Chook

I reckon Rutten is cut from the Goodwin cloth but Essendon is about 35 years behind Melbourne in its realization of where they are, what the competition is these days, and what they need to do to be successful again. It took Melbourne a very long time to understand it doesn't just "happen", and Essendon are in the same boat now (and have been for the last 20 years). Long may it continue - happy to see them stuck in the Essendon equivalent of Melbourne circa the mid-80s forever.

The Dangerfest at the cattery is on - time to head to the bottle-o.

He was just about their best player I thought.

Bradshaw yakking about the treatment of Zorko by Melbourne but not wanting to go near Zorko’s two headlocks and some clearly not right sledging. Total misread by him.

Jess 2 late soft goals could come back to bite us.

This is a sackable captains performance from Zorko

This could be soul crushing for the lions and I’m here for it.

We are kryptonite for the lions gameplan

Kicking them from everywhere we are. Benny Brown with the snap.

Kosi.

How was there that much space in our backline?

Surely not with a home qually on the line.

I think there is another gear after all. Now can we keep ourselves in this gear all game?

Lions are so rattled.

Kicking quickly to Ben Brown on a lead is still a thing. Who knew?

Unbelievable start. Oh how I want to see you all in a qualifying final at the G in a couple of weeks.

Where has this Jake Melksham been?

Perfect start.

Hook that Max Gawn highlights package to my veins.

The smart move definitely would have been for all of us to quit while we were ahead and just stop caring about footy after the boys got up last year.

I remember port going to town on our game plan earlier this year and forgetting how to play football because they were so spooked.

Surely not. Worst case just plonk him in the goal square and give the reigns to Jackson.

Absolute tosh. Montagna was the first media person last year who I heard espouse Melbourne's shot at the flag as being anything other than a pipedream.

I'd love for the ladder to be each team's best performance against each other team for the year. So if Melbourne beats Brisbane by 100-60 then a performance of 100-59 in the return game would mean the Demons percentage would be taken from the 100-59 result and the 100-60 result would be the the Lions' percentage. Extend that to if the Lions beat Melbourne in game 2, then the Lions get the points and percentage from game 2, but Melbourne gets the points and percentage from game 1. It's probably open to manipulation though, as if you smack a side in the first game there's no incentive to try in the return game. EDIT: Though it's probably always best to beat your opponent so they can't claim premiership points from either result. It would give the media a boatload to talk about in the return games as well. The biggest plus to the above is if you beat a cellar dweller twice, the most you can gain is 4 premiership points, just like a team who only plays them once.

Absolutely. I'm rapt for that last 60 seconds but there is no way this forward line in this team wins a flag this year.