Chook

If you're unsure, then you don't trust them. That's OK. I get it.

Yes let's do. I reckon he's leading our B+F (captain excluded because he's the best player in the comp).

Agreed. When a player redeems early mistakes within the same game as ANB did today, you don't drop them.

I think the conservative thing to do is: Wiedeman in, M. Brown out. The high-risk, high-reward thing is: Wiedeman in, M Brown out Ben Brown in, McDonald to wing, Melksham/Spargo out.

OUT: Petty, M. Brown, Melksham IN: Jetta, Wiedeman, B. Brown McDonald to wing, with a defensive mindset if the Tigers get on top, but an attacking mindset if we're controlling the ball.

6. Gawn 5. Langdon 4. McDonald 3. Lever 2. Hibberd 1. Petracca

Pretty simple. Do you?

Oliver's not a team player.

The Melbourne players in the final quarter against the Hawks players:

Leaver leaving his man to take that mark in the middle of the ground was so smart. His man was out of the play, so he left him and took the mark. Langdon you star! Who said you couldn't kick.

After an awful 1st quarter, ANB holds his spot this week you'd think.

Welp, if Brown kicks 4 in the last quarter we might have to fit him in next week too.

BIG MAXXY GOES BOOM!!!!!

Lever, amazing to win that 2 on one marking contest in defence.

Burgoyne had the ball, went to ground, put the ball on the ground, then slapped it away, all with no one tackling him. Isn't that incorrect disposal?

McDonald's argument is he didn't know it was a free, so how can he take advantage.

McDonald is cracking in and playing great. Fighting very hard to retain his spot as my avatar, in spite of Langdon's brilliance.

Didn't Jackson take the mark as well as the free? Pay the mark, and let Jackson go back and kick it. Academic, but we get there in the end.

No way McDonald goes out of the side on this week's performance, even if both those guys come in.

Ed Langdon is just a gem. Carrying us so well today when a lot of others aren't quite wanting to work hard enough. He'll never stop working. Might need to change my avatar soon.

Brown looks like he's stepped out of one of those early 2010's sides. Just nowhere near it.

Keeps his spot no doubt next week. In Jetta, Out Petty.

You feel we'll get there today, but only just. This is simultaneously promising but also deflating. The talent is there, and we're doing some individual brilliancce things that will probably win the day, but the effort isn't always there. Would love to not have our best 3 forwards out. Also, Jonesy I love you but it's time. Get your 300 this year, but not next week. Next week is too important.

Frosty headbut, gentle as it was, is not on. Dog move.

You can see this is clearly a game we'd normally lose, but we've got the talent and the system that can get us over the line even with everything else going wrong. Langdon's run, Lever's calmness, Gawn and Jackson and Pickett. All these guys are giving us a way out when we'd in past years have gotten totally blown off the park.