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Wouldn’t get rid of ABN. He’s needed for taxation purposes.

I'd only play JVR only if it's alongside another key forward such as Brown.

I can sort of half see why some may have the [censored] with Ed and his comment. Me personally? I [censored] love it. It's pure honesty, and adds more theatre to the game. In this day and age where characters of the game have unfortunately died out and players are now trained up to be more like robots with stock standard cliché's, it's so refreshing to hear a player's perspective on what he genuinely thinks of a teams recent performance. And yes, I'd be saying the exact saying thing if it was a Collingwood player doing the same thing to us. If Collingwood need a few words to spark them up then that says more about them. I can tell you one thing, if we lose tomorrow night, it certainly won't be because of a few words thrown out by Langdon. More of this in our game I say.

Last out on the track, was Tracc, Kossi and Melky, oh, and of course Viney who was playing with his doggy. After the warm up they kicked to the 4 points of the square, where the groups gathered, with run throughs and some handballs. Split into their lines, they then moved a kaos ball from defense to the forwards, and finished with a goal. All at about 3/4 pace and no opposition, apart from a coach getting in the way and bringing the ball to ground. They finished with individual goal kicking. They appeared nervous, though upbeat and focused. They look powerful. I think they are ready for them. Tomlinson trained with the back-line, Harmes with the mids, and Chandler with the forwards. Go Dees.

Started at 9.30 AM In the captains squad: JVR, BBB Can't see Weids. Boisterous out there. Finished at 10.15 AM

They haven't introduced tenpo control to their game yet. I say yet, because I'm sure they will at some point. The other big difference to us is they rely on moving the ball quick and aggressively for their scoring. Langers is right - that represents a structural weakness in their method. Take it away and they will struggle to kick a winning score. But they are likely to keep trying to go fast, which means they are likely to turn it over heaps. That might be ok against orher teams, but we will prey on, and punish turnovers. Which is how we generate most of our scoring. The only way to take that away from us is not turn it over. And the only way of avoiding that, if we are on, is play safe don't take risks (eg take on the corridor) and go down the line. Which is what we want. Catch 22. We will smash them.

I’m happy with this. Gus to play more midfield which strengthens us even more considering Adams is out for the Pies Please just smash them!

Not like this will be the difference between a win & a loss. The man had the balls & confidence to put it out there - personally, I love it.

Are you referring to the marriage or the premiership?

Stick it right up 'em Lingers 😎 Game on moles.

Love Demonland This was the only change likely given the big win but we still managed 18 plus pages in the weekly change thread

Good decision- thank you Goody for not changing things too much after out best 4 quarter effort in months

Eddie Betts - just when you think you think you couldn’t admire a man any more, he again shows his courage in speaking out about injustices that no one should have to face.

More worried about Harmes' attempts to dance.

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Who would know more about one trick ponies than Mister Ed?

Happy Hunt retains his spot, but the pressure is on to keep it

I like Caro as a journo but I was surprised at this too. I thought the words about to come out of her mouth were going to be about Collingwood and the Do Better report. She believes very strongly in the tanking saga and how much of a blight it was on the game. Shes even said she thought it was worse than the Essendon supplements saga. There's no way in hell I can agree that playing players out of position is worse than pumping kids full of injections and damaging their careers but she's entitled to that view.

Bit the bullet and booked ADL-MEL-PER. Expensive little side trip in the end but it’s worth it considering it’s the only game I’ve been able to make so far this year.

This should really get the Pies fired up for the first 5 minutes before it reverts to a normal game of AFL footy for the remaining 115. GO DEMONS!!!

Don’t forget me mate Bowza

I loved it!

Goody said BB is feeling the best about his body than he has in 12-14 weeks. So he has clearly been carrying the knee all year Getting him primed for finals

Would I have preferred him to say nothing? For sure. However if the filth need motivation by looking into a loose comment that also compliments them then I'd be seriously concerned for their sake. If it's between this and one of their players abusing our skipper as he came off injured the last time we met, I know which one I prefer for fire lighting purposes.

He's not bespeaking to me at the moment.

I can live with Caro repeatedly bringing it up, as long as she was doing it honestly. She could say something like, "in a widely practiced tactic in the AFL, known as tanking, which even my TIgers admitted to doing, the MFC was the only club punished by the AFL, for doing it". At least that would be truthful.

Jack Watts was a far better player than Weid is and I think your comparison is pretty unfair to Jack and incorrect. Jack played in a worse team and was used all over the forward line, even playing a bit in defence and ending there with Port where he was going very well until injured. He was actually BOG against us playing off the half back line for Port. If we had Jack at Weid's age now, we would be far better off than we are and he would be absolute best 22. Nice mark and brilliant kick for goal and was mobile for his size. Have a look at the running goal winner against the Pies, could you see Weid doing that? Year Team # GM W-D-L KI MK HB DI GL BH HO TK RB IF CL CG FF FA BR CP UP CM MI 1% BO GA Totals 174 57-2-115 1510 907 1225 2735 161 79 158 358 185 316 107 330 107 136 15 943 1805 126 151 284 24 90 Averages 15.82 33.33% 8.68 5.21 7.04 15.72 0.93 0.45 0.91 2.06 1.06 1.82 0.61 1.90 0.61 0.78 0.09 5.42 10.37 0.72 0.87 1.63 0.14 0.52 2009 Melbourne 4 3 0-0-3 16 9 11 27 2 2 1 3 10 2 6 13 16 1 4 2 1 2010 Melbourne 4 15 5-1-9 115 70 74 189 10 4 9 15 4 30 12 31 14 13 69 123 6 10 22 10 2011 Melbourne 4 22 8-1-13 198 124 157 355 21 11 9 53 26 40 8 47 14 17 1 127 242 26 18 49 5 12 2012 Melbourne 4 15 3-0-12 149 83 129 278 5 1 2 23 42 21 10 31 10 13 3 113 157 20 2 47 5 4 2013 Melbourne 4 18 2-0-16 157 95 110 267 22 12 11 29 32 25 8 31 8 14 3 92 173 10 22 31 8 7 2014 Melbourne 4 22 4-0-18 200 109 185 385 13 8 2 58 19 40 16 39 12 17 106 281 10 9 28 1 10 2015 Melbourne 4 20 6-0-14 169 102 156 325 10 6 29 42 27 35 22 34 14 13 112 210 9 10 16 1 11 2016 Melbourne 4 22 10-0-12 226 139 125 351 38 18 42 39 15 55 15 46 11 16 5 126 230 22 38 39 1 18 2017 Melbourne 4 16 8-0-8 129 77 122 251 22 9 53 42 6 35 11 25 10 9 1 85 167 11 21 18 3 9 2018 Port Adelaide 23 19 9-0-10 127 85 139 266 18 8 1 51 3 31 4 26 9 14 2 87 176 9 17 23 8 2019 Port Adelaide 23 2 2-0-0 24 14 17 41 5 11 1 1 10 3 4 13 30 2 9

I think it will be pretty much 'steady as she goes' selection wise. BBB in for Weid ... Harmes med sub. ANB is out of form and was terrible v Freo, but he is important to the structure of the side. Same with Sparrow and Spargo. Hunt and Melksham have played their roles well. Rivers has been OK. Go Dees ... if we lose this one my whole weekend will be ruined.

They did a good little analysis of Melksham’s role on 360. He is clearly playing his role of cutting off an interceptor and also providing an option inside F50.

Back Brown in. Regardless of how poor people say he's been he's still someone who needs opposition attention. Hopefully we can create some space for him to lead into.

Adem Yze confirmed this morning that Ben Brown trained well this week and if he gets through today's captain run, he'll play tomorrow night.

I keep saying this, the new ceo should not be from the old boys club or little will change. They all owe something to someone.

Probably not helpful Ed

Of course they think! Eg "Where did my dole money go?" "When did my children disappear?' " I had five teef yesterday . What happened?"

I was at the game. I know we didn’t have the best seats but I seriously didn’t see Weids having a crack. Maybe it was just our viewing. I will say that the one thing I criticised about Goodwin’s coaching last year was giving Weids games at the expense of Brown. Brown was really good when he played and Goody would still put Weid in at his expense. I just couldn’t understand it. Brown hasn’t had the best form lately, but he can still be counted on taking at least one good mark and kick a goal. Weiderman can’t. While Brown is far from his best I’d take Brown over him any day if the week. I just can’t comprehend people saying that Brown’s no better than Weids. Brown is way better and given his recent form that’s saying a hell of a lot

Correct. Everyone did it, but she only goes after us and thereby says by inference, we were the only ones. The compere of the show, Eddie, even admitted his club had tanked and that everyone had done it. I heard him say it some years ago on a show. Libba, a Blues assistant coach at the time, dobbed in the Blues for tanking on TV. It was allegedly investigated by the AFL, then suddenly Libba sheepishly modified his story, obviously after being PERSUADED to. Terry Wallace also admitted that he did it at Caro's club the Tigers, which she will never , ever mention. I think there were a couple of others who admitted it was a practice in the game due, to the Priority Picks being available. I would give Caro more credit if she at least told the truth or was not selective with it and said Melbourne were the only team dealt with by the AFL for Tanking, but that it was in fact widely practiced in the competition. The media at the time would joke that Boards should be sacked if they didn't do it and take advantage of the PP's.

Donation made to a most worthy cause. Hard to believe it's been ten years since we lost Jimmy. I'd caution posters not to google "Reach Round". It may lead you to sites best avoided.

Every game in our run home has or will be a big game. And then we have finals. There's no pressure on JVR to star, he just needs to compete.

It's like they're preparing Melbourne supporters for his selection as a tall forward this week or next....

Got to say DD, I have always thought these camps challenging masculinity and targeting physical and mental capacity/resilience, together with the so called team bonding aspect, complete and utter nonsense. I have been on a few and I can’t say that they benefited me in any way, shape or form. For many it’s no big deal and no damage is done but for others it can be very damaging. Part of the problem is that the people running these things are often not qualified or do not have sufficient expertise or experience to be dealing with the so called psychological issues that can come from confronting your fears and weaknesses. For god sake these are professional footballers with the same weaknesses and frailties that we all have. They are paid to play football and not be the subject of these “experiments” run by trainers who are here one day and gone the next.

Do you have any theories that might explain a post bye drop off by one of our aerobic beasts?

When the issue first arose there was some talk that some non indigenous Adelaide players also took offence but that line was never fleshed out in the media. Perhaps players were reluctant to speak up.

He might have if the VFL team didn't have a bye

No idea to be honest 'red'. And to be honest I'd be happy with the one change of Brown for Weideman.

Just wanted to bump this for those considering donating - All donations made between 8am-8pm today will be matched by Zurich/BeyondBank effectively doubling your donated amount. Saw it announced on the MFC Instagram.

No and I forgot about some other players like Patrick Hughes be well ahead of him as well at this stage IMHO

The AFLPA are a complete waste of space Nobpdy wanted to deal with this problem Anyone at the AFL pre 2018 should be thrown out Just like Adam Goodes situation . Did nothing

We’re all looking for the right mix up forward and our woes up there have been much talked about (again) this season. Came across an article today about certain stats. Here’s a bit about us. Pre-bye, the Demons were the hardest team to score against inside 50, but they ranked 13th for scoring from their own entries. Since the bye they rank fourth for scoring from their own forward 50 entries which is a crucial increase given their noticeable forward 50 woes

A top 4, round 21 clash against the hated pies. Next week Carlton with hopefully 3 finals at G soon after. This is what we've been waiting years for. Consecutive big in August/September games to look forward with hopefully a flag to celebrate at the end of it. This is a great time to be alive. No excuses whatsoever for Melbourne based fans not getting along to G over this period