YearOfTheDees

MELBOURNE defender Christian Salem has been fined for striking Collingwood forward Harvey Harrison during the King's Birthday blockbuster. Salem can accept a $3,000 sanction with an early plea for striking Harrison, with the incident graded as careless conduct, medium impact and body contact.

They were very confident before the game including the tool who put the $91000 on the pies to win just before the first bounce.

One thing I noticed if you hit them they stay down. Lot of teams are going to notice that.

We got A for A Win Pies got C for Close but not good enough.

One of the first times I have really noticed the Melbourne faithful at a game. We out chanted out cheered and covered their attempts to boo. Only wish we had got the extra 15,000 there on the day. Well done fans and very well done team. And I have said this before but well done Melbourne Football Club and The Demon Army in the Fed Square before the game.

How do they break down, I cant work it out. ok ive got it now.

It's Cox the Umpires are still taking care of Ginnivan for us.

Cox is becoming a very unlikable footballer. All the publicity he is getting is going to his head.

Player have four days off to refresh themselves.

I can name a lot of coaches who have been the same until the tide turns. Let's see how he handle things when/if his team starts losing a few in a row.

Strange because I thought it was ANB best game for some time. The connection was there for the whole team yesterday just the finishing in the forward line was missing.

The first quarter when the Pie fans started to boo Grundy and the Dee fans took over was brilliant.

What was the crowd size. Appeared to be rows of empty seats in places.

Could not find a poor player today. Everyone played their part. And we know we could have won by a lot more.

Safe to say we should be 8 goals 3 Points and not the other way around.

The ump told him to move and he just stood there.

So Lever had a fifty paid for being to close to the mark a few weeks back. Has that rule been changed

Can see me one explain the stand rule to me. Are you allowed to move or not

Lots of holes up in the top decks.

AFL site says pies make late change but don't tell you who. Take it is the ducker. So pies no duck no dinner.

This is going to be my biggest ever crowd at a game. Might even break the boxing day crowds I saw from years gone by.

Pies are out on the ground so I'm going into hankie alert mode. Keep my eyes out to see if any Strepsils are passed around as well.

Did you do the walk to the G. Nothing but red and blue as far as you can see.

Anyone looking for a pre game laugh pop on twitter and search for that club that lost just night. They have a post about their shop being closed today. Some of the comments are gold.

In the Demon seat Membership area and a few pie jumpers around me.