At the break of Gawn

Geez yeah I forgot about Harmes. Has there been a bigger fall from grace for Harmes and Tmac since 2018? Genuine top 5 players and now they’ve just fringe players who can’t even crack the top 20.

He did have a few brilliant games. He was BoG against Eagles, was very good against the Saints, and probably a few others I’m forgetting. He has his limitations but he clearly always follows the coaches direction.

A bit surprised how high Brayshaw polled. Thought he wouldn’t have been in the top 10. For $800k a year, Lever that far down the list isn’t really acceptable at all. He needs to be top 5-7 next year.

There’s a lot of people hard done by Covid in 2020, but the Dees really got a [censored] hand. 1) A 17 game fixture robbing us of any advantage of finishing 17th last year by playing some of the bottom sides twice. 2) The team travelled the most out of any team and also had to put up with some ridiculous same day travel challenges. 3) The second Covid wave in Victoria further disadvantaging any Victorian team robbing them of any MCG/Marvel games 4) The late notice Essendon bye leaving Melbourne and Essendon with the longest streak without a break.

So the Dees play in hurricane conditions in Cairns and the Dogs get this mild spring night. It’s just not our year.

So if he’s left the hub (as he’s been told his season is done), and gone out drinking, which would be perfectly acceptable for end of season, how is this a problem?

Nope. They got there late yesterday and even had a light training session at Cazaly. ?

Dogs have a 5-0 record at Cazaly (all against the Suns though) Freo are a much improved side and play a keeping-offs game style that may worry the dogs. Freo need to tag the Bont, nullify Daniel and JJ and they’re a good chance.

Taberner goes alright.

It was good to secure the win but I’m disappointed in Goodwin’s direction after half time. We played safe football and took no risks which was the opposite of what we did in the second qtr. We did this against Carlton in round 2 and again we almost coughed it up with this style of play. I can’t see why a simple direction of “just keep on doing what you’re doing”’ can’t be applied in these situations instead of going into this highly possessive defensive game style that doesn’t suit us.

Maybe it was a good thing not listening? Goodwin had us playing safe football and playing the opposite of what got us on top in the second qtr. It was Hunt’s attacking run on goal in the last qtr which we needed more of.

Would love to know why the Dogs (hubbbing in Gold Coast) were to allowed to travel to Cairns the day before while Melbourne had to basically swim the English channel to get to the game on game day for an earlier starting match.

What pisses me off is that we beat the Saints and probably deserve it more than them if it wasn’t for that debacle in Cairns.

Geez the Suns are a frustrating team to watch. They could have easily won that if they had more composure. A lot of dumb players too.

Think the Pies will run away with this in the second half. Suns need to start converting their chances. Geez I wish DeGoey wasn’t playing. It’d be a different ball game

Those last 30 seconds took an eternity. Go Hawks Go Suns Go Giants (big win please) Go Freo Go Port Go Dees!

Giants have made too many changes to win this. I’m actually confident we’ll beat them by 20+ points. Still think we’re doubtful for finals though unless Clarko pulls a rabbit out of the hat to beat the dogs.

Fantastic result for our #Bradbury2020 plan. If Saints lose to GWS after we beat them then we’ll take their spot.

Melbourne's membership dropped by almost a qtr (22.6%) between 2019 and 2020 The biggest drop in the AFL this year. https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-membership-ladder-numbers-2020-afl-club-membership-west-coast-eagles-record-essendon-decline/news-story/c0b4ad1847f1dfd511f80de5f9b0ed37#:~:text=The AFL on Wednesday morning,for the third straight season.&text=Instead%2C it was the Eagles,with a total of 100%2C776. A lot of clubs had drops due to Covid, although the saints increased their's by 13% so it shows some clubs still had growth.

So assuming we win our last two, basically we need one of the three to happen in order to make the eight: 1) Pies lose both their last two games (GC and Port) 2) Saints lose both their last two games (WCE and GWS) 3) Dogs lose one of their last two games (Hawks and Freo) I actually think the most likely is the Dogs dropping one of their games. Hawks are due for a win I feel.

If he becomes available, Melbourne needs to have the finger on the trigger to get him. I don't think it's happening until 2021 or 2022 though.

From a final at the MCG with 90k fans to losing up in Cairns at an oval with plastic garden chairs. How a lot has changed in 2 years...

[censored] Cairns. When is Richmond playing there? Oh wait, they never have to play these sort of games.

I know it’s his second game, but how is Bedford on -15 ranking/SuperCoach points? Can’t get much worse than that.

Agree with others on here. It was quite a light weight interview. Mike may have had more questions but Trengove really waffled on when answering some basic questions. I felt he repeated himself numerous times and could have been a lot more concise with his answers.