North Melbourne. LOL.
Don't get me started... the biggest bunch of tin rattling knobends in the game. It would be typical of them to celebrate the injury of an opposition player in the manner they did in that thread on their board. Most of their supporters, especially the ones on Bigfooty, have massive chips on their shoulders and think their minnow of a club is exempt from any form of criticism. Their mods are like the Nazi regime in Germany when it comes to anything even remotely negative being said about them on their board or any of the main boards so I'd advise other posters to not even bother this week.
They've beaten Adelaide (14th) in Melbourne & the Gold Coast (17th) and suddenly this mob is talking about being finals contenders. Give us a break. We're hardly setting the world on fire ourselves but with a few necessary changes this week our best is more than capable of putting one of the final nails into their season. Their wins prior to the last two weeks were against Port Adelaide (16th) in Melbourne & the Demons (at Etihad where they haven't won in five years). They are already talking favouritism over at North in this game against us, so we're in a perfect position here. Recent clashes suggest to me the underdog will usually get up and we are in desperate need of a win. We will be relieved to return to Etihad in front of our home crowd (North will find the concept of playing in front of a big crowd at the venue foreign) where we haven't lost a game this year (4-0).
Always get myself up for this game. We cost them a place in the finals last year when we were in horrific form and got no doubt we can dent their season further again this year.
Home ground. Home crowd. My birthday. Saturday Afternoon. Perfect time for redemption after such lacklustre efforts. The equally perfect gift.