Chook

Same shite different week.

You can actually see the fear spread through the Melbourne players when the game stops being played completely on our terms.

We've done this against Hawthorn and Sydney this year for 2 horrific losses. I'm not confident at all based on how the last 10 minutes of that quarter went. Love the endeavour, hate the lack of composure and [censored]-poor defensive transition running

Total 1st quarter domination, 8 scoring shots to 3. Pretty much the tale of last week's first quarter too. This game is NOT over.

The life of a Melbourne supporter. Total domination for a quarter. 4 goals. 3 minutes of good footy by the opposition and they're basically equal again.

The withering patch of footy has passed now. We have to maintain this strangle now and stop the cheap ones.

I don't know if it's the boos but I think we're getting a good run with the umps. Not that we're getting calls but that the game is being allowed to flow. Dare I say it…like a final.

Don't lairise Melbourne. You're playing a good side here. We have to be smart with out ball use and not just go a million miles an hour all the time.

This is reminding me a lot of the game against Adelaide up in the Alice. Our best performance this year, and we're doing it again here.

Just breathe dees fans. Just breathe. A lot of game to go. All signs good right now.

Lucky there's no such thing as umpire bias ?

If North makes the finals, we're 9th. And we will have beaten a team in the 8. If we makes the finals, North's 9th. And we will have not beaten a team in the 8. I know which I'd prefer.

Guys on the goal-line stopping knee-high scrubbed goals out of packs really do it for me even more than that. Fair to say I loved Jimmy Bartel play.

Does it sound like I think it's much of an achievement?

Adelaide wins tomorrow and Essendon wins Friday night next week and we'll be set in the 8 without winning a match. So we have that at least…

Love watching Sydney play. Every dumb thing my team does that has me pulling my hair out…Sydney don't do. It's nice to watch a smart team that gets back off the mark quickly, has a guy on the goal-line at all times to stop easy out-the-back goals, and actually delivers the ball inside 50 with some semblance of forethought and strategy.

Their entire team would need to die in a plane crash for us to have a chance…and still they'd kick about 10 goals out the back of our ridiculously high press.

Is there any other kind of pigsty?

I hate Geelong. Beating up on teams at their pigstie of of a stadium.

Woulda been nice to pip the cats at the same ground they beat another team by 130+ points.

Actually we're atomic machines that feel we think.

Freo players must wish they were there.

Free will have to be 40 points up at 3-quarter time before i'll give them a chance at that pigstie.

The "Port Collapses" theory has been Melbourne's best chance of finals for a while now, and the dream is still alive #BradburyPlan

It’s struck us for 53 years in a row. What’s another week?