Bring-Back-Powell

He copped a week in rd 18 last year ( v nth) so will cop a lengthy holiday. Suspensions [censored] me. It's hard enough to avoid injuries.

Can we win a quarter, for the first time this year?

After declaring Watts, Trengove, Scully, Morton and Toumpas as the next big things in AFL, I'm putting a lid on this one.

Judging by how bad our defence has been this year I expect Setanta O'hailpin and Cameron to kick 12 goals between them tomorrow.

I travelled up to last years win in Canberra, and it was the first time I ever left a game angry after a win. Was a poor performance and we put the cue in the rack at the 10 minute of the last qtr. That being said, I'll take a win of any proportion this week. I'm confident this week, but I have no right to be.

2 nice set shot goals from Trengove on the weekend pleased me. Would love for him to become a 2 goal 25 possession a week player.

I LOL'd.

I reckon setanta o'hailpin will return and destroy Garland. That being said I think we'll fall over the line with a 6 point win, after GWS make a late charge.

I can't bear the thought of the crowd number on the Mother's Day twilight game v's Gold Coast...if we're 0-6. I reckon they'll be lucky to get 15 v GWS. There was a good number of west coast fans that jacked the number to 18k.

I will spew if we trade Watts for a draft pick. Must be a quality player or no trade can be arranged. I would seriously entertain trading our first pick this year for a quality player. I know Mark LeCras is out of contract and I would make him a priority. I think Dal Santo and Harry Taylor are out of contract as well.

After all the garbage that's been served up, after a percentage of 35, after all the criticism and insults fired from the media, we are actually favourites to win over GWS. I honestly can't believe it. Melbourne $1.58 GWS $2.35 I guess this puts even more pressure on Neeld.

I feel sick in the guts we overlooked this future champion. Already playing like an a grader in game 3, a Showdown. The drafting blunders continue at this club..

I hate it. On Saturday nights I always watch the Foxtel game live and iq/record the channel 7 game so I can watch straight after without knowing the result. I hope Foxtel stops it. Can't we just use our smart phones if we want to know the score.

Nobody could sneak Garland or Frawley in, despite leaking about 13 goals between them

My tip for selection: In- Pederson, Bail, Gawn, Tapscott, McKenzie Out- Gillies, Toumpas, Rodan, Sellar, Byrnes

To Caro's credit, she's gone hard on Essendon and demanded coach, CEO and president be sacked. Fatprick Smith has also gone hard IIRC.

I'll be in a state of shock if we can manage to kick more than 2 goals in the 2nd half.

I though last year that if Watts got dropped for a 3rd year in a row, then his time at the MFC is over. A number 1 draft pick should not be dropped 3 years in a row by his 5th season. That being said I hope he doesn't get dropped this week. Make him redeem himself. Play him on the wing, half fwd flank and full forward.

Typical- Kerr and Le Cras come back this week. I'm tipping something worse than the port game but not as bad as the Essendon game - 113 point margin. Neeld will have one last chance to get the boys up v's GWS.

Any chance Byrnes might be able to make a small contribution this week?

Agree. From round 2 2010 (loss to Collingwood by 1 pt) to round 17 2011 (win over Port in Darwin) we were actually a half decent side. Remember we were in the 8 after beating Richmond in round 15 2011. Then the wheels have totally fallen off since 186 and we haven't recovered.

As someome else mentioned, if Wines played for Melbourn on Sunday, he probably would've struggled and got about 8 possessions and 5 clangers. Meanwhile if Toumpas was in a Port jumper, he probably would've kicked 3 goals and set up 5 others.

Strangely enough under Riley, we were not too horrible. 3 of their 5 wins were under him, and just lost to Collingwood who were top 4 that year.

Jade Rawlings as care taker. Go for Mark Thompson if he still has any hunger left.

"I want us to be the hardest team to play against" -Mark Neeld, sep 2011 Right now we're the [censored] easiest team to play against.