Chook

PAUL ROOS SAYS: "Encouraging ball movement, good around contest. Get it in there, bring the ball to ground, win." Pretty simple.

Matt Jones is helping our midfield so much. Not only do we now have a good player in Matt Jones, we no longer need to carry a liability that was Matt Jones c2015.

Killer goal from Kennedy, but the Giants are much better than us at getting numbers from attack to defence. Their forwardline is always open, ours is not.

Jack Watts is signalling his intent this year. I like it.

Bernie Vince gets a high free directly in front and kicks a much needed goal. 6 v 13

We're doing great out of the centre clearances. Not really anywhere else though.

GWS is probably going to kill us on the rebound a lot today.

I predict wrist-slitting by quarter time followed by premierships ten minutes into the third quarter followed by burnt memberships at full-time.

Nice. I guess I don't remember who we were playing as well as I thought I did. That's not relevant right....? In my defence, we played Brisbane in round 1 of 2012, not 2013.

I particularly remember Jack's debut game against Brisbane in Round 1 2013. On a day when everyone's hopes and dreams lay shattered by quarter time, Jack was the only one who looked like he could help pick up the pieces and glue us back together again. It's a big burden to bear, but he's tough enough.

And true to form, I'm now wrong about being wrong.

Every year I pick a team to win this round one clash, and every year I'm wrong.

If only. Maybe only one of them would have ended up a sook.

Funny to see that. I posted it on YouTube like 3 years ago. I guess classics never get old.

It's not strange. It's the FIXture.

Let's just say you're due to be wrong then.

Even after all these years, James McDonald is still being mentioned as an influence on the club. Boy was giving him the boot a mistake or what.

And for god's sake kick the bloody thing!!!

I don't want a dynasty. I just want 1 premiership and then obscurity for the next ten years. Is that too much to ask?

I wonder if all this good news is because we've actually exhausted the Universe's supply of bad luck over the past nine years.

Winning today and going into Round 1 on a four-match winning streak would be soooo sweet.

The quote button is unlike the like button.

So this is now 28 consecutive weeks undefeated for the Dees! The flag must surely be a lock now.

I'd try to be a little more subtle about things. How about: "Melbourne...it's in the blood."

That particular itch is not one that I badly need to scratch. Roos is unbelievably dull in the Media.