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He was set to smack the ump. Good judgment got in the way.

Did a gut tip-change to Geelong just before this game. Looks like I made a good call.

Not sure, but I think most youths' alcohol awareness is quite high. They know it's there alright.

AFL wants play that flows quick…makes players all-but sign a contract to play ruckman at a stoppage. BT's all over it.

Well that's just killed my bone right there.

Not a fan of Tom's eh?

Wilkes-Maester's career was cruelled by not by injury but by how he'd only get to play Melbourne just twice a year.

Jack Viney is more than what he does onfield. He seems to lift us to another plane through sheer will alone. His teammates play with 25% more spunk when he's out there.

This is one that I've been on and on about for years. It just makes no sense that a bloke can come in and wrap me up as I've tackled his teammate. Pay a free to me for being held without it.

Your dumb and so is your nickname.

Not sure Goodwin has a right to tell Trac to kill his dogs though.

The best Melbourne side I've seen since 2006. Goodwin should go back and have a look at those tapes to see what we did so well back then. To me it boils down to: Viney lead like a bull, McDonald gave a huge bullseye to aim at, Pedo was on fire, and Bugg did Bugg things (I don't know why, but he made us hard to stop in that month).

From round 1 I thought "We'll have to just see how we go till McDonald and Viney come back." Win this week and get our chief back while at 4-3 would be huge. With Viney back we go up a gear due to more than just his skill. He makes his teammates walk 10 foot tall, so to get him back while still ahead on win-loss would be huge for us and would set us up for a big year.

It'll be good when Trac comes back in too. One more to switch through mid and up front.

6 Melksham 5 Gawn 4 Fritsch 3 Spargo 2 Jetta 1 Hibberd

"Go hard for your teammates and your jumper." — Paul Spargo

Notice how Spargo gave the Essendon bloke a shove and tapped Fritsch on the bum…like a normal footy player would do. Little team stuff can build you up so quick.

We've got our mojo back now.

That pass from Melksham was a bullet.

WTF scores are level. We suck but make no mistake, Essendon are taking it right up to us on that front.

Spargo goes up to Jonesy to get around him at half-time. Jones half-heartedly slaps his hand but doesn't even look at him. No encouragement, no eye contact. Nothing.

Oh look, a quick one out the back.

But we all know that's not bad luck but a sign of our crap gameplan.

Gawn would be a good one to go to for us…if he could kick.

Goodwin's gameplan seems to be: Crap inside 50 crap inside 50 crap inside 50, opponent rebounds, easy goal, rinse repeat.