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JVR 2029 BAYBAY!

15 hours ago, Vagg said:

I'm certainly not up with all the rules.  But, I was kinda surprised Melksham wasn't just put straight on to the long-term injured list, rather than delisting him and then adding him to Rookie list.

Because he is due to resume training in July

Nothing to worry about here, we will pivot and deal with whatever the season throws at us. 

57 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Chylowe is on special comments, not sure who the special play by play commentator is. Thank god for Harf 

Whoever she is she hates the Dees, jesus...

7 minutes ago, godees said:

What is this about? Sam Edmund and Whateley on trade bell

https://x.com/melbournefans/status/1706482479966908429?s=46&t=hl7B0Qahn7STKrEZVzEeow

I have no insider info but this picked up my ears as well. thinking we'd go after another ruck... is Sean Darcy on the move?

This team is so fun to watch. 

54 minutes ago, old dee said:

I agree last night my wife asked me are you watching the game tonight? My reply I have little interest in Senior AFL beyond Melbourne. Yesterday I went to see my granddaughter play in the GF of their basketball season. I am way more interested in them  than other AFL games.

PS sadly they lost and felt way more emotion at their loss than the MFC on Thursday night.

I am the opposite, in recent years I am watching more footy than ever. 
 

1 hour ago, Ollie fan said:

He made his debut in a final in 1982 and kicked 5 goals

And then had 3 touches in his second game for 2 points

2 hours ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

And for dessert? Watching them get knocked out the following week. All those H&A wins for nought. 

My gut tells me Pies out in straight sets

I went to the AFLW match last night. Girls played some really good Dees Brand Footy. 

I'd encourage anyone missing footy this weekend to go watch the second half replay on Kayo.

3 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Lol, people are completely ignoring/forgetting that Melbourne have only beaten us like twice in 7-8 years. 

It’s like 6 times since 2015. They’ve won 8 in that period but we won’t worry about that.

If you take away the last 4 games 2021-2023 (LLLW)

From 2000 to 2020 we almost had a perfect palindrome of W-L over 20 years, I bolded the outlier

WLLLWWWWLLLLLDLLLLLWWWWLLLLW

1 hour ago, DubDee said:

Favourite Milkshake moment left foot goal on the turn against the Hawks in finals 2018

It's so good its GEE GOD BOY WOW!

He didn't gouge the eyes. He made contact to the face and moved his hand away quickly and has copped a 3k fine for the mistake. Slow mo makes it look like it lingers but it does not. Move along. 

33 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

You are in a Melbourne bay. M30, M31 and M35 are Melbourne bays. Collingwood cheer squad in M33

🤦‍♂️ 

I ended up with tix in M35, someone please tell me the cheer squads at the city end.

4 devices took 20 minutes, got in on the last device used which started post waiting 10am.
 

 

3 minutes ago, YearOfTheDees said:

May not be the place to post this but do you think there AFL could have said and Luke Dunstan.

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AFL 

8m  · 

Scans have confirmed Jake Melksham and a Melbourne teammate have both suffered ACL injuries.

All they care about is clicks. It's a part of the strategy of writing headlines to covert. More clicks = More revenue.

Leaving the second part vague means more people will click the article to find out who it is (where most Dees fans would already know).
 

1 hour ago, drdrake said:

I hope it isn't an ACL and wish him well.  On the flip side I don't think having him and Fritsch in same forward line works.

Had 4 goals between them prior to their injuries. Looked like it was working to me off the small sample size. 

17 hours ago, binman said:

Doesn't change the fact freo paid way overs, particularly given it might end up result in Darcy leaving, but not in their worst nightmares would have they expected to be giving up early first and second rounders.

At the time of the trade we all wanted more. It's only overs now because of their terrible season this year.
None of us forecasted that a top 10 pick would land in our laps this year. 

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

What??

So you genuinely think the coaching department prefer Spargo, Hibberd and Grundy as better fit then Chandler, Bowey and JVR?

Nah, that's just laughable now.

 

55 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Such a strange interpretation of our list. There’s spots we’re scrambling or unable to fill: tall winger, classy mid, key forward/back.

Grundy’s a great back up ruck but can’t seem to make us better alongside Max. Which forces us to use Petty forward.

Chandler has the edge on Spargo right now and has threatened to make himself a lock as Spargo did in 2021, but both hover in the 19-25th on a good list range. 

I love the Pig but I doubt he has the tank for a flank these days, he’s fighting Tomlinson and Smith for the 3rd tall spot.

Brown and T Mc are shot.

If anything the list looks like it’s missing a quality top 5 pick (which it is), needs another ready to go tall so we can settle Petty and is missing some genuine pace. That’s just to get back to 2021.

How far we go this year won’t be determined by amazing depth. We’ll need to make the right calls and for fringe guys to hold up but we need stars and hidden stars like Petty to really stand up to cover some cracks.

Simon has said he has been experimenting with the forward line since the Fritsch and Oliver injuries, What we saw on the weekend was another experiment and to everyones joy a successful one. Which this mix has come around from all the players mentioned in my previous post being injured or out of form and coming out of the side. I wasn't saying those players should come all come in, we have large depth only 6 of our players have played every game this year. 

It's obvious we are better with Max in this role and the current forward line mix had the best result all year and what we should persist with towards finals. 

I had forgotten that our first quarter score defeated their full time score. 

3 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Not sure why you named Spargo, Hibberd and Grundy as significant outs.

They're not even best 22.

Clarry and Fritsch are the only significant outs that we should worry about.

To win some big games without these two has been unreal.

I would say Goodwin would see it differently for best or ideal 22. 
A fit and in form Spargo Hibberd and Grundy over Chandler, Bowey and JVR.
Sparrow over Woewodin
Clarry over JJ and Fritsch for Melksham. 

We are quite off our ideal 22, that's without considering Brown and Tmac.

What a brilliant list we have. 

37 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

I’d love to know if it was a coaches call or Max’s call to take it out of the ruck because it was the match winning move.

Generally that will be Max making that decision mid contest, depending on how he's bodied his opponent and opened up the drop zone of the ball. 

Just finished a full game replay and wow, what a game. great performance for the boys. 

Hilarious to find that every single one of the free kicks these sooky Tiger fans are crying about were 100% correct.