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If I recall my last visit to Optus Stadium, that was the only positive that came out of it. $900 to get drunk, get a Max Gawn cookie, and watch the end of what was really a very good thing while it lasted.

If we move Hunt to the backline, I will legit chuck a fit. He is our best forward this year by far.

Confession: I turned the game off in disgust after that last Gold Coast goal with 49 seconds left. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would come back to Demonland 30 minutes later and find out we won. Half an hour after we lost(!), I rewind the game and watch the miracle on grass. Unbelievable. We are fated to make the finals this year. Or not, but that was an incredible 60 seconds of footy to watch all the same.

I like them both. Hore seems like a good fit for our eventual best backline.

Hunt out of full forward looks very very good to me.

Just get good deliverers inside 50 and a proper forward coach to teach effective leading patterns and we'll be fine…well, fine enough to beat GCS.

King suggesting playing Salem in our half-forward line. FFS that is the first smart thing the bloke has ever said.

Structurally we're finally doing what we should be. Playing a bit more conservative because of our terrible defence. Melksham and Hibberd clear #1 and #2 for us so far today.

If we somehow got into finals this year, we would not have limped in.

Good question. Might get Saty to ask Frosty this week when he goes to visit MFC training.

That's culturally insensitive. Perhaps he is indigenous and this is literally his Dreaming.

I think you'll find that it was actually Oscar McDonald who did that.

It's locked up in the same vault as that infamous performance review commissioned by Cameron Schwab.

Melbourne's season in one picture: But seriously, my god put him on a grapefruit diet before you try this again. It's quackery but at least it'll make him lose weight rather than die.

This season:

Loving Garlett's creativity tonight. Doesn't get it a lot, but really opens things up when he does. 2 goal assists already.

What did that Melbourne player do when he caught the ball inside our forward 50? I forgot we were allowed to do that.

I rewatched the Bulldogs-Essendon 2000 game this morning and the quality of footy and commentary in that game just leaves the modern game for dead. The AFL needs to go back to that.

As an expert once said... "Sometimes maybe good. Sometimes maybe sheet."

Swap Jones with Goodwin. Win-win IMO. Jones can't coach, which means the players will play naturally. Goodwin's probably still faster than Nathan, so we gain an extra runner (and on-field coach, aka a "captain"). It could catch on….

Hope the players run through a banner of that next week.

ANB I will continue to defend, but Oscar is one of the worst defenders I have ever seen. I would literally prefer Zac Dawson over that bloke.

Glad I swapped my tip to the dons last minute. I will be tipping against the Demons ardently forever until convinced otherwise. My lord, it's like the Melbourne Footy Club died that day last year at Optus Stadium. RIP my team.

We're terrible. That's a fact. But the Hunt/Kolojfjndfdgbh combo is interesting to me. I want to see more of it.

If Trac ever plays a better quarter than the one he played against the Pies when we beat them in the Jack Watts redemption game, I hope it's not tonight. But yes, Trac is playing ok.