Pickett2Jackson

Pies supporters have turned their attention to Weideman now. At least they are being a bit more realistic this time around.

On top of the ladder at 7-0, Fritsch free to play vs the Swans and Petracca signs a 7 year deal.

Amazing! Well I think we can say with certainty that the players love Goody. Every single one of our stars has re-signed.

CLEARED!!!!!!!! BRING ON THE SWANS!

here we go....

The AFL listened to the people and made a common sense decision? What in blazes is happening? Anyway, well done AFL!

Everyone will be excited come Saturday. Its going to take all week to get over that first half against North.

Free the Fritta. The Coleman medal is within grasp... Tex Walker, Cale Hooker, Josh bruce.. they will all run out of steam. When the dust settles it will be a race between Fritta, Ben King and Harry McKay. But he must play this Saturday!

Also this might be the first week when a team will have to spend some good preparation time thinking "How do we stop Luke Jackson having an influence? Who the hell do we put on him? Hes 198cm but plays a like a mid .. he had 22 touches and changed the game last week.. 11 possessions in the 3rd quarter alone... he gives them a totally different look in the ruck too and he follows up his tap work at ground level. He just never stops. What will we do?" And that will now be the norm for opposition team meetings until the day he hangs up the boots!

You might be right. He has been a much improved kick as a forward but I think that's more to do with less pressure when delivering the ball inside 50 than him actually improving his field kicking. If he goes back I do fear he will freeze up and start kicking it straight to the opposition again like he used to when he was a defender.

The numbers are nice but how cool, clean and damaging looks while getting them is even better. The impact is unreal. And heres another player comparison - David Schwarz before the ACL's. Not in playing style or forward craft, but how the big unit LJ glides and spins around like a ballerina just like Schwarta did.

History says that's exactly what we will do though. We will find out soon if this really is a 'new Melbourne' or much of the same old. Don't hate me people, just keeping things in perspective and I do think we will beat Sydney.

Our forward line is where the most improvement can come from. We will tinker with it until we get the most potent mix. Getting to 7-0 is great but we wont win a flag with Tom McDonald as our only key forward.

Losing to the Swans on top of the Viney and Tommo injuries and could derail things for us, we have a very hard run of matches coming. We need Fritta to play.

Now we are truly getting into uncharted waters.

Hell yes! We cant allow that Collingwood dunce Michael Christian to derail our season.

Oh and Luke Jackson goes alright in there too.

Enjoy the win. Dees will run them off their feet after half time.

That's irreplaceable sadly. He was a beast for us.

Thanks, I forgot we had busted that one. Of all the years we finally beat the Swans and Buddy it was in 2019 where we were a bottom 4 team. ?

Alistair Nicholson and Ryan Fergsuon played a good chunk of 2005 in our back line. Far cry from May and Lever. Our midfield was also pretty lazy back then, they had a reputation as downhill skiiers and they were for that whole era really. One of the main reasons we could never take the next step.

Lance Franklin has never lost to Melbourne in his career. EDIT - That hoodoo ended in 2019 at the SCG. My mistake.

Change the name from AFL to NBA. This sport has turned so soft, it is a bit depressing.