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Just fourteen points down. At least we’re not totally blown out. Need to not concede another this quarter, and lock their run down for the rest of the day. Please can our mids do something?

This is where we’ll see (again) how poor a match day coach Paul Roos is. Watch him do nothing all day, expecting something to change.

Yeah. Apparently we’ve “improved”.

This is just f*cking embarrassing. It’s North Melbourne, not bloody Brisbane. Play on your man, Dees. Give them some respect.

I actually like our running game that we’re developing, but we need to be able to dispose of the ball better by hand for this to work. No more hospital bandpasses please!!!

Jack Watts has been on media street this week, and is playing appropriately poorly as a result.

Lynden Dunn really needs help. Brown is too tall, so we need players to drop back into his space. But more importantly, we need to not let them get the ball out of the middle so quick.

At least our jumper is ok. Dawes kicks a goal (hard to believe), and we’re officially settled again. We just need to stay competitive this quarter. Previous Melbourne sides would be 30 points down at quarter time. We can’t let that happen. Also, Ronald McDonald hairdo or not, Ben Brown is one of the best forwards in the comp.

Kicking the ball to Matt Jones should be considered a turnover.

We are just North Melbourne’s absolute b*tches. Way to give up two utterly embarrassing goals, Dees—as if the job wasn’t already hard enough.

Dark blue shorts, home jumper—blood red and navy blue. God our guernsey looks good. How could you not support Melbourne?

Lightweight.

It’s pronounced moldy-kulchuralizm

I think Newton has acquitted himself well.

Wow. I’m just drawing a parallel between WC boos and what’s been going on recently. I could do with Jon Stewart's pay packet though.

Is Adam Goodes playing in that match too? He really is a great of the game.

Joel Selwood just got the softest high free kick in human history. Can we please change this rule to only include tackles that actually touch the head or neck? The shoulder is not a sensitive area.

Cripps should be in the conversation, but only to say: “Cripps would win any other year, but Jesse Hogan is a once in a generation forward, so…."

I’d rather Geelong make the Finals than Sydney make the Top Four.

Uhh! Uhh!

Thoroughly Melbournised, is my medical opinion. Incurable.

Showing your age there, WYL.

So what’s the story with no clash strip in the Collingwood v Carlton game? Oh, I think I know.

I mute my TV and buy some booze. Other than that, no rituals for me.

Collingwood’s disposal wasn’t that great last week. Other than that, their problems are structural and personnel based. Cloke is a massive out. I don’t think many middle-of-the-road clubs (like the Pies) could deal with that kind of loss and still keep winning. But I bet one day we’ll win the flag and our GF opponent will say. “When you don’t bother to turn up, then you lose to a team like Melbourne, simple as that.” We’ll never get credit.