but we did!!! apart from about 10 mins in the last quarterq

 

[CowboyFromHell]

These are not good sings for the Dees.

Our only win this pre-season came against the Hawks when they had 15 of their best players not playing!!

I know it's only early, but even I am stooping as low as to say that things look a little shaky.

 

[Deestroy]

Originally posted by CowboyFromHell
These are not good sings for the Dees.

Our only win this pre-season came against the Hawks when they had 15 of their best players not playing!!

I know it's only early, but even I am stooping as low as to say that things look a little shaky.

I agree with you. It seems from what I have seen so far we have "2 teams".

In one team we play hard, apply allot of pressure, take good strong marks, and play direct football. This team is competitive.
The other "team" we have is one where no one puts pressure on his opponent, and everyone relies on everyone else to do the tough work. This team is likely to get thumped.

Of course during each game we could switch between the "teams" playing well in one quarter but **** for the rest... etc.. So we may win or lose depending on which “team” is playing” Make any sense???

 

[CowboyFromHell]

Originally posted by Deestroy

I agree with you. It seems from what I have seen so far we have "2 teams".

In one team we play hard, apply allot of pressure, take good strong marks, and play direct football. This team is competitive.
The other "team" we have is one where no one puts pressure on his opponent, and everyone relies on everyone else to do the tough work. This team is likely to get thumped.

Of course during each game we could switch between the "teams" playing well in one quarter but **** for the rest... etc.. So we may win or lose depending on which “team” is playing” Make any sense???

I follow.

And it reminds me too much of the Neil Balme era!!

 

[DEES RULE!]

Originally posted by Deestroy

I agree with you. It seems from what I have seen so far we have "2 teams".

In one team we play hard, apply allot of pressure, take good strong marks, and play direct football. This team is competitive.
The other "team" we have is one where no one puts pressure on his opponent, and everyone relies on everyone else to do the tough work. This team is likely to get thumped.

Of course during each game we could switch between the "teams" playing well in one quarter but **** for the rest... etc.. So we may win or lose depending on which “team” is playing” Make any sense???

Yes thats exactly the problem, one day we are completely switched on and than we can do just about anything we set our minds to, but on other days we are totally off it, we don't try hard enough and like you said they rely on each other way too much. I think we need to find that thing that switches us on mentally and physically and just follow that pattern..... until we do that we are not gonna get anywhere!

 

[SPUNKY_MONKEY45]

Originally posted by dees*gal


but we did!!! apart from about 10 mins in the last quarterq

actually, we played pretty well before u 3 showed up! lol! well the 1st 5 minutes anyway!

and or trav was there too!

 

[DEES RULE!]

Originally posted by SPUNKY_MONKEY45


actually, we played pretty well before u 3 showed up! lol! well the 1st 5 minutes anyway!

and or trav was there too!

I know he was, I just said he wasn't playing thats all!
And are you trying to tell me we are bad luck?? HOW DARE YOU??

 

[SPUNKY_MONKEY45]

Originally posted by DEES RULE!


I know he was, I just said he wasn't playing thats all!
And are you trying to tell me we are bad luck?? HOW DARE YOU??

um no i was trying to say that um we got the 1st goal and then went downhill! and it was just coincidence! don't worry it waws meags fault we lost anyway! she always makes us lose

 

[DEES RULE!]

Originally posted by SPUNKY_MONKEY45


um no i was trying to say that um we got the 1st goal and then went downhill! and it was just coincidence! don't worry it waws meags fault we lost anyway! she always makes us lose

What? So he did play??? But how come he was never on the bench or on the field afterwards?? I'm soooooo confused!!!

 

[CowboyFromHell]

I didn't get your post either Rachy.

 

[Deestroy]

Originally posted by CowboyFromHell
I didn't get your post either Rachy.

Yep I am, as usual completely lost....

 

[DEES RULE!]

Originally posted by Deestroy

Yep I am, as usual completely lost....

Oh my god I feel your pain brother!

 

[BIG POPPA PUMP]

Originally posted by DEES RULE!
We didn't play too well, lucky for us neither did Sydney and in the end we were probably lucky to get away with a 32 point loss!
Travis Johnstone, Clint Bizzell and Craig Ellis were the only "un-injured" players who didn't play. Johnno was obviously a late withdrawal and we saw Biz, Ellis and Vardy all walking around the ground. Febes and Wardy also made an apperance but they were just there for moral support I guess.
Ok well we got there about 10 minutes into the game, by that time we were down 21-8 or something similar and at one point they were beating us by nearly 50 points, but during the last quarter we came back increasing our score from 18 at 3 quarter time to 52 I think it was by the end of the 4th quarter, at one point we were only 10 points down and we thought we were gonna win but well yeah that did happen...
Anyways there were no really encouraging signs besides Powell who made his return and did pretty well playing only the 2nd half. Our accuracy has gone from bad to worse, with Greeny, Robbo and Neita all missing from pretty easy set shots!!! The other encouraging sign was again how well our young guys were playing, Armstrong did pretty well although he didn't get much ground time and Clarky did pretty damn well too, at one point he was even put on O'loughlin and did considerably well!!
Ummm thats about all I can remember, I was pretty pre-occupied with this cute little 3 year old boy who was singing to us ... and other nice views!!!
Over all it was a pretty fun day, hopefully we can pick our form up for round 1 and have a great season!

GO DEES!

WTF? Yous were there? We went searching for you a few times and found nothing! Where abouts were you sitting?

The game was deadset ****house. I looked at the score at 3/4 time and was amazed that we were only 5 goals down - it felt just as bad as the Adelaide game. If we ended up stealing the win somehow in that last qtr it woulda been one of the most undeserving victories Ive ever seen I reckon.

The ONLY positive to come out of it was Stephen Powell. Absoloutely slaughtered in the midfield and sparked the revival along with Jeff White, Leoncelli and Adem Yze from the middle. Shame he got reported I think Jolly got reported as well. Both for striking.

All in all a pretty crappy day.

 

[dees*gal]

Re: Re: Melbourne - Sydney

Originally posted by BIG POPPA PUMP


WTF? Yous were there? We went searching for you a few times and found nothing! Where abouts were you sitting?

The game was deadset ****house. I looked at the score at 3/4 time and was amazed that we were only 5 goals down - it felt just as bad as the Adelaide game. If we ended up stealing the win somehow in that last qtr it woulda been one of the most undeserving victories Ive ever seen I reckon.

The ONLY positive to come out of it was Stephen Powell. Absoloutely slaughtered in the midfield and sparked the revival along with Jeff White, Leoncelli and Adem Yze from the middle. Shame he got reported I think Jolly got reported as well. Both for striking.

All in all a pretty crappy day.

yes, we were there... at quarter time, you know how you, BT and they ya brought the firt time i met ya were kicking the footy??
well BT was standing right infront of us... sorry we didn't go say hi, i thought you'd seen us and didn't want to say or something. also at half time me and or went for a walk around the whole ground, and she said she'd seen you, but i didn't - otherwise i woulda gone said hey.

 

[BIG POPPA PUMP]

Re: Re: Re: Melbourne - Sydney

Originally posted by dees*gal

hi, i thought you'd seen us and didn't want to say or something. also at half time me and or went for a walk around the whole ground, and she said she'd seen you, but i didn't - otherwise i woulda gone said hey.

Haha, Im suprised you didnt bump into BT then. He did a couple of laps of the ground searching for his bag and couldnt see yas either!

We must be blind or something

 

[dees*gal]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Melbourne - Sydney

Originally posted by BIG POPPA PUMP


Haha, Im suprised you didnt bump into BT then. He did a couple of laps of the ground searching for his bag and couldnt see yas either!

We must be blind or something

no, you're not blind... i'm just unseeable (if thats even a word... lol). also, were you sitting like pretty much on the edge of the ground in the last quarter?? i think i saw ya then too. lol

 

[BIG POPPA PUMP]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Melbourne - Sydney

Originally posted by dees*gal


no, you're not blind... i'm just unseeable (if thats even a word... lol). also, were you sitting like pretty much on the edge of the ground in the last quarter?? i think i saw ya then too. lol

We were in the grandstand for the whole game, but we went down onto the ground a few times for a kick.

Where were you sitting?

 

[dees*gal]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Melbourne - Sydney

Originally posted by BIG POPPA PUMP


We were in the grandstand for the whole game, but we went down onto the ground a few times for a kick.

Where were you sitting?

front row - by the umps race. we were sitting pretty much next to where BT was standing (and tripping ) when you were kicking the footy around at quarter time. where were you sitting?

and what may i ask were you doing wearing a storm top?!?!?

 

[BIG POPPA PUMP]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Melbourne - Sydney

Originally posted by dees*gal


front row - by the umps race. we were sitting pretty much next to where BT was standing (and tripping ) when you were kicking the footy around at quarter time. where were you sitting?

and what may i ask were you doing wearing a storm top?!?!?

Near the umps race? Haha, we wouldve walked straight past yas then (a few times) without even noticing!!

Ms Storm was paying me by the hour to wear that Storm top, so Im not complaining.

Cant believe we missed ya!

 

[dees*gal]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Melbourne - Sydney

Originally posted by BIG POPPA PUMP


Near the umps race? Haha, we wouldve walked straight past yas then (a few times) without even noticing!!

Ms Storm was paying me by the hour to wear that Storm top, so Im not complaining.

Cant believe we missed ya!

wtf? she was paying you???? what!?
i know, how could ya have missed us?? we were like walking around that area the whole time (exept for going for a walk...) infact, i woulda been facing the people walking past coz i was talking to patric (this 3 yr old that came to talk to us.. aww, he was so cute!).
how could ya not see us?!?!

 

[DEES RULE!]

LMAO BPP, I saw you twice!
And I can't believe you missed us.... we were right down the bottom near the fence and umpires' race and the bench....

 

[CowboyFromHell]

Re: Re: Melbourne - Sydney

Originally posted by BIG POPPA PUMP


WTF? Yous were there? We went searching for you a few times and found nothing! Where abouts were you sitting?

The game was deadset ****house. I looked at the score at 3/4 time and was amazed that we were only 5 goals down - it felt just as bad as the Adelaide game. If we ended up stealing the win somehow in that last qtr it woulda been one of the most undeserving victories Ive ever seen I reckon.

The ONLY positive to come out of it was Stephen Powell. Absoloutely slaughtered in the midfield and sparked the revival along with Jeff White, Leoncelli and Adem Yze from the middle. Shame he got reported I think Jolly got reported as well. Both for striking.

All in all a pretty crappy day.

Great to hear Powelly killed it!! Oh how we miss him.....

Did you see the two striking charges?? Reckon Powell or Jolly will go for them?