Bring-Back-Powell

Sharp Kicked 2 not 3 goals. Chandler kicked 1 not 2 goals.

To the people that attended the game, I’m assuming there was a howling wind to the right of screen/Freo cheer squad end. 22 goals the right of screen. 5 goals to the left of screen.

Humphrey (GC Suns) a sniff to get a week suspension with a sling tackle and subsequently miss our game in round 4. So potentially Rowell, Trac and Humphrey, but they have absurd depth to cover those losses.

Hardwick wasn’t giving much away but it didn’t sound like it’s an overly serious hammy.

I don’t think I could wish McVee well under any circumstance.

Amazing what happens when you schedule 2 good teams on a prime time slot as opposed to having 1980’s “has beens” in Carlton and Essendon hogging the marquee slots.

I read somewhere (and heard on the deebrief podcast) that we'll be wearing a retro jumper. I don't think we'll be wearing royal blue on Saturday.

Are we wearing this jumper this weekend? I highly rate this clash jumper.

So at this time of year it looks as though we're 3,000 ahead of 2025 but 6,000 behind our peak year of 2023. I think we will max out at 60,000 however Paul wants us at 65,000. North - 46,000 Bulldogs - 54,000 St Kilda - 65,000 + I'm a firm believer that with all things being equal we should be above those three clubs and be mid tier VIC club in terms of membership. Not the second worst.

If we do end up losing, I'd imagine Luke Jackson would have had a large say on proceedings. He's played us 3 times for 3 Freo wins. One time (MCG) he got the 3 Br votes. Another time (Alice Springs) he kicked 3 goals /6 marks/16 touches. The one time he didn't play us we won. What a massive coincidence....right?

We have a sneaky bad 5-14 record against Freo in WA for a club that's had a pretty mediocre history. We went 17 seasons without a win there (2005-2021), albeit didn't play there every year.

Young’s a very handy out. He was under a cloud Vs Geelong and therefore clearly shouldn’t have played…much to our benefit.

James Hird mentioned on today's edition of Footy Furnace (channel 9 streaming show) the following: "Melbourne internally are quietly confident they're a top 8 team this year" Make of that what you will.

I always find Gary Lyon's weekly MVP players on AFL 360 interesting. This year he's expanded it from the best 3 players to the best 5 players of the week. Interesting that he gave Naughton votes but not JVR despite both kicking 6. However I'm glad that he gave Max 4 votes as he had a tendency without fail last year to give a Melbourne oppo the 3, 2 or 1.

Not surprised to hear this. In his original press conference he showed (what I thought to be) genuine gratitude and appreciation on not only landing a head coaching role but landing it at the MFC. A fantastic first up result but mindful that we have some genuine tough games in Freo, GC and Brisbane coming up.