Winning a premiership feels great!

[Expat Pie]

It really, really does.

something inside my head tells me you guys will be experiencing this feeling within the next 5 years.
Enjoy the next few years watching your great young list build toward the ultimate prize - it will happen.
Don't overburden them with totally unrealistic expectations over the next year or two - stick by your side, and you will be rewarded!

 

[Supermercado]

I'm assuming you're old enough to at least have some memories of 1990. Imagine how much more incredible it would feel when you have zero memories of winning one ever *wail*.

 

[Expat Pie]

I'm assuming you're old enough to at least have some memories of 1990. Imagine how much more incredible it would feel when you have zero memories of winning one ever *wail*.

I am - at least until about 7pm that night anyway!
You are right - there are teams I hope never get that feeling again (Carlton), but will be stoked for you guys when it happens, and it will happen, with just a little bit of luck with things falling your way!

 

[Expat Pie]

I'm assuming you're old enough to at least have some memories of 1990. Imagine how much more incredible it would feel when you have zero memories of winning one ever *wail*.

I wa 20 in 1990 - so I had never had that experience before. It was probably more special than this time.

 

[On the bench]

I am seeing some cracking Melbourne Collingwood games coming up for a fair portion of this decade,the Queens Birthday match could be the marquee game of the year!

 

[Deefolt]

wtf... this is a very odd thread for a melbourne board

 

[Wonaeamirri33]

Definitely unexpected, yes...

 

[Andy_Mac]

Indeed it is. However most welcome!

Now, can i please have 2 tickets for the mad mouse?

 

[Cudi_420]

I've been saying since 2007 that this Pies team would win at least 1 flag. Very exciting to watch. If I didn't hate you with an undeniable passion, I'd have gone to some of your games during the year (as I have been doing for Cats and Doggies), but I'll definitely be in as a neautral at some Pies games next year.

And I've been saying all year that we'll be the team to knock off the next "dynasty" in a few years and end their streak, just as Collingwood did Geelong.

At least I hope we are...

 

[Tommy D]

It really, really does.
something inside my head tells me you guys will be experiencing this feeling within the next 5 years.
stick by your side, and you will be rewarded!

One can only hope

 

[melbournemartin]

He's obviously a happy drunk.

 

[Demon 16]

..and if we can win one against Collingwood - all the better

 

[Wonaeamirri33]

Credit where it's due - a gracious Collingwood supporter.

Yeah, was good form from him, even after we've been trolling the Pies assiduously on the Bay as well...

 

[Expat Pie]

..and if we can win one against Collingwood - all the better

Lets not get carried away now...

 

[MarcMaverick]

Thanks Expat Pie. Hopefully we can have some more respectable battles in the years to come.

 

[Biffinator]

Thanks Expat Pie. Hopefully we can have some more respectable battles in the years to come.

My brothers, I have a very special relationship with the Melbourne Football Club - you see, I was born on the day that Norm Smith was sacked.

More widely, deja vu constantly afflicts me.

Last night, for the first time in my life (and 16,425 sleeps), I dreamt that we won a premiership.

I don't know if or when, but even during the dream itself I was thinking - this cannot be true - but stranger things have happened.

 

[d33my]

My brothers, I have a very special relationship with the Melbourne Football Club - you see, I was born on the day that Norm Smith was sacked.

So if we kill you, the curse will be lifted?

I have also had a dream where we won the premiership. It is a beautiful, beautiful thing. Kind of like your first wet dream, but better.

 

[Deefolt]

i was born in 1987, march. The first time since 64 we made the finals. I am the revival haha

 

[Cudi_420]

i was born in 1987, march. The first time since 64 we made the finals. I am the revival haha

And our abundance of premierships since your birth is a clear indication of that...

 

[Deefolt]

hey its the fact that before i was born we didnt make the finals. We have since . Trust me I have magical powers

 

[Demon Revival]

Similar to Biff, I have thought many times that I was a jinx to our sides winning chances, as a little tacker being first taken to games in the year after our last premiership... You young ones need to learn to be patient, as hard as it can be at times...

What a party it will be, hopefully not in a retirement village...

 

[emuboy]

I am also a Collingwood supporter, but I am really looking forward to the Demons winning a premiership.

I believe it will come in 2012, halting Melbourne's premiership drought at 48 years. If you look at the numbers, 12 is significant - Melbourne currently have 12 premierships, they went 24 years without making a grand final after their 1964 premiership triumph; their two grand finals appearances since then have been 12 years apart (1988 and 2000), losing these games by margins of 96 & 60 points respectively (both multiples of 12). So a grand final appearance in 2012 is another 12 years, and third time lucky for the Demons.

Given past history between the teams in Grand Finals, I can see that Collingwood will be the side beaten in 2012 to achieve the drought breaking win by the Dees.

I can almost see how it happens as well. In a thrilling, high scoring match, Collingwood kick a goal to take a 5-point lead at the 30 minute mark of the final quarter. With lots of time on, the Magpies have to try and run the clock down, and they seem to be doing this well, time running out for Melbourne with the Magpies kicking back and forth along the wing, and seeming to have the match in hand. However, one kick goes too far and rolls out of bounds on the Melbourne 50 metre line. From the boundary throw in, knowing that this is the last roll of the dice, Mark Jamar slams the hit out down to Aaron Davey, who is immediately beseiged by desparate Collingwood taggers, but good enough to get a high kick into the Demons forward line. The ball hits the ground and bounces high, with brilliant Brownlow Medallist Liam Jurrah sprinting in and with an astounding soccer kick, the ball clears the outstretched arms of the Collingwood defenders for an amazing goal, his fifth of the match, the cheers of the Melbourne fans deafening the MCG, and the extacy of the Demons' players evident. The ball is returned to the centre, and with 4 seconds remaing, the final siren heralds Melbourne's first premiership in 48 years, 20.12-132 to 20.11-131. Amid great celebration and rousing renditions of "It's a Grand Old Flag", best on ground Liam Jurrah adds both the Norm Smith Medal and a premiership medallion to the Brownlow he won earlier in the week, and the Demons hold the cup aloft.

I think this thread will be bumped on the evening of the last Saturday in September 2012.

 

[d33my]

Interesting theory about all the 12s, emuboy. I had a similar belief that we would win in 2006 because it was 42 years since '64 (42 being the meaning of life).

I also like the idea of a good old fashioned, high scoring grand final shootout, like the old days. A Collingwood-Melbourne GF would be awesome (providing we win of course!)

 

[emuboy]

Interesting theory about all the 12s, emuboy. I had a similar belief that we would win in 2006 because it was 42 years since '64 (42 being the meaning of life).

I also like the idea of a good old fashioned, high scoring grand final shootout, like the old days. A Collingwood-Melbourne GF would be awesome (providing we win of course!)

I'd also love to see a Melbourne vs Collingwood grand final, and would love to see Melbourne win their elusive 13th premiership (even if it is against the Magpies).

The 12 theory will be great if it works out, and it is amazing how many quirks with numbers and coincidences can be found in football.

For example, this year Collingwood was part of a black and white premiership hat-trick with Swan Districts (WAFL) and North Ballarat (VFL) as was the case in 1990 (Collingwood, Swan Districts and Port Adelaide in the SANFL); again with a 5 week finals series due to a draw, and Melbourne and Collingwood drawing on the Queens Birthday holiday with the same scores as the tied 1977 Collingwood - North Grand Final.

In 2005, West Coast beat Sydney by 4 points in the QF, but lost by the same margin to the Swans in the GF; and the following year, Sydney won the QF by 1 point, and the Eagles the GF by 1 point.

The Brisbane Lions in 2001, 2 3 became the first team since Melbourne in 1955, 6, 7 to win a hat trick of premierships; but the sides beaten by the Demons and Lions and the way the games were played out were similar; a win over Collingwood in a tight, gruelling low scoring game in wet weather (1955 & 2002), a thrashing of Collingwood (1956 & 2003) and running a tired Essendon off their legs in the second half (1957 & 2001).