Ollie fan

I'm starting this thread in the hope that I can see a few people joining me and really sinking the boots into this bloke. He is so ridiculously pro Geelong, so ridiculously pro-Bont, and so ridiculously anti-Melbourne. How does he get a job paid by the AFL?

And no love for Melksham and Spargo either - i thouggt Melksham was as good a forward as Tracc. And Spargo put in all night

Terrible team IMO. Melksham does not deserve to stay in; Jordon has had many opportunities and has proved he is a plodder. I can only think Petty will go forward as otherwise the only tall is BBB and he is not enough. But if Petty is forward who is our third tall in defence? - should have been Tomlinson who us also usually quite a precise kick.

From the little i have seen, he looks like he can hit a target - and, oh, how we need that!!

We have to wear not having Oliver at the moment. We can still win games. But IMV Petty forward, Tomlinson into the back line, but the real MUST is to change our tactics so that the kicking into the forward line is done by precision kickers and not long bombers. I love how Lingers plays but his kicking is not precise. We should have people like Salem, Bowey, McVee and Tommo running past to do the actual forward delivery.

Whether we make top four depends on us and us alone.

Surely a great result for us!?

I think it is possible that the fitness professionals know more about it than we - or at least I -do.

Lost at selection. Jordan should never be selected again – he's not up to it. Petty should have been selected forward. Tomlinson should have stayed in the team.

Whenever there is a freepaid against Hawkins, it is never his fault – I have never seen him not argue a freekick. Whatever happened to the dissent rule?

Alright alright alright – I’m getting converted to Smith

Absolutely.

FFS, Petty should be forward and Hibbo should pick up Rowan!!

Would be crazy. Until the moment Petty was injured we had the best attack in the league - and since then, real problems. He creates a contest, marks well and opens space with his movement. Back to CHF imv.

Loved watching Byron Pickett play - whether for Port, NM, or us. Just great to watch. And I thought Lachie Hunter’s bump against Collingwood was straight out of the Byron Pickett textbook.

Clearly bought his shorts from the same supplier as Warwick Capper

Drop Hibberd? Seriously? He has been tremendous of recent weeks, and in my opinion would be an ideal fit for Cameron.

All the votes to TROY CHAPLIN!!!!!!! what an amazing job our entire defence did today.

Well I am at the game and i think we’re are playing fantastically well - fabulous pressure, great defence - but oh, if only we could kick goals!! But anyone who thinks Collingwood are miles ahead of us is wrong wrong wrong.

Would far rather see Woey in than JJ. JJ is a known: pretty competent, but no more than that. Woey is an unknown. He may be a bust but then….. maybe not.

People seem to think that because Melbourne has some weaknesses, we can’t possibly win the premiership. All teams have weaknesses – look at Brisbane now! Even if they get up to win it, they have still been put to the sword by an inferior team.

The way I see the Port game is that we played one quarter which showed just how good we can be. If we played just two quarters like that in a game we would beat any team.

I love this post. Honestly, on this website you wonder whether people actually barrack for the club and want us to win. This is the sort of positivity we should have.

The man everyone loves to hate, Kane Cornes, thinks we are right in it. See “the round so far”, this morning’s edition.

Melbourne has a curse regarding foot injuries. I would think it would be incredibly unwise to rush him back. We will have to make do without him, I think, but luckily Collingwood don’t have a heap of tall forwards.