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Hey Guys Here is the follow up to the 50 Greatest Goals, I've done the 70 best marks. Again, I was a bit limited to what I actually had access to in the way of footage. And like the goals, a lot of decent marks didn't make the cut. But I reckon I have included most of the greatest and most memorable grabs in MFC history. Enjoy.

Terrific article on the friendship and 'rivalry' between Garlett and his mentor, Betts. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-06-11/speedy-dee-bridging-the-gap-on-his-good-mate Garlett has added so much to his game this year and has been huge for us and is very motivated: "I had a goal at the start of the year that I wanted to be in the top five in the AFL for creating forward half turnovers," he said.' As it is he is ranked second in the AFL for forward-half pressure points so is well on his way to achieving his goal. He plays his 50th game in Demon colours tomorrow, so hope he and the rest of the team can really turn it on. Well done Jeffy! May their be many more tantalising and successful games in Red and Blue!

A special guest at training today http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2017-06-10/photo-gallery-saturday-june-10

Maxy was just on Ch 7 News and says could be back next week for the Bulldogs game With a completely straight face Max said: "I trained on Saturday with the boys and was best on, so if I keep that form going, I should be all right." Only Max could conjure up a BOG at training to push his case!! http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-06-11/star-demon-max-gawn-on-verge-of-return

I read some have different views. My view is that this is the most important games for us since 2006 semi final. If we win we turn at 6 and 5 in 6th place. With Gawn, Hogan (our two most important players) shortly back we set ourselves up not just for finals but a tilt at a top 4 finish. Shall we lose, we again fail when favourites, this time coming off a 16 day break. Our opponents have played twice since we beat Gold Coast and have lost 3 of their best players in last weekends stirling victory over Carlton. This will be hard for them to cover. We will be 5 and 6 in 11th place, with mental issues that will be difficult to overcome this season. It will be highly unlikely we make finals. Confidence is everything in this game. As its been said it is indeed 90% between the ears. This is a game we must win!

As much as I hate the term, this is as 'season defining' as it gets for our club. For two reasons really: Given that Essendon smashed Port yesterday, positions 5-13 are wide open with Richmond only one game ahead sitting fourth with a similar percentage to us. We'll be sitting equal 5th if we win tomorrow, one game out of the top 4. What an opportunity. This year's evenness is unheard of. Secondly, this may well be the last game we play (touch wood) without one of Gawn or Hogan for the year. When those two come back, it'll be a huge morale booster for the entire club. We play the Dogs and Eagles next, both of whom are out of form but will be enormous challenges. Tomorrow is simply a must win if we're serious about challenging this year. Make a [censored] statement Dees. Go.

Presume you're talking about Bombers. What a moving story, of triumph over adversity, the whole world against them, ASADA, Caro. What heroes. And didn't they deserve that No. 1 draft pick? Make me sick, that lot.

Clarko reduced to sooking about the umps - worse than Scott bros. It's gonna be sweet schadenfreude for years.

Need a love button for this.

Arrived late but stayed till the end to watch Gawn put in an extra 20 mins of marking / running, after which Gawn then stayed and signed jumpers for another 30 mins. The bloke is a legend and can't wait to see him back out there. There was merch / coffee and a great vibe for the morning, this for me shows how far the club has come in recent years even more so than our on-field progress.

Have you tried that Lothario ? Well Ethan, I watched the last half of that game and I am now convinced I have absolutely no idea of the rules of Football.

Incredible as it might seem, I have just calculated that if we win by 186 points we will be 5th.

It is Essendon the club! Look at what has happened since the drug saga: made heroes of drug cheats, got 10 top up players for the ousted drug cheats which other affected clubs were denied they were allowed to keep top up players without using draft picks or trades, were rewarded for cheating with the #1 draft pick (and top picks in subsequent rounds and rookie draft), have nauseating pre-game 'events' (walk from the G, Hird Academy kids, etc), in cohort with the AFL have silenced journo's who dare whisper a negative Ess comment; lobbied for and gifted 10 prime time FTA games, lobbied for and gifted umpteen home games at the G vs big Vic clubs to further fill their $ coffers. Move on? Yep, have moved on from the drug saga. Players did their time. But the club screwed up big time and the list above shows how much they have been rewarded for - that is what sticks in my craw!

I'm not confident at all. Gawn was huge the last 3 times against them. No Gawn plus Grundy's big step up in improvement will hurt. And Bernie has killed them both ways. He's not the player he was, and hasn't been playing that role, can't see him being that damaging again. Both teams have played some god awful footy at times this year, if it comes down best footy v best footy we win, but I haven't seen us do it enough to have any faith in it showing up tomorrow. (If this post doesn't get us the win, nothing will)

How is bringing Salem in after a week's suspension "rushing." He wasn't hurt?

Does anyone honestly think that Hamish would have a job as a commentator if Gill wasn't his brother?

It must remind you of your very brief stay in the monastery .

Yea happy to see the blue baggers improving under Bolton who seems a good coach. I'll never want to ESS win another game. Worsfold coached at Eagles during a terrible drug infested culture that destroyed a number of lives. Would be preaching accountability but I wonder what accountability he takes for what occurred during his tenure.

One of their clubs tried to cheat their way to a flag and the AFL helped them cover it up and then gave them a huge leg up to get back to full strength. And they have the hide to carp on about "integrity". Thanks FIFA. Sorry, meant AFL. Damn spell checker.

I've seen this mentioned a few times. Let me correct it....Our best footy is up with any team this year, get Max & Hoges back and we are as good a chance as anyone. This is a very open season and at the moment there are no standouts.

I keep saying there are no decent teams this year. Anyone who makes the eight is a chance.

The problem you are experiencing is probably because you DO have some idea of the rules.

How Nicholls is an AFL umpire is one of life's great mysteries.

Although I come from a generational hatred of all things Collingwood, I reserve my deepest loathings for Essendon and Carlton. This season I have had to alter my position slightlythis year is because I really admire the coaching of Worsfold and Bolton. There just seems to be a synergy and game plan understood by all and they play to it. You can almost see the coaches in the brand of footy played. Northey and the Dees of the 80's were in sync. Daniher and the Dees of the late 90's > were connected. But I have a slowly emerging distaste for all things North Melbourne and GWS that will not go away. GWS annoy the carp out of me, and knowing they are built on AFL revenue, lifted high as an example, polished up as "nationalisong the game", and brimming with talent denied other clubs, riles me deep. So I find myself barracking for Carlton! Me barracking for Carlton is like Bruce being silent when Cyril gets the ball. Footy is changing.

I like him too but he was one of their top up players and they should have had to draft him.

Dank had a thing going called the "AOD project". He had or nearly had Hird and Evans signed on as investors. Presumed to be a scheme whereby teams of athletes are injected with an illegal-but-somehow-legal drug turning them into supermen. Then sell the scheme to sporting teams all over the globe. Now why would anyone doing that NOT keep records even if only for the very prosaic reason of knowing exactly the minimum spend on the drugs to get the required effects. Key word that may explain all.

I'll move on when they admit they're anything other than victims. It wasn't the drug taking that annoyed me - I presume that was the work of their mad semi-scientist - as much as the club's consistent refusal to acknowledge that they'd done anything wrong, their efforts to blame everybody else, their burial of the evidence. The evidence! I always come back to that. They must have it somewhere - can't believe anybody would give hundreds of injections and not record what they were. I've always thought that Dank was so stupid, he just didn't know what was legal and what wasn't (as proved in the Baker/Mackenzie (forget which one:( ) interview. The injections were given by a registered nurse. Friends (and wives) of mine who are health professionals say the first thing you're taught is that you record every micro-millimetre of every substance you put into people's bodies.

I thought Wagner was clearly BOG and looked a cut above. Given his injuries it won't hurt him to regain touch at Casey. Seems to be a good decision maker and generates good supply from the backline. I think he will end up having a good career.

I really cannot stomach seeing Essendon thrashing any team.

I think posters are more scarred over what occurred in Watts' debut than what Watts is.

Any team who makes the 8 can win the Flag this year. It is all above the shoulders Fire Up Demons. It can be done

Yay, what a post! Well put.

I shall never forget what Essendon have done. They are yet to pay...

Really liked Weid's game yesterday. He had a run of shockers but yesterday looked a very good developing footballer. I hope he spends the rest of the year at Casey and actually dominates a game or two. He's still a skinny kid who, hopefully, we can make a 10 year player out of.

The best writer of football and sport of his generation. The pathos the man evokes has always reinforced my love of the game. His humanity will be missed especially in the vacuous noise of current commentators and writers injecting themselves into contemporary stories about the game we love. Feeling sad and more than a little older that he is retiring.

I had a bit of a chat with him as my son and I were crossing the adjoining soccer field on our way back to the city. Lovely guy with a great sense of humour. Let his son take a shot with my camera.

Got a rare look at Casey and my thoughts: Jack Trengove - made a few bad kicking errors in defence but was generally neat and composed and still has bit of class. Without any speed and a middling inside game, he is limited and it would be impossible to pick him in the same side as Vince and Lewis. Billy Stretch - I thought was a solid game gathering a fair bit of it both inside and out and generally OK with his ball use and decision making. Lacked a cutting edge to his game but still handy in reserve. Dean Kent - looks unfit/carrying condition and definitely looks injured (playing like he has lower back issues, could barely stretch for marks and was very upright when attacking the ball at ground level.) He had some good moments but if you were watching the game in isolation you would say he is a long way off his best AFL form. Jay Kennedy-Harris - won a fair bit of it in the first half and was probably in the best four or five Scorpions to half time before being sacrificed to be the holdover on Monday. Probably a better midfielder than he is a crumbing forward but probably too small to play that role at AFL level. Sam Weideman - over four quarters played really well. He is still so light that his best moments are Jack Watts type pieces of play, leading up to the ball carrier and being a link man. I think he had a direct hand in five goals with his ground level play, (the bit of play to set up Lewis-Smith's goal was exceptional)and could have kicked five or six himself. Still a fair way off being a consistent AFL key forward because he can't take compete physically to take the dominant marks fan crave, but this game suggests he is on the right track. Probably needs to be shielded from AFL footy for a while to build confidence and strength. Liam Hulett - where Weideman's game gives cause for optimism, Hulett's does the polar opposite. I thought he looked a likely type last year but he was practically invisible for much of the game today and when he was involved he looked rigid and trickless and unable to make anything of half chances. I don't know if he is playing injured but he seems to have a lost a yard of pace compared to last year and didn't seem to be able to present to contests in a meaningful way. Jake Spencer - fair task for him to come in and first ruck off lengthy break and he was serviceable without bashing the door down. It's going to be an interesting conundrum for the selectors whether to bring him or not off an OK game where he rucked manfully but had no other influence. Ben Kennedy - was very busy and played with more adventure than most, to be one of the Scorps better and more damaging players. Again just lacked that bit of polish to be confident he could be anything more than a serviceable AFL contributer. Dion Johnstone - did some good things in a very blue collar crumbing forward type game. He harrasses and competes really well and he kicks with penetration. The query on him is whether he, like a few others, has the tricks and craft to be able cause trouble for defenders at ground level and hit the scoreboard. I don't think a good finals-type AFL side can play a purely negating forward. Worth persevering though. Tim Smith - coming back from injury he had a few meaningful moments before getting injured in particular a quality centre clearance and some good leading patterns up forward. Not sure there is enough athleticism/tricks there? Mitch White - I thought he was excellent and looked a bit quicker than usual. He probably didn't win that much of the football, but his kicking off half back was flawless to my eye and his composure and consistency though the game was very good, including some very important contest wins. Problem for him is that he is in a crowded position group on the list and he is probably too good for VFL footy and maybe lacks the athleticism for AFL. I went into the game thinking he was probably the lowest ranked player on our rookie list and perhaps the entire list, but he's definitely a better player than that. Josh Wagner - best on ground - brilliant reading of the role of the rebounding half-back - defended well, offered run, was creative with his kicking. His AFL form this year has been below his play of last year, maybe he was recalled too quick off injury but this was a game of a player who can step it up a notch next he gets a chance. Declan Keilty - he was a decent contributer. He competed well and has frame that will always keep his opponent honest. As a ruck/forward seems a bit limited too me and maybe he will best as a key back. Corey Maynard - hard at it, works hard and is tough. Certainly worth persevering with. I don't think he will let anyone down in the intent stakes and with the competitiveness, it's just whether he has the skill level and the hands in close to be able to make it at the level above. Overall, I though Wagner and White looked a class above there team-mates and Weideman the most promising. Those three and Cox and Blair (can't believe I typed that) for Collingwood seemed to be the only genuine AFL standard players on the ground going purely off that game.

We were screaming out for midfield depth at the time, I'd have gone with Angus. If we stocked up on young defenders instead, we'd be arguing that we are going back to 2012...and we need midfield depth. i haven't written off Angus just yet. He's 22 in January. Give him time.

Melbourne, there is just so much to play for this game. Please, back yourselves in and learn to win these crucial games. I'm sick and tired of dropping games like this where we have everything to play for and the moment just drowns us like a massive wave. GET IT DONE DEES!!!!!!!!!!!

A lot different from the dark days of 2012-13

Football commentary has been bad since Grybass passed. He was a star. Smart, witty, with a superb football IQ. Knew how to read and call the play without relying on hyperbole and over excitement. Even made boring games enjoyable. BT and Co these days make exciting games a chore to listen to.

The common thread seems to be that the commentary team on 7 is useless not just Ling. They drive me to distraction. ...but I remember Ling being pretty good when he first started his commentary. I mean, he does have a clue although you would be forgiven for believing the opposite. So, a couple of things or more... 7 are obviously instructing them to appeal to the lowest common denominator, those that don't have much of a clue about football and think a press is something you do to your shirt. 7 are also in the business of ratings so a further instruction is to pump up the big teams at all cost, wow, Collingwood are looking switched on tonight (just after the first bounce). They need to pension off Mathews, Carey and Watson (probably a few more) or find other jobs for them, too long out of the game and bring no insight. Of course they won't, the legendary names are good on the credits. They have become part of Ross Lyon's 'penny dreadfuls', trying to remain relevant. Special comments need to be the realm of ex players/coaches just out of the game. Like Malthouse or not his insights on radio are pretty good, my guess is he would be too hot for 7 to touch...wouldn't go along with the dumbing down. ...and please Dennis, reconsider your retirement. At least you had some flair and were well prepared unlike the buffoon they've replaced you with.

Like so much about Jack Watts there is fact and there is fiction. Plenty of the latter.

While it's frustrating that Bugg misses shots at goal, it's good he is getting so many shots. Shows he gets to the right places and beats his opponent, unlike some of his teammates such as Kent or JKH. If only they had his work ethic and smarts...

Flanners is a rare one. He won't be left wanting for places to publish. He may even get to writing books again. I dare say there's a Booker-winner in him like his brother's. I had a painting exhibition a few years ago, within which I had painted a series of Tom Wills themed pieces. I had read Flanners' novel The Call, a fictionalisation of the Tom Wills story (everyone here should), and got in touch with him to ask if he'd consider opening my exhibition with a bit of chat about Tom Wills. He accepted the invite without baulking, and left everyone at the opening believing Tommy Wills was the great forgotten hero of Australian history, sporting and otherwise. You would too if you heard his passion for the man and his legacy. I sold all bar one of the Wills paintings (the one with Ned Kelly in it - pretender) and gave Flanners a painting I hadn't exhibited as thanks. I reckon he's the great Melbourne sports writer of our time, and not for disappearing.

There's seriously not one single winner on the ch7 commentary team.

Fair dinkum unbelievable. There's really not much reason for me to read the Age any more these days. The sports section was just about the last thing left but without its better writers, Quayle, Connolly and Flanagan, all that's left is a couple of cricket journos and Caro who is not much chop on a number of levels IMO. RIP The Age