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This is a 100% paid counter-attack (in the journalism sense) from Freo.

Every player has a hot patch and i vaguely remember those games (older age), but was his form consistently of a high standard. The narrative around here was that up until recently, Melk was one of Goody's boys and that he was always able to bypass selection integrity. I have never really seen him like that. He can lack some defensive accountability in the sense of how some High HF's play, but to me that is not his role. He has to play on the defensive interceptor / rebounder and exploit him the other way. Almost every team has one. He'd play on Lever if he was an opponent.

Also felt like it was a I can’t remember Melky pre 2021 for some reason. Was it suddenly he looks decent? He has always been in and out of the team. But finding a target in f50 comes naturally to him. Playing him HF for connection just seems so obvious.

We don’t have a first this year

What happened to the Swans players?

In the spirit of this thread what you’re talking about is for a first year med student performing successful triple bypass surgery without the aid of medical imaging equipment. It’s possible… but let’s not get carried away. We have much work to do. Our forward line looked much more functional and midfield was working well. But still making costly turnovers that were preyed upon by the Lions.

Come on, it was so clearly a set play to a leading Milkshake to execute a kick akin to the old 3.0 degree of difficulty in olympic diving.

TDK can at least play forward so IMV has his hand on the ruck / fwd role, which is probably on the bench. Xerri or Gawn can’t play forward so it’s gonna be one of them for #1 ruck position.

It was certainly a ? on his draft profile. i remember it on draft night. He does have speed though and great athleticism and a will to compete. Also his kicking comes good when he is going for goal as he has kicked some absolute rippers. Perhaps a confidence thing. You give him a mulligan as he's a 2nd year player and they are still prone to inconsistency which is exacerbated through lack of pre-season.

Right now Max and Xerri are fighting it out for the 2025 AA. Depending on the stat source you can mount an argument for either one. A good chance the AA selectors will go with 1 ruck this year. Although if both players keep this up you have to find space in your side to fit them both in. Both are in top 10 players (supercoach, afl player ratings) Id say the only thing Max has going for him is that MFC have won more games and he has beaten a good share of rucks. The main thing going against him is that Xerri absolutely toweled him up earlier this year and got 10 coaches votes for his performance too.

This stuff does my head in and just reinforces the narrative around the media and MFC. Im sure there is some truth to what he says, but i find it rather amusing that the media fail to represent this point around Kozzy to Freo and especially the Oliver to Geelong. I mean if there was ever a case to mount around the clubs trying to shape the narrative they both are contenders as they have dominated the trade headlines over the past 12 months.

Those pressure ratings are kind of sour... below AFL average again. it probably explains why Lions were able to get 60+ points from defensive half.

This is weirdly entertaining

Hopefully gets looked at. I think it was Rayner with the sloppy spoil attempt.

Its a bit like Jake Lever when he first got to Melbourne. If you dont put a match-up on Lever, he will run riot. He cannot defend 1-1 very well but is intercept master. Andrews a much better 1-1 defender but his strength is his intercept and rebound game. you take that away from him and well, you get what you get today.

He has been great, but lets not get carried away. He would just be in the top 10 half backs of the league at the moment. If he could get more forward half possessions, goals, inside 50s and score involvements then, he'd be in consideration for sure.

we are 4 points and percentage from top 8. Still a lot to play out and our draw will get a bit harder. Swans are plum for the picking next week with McInerny and Amarty almost guaranteed to get at least a week suspension and Aaron Francis with concussion. They are not super critical to their team but it does give us a real height advantage up forward.

100% i had him delisted in the near future at the start of the season, but he has turned it around epically. I'd love to see him get on a few chains and HB receives and kicking it from the front half more as well. Once/if those score involvements start going up, then he'll start getting noticed a lot more as well.

6 Melksham - 4 goals and plenty of goal assists. Great game. 5 Bowey - prooving me wrong. Great ball user had a few great contest 50/50 wins too. Put together a solid season so far 4 Pickett - an almost game, but did enough. 3 Oliver - great to see him get impact based off of a defensive role. A solid game to continue to build from. 2 Gawn - probably deserves more but it was a standard game. His opponent (gardiner) did score 4 goals. So there's that. 1 Langdon - good linkup play and kicking the sealer. Also special mentions to Fritta. Loved his attack on the ball. That is the standard he needs to apply for 4 quarters.

Feels like it. Curse is broken.

About time we got a scalp.

How’s that not a push?

Cue the fade out

Windsors pre season or lack thereof is behind his inconsistency but agree HB is not for him. I’m not really sure where he is best suited. From memory he always had question marks on his kicking skills.

Apparently Freo are unhappy that Melbourne FC are driving the narrative surrounding Dogga. You can’t make this stuff up.