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Early days is the key here. His start with the Dees has been no worse than what it was for Steven May. Adding Hayward alongside Fritsch and Pickett sounds familiar... Gunston, Bruest and Rioli...

Woewodin in for Kozzy Hunter sub No other changes unless forced by injury

If Brisbane play like they did on the weekend, we should win easily. From the bits I watched, Hipwood and Cameron are still out of form and Daniher mostly got his goals from easy opportunities. I'm glad we have a bye after this, if we can a win it's a perfect time to give our sore boys a rest. Hopefully we have VFL in the bye week?

Unfortunately winter is arriving in Melbourne, rain forecast every day for the next week, including Thursday. Hopefully not around that night. I'm very interested to see how Brisbane go today against a lowly slide...

Watching the goals replay... our third goal from Trac, all came from a fantastic flying smother by Sparrow. Watch every player get to Sparrow after the goal, almost to the point of ignoring Trac, the praise is all for Spaz. Great to see... absolutely some shades of 2021 in this team...

Can't defend Kozzy for this at all. Anyone making excuses has their MFC glasses on. He raised his elbow and was clearly trying to make Soligo feel it. It was a dumb choice, he will get weeks, and he deserves weeks. In his time off he need to do some work on the mental side of his game.

Some really stupid play is keeping Adelaide in this.

Windsor is so good, he improves every single game, it's crazy.

Billings was no good at St Kilda. His career survived on being a high draft pick and playing one good game every 5-6 weeks. Exact same player showing up at Melbourne. He's just warming the spot for McAdam.

19 inside 50s to 8. Midfield deserves a massive spray.

Any chance we could get some decent ball use or run and carry going forward... Give Brown and Fritsch a chance to get into the game.

THIS IS WHY YOU DONT PLAY MAY

Still salty about 2021

The issue here is that their performance is further underminining an already compromised and unfair fixture. The stronger clubs that are lucky enough to play West Coast twice are handed 8 free points and a potential percentage boost. We are very, very lucky to be one of those teams this year. For once fixturing is on our side. I don't think they deserve it, but if they get it, at the most it should be start of second round compensation and they are forced to trade it (like North last year).

I'm shocked that the Crows are 0-3. They were a bit of a weird team last year, but I thought they deserved to beat us, they almost knocked off Collingwood twice, and were robbed of a win over Sydney. Just two of those would've seen them finish 6th. I haven't watched them this year, but their supporters would know their team best, and everything they say makes it sound like they've been terrible. We just need a fast start, put the crowd to bed and we should be right.

Sub debut?

While it's only the early rounds, the season is a marathon, and we should plan accordingly. Woewodin deserves game time, and as the year goes on, it's likely that we'll need him at some point. Put him in the first 22 for Chandler.

Big few weeks coming up. Short turnaround, Adelaide in Adelaide, they're desperate for a win. Brisbane back at the MCG, bit of spice in our recent history against them, another team desperate to get their season on track. Dare to dream of being 5-1 at our bye? Then two games at the MCG against big teams with fading talent in Richmond and Geelong... sets up for a mammoth clash against Carlton. Getting ahead of myself but I'd like to feel positive for once!

Biggest positive for me was Lever. Thought he had been poor this year, but he stood up in the absence of May with was pleasant surprise. Best game I've seen him play in a long time. Other positive was that the game wasn't won by our top 10. Rivers, ANB, Brown, Chandler got it done for us. Tackle pressure needs to lift though. We lost tackle count despite having less of the ball, and got smashed in the I50 tackle count. No tackles for Pickett.

How good was Windsor's goal

McAdam, get yourself fit ASAP. Billings' spot is there for the taking.

JVR should be dropped for this

Finlayson 197cm Marshall 198cm Dixon 200cm McDonald 195cm Lever 194cm Hore 190cm Significant height issues down back if Petty is forward. Add in a sore Lever, who is better as an intercept than man defender... not hugely confidence. I don't like Tomlinson but at least you can give him a job and it gives Lever more freedom and/or allows Petty to play forward.

Why? I don't get it. Can't see other clubs coming after him so I don't see the need to give him 2 years. I know players like security but there has to be something positive about putting fringe players on shorter contracts. Gives them a sense of urgency.

2 former Dees in the top 10. Imagine if Jackson and Hogan still played for us... wah!