Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

So Hibberd (mainly) got the 'FM' this week. Can't argue with that, looking at the package - and the influence on the outcome!

Good to see this recognition now up on the club website... https://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/921716/rd-6-salem-s-composure?videoId=921716&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1619402699001

My first sighting of this. I'll expect to see it on the club's 'Fierce Moments' post! "SpargoPickettNealBullen..." is now a fixture of Goodwin's pressers.

With only the club website to go on (long story!...) my vote is for the chain to that 9th goal, starting with Rivers's spoil (missed it on my first few viewings(!) until seeing Goodwin's presser then the OP), then Hunt's length-of the-ground repeat involvement (with Riewoldt(*) in fruitless pursuit, LOL), and the cameo handballs along the way. Spoilt only by Neal-Bullen not being allowed to complete his run into goal or dish off the handball to Jackson for his third run-in goal of the night. (*Lowlight of the night: Riewoldt, presumably running the length of the ground to do so, pathetically shoving Pickett after the tail end of the last-goal rumble)

The Oracle continues the perfection; well done, TO! Just get that '3' key fixed.

Evidently NOT mozzed. Whispering Jack, Melbourne by 59. Only a goal-and-a-half too bold! Those 1st quarter misses let you down!

The 12-point turnaround of this particularly, preceded by Rivers' involvement, then the Langdon-Pickett-Jones(yes, Jones!)-Hibberd(again!!)-Melksham-Petracca-Jackson-McDonald chain should have been Demonland's VOTW. Trac just doing what Trac does is so 'yesterday'!?

Good stat, Real. Here's another: To 2014 the win/loss ratio for 300th games was 35/32, so a coin toss. But, since then, it's been 15/9 (*), a win rather more likely! Trending nicely for Nathan! Thumbs up to the tributes above, and, regarding the 'Chunky' thread, maybe our 'Tats' could go to theirs? A colourful match-up if nothing else! (* Of these, Jordan Lewis saluted for us, against Adelaide, while we spoiled Corey Enright's party!)

Careful, Mr P: After the much touted 1994 fifth win, 'twas LLLWLLLL... (Will they say it was you or me that put the mozz?...)

p.s.Sorry to embed those DREADFUL colours into this forum...

Bizzarely, the 2021-retired Tom Scully is still in the HFC website team photos, evidently carrying the number 'Blank'

? But fear not, Madam; these two are now working on a replacement...

It was a Foxtel broadcast, not on free-to-air, and we watched it on my son's phone, on hands and knees - the phone was propped up against the skirting board (beats me!). When the Watts-dink-to-Tyson-Tyson-snap happened I nearly put my fist through the floor. And it was a concrete slab...

Appreciating the turn in this thread, too! The green shoots of a gentler Demonland? (A concept for the Mothers Day round, btw?)

Appreciating this thread! (wearing the preferred navy blue, too...)

COL, I Chuckled Out Loud!

Above-average set of questions, eliciting above-average amounts of info and insight. Noted Goodwin happy to mention and credit Mark Williams.

Indeed, uncanny! Now mozzed though?....

A thought on most of our minds, I'd say: For Careless contact (at LEAST!), HIGH impact (at LEAST!), High contact (irrefutably!), Hawkins gets...what?

I've voted. Poor old Frosty deserves a 'Chase Of The Year' nomination in the Geelong 'team goal' up against Kossie and Eddie. He at least gets deserved consolation from his teammate.

p.s. I thought this thread was going to be about his second goal on Sunday!

Well done Demonland! And kudos to the humble ol' cable tie...

WD40? And this, I believe, is where I say, "I'll see myself out..." (Before I do, though, isn't it nice to see all the uneditorialised and fully filled 6,5,4,3,2,1s - and the '17 of 22' noted by P2J - that this strong start has fosterd!?)

Ah, the '90s, when I rusted my three '80s-born kids onto the Dees (for which they don't always thank me...)! Jako's 8 were in R1 in an 11-goal dominance of eventual grand finalists, Geelong (we fell to premiers, West Coast, all 3 times, however...) He had 4 against the Hawks, as did do-we-remember-him-30-gamer Greg Doyle.

Haven't seen this referenced anywhere else: Today's club website 'Stats That Matter' article features the combined 50 pressure acts of Charlie and ANB. Impressive, numerically and to watch, particularly in Charlie's case.