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We will be shunted to the South Australian countryside next year. People should book now in the Barossa Valley.

I have not seen that error on any of the devices I use so I guess the next step in troubleshooting for you would be to ask what device are you using when this error occurs? Computer or phone? If computer, is it Windows or Mac? If phone is it iPhone or Android or something else? I guess also the browser you are using? Also are the devices up to date with their software updates?

I have no idea what was even causing it. I had not touch anything in my setup nor change any settings since the last show. I ended up closing the program at streams our audio and when I reopened and reconnected it was gone.

Gather Round is here, kicking off with a Thursday night blockbuster as Adelaide faces Geelong. The Crows will be out for redemption after a controversial loss last week. Saturday starts with the Magpies taking on the Swans. Collingwood will be eager to cement their spot in the top eight, while Sydney is hot on their heels. In the Barossa Valley, two rising sides go head-to-head in a fascinating battle to prove they're the real deal. Later, Carlton and West Coast face off at Adelaide Oval, both desperate to notch their first win of the season. The action then shifts to Norwood, where the undefeated Lions will aim to keep their streak alive against the Bulldogs. Sunday’s games begin in the Barossa with Richmond up against Fremantle. In Norwood, the Saints will be looking to take a scalp when they come up against the Giants. The round concludes with a fiery rematch of last year's semi-final, as the Hawks seek revenge for their narrow loss to Port Adelaide. Who are you tipping this week and what are the best results for the Demons besides us winning?

I've fixed the audio and the chat room on the fly. Get me in the coaches box.

We have a new phone number: 0486 387 929

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Well what do you know.

Heard Lever is out for 6-8 weeks. No idea if this is a new injury or current ankle injury related.

This was one of the few games in recent memory when the Demons put their heart and soul into a game and they really hurt the Bombers even without their injured skipper. If only they could repeat that effort every week. Even so, they almost lost to a withering Bomber finish after establishing a big lead halfway through the last quarter MELBOURNE 3.2.20 6.6.43 8.6.54 13.6.84 ESSENDON 3.3.21 4.5.29 5.7.37 10.7.67 GOALS MELBOURNE Fritsch Turner 3 Melksham Pickett 2 Chandler Langdon Windsor ESSENDON Martin 4 Duursma Langford 2 Durham Jones BEST MELBOURNE Rivers Oliver Langdon Melksham Windsor Pickett ESSENDON Ridley Martin Merrett McKay Shiel THE TEAMS MELBOURNE B T. McDonald, S. May, J. McVee HB T. Rivers, J. Lever, J. Bowey C E. Langdon, C. Oliver, A. Neal-Bullen HF K. Pickett, J. van Rooyen, T. Sparrow F K. Chandler, B. Fritsch, J. Melksham FOLL H. Petty, J. Viney, C. Salem I/C A. Moniz-Wakefield, K. Tholstrup, D. Turner, C. Windsor SUB T. Woewodin EMG T. Fullarton, B. Laurie, A. Tomlinson IN H. Petty OUT M. Gawn (ankle) ESSENDON B J. Ridley, B. McKay, D. Heppell HB N. Martin, M. Redman, A. McGrath C X. Duursma, S. Durham, A. Perkins HF M. Guelfi, H. Jones, N. Caddy F J. Stringer, P. Wright, K. Langford FOLL S. Draper, J. Caldwell, Z. Merrett I/C N. Cox, J. Gresham, J. Kelly, D. Shiel SUB N. Hind EMG T. Goldstein, J. Laverde, W. Setterfield IN D. Heppell OUT J. Laverde (omitted)

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That's all the questions for tonight—thanks so much to everyone who contributed. Just a small favour for next time: if you have multiple points or issues to raise, please post them separately rather than combining them into one post. It really helps me break things down and respond more effectively.

PLAYER VOTES 1 Max Gawn 40 2 Clayton Oliver 29 3 Christian Petracca 27 4 Kade Chandler 23 5 Jack Bowey 21 6 Christian Salem 17 =7 Ed Langdon 15 =7 Harvey Langford 15 =7 Steven May 15 10 Xavier Lindsay 13 11 Tom McDonald 11 12 Jack Viney 7 13 Trent Rivers 5 =14 Kysaiah Pickett 4 =14 Daniel Turner 4 16 Tom Sparrow 3 =17 Bayley Fritsch 1 =17 Jack Henderson 1 =17 Harry Sharp 1

There was a time in the second quarter of the game at the Cattery on Friday afternoon when the Casey Demons threatened to take the game apart against the Cats. The Demons had been well on top early but were struggling to convert their ascendancy over the ground until Tom Fullarton’s burst of three goals in the space of eight minutes on the way to a five goal haul and his best game for the club since arriving from Brisbane at the end of 2023. He was leading, marking and otherwise giving his opponents a merry dance as Casey grabbed a three goal lead in the blink of an eye. Fullarton has now kicked ten goals in Casey’s three matches and, with Melbourne’s forward conversion woes, he is definitely in with a chance to get his first game with the club in next week’s Gather Round in Adelaide. Despite the tall forward’s efforts - he finished with 19 disposals and eight marks and had four hit outs as back up to Will Verrall in the second half - it wasn’t enough as Geelong reigned in the lead through persistent attacks and eventually clawed their way to the lead early in the last and held it till they achieved the end aim of victory. There was some more good news and some bad for the Demons in the tall timber department. For the second week in a row, Tom Campbell failed to see out the game but his understudy in Verrall stepped up with 12 disposals, a goal and 28 hitouts. He is starting to play with greater confidence and intensity. Another player to catch the eye and to come into contention for a trip to SA would have to be Kynan Brown who might have only picked up 17 disposals but his game high 11 tackles was significant given the lack of tackling pressure from his Melbourne counterparts later that night. We also saw some good returns from Blake Howes (26 possessions and nine marks), Oliver Sestan (22 disposals, nine marks) and Bailey Laurie (19 touches). Jed Adams’ development as a key defender is also coming along nicely. Of the Casey contingent, Mitch Hardie was impressive on debut against his old club with 26 possessions and Riley Bonner was close behind him. Patrick Cross was also busy and continues to improve. The Demons return to their home ground with another tough challenge against the UWS Giants on Saturday week. CASEY DEMONS 3.5.23 9.6.60 13.7.85 14.9.93 GEELONG VFL 3.3.21 7.7.49 11.11.77 16.13.109 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Fullarton 5 Johnson 2 Billings Cross Edwards Hardie Verrall Windsor Yze GEELONG VFL Polkinghorne 3 Annand De Grandi Rantall Retschko Wiltshire 2 Lewis Lucas Murray BEST CASEY DEMONS Fullarton Adams Verrall Cross Brown Sestan GEELONG VFL Wiltshire Clark Kreuger Rantall Stevens Herbert

CLAWED by KC from Casey There was a time in the second quarter of the game at the Cattery on Friday afternoon when the Casey Demons threatened to take the game apart against the Cats. The Demons had been well on top early but were struggling to convert their ascendancy over the ground until Tom Fullarton’s burst of three goals in the space of eight minutes on the way to a five goal haul and his best game for the club since arriving from Brisbane at the end of 2023. He was leading, marking and otherwise giving his opponents a merry dance as Casey grabbed a three goal lead in the blink of an eye. Fullarton has now kicked ten goals in Casey’s three matches and, with Melbourne’s forward conversion woes, he is definitely in with a chance to get his first game with the club in next week’s Gather Round in Adelaide. Despite the tall forward’s efforts - he finished with 19 disposals and eight marks and had four hit outs as back up to Will Verrall in the second half - it wasn’t enough as Geelong reigned in the lead through persistent attacks and eventually clawed their way to the lead early in the last and held it till they achieved the end aim of victory. There was some more good news and some bad for the Demons in the tall timber department. For the second week in a row, Tom Campbell failed to see out the game but his understudy in Verrall stepped up with 12 disposals, a goal and 28 hitouts. He is starting to play with greater confidence and intensity. Another player to catch the eye and to come into contention for a trip to SA would have to be Kynan Brown who might have only picked up 17 disposals but his game high 11 tackles was significant given the lack of tackling pressure from his Melbourne counterparts later that night. We also saw some good returns from Blake Howes (26 possessions and nine marks), Oliver Sestan (22 disposals, nine marks) and Bailey Laurie (19 touches). Jed Adams’ development as a key defender is also coming along nicely. Of the Casey contingent, Mitch Hardie was impressive on debut against his old club with 26 possessions and Riley Bonner was close behind him. Patrick Cross was also busy and continues to improve. The Demons return to their home ground with another tough challenge against the UWS Giants on Saturday week. CASEY DEMONS 3.5.23 9.6.60 13.7.85 14.9.93 GEELONG VFL 3.3.21 7.7.49 11.11.77 16.13.109 GOALS CASEY DEMONS Fullarton 5 Johnson 2 Billings Cross Edwards Hardie Verrall Windsor Yze GEELONG VFL Polkinghorne 3 Annand De Grandi Rantall Retschko Wiltshire 2 Lewis Lucas Murray BEST CASEY DEMONS Fullarton Adams Verrall Cross Brown Sestan GEELONG VFL Wiltshire Clark Kreuger Rantall Stevens Herbert STATISTICS

I was disappointed to hear Goody say at his post match presser after the team’s 39 point defeat against Geelong that "we're getting high quality entry, just poor execution" because Melbourne’s problems extend far beyond that after its 0 - 4 start to the 2025 football season. There are clearly problems with poor execution, some of which were evident well before the current season and were in play when the Demons met the Cats in early May last year and beat them in a near top-of-the-table clash that saw both sides sitting comfortably in the top four after round eight. Since that game, the Demons’ performances have been positively Third World with only five wins in 19 games with a no longer majestic midfield and a dysfunctional forward line that has become too easy for opposing coaches to counter. This is an area of their game that is currently being played out as if they were all completely panic-stricken. There is absolutely no connection between the midfield and a forward line that continually fails to do what it’s meant to do — attack the football with intensity and purpose rather than to stand behind their opponents and hope against hope that the man in front is going to mess up. Yes, when the team gets the footy it’s problematic when Bayley Fritsch and Kozzie Pickett each manage three behinds for a game, but there’s even more to it. They know they can perform but they’ve lost the capacity to play the sort of relaxed football that can turn the current situation around. To its credit, Melbourne was in the game for almost a full three quarters and had opportunities to be very close at the final break. Max Gawn worked hard without adequate back up and when he was off the ball, there was nothing. The club recruited Tom Campbell to fill in for him when he needed a break. Unfortunately, Campbell himself seems to be struggling to see out half a game at VFL level. The old guard midfielders are working their hearts out but are no longer able to dominate. The club needs the likes of Windsor, Pickett, Langford, Rivers and Lindsay in the fray but the first two were just back after an absence and the latter was out. It’s bleedingly obvious that we need more pace and more skills in that mix. The game produced a glimmer of hope in the right direction but in the end, they were overrun and finished the game completely under Geelong’s thumb. It wasn’t just poor execution that brought the team undone, the effort was often insufficient to even get in a position to execute. Goodwin spoke after the game about the need to overcome the panic: “The message is stay calm, we’re four weeks in. Stay calm but get urgent - that’s been the message. “We’ve got work to do. Get urgent with that work … “ And stop the panic! MELBOURNE 1.2.8 4.5.29 6.7.43 6.10.46 GEELONG 3.5.23 6.8.44 8.11 59 12.13.85 GOALS MELBOURNE Petracca 2 Langdon Langford Turner van Rooyen GEELONG Dangerfield 3 Bowes Stengle 2 Cameron De Koning Mannagh Neale Stanley BEST MELBOURNE Oliver Gawn May Petracca Pickett McDonald GEELONG Dangerfield Guthrie Smith Dempsey Atkins Stengle INJURIES MELBOURNE Nil GEELONG J Henry (hamstring) REPORTS MELBOURNE Nil GEELONG Nil LATE CHANGES 
MELBOURNE Nil GEELONG Mark Blicavs (illness) replaced in selected side by Rhys Stanley SUBSTITUTIONS MELBOURNE Nil GEELONG Mark O'Connor (replaced J.Henry in the second quarter) UMPIRES Brett Rosebury Nathan Williamson Andre Gianfagna Brent Wallace CROWD 30,397 at GMHBA Stadium

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