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Bosh! Just booked my flights for ADL. North v Hawthorn at Blundstone will be lucky to get two guys and a thylacine through the turnstiles.

All about getting Melky to 200 games I'd guess.

I think the only way we're going to kick a cricket score against anyone this year is if the opposition just give up, which hasn't happened to date.

Tim Watson is a F-L-O-G-G.

All I know is that come Saturday night I want to be sitting on top with 40 points and 170%.

Of all the 'firsts' we've ticked off on our 16 game winning run we can now add underwhelming 74 point win away against WC to the list.

I didn’t watch Footy Classified this week. Did Ross Lyon say “ I think the Eagles can get it done” in his pre-game analysis ? It’ll be the first time this year he hasn’t said it about our oppo I think. Almost 300 days and counting since he was last right.

Hi Nasher. I'm just getting my head around the intricacies of it all but I think in NSW there is something called a green slip which only covers injury to another party but doesn't cover the cost of repair of their vehicle, which I think a lot of people don't understand. Yeah, I've come across a lot of people who's current life situation doesn't allow them to prioritise motor insurance as a necessity.

This might have been the most relaxing week as a Melbourne supporter I've ever had. This coming week would have been too but will now be offset by a Europa League final taking place in Seville early on Thursday morning. It's a gorgeous autumnal day so I might take the short train ride down to Arden Street to watch the magoos before the main event starts.

Hi Deanox. I've got a bit of a side hustle doing some work for an insurance company until I can get back to my regular gig in travel full time. The work is dealing with other drivers that are at fault in incidents with our clients but who are uninsured. The amount of money that has to be written off because we can't prove the other person is at fault / can't find them / financial hardship is off the scale and a contributing factor in why premiums increase each year. I was told that only around 25% of drivers in this country are insured.

I've always thought Daniel Rich looks like he was recruited from some backwater town deep in the Appalachians.

Just an observation DD. I'm well aware we have far bigger fish to fry.

This time tomorrow we are likely to be 5 games and 50% clear inside the 8. After nine rounds.

You could cut the apathy with a knife down at Blundstone.

Probably around the time we started pronouncing it D-fence Demonstone.

Even their threads are unravelling. What a basket case of an outfit.

We'd need a scoreline of around 140 points to 50 points to get to 160% this week. 100 points to 30 points would have a similar effect.

So maybe 2 hours later than usual No biggie. As long as this isn't a precursor to a night grand final down the track.

I watched a show online last night that had Gerard Whateley & David King talking about the weekend's games on SEN and Whateley said that when watching Carlton right now he'll get the popcorn out as they are fun to watch but he watches us with the reverence of taking in a masterpiece on a gallery wall (or to that effect). Someone else said that it wasn't fair to judge any other team on their performance against us, only against each other.

Until we have a situation where every club plays everyone else home and away it will always be compromised. I get more irritated by the compromises within these compromises like every interstate side getting to play their cross town rivals twice every year regardless of ladder position and the big Melbourne clubs never having to visit KP. Let’s just concentrate on getting to 18 wins as soon as we can whilst expending the least amount of energy and in the best possible health. The gloves can come off in September.

It's probably more important to keep the opposition to low scores these next two weeks to help keep our % up whilst also using the time to fine tune our forward 50 entry connection in advance of the Freo game.

I was thinking the same thing Darkhorse. I was getting seasick watching the game!

Hawthorn look like a shadow of the side that discovered the blueprint to beating the reigning premiers.

Essendon fans celebrating like they'd just made the UEFA Europa League Final 😬