Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

And a further rider, Bush, is that we have beaten current 5th and 6th but have yet to encounter 2nd, 3rd and 4th (and 7th and 8th). I don't know (but am tempted to obsessively research!?) who we had beaten in our next-best season start...

The Goodes comparison works for me. Also, Jimma?

May be deliberate in this case, for all the Johns he gets?...

...and good to see he/they have been recognised in the Jag FMOTW. His run also, btw, had shades of his No.36 predecessor with a very Flash-reminiscent baulk sidestep?

Paywalled, JCB?

Just clarifying, Second Verse, this is the players' first 'x' games in the seniors, since debut in the seniors, but aren't consecutive games, as James's have been? Bryan Kenneally's, for example, were rounds 11 (debut) and 12 in 1959, then rounds 2, 5 and then 6 to 15 in 1960. James does indeed have a little way to go, but I wonder where he sits in the consecutive games since debut field?

Nathan Jones's debut was more than a year away.

More than just shades, DA!? Can someone do a side-by-side video of The Wiz in Round 11 1998 and Kossie in Round 7 2021? From first gather of ball, to ball through the sticks, it's 17 seconds Farmer, 16 seconds Pickett. ...and I've gotta say, while the runs are equals for effort and tank, Kossie's shows of skill street Jeff's straight charge! (as do the respective involvements of teammates btw!)

LOL, "Back-to-back blockbusters", not "Back-to-back-to-back blockbusters" to include QB. Not our fault!...

A fascinating analysis of that here, Doc: https://foxsportspmd-a.akamaihd.net/free/nogeoblock/2021/04/26/DVU_260421_HIBBERD_V_MARTIN.transfer_202104261759/DVU_260421_HIBBERD_V_MARTIN.transfer_202104261759_1596.mp4 Good on you, Mr Hibberd!

Au contraire (eventually!); he was one of those lucky few able to turn that fleeting '10-year rule' into a premiership (North Melbourne in the mid-'70s thus providing me a 'second team' to get interested about)

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2021-kysaiah-pickett-scoreboard-sledge-jack-riewoldt-vision-reaction-melbourne-vs-richmond-afl-360/news-story/68e2fceb5c445dc072d359c91b0362ab Yeah, right...

...I, for one, think it will, btw!?

BDA, I think the find-out will be whether the game unfolds and concludes as a true 'undefeated-vs-bottom' game should.

After Neil's 'hang-me-now' post and P2J's ?, I feel enough in a safe place to raise something that has been nagging me for some time. Serious question: someone, somewhere, referred to ANB as a future MFC captain. Was it on here? Or where might it have been? (maybe I dreamt it, because Hy-phens would seem to be natural MFC captain material?)

Didn't know where else to put this, and not worth a new thread, but Bayley Fritsch's 22-year-old brother Darcy was on SEN this afternoon having kicked 20 goals 4 behinds for Coldstream on the weekend (14 goals after 1/2 time...). Had one praccy game for Casey during 20-COVID (and also tried out for the other R&Bs, Norwood?) Is taking the break that 2021 at Coldstream offers but sounds like he might try his hand again - hopefully at Casey? - next year.

Media discussion (sorry...) after this weekend has toyed with Petracca verging on being the 'new Dusty'. If the comparison were to be/become fully accurate, I'd be happy for it to go all that way, Mazer! (On a side note, I'd also be happy for the opposition to have our Charlie around their necks - as in albatross, not as in free kick...)

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!)