JTR

Thanks! (and my apologies for questioning then @Dannyz )

Positive thinking, or in-the-know fact?

For all our track & Casey watchers, how has he actually been going? I saw him play live in each of our practise matches, but he looked more like he was finding he feet in those games rather than banging down the door for selection. Any insight appreciated.

Wasn't it Adrian Anderson who was arguing against us all those years ago for the Trengove sling on Dangerfield? He gets us both ways 😭

For those not following...

Rolling live blog here: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/melbourne-demons/afl-2024-kysaiah-pickett-tribunal-live-updates-blog-kozzie-pickett-bump-on-jake-soligo-in-melbourne-vs-adelaide-video/news-story/6c6dcfd72100dc3a736379137bfb30ef Most recent three updates...

I hope the tribunal pay more attention to the actual vision, which shows both players heading in the same (not opposite) direction and towards the ball. If you hadn't seen the incident and were just looking at the still pictures above (like most of the 'expert' armchair commentators out there), it looks like Kossie is jumping into Soligo and putting his elbow right though his head, which didnt happen.

What a little champ! ❤️💙

The optics of challenging the suspension is the problem in my view, as words to the effect of the above are exactly what the Filth used in their defense of Maynard. We all strongly disagreed with that at the time. To come out now and argue the opposite wouldnt be a good look.

I'm not the guy in the pic but I was also at game in my Melbourne gear, cheering the Saints on. Collingwood fans are hilarious and I'm convinced half have no idea what they are watching. Also particularly enjoyed when they went the early crow not once but twice with their stupid chant, only for half on them to be on their way out the door a few Saints goals later. Re Higgins' goal... looks in to me! 😎

It's happened often, most notably for me being after the KB last year, where he had a great game. Following week we had the bye, then week after that he was omitted for Petty.

Sorry it's already been said. I'm too grumpy to go through a thread that will no doubt make me grumpier. Unrelated to the game itself, but I am calling absolute shenanigans on the 40,000 crowd figure. The place holds 48,000 when full and it was clear on the TV for the entirety of the game that there were empty blue seats everywhere. As a comparison, the Buddy 1,000 goals game only had 36,000 and that night it looked packed. Are the powers that be so desperate for this opening round "northern states invasion" [censored] to be seen as a success that they'd artificially bump the crowd number?

Same as last year really, where we went in with Hunter and first gamers McVee & Laurie

Devils & Demons. Has to be a Good Friday game, surely? 😉

Pittonet running around the field at half time with one of the coaches. Assume he is done for the day?

@kev martin @binman (and anyone else who was unable to get a ticket yesterday)... it looks like things are ok now as I just tried again and got my ticket 👍

I hope its not. I didnt bother upgrading as figured it'd be fine to just turn up and scan in. Tonights game between the Filth and the Tigers had heaps of empty seats, so surely we wouldn't get a much bigger crowd than that tomorrow..... right? 😱

It's here: https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1496670/aami-community-series-team-confirmed (scroll down)

I appreciate your first post here being used to give such excellent advise - thanks! 👍

Never been to IKON before. What is the parking situation there? Just find something on the street nearby, or do they open up one of the nearby fields?

Brayden "I went to make a footy act" Maynard, can barely talk

Welcome to Demonland 🤣

That's him yep (#35). Looked just like Tapscott, only shorter! Looking at the line-up, I think #33 was most probably Cooper Macdonald. Like the look of him.

Who was the #33 ? And the short/chunky #35 ? Obviously not Fullarton or Petty, but they looked handy. Especially #33.

I'm the NZ'er from the other thread who moved to Melbourne in mid-1999 and settled on Melbourne as my team a few weeks into the following season. My partner (now wife) was initially thrilled that I had come from a country that knew nothing about AFL and was hopeful that I wouldn't become obsessed with the game, get a membership, put stickers on my car and either watch games on TV all weekend or go to see them live. Long story short, after realising there was absolutely zero chance of me not going full AFL-nerd, she took me along to see the round 3 game between Collingwood v Carlton, figuring that'd be a good introduction to live AFL. My lasting memory of it was how loud and involved the crowd was throughout the game, which is something I'd never experienced before at live sport events in NZ (rugby, league or cricket). (Sav Rocca monstering the Carlton backline and kicking 6 almost got me over the line as a filth supporter too, but the less said about that the better... 🤢🤢🤮) Needless to say, that game got me hooked on watching AFL live and wanting to see more. We had to go away for a while after that, so my first Melbourne game (by which point I had finally settled on the Dees as my team) wasnt until a couple months later in round 14, also vs Collingwood, where the Wiz kicked 9 and we smashed them by 65 points. I've barely missed a Dees game in Melbourne since! 😎