Mickey

What do people think about trying to get Dalhaus in as a FA? Hes quick, tough and a good tackler. The Bulldogs CEO said tonight that discussions are ongoing but they aren't any closer to closing the gap.

I don't think the bye will assist St Kilda as much as people think it will. Not many teams win first game back from the bye, from memory. Edit: few more than I thought, but mostly top 8 teams beating strugglers

Vlaustin playing well but will miss a week or two after that elbow to Parker's face. What about Buddy's? Normally I'd say weeks but 1) it's buddy and 2) it's Rance, so can't tell if he actually hit him with any force or if he was staging

Petty confirmed to debut http://m.melbournefc.com.au/news/2018-06-28/petty-pleased-with-debut-news

Surely this says more about the teams we've played and their form, then our stage fright. If a team is up and about, their supporters will come and watch them play. Hence the larger crowd. If a team is performing poorly (Carlton, Saints, Dogs etc), then the crowds are small. Also, we play well at Etihad which would skew the result, as we would struggle to get 40 000 there. I dont think it's the small crowd that makes us play well there, or the ground?

Not sure they'll fall apart completely, but it might sway a couple of 50/50 games

Made a bit harder if Treloar is out for the season, which he might be. https://coupler.foxsports.com.au/api/v1/article/amp/afl/report-adam-treloar-hamstring-injury-could-rule-him-out-for-the-rest-of-2018-afl-season/news-story/b708f3d1f7909812ca0db287524fbd69?__twitter_impression=true

Just did a ladder predictor. I had us finishing 8th, after beating GWS and Adelaide. On autotip, we finished 6th. After the next two weeks, Collingwood don't have a great draw either.

At least the teams on the same points didn't blow anyone away. We still have a good percentage gap on most

He'll get 5 or 6, not 9. 9 will put him on the edge of being suspended out of the game, as he'll have 14 weeks worth of suspensions (or do they not do that in the AFL?)

I didn't think it deserved anything. He had already left the ground and wasn't that late. The 50 was too harsh, but the club will likely just accept this

We could be 7th at the end of the round. We should win the next 3 though

Think he set up JKH's goal, so yep

Don't forget, he is ex-GWS. We might get pick 1 from SOS if we throw in Buggy

I'm amazed he came back on. The footage of him on the ground either spitting or vomiting blood was shocking. It didn't look like 'bite your tongue' blood, it was seriously thick, dark blood.

30 frees against. 3 50s against, none for.

Thanks Wise. Saw the article but couldn't access.

Given the supposed AFL sign off it's more likely any leak came from there

And this from The Age "He is understood to have beaten a field of internal candidates that included Demons football manager Josh Mahoney, chief financial officer David Chippindall and commercial operations manager George De Crespigny."

http://m.melbournefc.com.au/news/2018-06-14/melbourne-announce-gary-pert-as-next-ceo Official word

The article didn't say. Only said that we were close to announcing

More excited by that tidbit about announcing a new training and admin base!

Yep. I'd watch footy on any night of the week. Thursday's are almost like a surprise because I'm not expecting it. And every couple of hours I think 'Hey, there's footy on tonight!'

Having paid close attention to him in the ruck, too often he tried to so hard to win the tap that he couldn't recover in time when the ball hit the ground. He was never going to out reach cox or Grundy, and needed to play as an extra mid at the contest, which is hard to do when you are on the ground

The first line was a joke... clearly. The second questioned the move to use him as a tagger in the first place, not his effort. When you have a player like Gus, and Clarry also, who give you such drive from the middle and are in great touch, why use him in a negating role?