Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Agree. I thought Wags was actually one of our better players. Also thought Nathan Jones was ok, with the exception of that dropped mark. No way Goodwin is dropping both Oscar and Frost in the same week as some are suggesting. I'm tipping very few changes to keep some team stability. Will certainly be some interesting reviews, but then they challenge will be laid down to respond and I recon we will.

I don't get why so people on this forum go on about a lack of pace and are then so quick to say - drop Frosty. He's one of the quickest players in the league and when he gets up and going, uses it to great effect. I also agree with your assessment of the compeditive nature of Frost Vs Oscar. Frost didn't play a great game for us yesterday, but few did. I'm still fairly baffled how Hore is getting a game over Petty at the moment. Petty has looked far better than Hore so far this year to me. I'm tipping Max won't get dominanted like that too often and that will change the dynamic significantly. Apart from May, I can't see us making many unforced changes.

It sounds like a load of BS to me - Gaff shouldn't have been allowed to play either, particularly the AFLX rubbish, where there was the additional reward of some extra cash (although for Gaff, perhaps that could go towards Andrew Brayshaw's dental bill - from experience, trust me!). But I'd say the disallowance of May (and probably others) to play in VFL practice matches would be due to the VFL games being played on a concurrent weekend as an AFL home and away game for which the suspension applied. I don't know why a) there couldn't have been a VFL practice match last weekend and b) why the byes season start and end for the VFL isn't made to line up with the AFL season - leads to some very sub optimal situations at times.

6. Salem 5. Melksham 4. Harmes. 3. Freitch 2. Wagner 1. Hunt

Great chicken at a Korean place opposite the Gabba if you're in town for that one.

There have been a few desperate calls today, but I think this is an early and probably unbeatable contender for overreaction of the season.

Lever didn't put a foot wrong today. No problems with his game.

This is a laughable response to a game we lost by around 20 points. Soo predictable, yet so expected. Demonland, you've done it again! Lol

Brayshaw started lIke a house on fire, but died in the preverbial today. Oliver was hardly seen. My take so far is that we are under done. That effect/excuse can only last a few rounds, but until then I'm prepared to give our guys some grace. That said Geelong are comming off a very similar base to us next week ad expecting that step it up and 'show them who's boss'.

Calm down dood.

They had a 4 week head start - how can you put the blame at our fittess staff. It's the penalty we paid for making finals last year. I'm happy to leave my assessment on that until the end of the 2019 season.

Really?

[censored] you Jack Watts

So does anyone remember what the equivalent game was at this point last year? We are playing mostly poorly, they are playing fairly well, but still very much there for our winning. Carn the DEMONS!

Worst interpretation of a rule EVER

Out of character from Freitch

Best possession all day Spargo. FRITTA - sigh

Garry Lyon says Jack Watts will play the rest of his career as a 'half back flanker'- you said it Garry

Compared to what Max has copped all game.

More [censored] than class in that kick, but I'll take it.

That's more F##!!# like it! GO DEMONS

Nice Jonesy. Melksham BOG for us so far.

It's probably even already from when we last played in Adelaide

True, but we have 21 other players out there too. They are clearly targeting Max - every time they do, there should be two Melbourne players slamming them back. ...a bit of the umpires doing their job wouldn't hurt either.

Bad quarter, but we fought back well and stopped their momentum. Back to zero zero now.