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Loved his speech in front on the backline. Does not waste words this young man the morale and friendship amongst the group looks genuine and terrific. a critical part of any future success

I look at Richmonds team on paper and it looks good at best. but seeing them play they just get it done every time. Sydney played well and still didnt really come near them. no way we can beat the Tigers this year. we need a lot more mature bodies on the ground

which team has pick 88??

Petty and Weed IN Smith and T Mac OUT Trac/Hannan to play more fwd

IN - Weeds OUT - T Mac (injured) I wouldn't make any other changes. I know they are saying T Mac should be right and he is tough but you don't mess around with internal bleeding and bruising to the lung. Another hit in the same place on sunday and it would not be pretty (although I aint a doctor and will back the clubs medicos). We don't need Frost at the back as we have O Mac, Smith and Hibbo. Membrey only 188 and Bruce not playing

Trac will be a champion player. Power/burst players take longer to develop. as opposed to endurance midfield types. look at Dusty, took him 6-7 seasons to perform at a high level each week and run out games. Shopped himself around after 5 seasons and noone wanted him! we will need to be patient with Trac

Hogan will be fine. Last week no-one actually kicked him the bloody ball so that wasn't his fault. Against Port he was poor. He is an absolute gun and would be third in our BnF imo (behind Gawn and Oliver) and he LOVES the sainters. 6.0 comin up.

better last year when we lost to the Pies and North twice who were in terrible form. Just beat Carlton and lost to a terrible Freo at home? we are far better than last year and it will show at the end of the year. we are finally beating the average teams and a couple of wins against the good teams are just around the corner

other teams in contention are being hit by injuries and suspension which will help us: Darling/Kennedy at WC. Darling was the form player of the comp Treloar for the pies - best most damaging mid Burgoyne at hawks Cameron GWS probably 6 weeks is their only decent fwd I honestly think North are shyte and will be found out by the end of the season.

Weeds - cancel your 21st Bday party for this Sat night and get ready for a present from Goody!! ?

remember all the drafts that were meant to be the best since 2001? Spoiler alert - none of them were close.

The ‘frost is the answer’ crowd are back. He has not been playing well for casey before today. I’d like to see Him dominate at vfl level for a few weeks before him playing. He gets outsmarted easily at afl level so has some stuff to work on before players seniors imo

You must have not watched the game to closely if you think melksham was rarely sighted. He was one of our best

We are still mentally weak. The first 15 mins of the last quarter we looked like scared kids hoping not to stuff up. Aside from a few. Port out tackled and went in harder than us in the last. We got the rough end of the stick with umpires but we lost this game. Im sick of the excuses. I don’t want to be like a St Kilda fan whinging about umpiring. We lost that game ourselves. Hogan and Trac should be ashamed of that effort tonight

Port are going in harder and tackling more than us. This is why they are leading. Almost all free kicks have been there im sick of the excuses, just win the games melbourne!

what is the change for Port? cant open the link at work

hehe you said Diction

id go with no change. back the team in that won 6 in a row. It'll be dry and Port are tall so I think we keep Pedo in. he had weeks of excellent form at Casey so deserves a game as no other fwds are knocking the door down at Casey Tyson a chance to come in but not sure for who

does that make us unofficial MFC supporters???

a piece of trivia: did you know Melksham has had more scoring shots on goal than T Mac this season? Melk 14 goals - T Mac 25 goals. Plugger Mac really is so accurate. also with Hogan on 31, I reckon we will have our highest goal scorer in many years this year if they stay fit. maybe 15 years? when did Robbo kick 60-70?

Only 10 more season defining games to go!

You're a legend DZ, thanks for the report! much needed footy chat after the last week (how has it only be 8 days since QB??)

Christian came out with a straight face and said the contact was not intentional and was graded careless. Astounding Also the case didn’t go the tribunal when the previous ones did.

Anyone have any idea how Dusty gets a fine for an ump push and Curnow get a week for an ump push?

dont think the MCG is an issue at all. we play the better teams there. poorer team either at Etihad or we sell them to NT