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Great kick from Oliver. That's how you do it young fella.

Things not going our way right now. Can't win a ball and now Viney looks hurt.

According to BigFooty it's because he's torched his reputation forever. I have a feeling he's regretting having dived.

Why would he dive? It was after the siren, so there's no free kick. All he'd be doing is making himself look like a dill.

Helluva half of footy. So the umpires have no way to pay a free in that situation? Surely it's a free from the centre at the start of the next quarter. That rule would stop a lot of those half-time "meleés".

Yup. Immense.

Oliver's handballs are lacking that wizardry we're used to. He's just a little off.

Spud Petrie is definitely the best forward in the AFL...against Melbourne.

Getting right on top here now. Love it. Need to capitalise.

That was Viney's goal. His pressure even when he couldn't lay a tackle caused the turnover. This kid captain is playing one of the great midfield games I've seen from a Melbourne player in recent years.

Hannan is just the best. Never misses those. Sticking with them despite everything. This is exactly the opposite of last year's match against the Eagles, where we dominated play but kept missing.

Not sure about that htb decision against Frost there. He was making all the play.

Massive goal there. I know people will be quick to criticise Salem there, but he was trying to get the ball moving quick, which is how we'll win this game.

Against this West Coast team? Yeah nah.

Any Melbourne supporter that actually has memories of Pedersen playing for North definitely watches entirely too many North Melbourne games for my liking.

Lucky to be in front, but there are signs that we can go on and win this. Jack Viney obviously was a terrible choice for co-captain what were they thinking there. Needs a bit more support in the midfield though. Gawn being back is massive for us, but his limited time on ground is telling. Stretch another good addition.

Dumb blind kick there from Trac. I hate those blind kicks out of the pack deep in the defensive 50. Who knows who's gonna get it?

Garlett is being well held. We need to free him up or we won't be able to win I don't reckon.

Viney's on absolute fire.

Petrie is a bloody spud how can we keep letting this bloke rip us to pieces?

Captain's goal. I love this club. In previous years we'd be down by 30 already. Instead we're up by 2 goals.

I'm a genius!

We need to get the ball in Jayden Hunt and Sam Frost's hands so they can break the lines. This kicking to contests stuff is killing us.

Third man up. He wasn't the nominated ruck apparently.

West Coast's marking power is going to be very difficult for us to deal with tonight.