This game from late last season was one of the MFC's most painful and humiliating defeats of the 2015 campaign because we went into it as hot favourites and were blown out of the water in the first quarter and a half. We fought back but we were wasteful and painful - the defeat made us almost a laughing stock. May it never happen again.

CARLTON

B: Zach Tuohy, Michael Jamison, Sam Rowe

HB: Dylan Buckley, Sam Docherty, Matthew Dick

C: Marc Murphy, Andrew Carrazzo, Kade Simpson

HF: Tom Bell, Andrejs Everitt, Blaine Boekhorst

F: Andrew Walker, Levi Casboult, Troy Menzel

FOLL: Matthew Kreuzer, Ed Curnow, Patrick Cripps

I/C: David Ellard, Kristian Jaksch, Jason Tutt, Mark Whiley

EMG: Nick Holman, Clem Smith, Matthew Watson

IN: Levi Casboult, Troy Menzel, Jason Tutt

Out: Lachie Henderson (omitted), Nick Holman (omitted), Clem Smith (omitted)

MELBOURNE

B: Colin Garland, Lynden Dunn, Jeremy Howe

HB: Daniel Cross, Tom McDonald, Christian Salem

C: Billy Stretch, Bernie Vince, Heritier Lumumba

HF: Viv Michie, Chris Dawes, James Harmes

F: Jeff Garlett, Jesse Hogan, Jack Watts

FOLL: Max Gawn, Nathan Jones, Jack Viney

I/C: Angus Brayshaw, Jack Grimes, Alex Neal-Bullen, Ben Newton

EMG: Rohan Bail, Mark Jamar, Aidan Riley

IN: Ben Newton, Christian Salem, Billy Stretch

 

 

3 minutes ago, Demonland said:

We fought back but we were wasteful and painful - the defeat made us almost a laughing stock. May it never happen again.

Amen.

11 of those players played on the weekend...In just a year we have flushed out so much garbage!

Predicting a decent win against the Blues and help give us the confidence into the round 23 potential finals game.

I don't especially hate Carlton or their supporters (not relative to Essendon and Hawthorn anyway), but I hope we give them one almighty flogging this week. That effort last year was abysmal, and it would be nice to be able to remove it from the memory bank.

A three week stretch of beating a top team, beating a decent (or at least not completely awful) team interstate and belting a poor team would be just about perfect. That fact that we might still be in finals contention by the end of the weekend is a bonus.

Hopefully there is no resting of players, no farewell games for soon to be ex-players and no one getting ahead of themselves and thinking about finals or round 23. Just four quarters of committed, smart football.