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What exactly is the hand injury? I know the finger was dislocated in Feb/March but as someone with no medical training - anyone able to shed some info here?

"finally has surgery on his hand" - that was from late March wasn't it? Quite the delay! Lad has been in the wars this year

Ultimate clubman to his #1 club, his family.

Can they return him now plz

That’s not ideal or not great timing by life has a way of doing that surely top 3 in the b&f this season. No takers previously thank the lord as helped us win a flag.

They're still missing a piece of the jigsaw in the final 1/3rd

Whilst admitted they haven't been vocal, which may or may not be a good thing depending on view point. I do regularly seeing Roffey at the player gates on the field after games, so confirming she is visible.

We've gone back in time!

Given their injury list it'll be an interesting one to watch I reckon

Wish i had 8 mates who went for Melbourne! I only have 1 close mate who follows the Dees but he lives down Geelong way so doesnt come to many games.

Yep not drawing a line through the fella as a forward but just have some concerns. Agreed his performances have improved there will come a time when we need to judge him on his scoreboard output. Is his inclusion helping or hindering the other forwards? that's for smarter people than me to consider. But just seems we're pinning a lot of hopes on a premiership winning defender who has kicked 25.21 - especially as about 25% of his career goals occurred in the one game.

Out of curiosity I went to see what the other Melbourne vs Port crowd figures have been like at the G, not much to go by unfortunately as we usually send this game to the NT. I think that was the first time we've played them at the G under lights. Here are the last 5 2024 R22 - Saturday Night - 17,867 2019 R1 - Saturday Arvo - 38,866 (opening round optimism after 2018 finals run and friendly timeslot) 2017 R18 - Saturday Arvo 27,068 2013 R1 - Sunday Arvo - 22,924 2009 R15 - Sunday Arvo - 15,888 (yikes era)

Petty has played 18 games this season for 6 goals, we're all waiting for it to click and hopefully explode - how long do we wait? I know he's coming off a significant injury but were the good goal scoring performances outliers?, BBB has currently outscored him with 7 goals and he played 6 games this year.

Mourinho is only popular when he's winning.

Personally I'd rather not trade our leading goal scorer for the last 5 seasons!

Curious what happens with Freo/Richmond given the links to Baker and Bolton. It's not like they need kids desperately atm.

Also a minor point that's not too important in the grand scheme but connected to attendances - I go to game as a neutral and have mates who like to go to games as neutrals (need to get value from that MCC m/ship!) but a large chunk of them have voiced to me they don't like watching/attending Melbourne games cos of our style and F50 entry. Based on what @ex52k2 has said it seems every bum counts/costs!

8 tackles last night, couple of contested marks. So he is doing some right things, but like others have said, probably at the wrong end of the ground when you look at 6.15 for the season.

Rivers and Windsor the two highlights for me. Other highlights McVee & Turner continuing to come along nicely. Kozzie has now kicked 159 goals in 104 games and should end up another season close to the 40 goal mark (Last 4 seasons 40, 41, 37, 34*) Ed Langdon returning to some form. Relentlessness of ANB, Viney, Chin

Lose to GC and beat Collingwood and you've got a deal.

I told my friends there were more people there than the Port Game! At least I wasn't incorrect. Never seen the Frank Grey Smith Bar with so much space, usually you need to be as nimble as Kozzie to get through it without bumping into people. I know the season is a bit poor but would have liked to at least his the 20,000 mark but understand some people are disenfranchised, some are time poor, illheath, have kids, cost of living etc. Understand some people pick and chose games based on chances of winning, we're all at different stages of our lives.

As posted in his injury thread apparently he can't get his heart rate above 110 so still some way to go before some moderate exercise but fantastic he's with the boys.

Big LK was a speculative addition, if it pays off great but should get extra to see how he's tracking after an AFL pre-season. People are saying Clarry is down because he didn't have one, this fella has never had one. We've got some talls hopefully coming with NGA/FS in 2025 draft so can roll the dice on him against next year. Especially as several key position players may not be there next year (BBB/JS/Schache/TMac?)

I've been fiddling with the Ladder predictor all morning and it doesn't look good. Imagine we won't get much tinkering until perhaps the final game. Either way i'll be there cheering on the lads

Guess he wants to shore up the backline with mature bodies. Slugfest?