Some lovely passages of play.

Sam Frost looks incredible. He and Newton look like inspired pick ups.

Loving what Toump is doing out there today.

Bring on the funky tunes!

I think it was tune, singular, at quarter time.

Why do they persist with Matt Jones? The guy is absolutely useless.

Is Watts playing?

Hard to know what to take away from this. We are not being challenged at all. I can't imagine this is doing the Bulldogs preparation any good either.

At least we're thrashing them when we should be.

Don't let the score fool you, Melbourne's ball use and decision making has been terrible.

This Bulldogs team is simply far worse.

Very harsh call. The ball use has been solid overall.

Good god the commentary is killing me already.

I'm normally not one to take much notice or comment on the commentary but it's awful haha.

Pickering is one depressing individual.

Will wait until they do it in the real stuff before declaring it official, but Roos looks to have cleaned up again during trade week. Frost and Garlett in particular have been great!

While they are putting no pressure on us at all, I'm still loving this. Some of the ball movement has looked AFL standard!

Frosty is a monty for round one.

I'm also loving how Garlett and Lumumba are fitting into the side.....real contributors all three of them.

Reminds me of training thursday , overall a good performance with some errors . i reckon our defensive players in the drills put more pressure on the the dogs today . good signs !

Half time

8 4 52

1 1 7

Chicken BLT got a bit of it early, but Southwest Chicken finished all over the top of it. My money is on a couple of Big Macs and a 20 pack of nuggets getting a lift back down the highway on the Hutchy express.

Apart from that, Salem, Garlett, JKH, Hogan, N Jones are killing it.

I know 2 of these Bulldogs players so I think I'm more qualified to commentate.

Garland's been pretty good.

Better than good - like Garland of 2013...

Also, Garlett and JKH. Oh my.

Is Watts playing?

Started as the sub.

Who are the Dogs missing besides Libba, Boyd and a decrepit Murphy?

Its not like we don't have anyone out - Howe, Vince and Petracca for starters

Love seeing The Toump and Salem rack up some possies, very neat and composed kicking from both of them. Grimes also looking good today - this might be a good confidence boosting game for quite a few of our players.

What's a bunch of sad sacks

We are winning and winning well

Regardless of the opposition, good teams always take an opportunity for a kill, and this is wonderful for our confidence.

Stop worrying about the opposition and enjoy it. It might be the best win we have all year.

What will be Frost's best position? Forward or back?

Given the weight of possession, and the almost witches-hats-esque team the dogs have on the park, seven goals in a half isn't that great, really. But the longer this goes, the more practice we're getting moving the ball inside fifty with purpose and with good foot skills. Still some pretty wonky entries, but there were a few that quarter that were lovely to watch.

JKH still looks a bit rusty, but is working his way into it. Great effort on the deck to get the ball to Frost for that goal.

Salem and Toumpas (and the defence as a whole) will be getting a lot of confidence from this.

Some nice passages of play. Frost looking very good.

Will try to not get overly excited.

Richmond is 38 to Ports 0.

Good to see grimes playing well. I don't enjoy being so critical of him.

Are Mackenzie and VDB playing. Stats are ridiculously low.

We look balanced. Not great, but with a team full of players that want to play their role.

It's been a while since I've seen this