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Shuey off already. Hamstring again? Poor lad but also lol west coast... EDIT: Confirmed hammy.

The existence of a stuffed fixture and teams like North and West Coast are why I think a judicious wild card round might actually be a good thing. It would stop teams with a soft draw sliding into 8th based on clubbing an ammo-level side.

The Eagles are firmly within the 190 band right now. Here's hoping

Charlston Curnow with 3 in 10 minutes. Look out!

Harmes playing well too. I love his link up play, though I reckon Woewodin might have stolen his spot.

Excellent work by Grundy. Crashes a pack at CHF and roves his own work, then a quick dish off ending up with the Shack directly in front. That's his bag. If he can break packs and follow up quickly it's the best of both worlds for him.

You can go ahead and put a red line through your furrowed brow now mate!

Bontempelli carries this dogs team like no other. Case in point: Bont wins a 50/50 ball in the backline, kicks 50 metres to a contest at CHF. After 10 seconds of his much less skilful teammate buying time managing to hold the ball up long enough for Bont to get there, Bont collects the ball and speeds away blasting it from outside 50 and missing. It's like a primary school football game with Bont as the one good player in a sea of kids who have been told to just "get it to Bont"

Who podcasts the podcasters?

A poster on the forum a few weeks back said Tommo's cards were marked due to his bad attitude after being dropped after the Pies game. That would be another explanation.

Geelong's bigger bodies are absolute kryptonite for Essendon's smaller mids. It looks like men vs boys.

With Port losing handily today, Melbourne's 17 game winning streak from round 20 of 2021 to round 10 of 2022 remains the longest since St Kilda won 19 in a row in 2009.

For those who think Brisbane played better for longer, it was an almost perfect split of dominance. I say almost because guess who was slightly more dominant (by one point 😎):

Jack Viney to Oscar McInerney:

Holy hell.

Glad to see the negative trolls are back after losing that quarter.

I think we're playing into the Lions' hands here. They're basically just sweating on our turnovers and killing us on the rebound. The onus is on Melbourne to get possession and then keep possession. Fail to do that under the Lions' pressure in the 2nd half and we'll lose.

Coleman is killing us. Put Pickett on him.

We're living and dying on ANB's disposal right now. He's in everything, and everything he does turns to a goal for Melbourne or the Lions.

This will be a smashing if we can't stop turning it over and losing clearances. That's why we got in front - winning clearances and crisp disposal.

The Lions rebound is really scaring me. I think if we're unable to curtail it we'll get overwhelmed in the end.

It's coming apart at the seams a bit here. I'd like us to slow the game down a little.

ANB is nearly best on ground I'd say. Been very influential.

Terrible kick from Spargo, turnover goal. If he's not kicking well, he shouldn't be in the side.

McVee's run was devastating there.