Mel Bourne

Just watching the game again (the perks of self employment), and watching Melksham and Hunt’s games, it’s like we’ve been gifted two new gun players. Both seem determined to make up for lost opportunities last year, and that mindset combined with red-hot form couldn’t come at a better time. Melk should’ve had five if we overlook the rubbish BBB out-of-bounds call in the 3rd. Huge games from both of them. Now if we can just find Bailey’s on-switch, I feel like we’ve got some much-needed potency up forward.

Threads should not be started lightly, and this the perfect example of why. There is no substance, no avenue for further discussion and no point to this thread. It’s just you having an anxious and pessimistic moment and telling us about it.

I’m gonna buck the trend and say that we won that match in the best possible way. Winning clutch-style like that is huge for the team’s confidence, and it’s massively important the boys know how to prevail in that kind of scenario. Finals will be full of tight games.

So you’re saying that the only reason we won was because certain players in our team played football well?

Trac getting loose on the mic.

$2 Rat Coffin is a pretty sick deal.

Losing all respect over a potentially missing comment? Harsh.

It’s basically Judge Judy at the AFL tribunal now. Whatever keeps the audience happy. We are going to lamp Carlton, regardless. I can’t wait.

Dude is not going to fix his kicking within a week, nor the remaining ones. He needs a pre-season and a good tutor. His golden patch of shots-on-goal this time last year was 20% technique, 80% Vibe-Gods. The technique was always poor.

How’s this… Basically my entire family barrack for Collingwood. Both parents, and three of my five siblings. I’m the youngest of six, and the next up from me is my sister. She’s the only girl in the family and wanted to set herself apart from the boys, so she chose the Demons, then got the word into me when I was a kid. One of my other brothers supports a different team though... Geelong. Every time the Pies beat us I can feel all the ties that bind unravel. I see my lovely parents suddenly as toothless and my brothers all look like Joffa. Thankfully it doesn’t last too long.

I love our captain, but the less I have to watch him line up for set shots on goal, the longer my marriage will last.

He’s far from a household name, but maybe my favourite living satirist. Hard to get past “I’m Alan Partridge” as my favourite thing he’s done.

Wonder what Saty would make of all this.

Both shows created by the same person (Armando Iannuci). You might enjoy it.

Anybody here watch “Veep”?

Well, that’s just a matter of taste. I personally find them a little on the objectionable side. (sorry, I’ll just get my coat…)

@Demonstone Your response-time to a grammar infringement is quicker than the actual police.

If it’s 12 nights post concussion then he’s good to go. But not sure if it is.

I feel subconsciously attacked. 😆 I think it’s pretty natural to be interested in outcomes such as these. And I’ll go a step further and say I hope Cripps doesn’t play because it’s merely to our advantage. I don’t see what’s wrong in hoping for any kind of advantage, however they may present themselves.

There’s no way he’ll get off without suspension. Ah Chee was concussed, and if there’s one thing the AFL doesn’t want to be seen being flippant about anymore it’s concussion. Ah Chee will miss a match next week, but Cripps gets to play? Absolutely no way.

There was no problem bringing the ball to ground (I love this term for “dropping marks”) on Friday, and rarely were Pickett or Spargo to be found.

Would love to drop Kozzie, but it seems he’s rusted on. It’s getting to the stage for me where his gold-star cameos just don’t stack up against the amount of times he goes missing. And will Goodwin stick by ABN for next week? Probably, but bugger me, he’ll be lucky. Sparrow likely to get a rest. Gawn needs to spend the summer practicing set shots. He has the yips now, and they’ll be hanging around during the finals, no doubt. Love his safe hands, but we need players running past him to take the shots on goal from now on. Fritsch needs to be the target, not the one outstretched hand of BBB. But Fritsch needs to friggin’ PRESENT. He is useless to everybody when he lurks at the back of a pack. Let’s get JVR on the ground next week.

The amount of times our forwards (and Max) would fly in clusters towards the hail-mary deliveries coming at them, only to apply pressure on each other and inevitably bring the ball to ground to….nobody, was maddening. Our small forwards went missing tonight.

Which has reached the point where interviews with players/coaches are pointless exercises in nothing-speak. If it does genuinely motivate Collingwood players (50% of whom would be unaware what the term “One Trick Pony” even means), then it also would motivate the Demons just as much to back it up. But I don’t think it means anywhere near as much to either team’s players as it does to the peanut gallery.

Read my previous post, and the reactions of Collingwood fans. They don’t give a toss, and some are even all for it. Honestly the pearl-clutching going on from some here is a bit much. What’s even more bizarre is the suggestion it will have any impact on the match whatsoever. The idea that this will “fire up” the opposition? I mean, it might fire up the Campbell’s Creek Magpies but in a league as drilled, honed and already-fired-up as the AFL, such a polite bit of banter won’t touch the sides.