Bring-Back-Powell

One more game at the MCG One less interstate trip One less game at Etihad A marquee Friday night game Double up games against St. Kilda, Bulldogs and GWS No travel between rounds 15 to 22. And you guys still think it's the end of the world. Stop thinking about the calculator and balance sheet for one second and realise from a footballing point of view it's actually not too bad. Leave PJ to worry about the commercial side.

More news. NT games revealed. Round 9 or 10 - V's Port. Alice Springs. Round 14 - v's West Coast

Another marquee game: Round 6: Saturday night pink lady game, Mother's Day eve. Melbourne v probably Sydney on free to air.

3aw reporting Blease a 1 year contract with Geelong.

Out of the 6 games that aren't televised, surprisingly the powerhouses of North, St Kilda, Dogs and us are involved.I much prefer playing Essendon as our lead in game as opposed to hawthorn this year when we lost by 100 points!

Post of the millennium

Did the physio mention how Gazza's recovery is going? Is he any doubt for round 1?

I'd give Prendegast a tick for getting Howe at 35ish.

Going the early crow: Garlett 53 goals and All Australian forward pocket. The only question is will it be the left or right pocket?

If he's leaving for midfield opportunities, wouldn't we be his first destination of choice? Pretty sure he'd get a game with us before he would with Geelong.

Yeah I see where your coming from.It's just that there seems to be bugger all melbourne supporters at some away games at the G.

If it were our home game we'd have a heap more melbourne supporters turn up.

Round 7 2012 v hawks. Lost by 10 goals. Banned from Friday night footy after that.Some washed up hack call Clark kicked 3 by qtr time.

Fully appreciate this, and yes we don't deserve it.It's just a bit funny that Richmond, the bigger club, must automatically be the home team and get the gate takings for the first encounter.

Sadly the hawthorn game was not in our bottom 8 performances of the year. There were plenty worse.

Ofcourse Richmond get the home game and gate proceeds.

Yes that's great news about Anzac day eve but would be nice if we were to host it. That's 50,000 of gate proceeds going all to Richmond. Beggers can't be choosers...

Is it just me or did Evans get re-signed on the back of 3 junk time goals against GWS in 2013? I can't fathom any other reason as he's shown nothing much else.

If it turns out Jones left because we cheaped out on the contract offer as opposed to him chasing success, then the club would've officially reached its lowest ebb in terms of stupidity and incompetence.

Tappscott must be hanging by a thread. Clearly Roos rates him higher than Blease and Strauss.

He didn't fly under my radar.I thought he had a poor year and didn't do much to validate the hype that sorrounded his arrival in 2012-2013. Expecting or at least hoping he has a better 2015.

Could never work out why Hunt was drafted onto the senior list while Harmes was rookied, considering Hunt was more of the project player.

Surely GC will go into the game as favourites. Every other round 1 since 2012 we've gone in favourites and had our pants pulled down. Will be nice to go into the game with low expectation .

Round 1 V's Gold Coast. Saturday afternoon at the G. Traditional time. Warm autumn day. What's not to like? And unlike 2012, 2013 and 2014 when we went into round 1 as favourites, we'll actually go in underdogs and with no expectation.

Yeah given that we haven't travelled in round 1 since 1998 (loss to Freo) we're probably due. Would either be against Freo or Adelaide.It's confirmed that Adelaide will be hosting a game in round 1.