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Meanwhile North a chance of becoming one of the worst 5-2 sides in AFL history.

A win today would see them with wins over 10th, 14th, 16th, 17th and 18th. They also managed to lose to the ongoing rabble that is West Coast (15th).

Can only beat who you play but that is an all time easy opening to a fixture. I’d be very surprised if they win more than 1 of their next 5 (Geelong in Geelong, Sydney, Adelaide in Adelaide, GC, Fremantle).

31 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Saw Joel selwood talking to him before the game. Unfortunately both part of a club no one wants to be a part of.

On a lighter note, next week it's West Coast v Richmond in Perth. That could be very interesting

Could see West Coast become what surely will be the worst 3-5 team in AFL history.

3 hours ago, old dee said:

We will see next weekend how flash we are. L

You don’t already think we’re doing ok?

I see St Kilda won by 100 today. Does that mean you now think our win over them is better than you previously thought?

21 hours ago, old dee said:

The suns got towelled up by the hawks today. Which probably makes our win over them look not so great. The consultant played well according to the stats.

Only if you make a choice to be negative.

13 minutes ago, The Cult of Disco Turner said:

We have now been in the top 4 for a full 24 hours of footy, folks.

It’s not much, but after the nightmare that was the last two seasons, it sure feels good.

Funnily enough, the last time we finished a round inside the top 4 was actually in one of those nightmare seasons - Round 11, 2024. Indeed, we were in the top 4 for 7 out of 10 weeks from Rounds 2-11 that year.

Fell out in Round 12 when we were annihilated by Fremantle in Alice Springs and spent just one more week in the top 8, let alone top 4, until this year.

7 hours ago, Redlagged said:

Need another tall, certainly. Surely it would be Petty if he was right. What's going on with him? Lack of clarity around him is irritating, and unfortunately not unusual in the way Melbourne reports injuries - Lindsay and Rivers being two other current cases.

Shattered.

Go well, Jai. Prep yourself for a massive 2027.

Not only are we 5-2 and 102%, but we’ve done that with a sneaky long injury list - Viney, Bowey, Rivers, Salem, Petty, Melksham and Lindsay all unavailable today and for multiple matches, Jiath previously missed games too, and sadly now Culley as well.

Culley aside, just what we needed.

Challenged early in each of the first three quarters, responded all three times. Blew it open in the fourth. Won all 4 quarters, and got our percentage back over 100%.

5-2 and 102.8%. Not many predicted that for our first 7 games.

Can’t wait to see what we can muster against Sydney next week.

Of all the things we’ve done right so far this year, what the [censored] is going on with our injury list?

McAdam’s perennially on it but this week reverted from 2-3 weeks to TBC without explanation.

5 days after the game Petty’s injury, let alone prognosis, is TBC.

Rivers was dropped, never appears on the injury list, but is injured and is now about to miss his 5th straight game.

Is Lindsay injured? Is AJ?

Viney’s been “TBC” for months. At what point does “TBC” actually mean “indefinite” or “season”?

1 hour ago, Nasher said:

Have any of you worried about fresh legs seen Richmond play this year? They’re awful. Woefully uncompetitive. And even with Lynch back, this week’s side is even worse than last week’s. They’ve made so many changes because half their side is injured.

I know it would be very Melbourne to lose this game, but we won’t. No chance whatsoever. Been a good while since we’ve come up against a team in this much disarray.

Essendon was in a fair degree of disarray when they were 0-4, and on an 0-17 run, a fortnight ago leading into Gather Round...

I get the logic, and our form so far this year means we are obvious favourites, but Richmond is going to put it together and win a game at some point soon, and ANZAC Eve is one of only two real marquee games they have all year (the other being Dreamtime). If there was a time for them to "click", it's tomorrow.

Adams, Cross and Henderson are the emergencies.

Confirmed -

In CJ

Out Petty

On 22/04/2026 at 11:24, Bring-Back-Powell said:

The main benefit of the top 10 IMO is not the finals format itself but the fact that there will likely be more relevant games in the later rounds than usual as more teams will be in the hunt.

As for us, I’m really hoping we can finish 7th to 8th in order to host a wild card final at the G.

I know I carp on about this all the time but, tbh, I can’t help myself.

If we finish 7th or 8th we should be straight into an EF against 5th or 6th. Instead, we’ll have to exhaust ourselves playing 9th or 10th instead and might not even get the shot at the EF.

All so that we can have more games of “relevance”, which is questionable given no one truly believes the sides in 9th or 10th can win the flag.

Just now, Clintosaurus said:

I'd say the 'right circumstances' is having the bye directly after the Darwin game and a suitable amount of $$$ being provided.

And as @whatwhat say what says, not having a Marvel home game. Same logic as Richmond selling games to Tassie this year - if we are going to have to host a game at Marvel, the club may say “may as well make a stack of cash by selling that to the NT”.

1 minute ago, praha said:

This is just it: his football IQ is next level. Doesn't blaze away, knows when to chase and contest, puts himself in good position... he knows what to do and when to do it. His vision is elite and he plays like at least a 50-gamer. Almost every touch he has, seems to have a positive outcome.

Whilst I think this has a bit of mayo on it, I generally agree that he looks to have a really good understanding of what is happening and where he needs to be. He is so frequently in the right position at the right time.

I reckon he’s been slowly adjusting to the speed of AFL level footy, and his willingness to get back into defence and then push forward is impressive.

18 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Sydney are overrated. Totally winnable game.

Nah they're not overrated at all.

It may still be a winnable game given we've risen to the occasion vs Brisbane and Gold Coast, but equally it's at the SCG, not the MCG, and we are winless in our limited opportunities away from home so far this year.

Need to keep a modest lid on things. We're not 10 days removed from being belted by Essendon, remember.

6 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Does that constitute a break out game from Kolt?

26 touches at 90% efficiency against the bench mark, and that tremendous clearing kick from deep in defence that found Sparrow when the game was on the line with 2 minutes left.

Full credit to him and I hope he builds from that.

And before that kick he had great composure with a ground ball get at full back.

Incredible that he's gone from fringe player, to tagger, to potentially genuine defender in 6 weeks.

21 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Were you there? Needs to stay or something variant of it.

I was there. It was great fun.

If we do it every week it will very quickly lose its lustre.

It doesn't "need to stay", nor do we need a variant of it weekly (although we do have a "variant" I suppose, with songs after goals). As I said above, the other three MCG games we've played, including the Carlton game which was an away game, have had fantastic atmosphere without the Irish jig.

How's this for a random stat nugget, buried in Fox Footy's weekly power rankings:

Of the top 25 players in the AFL who’ve played at least five games so far (per the Player Ratings), the Swans have five - McInerney, Blakey, Warner, Grundy and Heeney. Only one other club has more than two (bizarrely, Melbourne, with Steele up there with Gawn and Pickett).

23 minutes ago, rpfc said:

If we did the Irish music after every goal we would ruin the whole thing. It worked because it is joyful and different and we won. And kicked 16 goals. Do it every week and it will not be seen as that.

Sometimes things that work should be left to work how it’s worked.

Another tshirt @DubDee

Agree - it works because its a one-off and it has its own, singular, moment.

Would be silly, if not embarrassing, if we tried rolling it out every week as some sort of ongoing gimmick.

The thing is, we haven't really needed it to get the crowd's energy up at our MCG games this year. All four games have had the MCC and the wider MFC supporter bays pumping.

46 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Did anyone watch AFL360 and see the footage of Kingy going absolutely nuts in the coaches box when the siren went?

Quality viewing.

It's here, at 21.18:

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere else, but Lloyd picks up on some incredible two-way running from Sharp, Koz and Latrelle in this clip from 0.27:

4 minutes ago, Demonland said:

This is so good for us.

22 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Not sure why all the anger about Gerard Healy, as he is accurate and actually praised us several times during the commentary.

Would take him any day, over the ocker screeching of Kelly Underwood.

Gerard Healy’s quality of analysis deteriorated 5 years ago. He interrupts others and goes off on tangents, he focuses on stats but doesn’t always understand them, and he waffles on far too much.

Fox had the smarts to move on from Derm this year, it should be Gerard next year.