SaberFang

Quite a full crowd of people getting on at each station on the way to the city (GW line). Great mix of kids and adults alike in both team colors, think it'll be a splendid crowd today! Carn the Dees!

Competitive losses to the Box Hill Hawks and Essendrug don't count.

Only thing I see working would be "every heart beats true for the red and the blue" to "Melbourne's heart beats true for the red and the blue", but that might cause some trademark issues with a certain soccer team.

Kent, Michie and Jordie definitely deserve a call up in the next few rounds if they can keep their form consistent. Kent is great on CHF but Michie needs to work on his tank if he's going to be part of the midfield.

Thank god they made finals last year. It was clearly an abberation and they all believed the hype! It set them back a few trade seasons with re-building their list because they actually thought it was quality.

GWS would want to pull their finger out and start showing a shred of competitiveness, because they won't be able to lure anyone up there to the badlands. Similarly, players will be refusing to re-sign and begging for trades back home. Right now they seem totally happy scooping up the top draft picks every year (could they be wooden spooners yet again??), but Melbourne fans know better than anyone that top draft picks aren't worth a pinch of goat [censored] without leadership and culture to teach them the game.

I'll be sick of Riewoldt wins the Coleman this year. He's a deadset [censored] and only scores at the end of games when the opposition has taken their foot off the pedal, and the outcome is set in stone. Where's his leadership through the rest of the game? Pfft, and he wonders why they turfed him out of the leadership group.

I'm sure Bulldogs fans were a little sick seeing Lake's first year at the Hawks and all the fawning from commentators.

This umpiring... wow. I would want to kill myself right now if I was a Richmond supporter, I don't think Richmond have had one free kick all quarter? And North have had about 10?

He better join the queue behind Gysberts and Gillies.

Port would make for a great story if they could take the flag. Would give our team some hope too!

Never underestimate the stupidity of other clubs' recruitment teams. I mean, Richmond wanted Shaun Hampson for a second rounder. Pretty sure we can get some decent trades for Blease and Tappy rather just outright delist them.

How would we get Melbourne into our team song? And interesting to hear about the Casey contract possibly in jeopardy. I'd like a simplified version of the logo, something cleaner. Even just removing the text would help.

What's rewarding about winning a flag without doing the hard work to get it?

My god Adelaide are a thoroughly average football side.

The new salary cap rules will be interesting too. I wonder how Roos will approach "banking" 5% for a few years then making a big play. Personally I'd rather we went hard at another KPF for $600-$700k. Our defence has held up perfectly fine without Frawley, even though it'd be better with him down there.

Except the space in our cap allows us to go after two or three upcoming talents over the off-season. Depends entirely on who Roos has in mind. One Frawley on $600k could mean giving up two GWS players on $300k.

Think he mentally checked out after the first 3 games and probably agreed to terms elsewhere. Now just covering his ass with BS spin about needing improvement, blah blah blah. He's gone.

There would be more than a touch of irony if the Mark Neeld coached Demons could beat the Bombers but not the Paul Roos coached Dees. Roos has coached against Bomber plenty of times though, pretty confident he knows by now how to shut him down.

Pretty confident we'll slaughter them next week, regardless of what happens tomorrow. Essendon haven't convincingly won a game since the first 3 rounds, and with Daniher their only real forward target (who will easily be negated by TMac or Dunn), they'll really struggle to score anything. As it is they only scored what, 80, against the worst team in the comp? They also seem to crumble under defensive pressure, and they won't have Jobe out there to lead the way either.

Watching tonight's matches is more torturous than water boarding. All 4 teams are shithouse, especially GWS. Bunch of soft, effortless, staging fools. And we will slaughter Essendon next week, they play with absolutely no pride.

Why is Toumpy getting games before Kent? Surely he should be an emergency by now.

Expecting more from Michie.. he's better than this. Kent motoring along nicely. Not sure who he can come in for but he's a great kick.

Not to mention their laughable win against West Coast where there was some blatant favored umpiring.

I think Riley's presence could really help in the midfield, if his tackling pressure can put them under duress. Could be part of Roos' game plan for knocking down their midfield.