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Smith great mark - looks our most dangerous forward.

The ball movement after starting well is starting to get a bit of headless chook about it, and Carlton are killing us on the rebound. Langdon can't win a one on one to save himself, and Hunter despite being good tonight isn't much better in that area. Also can't win a centre clearance. Gawn is flagging imo.

Not a fan of Max's centre bounce tap work tonight - he's letting Carlton have first use of the ball. Clarry's up and under kicks are also killing us.

Been one of our best.

Jeez. Perfect quarter basically except for Max letting that centre clearance be taken away by his opposing ruck for a clean entry to de Koning. Spargo really lively.

Disappointing to allow a quick entry out of the centre after Carlton score a goal. Gawn has to lock that in there.

Interesting strategy to give Max a rest - no ruck at all.

Just as good as last week imo, but it's the ball movement getting it in there quicker that is creating these scoring opportunities. Tomlinson huge defensively covering for the aggressive ball movement.

Is there any doubt anymore that Tomlinson is in our best defensive setup? Hope Goody can see it.

That Tomlinson kick to the pack would 100% have been marked by Moore last week. Instead they spoiled each other. Carlton's ability to handle our forward dominance will be heavily tested. 2 goals up early. The start we would have dreamed of.

Ball movement is so so so much better this week.

Salem starting well.

Kosi you [censored]...

This is positive. Viney, Langdon, Lever all involved early. Tomlinson providing a lot of stability. Good start Dees.

I would actually be tickled pink to see the Maynard incident repeat tonight or tomorrow night and see the AFL squirm in the bed they've made. I don't wish injury on anyone but I do wish great misfortune on the AFL.

Can't we take Curnow out? Why do other clubs get to smash our players but we can't "smother" or "knee" theirs?

Where else would you expect a sub to come from? Williamstown?

Makes sense. He's our most versatile remaining player. Better sub than Laurie honestly.

It certainly would be embarrassing, even with the injury reasons. You can smell the whole AFL world wants it to happen as well. The days of pity for the MFC are long gone. We are now hated, and they want us to fail. I suppose that's progress?

He looks like one of those stink flowers that start off pleasant enough only to "blossom" 7 years later into a horrible visage of rotting cow meat and carrion fowl.

Weird they couldn't get Gary Lyon and Daisy Pearce.

Is your kid aware of the infinitely better sequel? I just about died of laughter as a young fella watching the trap scenes in that one.

What a blessed life - green grass to eat, strong legs to stride upon, and no idea about the MFC.

I'm at home tonight as I've come down with a cold and my voice is shot unfortunately. With nothing better to do I've looked at last week's performance from every player and put a rough percentage of improvement we can expect from each (and in a few cases lower performance), and it looks pretty positive. Given we dominated much of the game but couldn't get over the line, the amount of growth in the group looks like we should be able to get the job done. From my very unscientific analysis, the players we're most dependent on improving their performance from last week are Viney, Langdon, Pickett, Lever, and Fritsch. I've got Gawn and Spargo as downgrades from last week's performance (Spargo for van Rooyen, and although I don't rate van Rooyen's game from last week at least he has some height). Will be nice to have James Jordon for the full game as well, a massive improvement on Angus Brayshaw who decided to take a nap after the first ten minutes and gave us nothing (sorry, bad joke).

Um…please win?