Chook

Gave us far more today than a hindered Jesse would have. Not sure what we'll do next year. We could play all 3 of McWiedHogan but only if Hogan's roaming far and wide, and potentially not on the G where you need a very fast team.

Reckon he's a lock for the 2019 Demonland banner just quietly.

It' will be Hawthorn/Sydney (loser of) if we lose vs GWS, or else Geelong. If pigs fly and Freo defeats Collingwood, a win will see us make 4th spot and play Richmond.

You'd think they'd want to show SOMETHING after this week on their home deck in the last game of the year.

Stuff this club I'm burning my membership we never change pathetic panickers …Said no one. And it was a happy day at Demonland.

Win and I like it. Lose and it's the worst thing ever.

Everyone's talking about worst-case scenarios, making the eight, top four, even getting to second…but I'll go you one better. For your consideration, I humbly present… The Dream Ladder (Melbourne wins every game, and every underdog wins)

FOOTY FANS: "The fixture is compromised. The top 8 doesn't represent teams fairly." ALSO FOOTY FANS: "Team X hasn't beat a team in the 8 yet! They obviously suck."

Too bad he can't kick.

Just did a ladder, so it's official: Win 0 and we're 11th Win 1 and we're 7th Win 2 and we're 4th Win 3 and we're 2nd …massive stakes with every win.

So what you're telling me is that this is pretty much the best Melbourne team of all time?

Pathetic.

What are you talking about? You want to go pick up Barry Hall as well?

I don't want that f log anywhere near my footy club.

I think we can account for Sydney even without them. It's all about the West Coast game for me. With what this club has been through last year, that game looms as the biggest for this club in forever (yes, even bigger than the R23 Collingwood game last year). Won there last year. Didn't make finals. To go back again and secure a spot in this year's finals after they knocked us out, with them firmly in the top four, would be our official return from the Wilderness. And it goes without saying that Viney and Hibberd are crucial to that.

Massive if true. His absence makes them a truly ordinary team and was a major reason why we won last year.

Clueless (you not Nibbler).

Some are born coaches. Some achieve coaching, and some have coachness thrust upon them.

He was also our lab experiment. Idiotic on all sides. The past is the past though (thank god) so we'll just keep on moving.

We would be the fastest swimmers in the league but still somehow be beaten at the last stroke.

Well I think you're wrong. We have Buckley's chance against West Coast with our backline and their ridiculous marking targets in their forward line. Imagine 2 Tom Hawkins running riot all game. That's how I picture our WCE game going.

You know what every international person who watches AFL loves…that it looks like it has no rules. That is this game's greatest strength, and the AFL is systematically destroying that perception and replacing it with a rulebook longer than your arm. If anything they need to reduce how many rules there are.

You're usually right with predicting Melbourne won't make the finals? You must be Nostradamus.

I like this, It means my chances of getting onto an AFL list go up. Never mind I'm in my late 20s and have no footballing ability aside from being a pest of a small defender.