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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.

How was that kick from Petracca. This move into the forward line seems to have rejuvenated him a bit, he's so much more dynamic.

Uneducated post. Melksham could have had 3 goals.

Gawn looked to start tiring through the last 5 minutes of the quarter, which led to a lot of Lions scoring opportunities from clearance, including that one.

Ripper tackle and goal Pickett! By the way, Lever's cleanliness collecting dirty ground balls has gone up a level this year, and is really impressive for a guy who used to worry me with the ball on the ground.

We're giving them a few looks due to bad disposal, and they're making us pay on turnover.

How was that ruck and rove work from Roo and Viney! We're destroying them in that area with Gawn and Roo.

Melksham's giving away a lot of frees, but he's been in a lot of contests, which is a good sign.