Bring-Back-Powell

I really hope Preuss doesn't play given that Gawn is back. Feels like we're a man down as he has no forward craft whatsoever when resting forward and barely takes a mark around the ground. Plus we need more pace and run if we're any hope of matching the Saints. Having 2 giants won't help in this area.

People are bagging him? Wow! He destroys us every time and I can't stand his over the top celebrating after his "Joe the goose" goals from 1 metre out. Needs to be stopped tomorrow.

So channel 7 news are full of crap. They revealed that King would be rested yesterday.

Membrey (2.8 goals a game) just nudges Kingsey (2.7) over roughly the same amount of games against us. But yes, Kingsley tore us a new one in the early 2000's.

Surely May needs to urgently go on him from the opening bounce. Not after half time when he's already put 3 on us. I've never seen a player own the Melbourne Football Club as much as Membrey. Handy if King doesn't play, as May would've probably had the task on him.

You're dead right mate about St Kilda ruining our recent seasons. I can't see it changing this weekend. 2016 we got schooled by them twice. Win both of those, have a small loss to Geelong in round 23 (as opposed to the 110 pt loss) and we play finals. 2018 was even worse. They were a complete dumpster fire that year, and yet put 120 points on us in a horrid mid season game. Absolutely no good reason for that happening, particularly given that we were rolling after kicking the first 3 goals of the game. Cost us 3rd place that year. Would've avoided WC in the prelim. 2017 we beat them twice but we'll just ignore that for discussion purposes.

Yeah, but they have beaten some of the big boys in Richmond and Port away, the latter of whom were flying at the time. As much as we all hate them, they'll have earned their spot in the finals.

Another reason as to why this season is an absolute joke. The fact that in round 6 we were originally scheduled to play Richmond, and then Fremantle and then finally Gold Coast tells me all I need to know about this season. Or what about that Monday in late June when the AFL re-scheduled our opponents on 6 days notice.

My Collingwood supporting mate forever thanks me for the Dees beating Hawthorn in the 1990 finals as that was the only side Collingwood feared. Hawthorn swept Collingwood in the 1990 H&A season, including a late season 83 point flogging.

That's also an underrated fact that we blew a massive lead against Hawthorn in rd 22 to only fall over the line and cost ourselves valuable percentage. Good pick up.

They most certainly have not played in Alice and I dare say Darwin either. I'd probably rather play St Kilda in Alice than at the GABBA but they seem to have a knack of beating us anytime-anywhere.

We did win 16 games that year without even getting a double chance. An underrated sliding doors moment occurred in the last round IMO. Geelong were leading West Coast all day at Kardinia Park and all they had to do was hang on and 3rd place/double chance was ours. Unfortunately WC kicked a couple of late ones to snatch the win and hence pushing us back to an elimination final. Had we finished third we would've played Collingwood at Waverley, the team we had an excellent finals record against in the late 80's.

What a fantastic afternoon at the footy that was. My first ever final sitting in the old southern stand (just before it was demolished) in the beautiful September sunshine. A fantastic, gritty win although the Hawks came back hard. I was a bit young to remember but I assume the MFC faithful went home that day with genuine premiership hopes given that we'd beaten the raining champs twice in two weeks.

For all his short comings he'd actually provide more to our forward mix than Hannan who plays about 7 minutes of footy a game.

"AFL football won't be played in Victoria in 2021 if the state of emergency is extended by 12 months" Tom Elliott, 3AW, 25/08/2020

Hopefully the opposite occurs next week. Saints have never played in Alice Springs while we’ve been playing there since 2014, and performed well there on the last 3 occasions .

His problem is he always takes his marks on the flanks and pockets. Great that he gets a number of shots but hard to convert angles.

Not to excuse yesterday as it was a poor performance and the club let themselves down. However, there have been 11 occasions this year where teams have come into a game on a 3 game winning streak. Only 4 of those occasions have resulted in the side winning their 4th game in a row. Statistically, we were most likely going to lose that game due to the up and down nature of this unprecedented season. Next week will prove once and for all if we’re any chop this year. We have bounced back well after our poor losses this year.

I appreciate the efforts of posters giving votes after a poor performance but Hibberd can’t possibly go near any votes. His opponent was the match winner and he was also poor by foot today. I’m sure he’d admit that it was one of the worst performances of his career.

No thanks. He’s been a circus for a couple of years now. Aside from Spargo and Pickett’s COVID’s indiscretions, it sounds like we’ve got a squad that has their head switched on, free from off field distraction and want this club to be successful.

MCG. Give it to the very last minute. Cases will by sub 30 by mid October.

Crozier is also a pretty good in for them. That’s fine, good to test ourselves against a full strength side. To borrow a modern footy term - football audit.

Did he not kick 5 against the Dogs mid way through 2018?

^^ Nothing to do with the COVID 2020 fixture, but what a cracking movie that was eh Rusty.

If he's playing it generally means we've hit an injury crisis. With that being said the club is going to have to be careful with the Freo game in Cairns off a 4 day break, so perhaps he might get a gig in that game if multiple defenders like Hibberd, Lockhart and Rivers need a rest.