At the break of Gawn

I’m actually of the view this could be a real danger game for us. The Hawks have usually responded pretty well to a loss this season and they have troubled us in the past. I’ll just be happy with the 4pts.

It would be great if the AFL could adjust Melbourne’s Round 8 fixture vs the Saints. It’s probably going to be billed as one of the games of the season but due to the poor scheduling by the AFL it’s got a 1:10pm Sunday slot on Mother’s Day of all days, it’ll be a poor crowd. I know it’s going to be a struggle for me to convince the wife to let me go to that game and I’m sure many others will be in that boat. Cue the outrage of opposition supporters criticising Melbourne’s fan base when we get a poor crowd for it.

Tmac and Tomlinson both at the airport. I imagine BB will fly In tomorrow morning?

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we got rolled on Friday night. The GC game was really taxing and Max Gawn admitted it so. 6 day break makes it tough. I won’t lose any sleep over an upset. We have won 9 games in a row, and we all know how long the season is.

It’s all water under the bridge now as he’s been sacked, but I think the Laidley thing is much worse because the cop obtained that photo at his work which is under the umbrella of private and confidential who then shared it with others. I’d like to think whoever shared Tom’s audio get their own karma one day as it’s done nothing but hurt people and that was the leaker’s full intention.

Our views on what is considered public are very different. So if you sent a whatsapp msg to your partner who then screenshot it and sent it to another friend, who made it public? Was it you or was it your partner’s friend that made it “more public” as you put it? Note, WhatsApp is an E2E encryption messaging app, which is used as a substitute for txt msging. It’s not Twitter.

Two points. It wasn’t a public setting - the leaker made it public. The leaker was also the one who chose to make her orientation public. Tom was wrong to discuss with his friends private information about a colleague but he didn’t make them public.

I think Tom’s comments about his colleague are terrible, but for a private conversation to be distributed without his consent which will now ruin his career is a very harsh lesson. 95% of people on this forum would have said a disparaging comment about their colleagues at some point in their lifetime but the difference is no one was secretly recording them and sending it to their bosses. Even the second video he’s clearly drunk and hasn’t given permission to be recorded. As I said, Tom’s comments in both vids are disgraceful, but I just think it’s sad for society that people are essentially getting fired for saying something in private and then getting it recorded, leaked and their workplaces made aware. This is very different to trolls online who acknowledge that their tweets/posts are published to the internet or even celebrities who made disgraceful remarks on Twitter 10 years ago which are dragged up. Just makes me worried/sad for a person’s right to privacy and one of the bigger villains in all of this is who distributed this content.

Reckon Cal Twomey’s top 5 was almost the same or at least very similar.

Does anyone know where you can find your barcode? At the bottom of the article posted by the club it said if you wanted to upgrade your seat enter your membership barcode on ticketek. I tried using the one they sent me for last year but it didn’t work and I haven’t seen a new one sent to me yet for this year…

Apologies for linking to an almost NSFW website, but this bad boy is what we all want when it’s available. Looks like it comes in Blu-Ray and DVD https://shop.richmondfc.com.au/2020-premiers-complete-season-collection/

I’m going to order this (it’s in Blu-Ray). Why are the Victory packs only in DVD? Why is anyone still selling DVD? https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/afl-premiers-2021-melbourne-demons-2021-blu-ray

I have the perspective that every loss we had during the season was a stepping stone towards our premiership. It’s nice to wonder what might have been if we were undefeated all year, but at the end of the day, the journey turned out how it turned out, and we won the flag.

Huge fan of Sparrow. Terrific long kick, tough, and was super composed in every final. Kicked a goal and had 2 assists in the GF.

Looks like he got both!

Hats off to Darren Burgess. We had so much running power in that second half. He won’t get a medal but his fitness regime changed this football club.

I thought we were gone for all money 5 mins into the third qtr. The greatest second half I’ve ever seen. It still hasn’t sunk in yet. It’s unbelievable ❤️💙

I felt it didn’t look like a Melbourne game the first qtr. We got a few flukey goals and a couple from first half turn overs, we didn’t get too many through our conventional method which was a worry.

That’s true. I don’t think they can replicate this.

Dogs defence is playing extremely well. We can’t seem to win a ground ball if we don’t win the contested mark. Stark contrast to the Geelong game.

[censored] me. Here we go

Been watching a lot of the Fox coverage. One thing I’m looking forward to is for no one to talk about that rnd 19 game ever again. It’s a terrible reference as well. This game will be nothing like it.

Richardson saying it’s unlikely we tag Libba from the start and we’ll play our own game first. Good call?

Let’s just be us. Defend really strongly and apply enormous pressure. Don’t let Bont have space, don’t let McCrae have space.

Actually had a decent nights sleep, but I’m filled with anxiety and excitement now. The more I think about it, the more I worry this is really a 50-50 game. I am desperate for us to avoid being the St.Kilda of 09/10. However, after watching Adem Yze on Fox before it sounds like the boys are nice and relaxed. We’ve played this time slot before, we’ve played a prelim on this ground, we’ve had an extra weeks break. I haven’t allowed myself to think about after the siren, all my thoughts are on the game and winning that, but geez, imagining Max holding that cup up is just so tantalising!