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6-15mm according to BOM with storm possible, high winds

You been following Melbourne for long? We find a way (sometimes the AFL facilitate it) to make the impossible possible! Be afraid, be VERY afraid!!!

Hey wouldn’t it be just like Melbourne to have to play cats in geelong first week of finals then go to Perth a play west coast the week later ?

The last time Melbourne kicked more goals than behinds in a game was round 12 against Brisbane! Can we break the curse today?!

Must say this is more enjoyable than loosing

Watching Ben Browns forward work, he has been tremendous. If he’s not going to mark it he taps it to our smalls running through, has done it three times this quarter resulting in 2 goals

The umps clearly can’t work out how far 15m is so just get rid of the rule that it has to be 15m for a mark, just have it any distance

Watching our forward 50 work is like watching the under 10 girls game I just watched my daughter play in.

Really disappointed with last night on two levels: 1. Same issues as previous weeks. Poor goal kicking, leaving the corridor empty for dogs players to run into at ball ups inside forward 50, repeated high bombs out of contests, not kicking to our forwards advantage, poor forward 50 structure of our talls (always in the same area) 2. For what was actually a pretty cracking game, the enjoyment was completely taken away by one of the worst umpiring displays I can recall. Even my wife who follows the dogs, could see it was poor (she never admits anything). For what was turned out to be a 20 point win to them, I don’t think we were a 30% (20 divided by 65) worse side than them. Felt like it should have been less than a goal win to me. To be honest, if we played then in finals I would be pretty confident of winning the game provided the umpiring was fair and even and we could convert a reasonable percentage of easy set shots. Our biggest issue I think is that they have so many players that can easily and effectively swap in and out of the side to suit the conditions and opposition while our next best players are a significant step down. We are one dimensional is a number of aspects of the game, which makes it easy for opposition coaches to work out a way to beat us. Examples include the long bomb inside forward 50 to all our talls standing within 5m of each other and the kick out from behinds to exactly the same spot on the ground over and over again. Anyway, while these lockdowns drag on and on and foolish people march for “freedom” (only to potentially risk freedom by spreading virus), hopefully our boys go back to the same farm they visited early in the year which lead to a new found sense of team and the great start to the season and our coaches watch a few episodes of Ted Lasso for some tips on how to cure Dani Rojas (aka Ben Brown) goal kicking “yips” (we don’t say that word here. See latest episode of Ted Lasso). Have a great week good people.

Out [censored] goal kicking, in anybody who can kick 50% of their set shots

Why do we leave the corridor empty like that, they’ve got 3 goals doing that tonight

Great stuff from Viney rhere

This is actually a really good game, though I’m so angry with the poor umpiring standard I just can’t enjoy it

OH [censored] OFF WITH THESE RUBBISH FREES

It’s round 19 and the last time we kicked more goals than behinds in a game was round 12

Jeezus Christ learn to [censored] kcik

Umps must have dirt in one eye. 11 frees to 4 now

Can we get some bloody luck

At least they have been consistent on that tonight, now for the other 10 rules which are being paid differently to each side

Why did Macdonald kick it to where the 6 Bulldogs players were camped going inside 50 there?

5 scores each and they are double our score

We are the absolute worst at kicking it to our forwards advantage

Goddam it we need to be kicking these goals

No I don't think its major, you stated it was negligible, I stated it was not negligible as scoring that one extra goal per game would have led to two additional wins to us. I did not say major. I would agree with your second comment about scoring accuracy. We would have won both the games mentioned above with an even ledger of goals/behinds in those games. In any event, can't wait for the game tonight. My wife follows the dogs and me and the 3 kids are all Demons members. Could get ugly at our house this evening!

One goal per game would mean we would have beaten both Adelaide and hawthorn and be 2 games clear at the top of the ladder. It’s not negligible.