Defining Moments

[Whispering_Jack 31,299]

There were lots of them in a win like yesterday's but my favourite was Heritier Lumumba's interception, mark, play on and goal because it represented everything that Melbourne was not in almost a whole decade - adventurous, attacking, purposeful and decisive.

[Robot Devil 1,895]

Lynden Dunn directing another player to swoop on the ball and then shepherding/blocking TWO opponents to give that player a chance to run on with the ball and clear the back 50.

Great play.

[Emerald 1,744]

Lumumba's goal in the last quarter to steady the ship after Ablett had kicked a couple.

[John Crow Batty 8,886]

Ablett's fumble in the goal square. The rarest of errors from him. GC repeatedly fought back hard and if Ablett got his third in as many minutes it could have been the end of us. The gods and destiny were on our side to win this one.

[bandicoot 1,395]

Jesse hogan crashing into the pack in the 4th qtr, the ball spilling for a goal

[jumbo returns 6,741]

Tommy Mac marking everything! He's a big unit now...

[Gorgoroth 13,188]

Tbh I think it happened in the first quarter and it was Garlett getting his hand to deflect handballs out of the D50 and turn them our way.

I thought their backs hurried until halftime after those early intercepts.

[Webber 10,641]

Tbh I think it happened in the first quarter and it was Garlett getting his hand to deflect handballs out of the D50 and turn them our way.

I thought their backs hurried until halftime after those early intercepts.

Yep. He panics defences.

[JV7 2,375]

Tysons candy sell goal... Whole play that lead up to it was fantastic

[CHF 2,817]

Watt's Palm back on the goal line for Garlett's goal. Perfect football.

[Bitter but optimistic 22,289]

For mine it was Lumumber's steal and goal. It was a matchwinning/saving moment. Until then I rated HL as fairly quiet, the least impacting of the recruits.

However, as they say, "cometh the moment, cometh the man". It was spine tingling.

[What 18,810]

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Defining moment for me was Hogans clutch mark and goal in the final quarter, then Viney gets the resulting centre clearance, boots it forward and Hogan absolutely smashes a pack and hurts a GC player, ball spills to Newton, gives to JKH who handballs back to Newton and kicks the sealing goal

Was a superb minute of footy

[Moonshadow 17,678]

Watts deft tap from the goal line to Garlett. Great vision and creative play.

[Young Dee 1,303]

Hopefully we will look back at this game in a couple years time and say it was a defining moment

[Ethan Tremblay 31,274]

[Dockett 32 1,239]

Tommy Mc obviously reflecting and deciding not to kick across the ground in the last quarter.

[bananas 428]

A few that haven't been mentioned yet:

Jack Watts set shot from the boundary. I was right behind it, and from the moment it left his boot it never looked anything but perfect.

JKH turning in board and hitting Tyson perfectly in stride, and Tyson finishing it off like a star.

vandenBerg's massive smother that eventually led to Nathan Jones' goal.

Garlett running away from a centre bounce for a long goal … nice way to answer a GC score, that was!

[loges 6,767]

There were a few but for me Hogans big pack mark and 2nd goal in the last quarter. Defined everythlng I hope he will become

[What 18,810]

There were a few but for me Hogans big pack mark and 2nd goal in the last quarter. Defined everythlng I hope he will become

Was such a commanding grab, he was like a magnet the way the ball and the play just got drawn to him and he floated in front of everyone like a graceful Godzilla.(or perhaps just God)

Great kick from Viney to the hot spot too.

[deanox 10,057]

All of the above, but I wasa big fan of the vanDemon smother, gather and give off for a goal.

He is massive.

For me though, watts' tap was the highlight.

[Redbeard 498]

H's steal was an absolute beauty. And Jack's tap was perfection, in regular time it was hard to see but that slow replay showed what brilliant vision he had.

Plus all those little things we'd missed, 1%ers, leadership, confidence. Felt good

[Jesse Christ 2,884]

Hogan splitting that pack leaving bodies on the floor was probably the highlight of my MFC supporting life! The hype is real, the new king has arrived and he is [censored] awesome!!

[Sir Why You Little 37,342]

The H steal was the moment. Game was in the balance. Toump made the mistake and then H in his 200th said "Fcuk that i want to win this game"

Colonel Hogan was also great in the last Q.

[Ted Lasso 19,568]

One thing really liked was was jack watts, fir al the crap he gets how often is it him that stands up and kicks a big goal or does something special in our wins?

[Bang Bang Bang 5,850]

I think the Lumumba goal was 'the' moment.

The Suns had all the momentum; Ablett had found his mojo and the faithful of 27,000 were getting nervous. When Toumpas stuffed up the handball in the goalsquare, I think most of us (I certainly did) had that deja vu feeling and that a golden chance to win was about to be blown.

That was snuffed out very quickly with Lumumba and the roar from the crowd was deafening. It was all Melbourne after that.