Mel Bourne

We still have to field a team, boss. Quite a few “good” players will have to take part.

If Joel Smith gets a game before Lockhart I will…be fairly annoyed.

Ah, that feeling when you grew up in Preston, chose the Dees as your team because the rest of your siblings were Bombers fans and you wanted to be different, then the talk of Brighton Grammar comes up. ?

"It was more a show of defence. I didn't want to get rolled over and him be on top of me. that was the position I was pulled into and that was where my strength was." He’s a bit special, our Jack.

Yep, we finished ninth on the ladder last year. It’s a vast improvement. This is all anyone can reasonably hope for, and I hope next season keeps heading in the same direction. I was proud to be a Demons supporter for the first time in a long time this year, and whatever may happen in the finals, I’ll be grateful for this alone.

Do people ever say these things “don’t matter”? I think you’re conflating that sentiment with “not much point sooking about it ad nauseum on Demonland”.

I’m gonna make the call that WC will not be playing finals. Giants to win 2 of 3 Eagles to lose next 3 games Giants in. Eagles out

A big issue is that Viney seldom gets dropped. If he's fit, Goodwin and the selectors generally consider him an automatic in.

Man, if Viney keeps being owned by Suns opposition players, what hope does he have against the finals opposition?

I mean, you could be describing any aspect of him there.

Oliver set shot on an angle....hmmmmm Whoa.

It's owned by a moribund [censored]?

Commentator: "Jake Bowey has been described as 'a little Caleb Daniel' ". Wow. That's small.

Who do you think closed the AFL app live streams? Those streams were the godsend. Kayo is what happens when “godsends” are banished.

He does spend a fair amount of time playing video games. Often that pursuit is paired well with high calorie snacks. But he looks in pretty good shape. The only extra weight he seems to be carrying is a moustache.

Interesting. It’s strange to me that a player who’s in form would be overlooked for such a thing, given the amount of general overlap in lockdown/rebounding. Lockhart has good skills and is a reliable kick, so it’s odd to me that he couldn’t be viewed playing a rebounding role when the need arises.

The running joke is (insert name) must have parked In Goodwin’s spot. I can only assume his spot was free because Lockhart stole the car and set it on fire in the middle of Casey Fields.

Can somebody advise me on something? Whenever the subject of replacing a defender arises - in this case the potential of resting Hibberd - why is Lockhart barely ever mentioned? He’s been in our best-on-ground lists two of the last three rounds. Even the write-up of last week’s Casey game on the MFC website goes into great detail, yet never mentions his name once. Except to say he was second-best on ground in the stats. What am I missing here?

Hunt was good. Petty did his job.

Dees are looking sluggish. Intensity just wasn’t there in the second half. We need to rest a few crew if we’re going to give ourselves half a chance in the finals. I don’t think we’re cooked, and still think a GF appearance is very possible I don’t think a GF victory is likely however, because we seldom keep cool heads in high pressure situations. ANB and Hibberd could do with a spell. Bring in Lockhart and Sparrow. Sparrow has shown promise with his few set-shots. Pickett is a bit lost at the moment, but given the options (Melksham?) it’s probably best to leave him out there and hope he sorts it out in real time. He, Rivers and Jackson have put in great seasons, but I fear their youth is catching up with them from a fatigue point of view and come finals time, they will have worryingly-empty tanks.

In non-outbreak settings the recommendation for duration between AZ is still 12 weeks, as it provides the highest efficacy in the long-term. The four-week interval is only being encouraged in Sydney hotspots right now.

Even if they got their first shot this week they wouldn’t be fully-vaccinated until after the season’s ended.

Craptacular moments keep popping into my head…. Oliver having a whinge when Spargo intercepted his mark in the forward pocket. Two things about that: - really poor form from a team perspective - I’d take a Charlie Spargo kick from the pocket over one of Oliver’s every day of the week.

Pickett’s set shots are a f$&king joke. He needs to put serious work into this aspect of his game. So sick of watching him line up, absolutely safe in the knowledge that he’s going to f$&king cook it.

I think the Bombers could do them. And us of course. Who knows what Port will be throwing into their final H&A game too?