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Dung beetles are amazing. Did you know that they were carefully selected and introduced to Australia under a several-years-long CSIRO program? They store cattle dung under the ground faster than the life-cycle of flies, meaning that the fly larvae don't have time to hatch and develop. This has greatly increased the productivity of cattle and dairy farms because, literally, there is significantly more actual grass not covered in dung. It was a real problem, measured in double-figure percentages of total land in many regions. Also, any time you are eating outside or just doing anything at all outside, take the number of flies you are being annoyed by and multiply it by at least 5. That is what you'd be dealing with if not for the intellectual might of some very humble dung-beetle researchers at the CSIRO! It is not a coincidence that Australia's outdoor cafes and the like only really took off after the dung beetle program was implemented. Anyway, I don't actually know much about dung beetle mating. I think it involves a fair amount of pushing and shoving with hind legs. Don't tell AFLHQ or they'd introduce free kicks for in the back, and we'd all be eating inside again within a year.

Have you had a couple of cheeky Friday bevs?

I support the Melbourne Football Club. I always have. I also support Simon Goodwin. I have supported Melbourne from before I can remember. I love the Melbourne Football Club. My favourite player is Robbie Flower R.I.P. My favourite current player is Jake Melksham. I can't wait to see him play again this Saturday. I was born in the month after Melbourne's last premiership victory in 1964. I have never seen Melbourne win an AFL/VFL day premiership. I endured ridicule from my classmates throughout my 12 years of schooling for barracking for Melbourne. The ridicule has not stopped. It was hell being a Melbourne supporter in the 70s and 80s. During this time, my father took my brother and me to football games aligned with our opposing teams. Hawthorn enjoyed great success then, and they usually won. Melbourne usually lost. How to recover... Melbourne and this exacerbated Melbourne's to ameliorate the needs o f watch Robbie Flower. As a young boy he meant everything to me as afootbaleeJacko... And the Wizard... And Jokovich.... He endured as a goal kicking talent and indeed superb entertainment throughout a depressing period of the MFC which included the return of coach Ronald Dale Barassi and his inability after his spectacular success at North Melbourne to do the same at the MFC. ite this, and in the decades following same, I have remained steadfast in my support of the the greatest and oldest sporting club in the world.rne didn't. In 1987, after finally breaking through and winning one of the first night Grand Finals against Essendon, I ran onto the ground (with thousands of other Melbourne supporters) at VFL Park when Melbourne beat Essendon in the 1987 VFL Night Grand Final. I got to touch the Premiership Cup. That was a night of elation and optimism. A time of hope. We came close again in the day competition that year (1987) but lost the infamous preliminary final after the siren against the Hawks. It steeled us to make the GF the next year but once again the Hawks were too good in 1988. Melbourne and Essendon were particularly strong In the finals (2018), we beat Geelong and Hawthorn. Think about that for a moment. These were two sides that had smashed us for almost two decades and to defeat them in front of 90,000 people (the majority of which were Melbourne supporters. Add this: Aussies smashing Poms in the Ashes. Poms truly [censored] WEAK.

My 8 month old just muttered his first words. ”Holding, Richmond!”

Reasons to go: 1. Drink Beer at ridiculous prices. 2. Have a 1/50,000 chance of winning a car, which will be 1/100,000 as I am not a young female or person that will look good in the promo material, so I actually have no chance. 3. Catch up with mates 4. Cheer an odd moment of Melbourne play here and there 5. Get an Oliver cup. Never got any of the others, I’m really stretching here... 6. Practice my Dali Lama calmness tolerating nuffti Richmond bogan d-heads. Especially on the public transport home.

It's all very clear to me now. We need cows grazing on the G through the week, and extra dung beetles brought in to boost numbers. That will reduce the fly population, and, ergo, fewer maggots.

Ling is truly an insufferable dribbling twit.

You know it’s tough when this happens ...

Well done JKH...not the worst

Was at the footy, the boys had a go, but once the rain came Richmond took control. The umpires were atrocious we couldn’t get a free until the game was over.

Looked at the ladder today and we're only 4 games + percentage behind Adelaide who are in the 8. If we win our last 4 and everyone from 16 - 8th lose all of their remaining games and we can make up 20% percentage we could still theoretically play finals. Throw in a couple of doping investigations and we will rocket into the 8 and as the doggies demonstrated in 2016 and with May, Tmac, Weid, Jetta, Vanders, J Smith to come back in the remaining rounds anything is possible. Stay positive!

As long as they had a crack, enjoyed themselves & made some new friends out there! good on them

Dont know how Max gets the motivation to play with these blokes. Their lucky they cant look him in the eye.

0 tackles for Viney and Jones. Was at the game and saw Jones Coast off the back of packs trying to get cheap touches. Didn’t see him get into a sprint once. His done.

the cricket umpires look good compared to this mob

Heard an umpire say that Ra Richmond player wasn't holding the ball because he was already on the ground. Where was that rule for Gawn a few weeks ago? The inconsistency in umpiring is a disgrace, and the AFL only have themselves to blame.

Loving Fritter in the forward line, because he's a forward. It's crazy I know, but it works.

Not sure why they did the car draw at quarter time. No incentive for Melbourne fans to stay now. Should have done it at 3/4 time and gave it to the only idiot who is still at the match. “You sir, you are still here, you’ve suffered enough, have a car”

All in all better than expected - 2019 Hard Yakka / Totally Workwear VFL Casey Demons 1.1.7 3.3.21 4.6.30 6.7.43 Richmond VFL 5.3.33 7.4.46 8.5.53 12.6.78 Goals Casey Demons Lowden 2 Bedford Lockhart Munro White Richmond VFL Aarts Markov Menadue Miller 2 Coleman-Jones Grewar Nankervis Pickett Best Casey Demons Hutchins Keilty Hore White Stretch Wale-Buxton Richmond VFL Aarts Morris Coleman-Jones Nankervis Naish Eggmolesse-Smith Statistics Toby Bedford 1 goal 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 4 marks 4 tackles 62 dream team points Austin Bradtke 1 behind 2 kicks 3 handballs 5 disposals14 dream team points Jaxon Briggs 11 kicks 3 handballs 14 disposals 7 marks 2 tackles 69 dream team points Kade Chandler 5 kicks 8 handballs 13 disposals 1 mark 3 tackles 45 dream team points Dylan Collis 6 kicks 4 handballs 10 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 40 dream team points Joe Di Pasquale 2 behinds 13 kicks 2 handballs 15 disposals 6 marks 1 tackle 70 dream team points Tom Freeman 9 kicks 3 handballs 12 disposals 2 marks 40 dream team points Matt Gahan 4 kicks 4 handballs 8 disposals 2 marks 1 tackle 31 dream team points Marty Hore 30 kicks 4 handballs 34 disposals 6 marks 5 tackles 133 dream team points Jack Hutchins 3 behinds 15 kicks 5 handballs 20 disposals 9 marks 5 tackles 106 dream team points James Jordon 2 kicks 12 handballs 14 disposals 2 marks 6 tackles 58 dream team points Declan Keilty 2 kicks 6 handballs 8 disposals 1 mark 1 tackle 22 dream team points Mykelty Lefau 2 kicks 2 disposals 2 tackles 12 dream team points Jay Lockhart 1 goal 12 kicks 2 handballs 14 disposals 3 marks 6 tackles 81 dream team points Nick Lowden 2 goals 9 kicks 4 handballs 13 disposals 8 marks 72 dream team points Ariek Lual 4 kicks 4 handballs 8 disposals 4 marks 32 dream team points James Munro 1 goal 6 kicks 5 handballs 11 disposals 3 marks 5 tackles 64 dream team points Cory Stockdale 9 kicks 5 handballs 14 disposals 5 marks 52 dream team points Billy Stretch 16 kicks 7 handballs 23 disposals 2 marks 3 tackles 79 dream team points Luke Tynan 9 kicks 6 handballs 15 disposals 2 marks 4 tackles 63 dream team points Josh Wagner 13 kicks 5 handballs 18 disposals 5 marks 7 tackles 95 dream team points Liam Wale-Buxton 5 kicks 1 handballs 6 disposals 1 mark 7 tackles 31 hit outs 78 dream team points Mitch White 1 goal - details unavailable

For someone who busted a collarbone a month ago, Marty Hore is playing a damn good game.

Anyone want to go for a spin in my new Jag after quarter time?

Gawn's ability to never give up never ceases to amaze. Oliver is an able accomplice and Fritsch has clearly improved since being moved forward. Lewis did a solid job on Grimes, and Frost tried hard. I didn't mind Dunkley's effort as well. Preuss looks a long way from the standard required. He's not Robinson Crusoe though.

We are doing well aside from maggot infestation. Good to see players hitting up targets rather than bombing inside 50. Big question is can we not fall away in the last quarter as we have done last three rounds?

Well done to our boys there in the first half. Taking the game on and playing to win. Learn to dispose of the ball correctly and even up the umpiring and we are a very good team again.

I support Melbourne too but hate them at the same time. It’s a cruel cycle like a bad family domestic relationship.

You have a short memory. Max Gawn was just as bad in his early AFL games.

I’d love to ask Glenn Bartlett what his criteria for an external revue is (if falling from top 4 to second bottom doesn’t justify it). Turn up the heat Glenn. It’s your job mate.

I couldn't find an appropriate thread But the big guy should be our captain. Thank you to Jones and Viney but you're inspiration leadership isn't there. The big fella is all heart and a real leader. Max Gawn for 2020

Max throwing himself at everything with 10 seconds to go. What an amazing footballer.

And we cross live to Simon Goodwin in the coaches box:

Ling is a [censored] moron ‘cant use a delayed preseason due to playing finals as an excuse next year’

Lyon two wickets in one over.

Harmes great mark Umps pay as a free kick to us to even up

Hunt continuing a good season. Looks like he’s blanketing Rioli and doing a very good job. I wish they used him more when he runs by teammates to create an option.

If I hear Ling talk about the "corridor" one more time, I will throw my Funk and Wagnall's at his head.

Umpires have been told to stop the rubbish frees against Gawn. Pay one against Preuss in every contest instead.

Why Marty Hore was not picked to play tonight just beggars belief. Goodwin has definitely lost the plot this season.

Well, I follow Melbourne because mu uncle's teacher left his school in the Wimmera to play with Melbourne in the middle of the year. THat wa in the mid 1920's and my uncle followed them all his life ( he died @ 92). As a kid in 1950's, I thought I was onto a good thing (still do) ..First saw Melbourne play in 1963 @ Junction Oval (CArl's first game ) Robbie Flower made it worthwhile going to the footy . Gary Hardeman could mark anything and Stan Alves owned the Members wing. I still think we are recovering from the hidings from Hawthorn and the loss after the siren. I was numb !!! The good thing about Melbourne was that any little success became great. Beating Carlton on the eve of the finals when we finished in bottom part of ladder and they won the Flag nearly was equivalent. Last year was the start of our Decade of Arrogance , but it seems it has hit a hiatus. This year has taught us to be humble in our period of greatness. ( and I have only just opened my bottle of red !!!) Normal Arrogance will resume next year !!!

Get the job done Port. Even though Kochie is a complete jerk

I will be having more fun at work wiping faeces off aggressive, demented residents than any Dees supporters will have at the "G". Good luck to those who choose to go.

My Brother in Law Richmond member rings me up half and hour ago as asks if I am going? Nup I said. Good he says, I'll come over and watch on your 80 inch 4 k T.V and have a few beers!! I think I'll leave him alone and watch the cricket down the other end of the house!!?

For all those going off about Neville Jetta’s supposed mismanagement, unless you’ve been part of the medical/rehab/fitness process first hand, you simply have no justification for such a presumption. As much as you might hope otherwise, timing the return to playing is NOT an exact science. There is ALWAYS a grey area that engulfs ‘maybe too soon, cherry ripe, and could have come back earlier’. And don’t forget there is pressure from everywhere to avoid the latter. From player, coach, management, supporters, media. And it will NEVER be perfect. If you think opinions based on hindsight grant certainty, you’re an idiot.

First time since about 2015 I’m going to a game 100% certain of a loss. How I’ve missed those days...

Same for Lever being rushed back after low vfl minutes, and Smith being forced to play out a pointless preseason game when injured and being written off for the year. The club’s player management this season has been appalling and the worst I can remember from an afl club.

On trading pick 2 , I don’t think anyone is suggesting we trade pick 2 straight up for Brad Hill. The question would be whether we trade pick 2 for Hill AND Freo’s first. Currently that’s pick 7, and i could see it dropping to pick 6. With a bit of horse trading it’s not impossible to see Langdon included in the deal. Should we be exploring whether we could walk away from this trade draft period with Hill, Langdon as well as someone like Dylan Stephens (Ash or Serong are possibles here too)? We could deal with our (glaring) immediate needs and get a first round talent in one deal. A lot of the commentary around pick 2 is predicated on Anderson being the player available at 2, but I would not be surprised (assuming that GC aren’t gifted a priority pick at the start of the 1st round), if GC went with Anderson at pick 1. Rowell may have a few more runs on the board, but Anderson is 10 cm’s taller and can play in other areas of the ground. If I’m picking first, I’m leaning toward Anderson. What if it wasn’t Anderson, but Rowell we were talking about being the player available at pick 2? Would we want to pick the pure inside midfielder if we held pick 2?