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Round 11 Melbourne v Adelaide Saturday 1 June, 7.10pm ACST TIO Stadium, Darwin Members need to purchase a valid ticket to attend. Tickets to the game can be purchased via NTix. Public transport Public buses operate the number 5 service along Abala Road with a stop at TIO Stadium. For information, including route details and timetables, visit the Northern Territory Department of Transport. Car parking Free public car parking is available at a number of locations around TIO Stadium at both the Ah Mat and Bonson Gates, Marrara Sporting Complex and surrounding streets. View a map of TIO Stadium HERE. TV times All broadcast info in local times. Melbourne: Seven + Fox Footy – 7.30pm Sydney: Fox Footy – 7.30pm Brisbane: Fox Footy – 7.30pm Adelaide: Seven + Fox Footy – 7.00pm Perth: 7mate + Fox Footy – 5.30pm Tasmania: Seven + Fox Footy – 7.30pm Canberra: Fox Footy – 7.30pm Darwin: Seven + Fox Footy – 7.00pm For all other regions and radio info, refer to the AFL Broadcast Guide. Mobile app Live scores, stats and match highlights are available at the tap of a finger in the club's mobile app. Download it for iOS or Android. Social media Match hashtag: #AFLDeesCrows Follow the club on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for live match coverage and a behind-the-scenes insight into match day. VFL Round 9 Werribee v Casey Saturday June 1, 2.00pm Avalon Airport Oval, Werribee Admission prices Melbourne/Casey Demons Members: $5 when you present your card on entry Adult General Admission: $10 Concession/Pensioner General Admission: $5 Children Under 15: Free VFLW Round 4 Casey v Southern Saints Sunday June 2, 12.00pm Casey Fields Admission prices Melbourne/Casey Demons Members: FREE when you present your card on entry Adult General Admission: $10 Concession/Pensioner General Admission: $5 Children Under 15: Free Coverage Social media: Follow the Casey Demons on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for behind-the-scenes + live coverage of the match. POINT OF NO RETURN by The Oracle Conventional wisdom says that a club reaches the point of no return in the AFL competition if it has won less than four matches at the mid point of the season. What this means for Melbourne is that in order for it to remain in the race for a top-eight position, it must start winning games now. Moreover, It's not enough to win the next game but it must also start stringin g wins together to make up for its deficit in both wins and percentage. With so much at stake there will be no excuses for another lacklustre performance of the s ort displayed by the Demons in the first three quarters of their game at the MCG last Sunday against the GWS Giants. Injuries, you say? All clubs suffer injuries throughout a season but the strong can overcome that diversity and fight back against the tide. Collingwood suffered a suitcase lo ad of them in 2018 and still came to within a sniff of taking off a premiership. Melbourne’s immediate opp onents are the Adelaide Crows at TIO Stadium in Darwin where the club has had mixed results in the past. It destroyed the Dockers there last year but succumbed to the Crows at tha t venue two years ago. We are likely to see a restructured lineup for this week’s game but Simon Goodwin needs to get far more out of his midfield than he had been getting over the past month or so. Adelaide itself has displayed some flakey form of its own but will be tough to b eat at close to full strength. I’m reminded however, of that game at Adelai de Oval in 2017 when the Demons came from a fair way back and essentially reinvented themselves to win big against the then flag favourites. This is Goodwin’s old club and it will be his mission this week to overturn the conventional wisdom about his new club being totally cooked for the season and to come up with some magic and another reinvention into to kickstart its 2019 campaign and to avoid it reaching the point of no return. Melbourne by 1 point THE GAME Melbourne v Adelaide at TIO Stadium Darwin Saturday 1 June, 2019 at 7.40pm HEAD TO HEAD Overall - Melbourne 15 wins Adelaide 24 wins At TIO Stadium - Melbourne 0 wins Adelaide 1 win Past five me etings - Melbourne 3 wins Adelaide 2 wins The Coaches - Simon Goodwin 3 wins Don Pyke 1 win MEDIA TV - Channel 7 Fox Sports 3 Live at 7.30pm RADIO - Triple M SEN THE LAST TIME THEY MET Melbourne 13.12.90 defeated Adelaide 10.17.77 Round 19, 2018 at Adelaide Oval Melbourne started slowly in Jordan Lewis' 30 0th game before putting on the afterburners to take a comfortable 32 point lead at the final break . In the last quarter, the Crows were dominant in the wet conditions but they were unable to peg back the lead and failed by a margin of 13 points in the end. Clayton Oliver was the Demons’ best. THE TEAMS Injury/Suspension List: Round 11 Nathan Jones (head) – available Christian Salem (concussion – available Michael Hibberd (collarbone) – test Kade Kolodjashnij (concussion) – test Jake Lever (ankle ) – test Steven May (groin) – test Alex Neal-Bullen (concussion) – test Harry Petty (knee) – test Jordan Lewis (suspension) – 1 week Corey Maynard (concussion) – 1 week Joel Smith (groin) – 4-6 weeks Aaron vandenBerg (foot) – 4-6 weeks Jake Melksham (foot) – 5-6 weeks Neville Jetta (knee) – 6-8 weeks Guy Walker (shoulder) – indefinite Aaron Nietschke (knee) – season

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Chandler has kicked 6 goals this year and Bedford has 2 or 3. Both have had a game where they kicked 2 goals.

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3. Melbourne – Kyle Dunkley (Gippsland Power/Footscray VFL) The 185cm big-bodied midfielder has the ability to push forward, showcased by his three-goal VFL debut against Box Hill three weeks ago. Overlooked last year playing for Oakleigh Chargers, got chance to return as an over-age player for Gippsland in the NAB League this season and completed the pre-season with Footscray. Brother of Western Bulldogs midfielder Josh and son of former Sydney defender Andrew.

Our thoughts are with Brad and his family.

Remember Bernie Vince THE TEAMS ADELAIDE B: Alex Keath, Daniel Talia, Luke Brown HB: Paul Seedsman, Kyle Cheney, Rory Laird ? Wayne Milera, Bryce Gibbs, Rory Atkins HF: Tom Lynch, Josh Jenkins, Lachlan Murphy F: Mitch McGovern, Taylor Walker, Eddie Betts Foll: Sam Jacobs, Matt Crouch, Rory Sloane I/C: Jordan Gallucci, Hugh Gree nwood, Jake Kelly, Riley Knight Emg: Cameron Ellis-Yolmen, Paul Hunter, Andy Otten, Myles Poholke In: Taylor Walker Out: Tom Doedee (concussion) MELBOURNE B: Joel Smith, Sam Frost, Neville Jetta HB: Christian Salem, Oscar McDonald, Jordan Lewis ? Tom McDonald, Clayton Oliv er, Angus Brayshaw HF: Jake Melksham, Jesse Hogan, Bayley Fritsch F: Jay Kennedy Harris, Christian Petracca, Charlie Spargo Foll: Max Gawn, Nathan Jones, Bernie Vince I/C: Jeff Garlett, James Harmes, Alex Neal-Bullen, Dom Tyson Emg: Cam Pedersen, Aaron van denBerg, Josh Wagner, Sam Weideman NO CHANGE

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A REAL DOWNER by KC from Casey When Sam Weideman kicked his third goal at the midpoint of the second quarter of Casey’s game at Downer Oval , Point Gellibrand on Sunday, he put his team 26 points ahead of the goalless Seagulls. Buoyed by the return from injury of Weideman and a number of other AFL-listed Melbourne players including Jordan Lewis, Mitch Hannan, and Jay Kennedy Harris and an impressive start to Jake Lever’s second game on return from his ACL surgery, the Demons were seemingly on top of the world. Lewis and Lever were controlling the backlines, Weideman was a tower of strength up forward and Mitch Hannan and Jay Kennedy Harris were both on the scoreboard with first half goals. But late in the second term, it all started going terribly wrong as Casey went on a real downer. Firstly, Jake Lever limped off into the hands of the trainers with what appeared to be an ankle injury and he failed to return to the field. He joined Corey Maynard (head) on the bench, drastically reducing the team’s interchange capacity. The Seagulls who had kicked three of the last four goals of the first half, came out in the third quarter bristling with confidence as the Demons went into their all too familiar lock down mode and conceded five goals in the third term to spiral to yet another disappointing defeat that is likely to see the club out of the action come finals time. Three junk time goals very late in the final term gave Casey a flattering score line showing a mere 16 point loss. The Demons now sit in 11th place with another difficult assignment against Werribee at Avalon Airport Oval this Saturday afternoon. 2019 Hard Yakka / Totally Workwear VFL Casey Demons 4.0.24 6.3.39 6.6.42 9.7.61 Williamstown 0.3.3 3.6.24 8.7.55 11.11.77 Goals Casey Demons Weideman 3 Bedford Hannan Keilty Kennedy-Harris Munro Stephenson Williamstown Buykx-Smith Thorpe 3 Ebinger Martyn Myers Pickess Pongracic Best  Casey Demons J Lewis White W Collis Kennedy-Harris Weideman Stockdale Williamstown Marcon Hibberd Thorpe Monk Wheeler Charleston Statistics Toby Bedford 1 goal 1 behind 5 kicks 3 handballs 8 disposals 6 tackles 48 dream team points Kade Chandler 4 kicks 4 disposals 5 tackles 48 dream team points Wayne Collis 9 kicks 8 handballs 17 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 63 dream team points Tom Freeman 1 behind 7 kicks 3 handballs 10 disposals 3 marks 1 tackle 43 dream team points Mitch Gent 1 behind 9 kicks 9 handballs 18 disposals 5 marks 4 tackles 74 dream team points Mitch Hannan 1 goal 1 behind 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 55 dream team points Jack Hutchins 6 kicks 4 handballs 10 disposals 2 tackles 34 dream team points James Jordon 8 kicks 8 handballs 16 disposals 1 marks 5 tackles 63 dream team points Declan Keilty 1 goal 5 kicks 5 handballs 10 disposals 3 marks 5 tackles 60 dream team points Jay Kennedy Harris 1 goal 11 kicks 15 handballs 26 disposals 4 marks 8 tackles 127 dream team points Mykelti Lefau 5 kicks 3 handballs 8 disposals 3 marks 1 tackle 28 dream team points Jake Lever 8 kicks 1 handballs 9 disposals 2 marks 1 tackles 33 dream team points Jordan Lewis 14 kicks 9 handballs 23 disposals 4 tackles 76 dream team points Nick Lowden 5 kicks 4 handballs 9 disposals 5 tackles 42 dream team points Corey Maynard 15 kicks 9 handballs 24 disposals 2 marks 5 tackles 59 dream team points James Munro 1 goal 11 kicks 9 handballs 20 disposals 4 marks 10 tackles dream 109 team points Braydon Preuss 10 kicks 1 handballs 11 disposals 4 marks 4 tackles 46 hit outs 105 dream team points Aidan Quigley 8 kicks 6 handballs 14 disposals 4 marks 8 tackles 79 dream team points Will Stephenson 1 goal 4 kicks 1 handballs 5 disposals 2 marks 6 tackles 50 dream team points Cory Stockdale 9 kicks 3 handballs 12 disposals 2 marks 36 dream team points Liam Wale-Buxton 1 behinds 5 kicks 6 handballs 11 disposals 2 marks 19 hit outs 45 dream team points Sam Weideman 3 goals 1 behinds 8 kicks 4 handballs 12 disposals 6 marks 2 tackles 76 dream team points Mitchell White 1 behind 17 kicks 3 handballs 20 disposals 6 marks 3 tackles 84 dream team points

When Sam Weideman kicked his third goal at the midpoint of the second quarter of Casey’s game at Downer Oval , Point Gellibrand on Sunday, he put his team 26 points ahead of the goalless Seagulls. Buoyed by the return from injury of Weideman and a number of other AFL-listed Melbourne players including Jordan Lewis, Mitch Hannan, and Jay Kennedy Harris and an impressive start to Jake Lever’s second game on return from his ACL surgery, the Demons were seemingly on top of the world. Lewis and Lever were controlling the backlines, Weidman was a tower of strength up forward and Mitch Hannan and Jay Kennedy Harris were both on the scoreboard with first half goals. But late in the second term, it all started going terribly wrong as Casey went on a real downer. Firstly, Jake Lever limped off into the hands of the trainers with what appeared to be an ankle injury and he failed to return to the field. He joined Corey Maynard (head) on the bench, drastically reducing the team’s interchange capacity. The Seagulls who had kicked three of the last four goals of the first half, came out in the third quarter bristling with confidence as the Demons went into their all too familiar lock down mode and conceded five goals in the third term to spiral to yet another disappointing defeat that is likely to see the club out of the action come finals time. Three junk time goals very late in the final term gave Casey a flattering score line showing a mere 16 point loss. The Demons now sit in 11th place with another difficult assignment against Werribee at Avalon Airport Oval this Saturday afternoon. 2019 Hard Yakka / Totally Workwear VFL Casey Demons 4.0.24 6.3.39 6.6.42 9.7.61 Williamstown 0.3.3 3.6.24 8.7.55 11.11.77 Goals Casey Demons Weideman 3 Bedford Hannan Keilty Kennedy-Harris Munro Stephenson Williamstown Buykx-Smith Thorpe 3 Ebinger Martyn Myers Pickess Pongracic Best  Casey Demons J Lewis White W Collis Kennedy-Harris Weideman Stockdale Williamstown Marcon Hibberd Thorpe Monk Wheeler Charleston Statistics Toby Bedford 1 goal 1 behind 5 kicks 3 handballs 8 disposals 6 tackles 48 dream team points Kade Chandler 4 kicks 4 disposals 5 tackles 48 dream team points Wayne Collis 9 kicks 8 handballs 17 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 63 dream team points Tom Freeman 1 behind 7 kicks 3 handballs 10 disposals 3 marks 1 tackle 43 dream team points Mitch Gent 1 behind 9 kicks 9 handballs 18 disposals 5 marks 4 tackles 74 dream team points Mitch Hannan 1 goal 1 behind 7 kicks 4 handballs 11 disposals 3 marks 2 tackles 55 dream team points Jack Hutchins 6 kicks 4 handballs 10 disposals 2 tackles 34 dream team points James Jordon 8 kicks 8 handballs 16 disposals 1 marks 5 tackles 63 dream team points Declan Keilty 1 goal 5 kicks 5 handballs 10 disposals 3 marks 5 tackles 60 dream team points Jay Kennedy Harris 1 goal 11 kicks 15 handballs 26 disposals 4 marks 8 tackles 127 dream team points Mykelti Lefau 5 kicks 3 handballs 8 disposals 3 marks 1 tackle 28 dream team points Jake Lever 8 kicks 1 handballs 9 disposals 2 marks 1 tackles 33 dream team points Jordan Lewis 14 kicks 9 handballs 23 disposals 4 tackles 76 dream team points Nick Lowden 5 kicks 4 handballs 9 disposals 5 tackles 42 dream team points Corey Maynard 15 kicks 9 handballs 24 disposals 2 marks 5 tackles 59 dream team points James Munro 1 goal 11 kicks 9 handballs 20 disposals 4 marks 10 tackles dream 109 team points Braydon Preuss 10 kicks 1 handballs 11 disposals 4 marks 4 tackles 46 hit outs 105 dream team points Aidan Quigley 8 kicks 6 handballs 14 disposals 4 marks 8 tackles 79 dream team points Will Stephenson 1 goal 4 kicks 1 handballs 5 disposals 2 marks 6 tackles 50 dream team points Cory Stockdale 9 kicks 3 handballs 12 disposals 2 marks 36 dream team points Liam Wale-Buxton 1 behinds 5 kicks 6 handballs 11 disposals 2 marks 19 hit outs 45 dream team points Sam Weideman 3 goals 1 behinds 8 kicks 4 handballs 12 disposals 6 marks 2 tackles 76 dream team points Mitchell White 1 behind 17 kicks 3 handballs 20 disposals 6 marks 3 tackles 84 dream team points

Max has cleared away to lead by 25 points. PLAYER VOTES 1 Max Gawn 106 2 Clayton Oliver 81 3 Christian Salem 72 4 James Harmes 70 5 Angus Brayshaw 57 6 Marty Hore 41 7 Sam Frost 40 8 Jake Melksham 31 9 Nathan Jones 29 10 Jayden Hunt 28 11 Jack Viney 25 12 Michael Hibberd 10 13 Jay Lockhart 6 14 Oskar Baker 5 14 Christian Petracca 5 16 Bayley Fritsch 4 16 Tom McDoanld 4 16 Braydon Preuss 4 16 Josh Wagner 4 20 Corey Wagner 3 21 Alex Neal-Bullen 2 22 Neville Jetta 1 22 Oscar McDonald 1 22 Billy Stretch 1

On top of its injury problems Melbourne ran into an “in-form” GWS Giants at the MCG in a game which, apart from a final quarter junk-time spree served to highlight the club’s current problems. There’s a virtually non-existent forward line; a plethora of VFL standard players, who might be getting plenty of game experience but most will simply not be up to AFL standard; an inability to kick straight and an ability to waste simple opportunities so that they mustered up only one goal in the first half with the second coming 17 minutes into the third quarter. These are all giant problems on their own, but there is no light at the end of the Tunnel for the Demon supporters until that injury list is reduced. Make no mistake, the Giants will be a serious threat to the Premiership this year. We played last year’s Premiers just a week ago, and took the game up to them. At no point were Melbourne even close or in the contest with this mob. A solitary goal in the first half, with yet another goal-less second quarter. If the Giants had kicked straight, even in the first quarter they could have been 6 goals ahead. They saved that six goal onslaught for the 3rd quarter when Melbourne were made to look like witches hats at a training session. The Giants obviously took the foot off the accelerator, put the cue away and saved themselves for their next game at the final break. This allowed Melbourne to score more in the first seven minutes than it had kicked in the previous 3 quarters! By the final bell in the last term, it had nearly tripled its efforts from the previous three. GWS had 11 players with more than 18 touches, and only two who recorded less than double figures. Melbourne in contrast had seven who only managed a touch or two each quarter. Small wonder at the disparity of score at ¾ time. Max Gawn was easily the best of the Melbourne players with 25 touches of his own and 35 hit outs. A ruck shouldn’t be getting those sorts of numbers, and the fact that he is able to do so is a credit to his willingness and abilities. Marty Hore filled a vital role in defence again with his intercept marks and 6 contested possessions. Not much blame could be apportioned to the backline, given the ease of entry from the GWS players and the lack of pressure from the Melbourne players up the ground. Once again the forward line was completely dysfunctional. Firstly, with the continuing non- selection of Braydon Preuss. He is a big body who can be used in multiple roles, and not only provides a break for Max but also can help out the forwards. At one point in the third quarter, Max was off the ground getting a dislocated finger attended. Tom McDonald was moved up to the wing to get him into the game, and Smith into the ruck. This left a forward line of Hunt, Garlett, Spargo, Baker, Lockhart and Brayshaw! A big bodied Preuss would have been nice to stick in the goal square, or even better into the centre square! GWS must have wet themselves laughing at that line-up, none more so than Heath Shaw who watched Garlett avoid him for most of the match as he sought cheap out the back kicks all game. Shaw just kept on getting the ball, with 27 touches while Garlett managed only 6 for the day. Trouble is that Melbourne has nothing with which to replace these players. Wagner x 2, Stretch, Garlett, Spargo, Lockhart, Fritsch, even Smith and Petty should all be playing at VFL level, but we simply do not have anyone else (apart from Preuss) to bring into the side. Reports are that Lever has injured himself again to compound the problems and there is no point bringing in Jordon, Chandler, Keilty or Bedford over any of the above players. ALL the rest are injured! We have a GIANT problem. We had another Giant problem in this game, and until some injury list relief happens (and the way things are going that is only a remote chance of happening) then the 2019 season will be a Giant failure. Melbourne 1.1.7 1.3.9 3.6.24 10.8.68 GWS Giants 2.5 6.8 12.9 14.10.94 Goals Melbourne Baker T McDonald 2 Hunt Garlett Petracca Lockhart Stretch Spargo GWS Giants Himmelberg 5 Cameron 3 Whitfield 2 Coniglio Finlayson Kelly Taylor Best Melbourne Gawn Hore J Wagner Baker Viney GWS Giants Kelly Hopper de Boer Taranto Himmelberg Haynes Injuries Melbourne Salem (concussion) replaced in selected side by Spargo GWS Giants Nil Reports Melbourne Nil GWS Giants Nil Umpires Haussen Gavine Chamberlain Official crowd 20,023 at the MCG (50% more than Hawthorn could muster!)

Was in the bay next to me. There was a female Dees supporter evicted with two males. One of the guys was a Giants fan the other had a Tigers beanie. I didn't notice them until they were ejected. They were in the front row and they were remonstrating with people on the bottom level.