Mel Bourne

Surely he’ll have another period in the sun. He was such an instrumental part of last year’s finals campaign.

Cats-supporting Uber driver last night: ”What’s the name of that guy who dropped the sitter in front of the goals?” ”Tom MacDonald” ”He’s hopeless. You should get rid of him” ”Yep”

Tom MacDonald is a neocon who goes to Jordan Peterson conferences and does podcasts with the Institute Of Public Affairs. This is something I was willing to overlook when he was a half-decent footy player, but I can’t actually stand looking at the guy now that he sucks harder than a flagship-model Hoover.

We have no target in the forward line. Tmac? Hardly. Weideman? Nup. Smith? Pfft. We are a car without a steering wheel. Until this issue is fixed, there's absolutely no point in getting excited about this club.

Well at least I don't have read the trippers on here talking about our finals aspirations anymore.

WHY IS PETTY STILL ON HIPWOOD????

Just keep Fkkkn running and go for goal FFS!

Is Brayshaw concussed again???

He seems ok now. Christ, that was a physical half and a half. Great to see the team come off in one piece.

Weideman needs to get involved!!

MAXY!

Ooooffff. That was horrible to watch.

Thought he's been ok today

Seems ok now. Just a niggle. I'm just projecting panic onto every player now.

Both May and Petracca are looking proppy too.

Ankle? Hopefully not season-crushing. Jesus.

MAXXXXX NOOOOOO

Around six weeks. Possibly longer. Making slow progress unfortunately. He's out of the boot but the foot is very stiff still. Not running yet. He's very missed in our forward line right now. His kind of clever ball-use is what we need more of.

Ha! The power of the hyphen ?

Very harsh on Frost!!

If any of them had won a premiership I’d be more excited.

Yes. Yze is the perfect choice.

Absolutely. Hence the above remark.

Like so many here, I’m trying to figure out the areas where we’re lacking. From the outside it seems that many other clubs have a very intact sense of their community and their past, but ever since Jim Stynes’ passing it seems the club has lost this kind of anchor. Somebody like Garry Lyon would be a prime example of a past player that could provide this (admittedly perhaps sentimental, but certainly important) sense of history and passion for the club, but his media career has become his main priority (sure, guy’s gotta earn a living). Adam Yze, who played 276 games for the club has been an assistant coach at Hawthorn for years now. Why couldn’t we find a role for him at Melbourne? Does David Neitz, our longest-ever serving captain, have a presence at the club? Forgive my ignorance/lack of knowledge here. Just hoping to get a clear picture. And curious to know if this is something I should really not worry about too much. I do find myself wondering though. Btw, Russell Robertson’s wacky interviews with current players don’t count.

Aww hell dawg.... I swore it was around 275 but I googled “How many AFL games has Nathan Jones played?” to be exactly sure. Google tells me 264. I was befuddled but I put my trust in Google. All apologies. Lesson learned. And good news for the co-captain!