Bring-Back-Powell

Incredibly we haven't played Essendon twice in a season since 2005 and Sydney since 2007. Surely we double up against these two sometime soon. My predictions on who we play twice. Richmond West Coast Sydney Essendon Brisbane Expecting a much tougher fixture next year.

Is your sauce good? A strong word sweeping around town is a Oct 31st/Nov 1 release.

Yeah good question. Nor sure if it will be more towards the Tom Scully end of “lucky to make it out of the G alive” booing or the Addam Maric/Ricky Petterd “didn’t even realised he moved club” booing.

Me thinks Hunt's going to lose his spot on the banner. That more than anything else will inspire and motivate him this off season.

I would like to second that vote on JFK. Excellent nomination.

I read a few years ago that the MCC always requests that Melbourne play away games against Essendon and Carlton at the MCG. I have no idea why but it would explain why we haven't hosted Essendon since 2010 and hosted Carlton twice in 10 years.

We haven't had a home game at Docklands since 2016.

Knowing Peter Bell it would be Hogan and our future first rounder for Cerra.

Agreed. I'm glad our current and potentially future elite players in Gawn, T Mac, Oliver, Brayshaw , Harmes, Petracca, Salem and Weideman are VIC blokes.

You guys need to re-watch their shock win over Sydney. May was marking absolutely everything (14 marks) that day. The ball just wouldn't get past him. An elite defender's game.

Marks per game in 2018 when comparing with the best defenders in the league: May - 7.5 McGovern - 7.0 Stewart - 6.0 Rance - 5.5

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It's been speculated about 400K a year. Slightly above the average wage.

Why on earth would Tyson agree to play at GC? He spent two years at GWS when they went 3-41. Then years later finally plays finals in his home town and is content with life. Only to be told he'll be playing for a 2 or 3 win Gold Coast side for the next couple of years.

Absolutely not. It would be an absolute circus having him at the club. All he'd bring to the table is injuries, night club incidents etc....

Typical millennials! Changing work places at the drop of a hat.

I was dead against the Darwin game, but the facts are we beat a decent Port the week after in 2017, and then had a dominant second half against the Dogs this year. We’ve handled Darwin recovery with aplomb after 9 seasons up there.

We beat the Dogs by 7 goals the week after Darwin, and then proceeded to win 7 of our last 10 games (which coincided with our best month of footy since 2000) Would’ve we done any better had we not played in Darwin?

I’ve heard we’ve asked for Hayden Ballantyne thrown into the package.

Weed was horrid in the prelim.

Tyson and Salem were our 2 worst players in the prelim.

The JFK 1 year contract extension more than softens the blow for the impeding Hogan departure.

Brilliant tonight. How good was that set shot in the 3rd when they were coming at us. Would have to go close to getting a vote in the Demoland player of the year, in a final!

Did Yze Magic end up getting drafted? Pretty sure he declared for the 07 or 08 draft?? Hopefully the bloke isn't actually dead.

Given how much of a shambles Freo's foward line, I'd expect Freo to pay up big. Real big. Pick 5 and their second rounder would be a great start.