Go Ds

Didn't some irate Richmond supporter years ago get a truckload of manure dropped outside Richmond headquarters? It wouldn't be original but it'd be a heartfelt message I'm sending the Filth.

Hey! This is a family site! 😂😂😂

Almost half a decade? In 2021, even 2022, weren't they still hoping that BBB, TMac be holding down forward positions? In 2022 they would have hoped that in his last year Weid could step up and maybe Tracc could play more forward if someone could close to match his midfield input.

Apparently the Herald Sun sells way more copies if the Filth are mentioned on the front page

God knows how good the Giants are. But one game under the belt compared to our none is a big advantage. Also they have a bye straight afterwards so they can throw themslves around even further knowing they have a long recovery time. Geez, it'll be good if we beat them!

I've arranged it with the boys. Next week he goes down in the 'thoid'.

I'd bet my life savings that the grand final won't be between North and West Coast and that Sydney and Brisbane won't be fighting it out for the wooden spoon. But, otherwise, there are surprises every year. It could easily turn out that we were better served by the actual results of this weekend.

I still remember decades ago holidaying in Tassie. We were probably down near Hobart watching the cricket from the 'G' on TV. It started to rain forcing players off the field. But funnily enough at the exact same second it started raining outside. Surely it's impossible but could the same rain cloud span 100s of kms? :)

If Hawthorn play in the '25 grand final against Collingwood or Geelong I almost think I won't watch any of it!

It's kinda frustrating knowing who to barrack for earlier in the season. Sure, I despise Collingwood and will cheer GWS today. But at the end of the year Collingwood might be games below the Giants and we're lamenting that the GWS defeat of Collingwood means they finish half a game ahead of us knocking us out of 2nd, 5th, 8th place etc

I really don't get this. Surely the AFL want people watching their sport. Is it really that hard for channel 7 to make a profit from their accompanying ads on Saturday night? I mean if nowadays the scores usually look like those from the AFLW (and hence few ads during play) But they just aren't.

He might end up one of the recruits of the year

Yep. It's no surprise that midfielders do so well in awards. They connect up either end of the ground , and if a team's midfield is being dominated by their counterparts it almost doesn't matter that their teammates are controlling the other zones. Such games would be played in the opposition's forward half and eventually the dam wall would break. It's very exciting to dream about what these 4 will do. If in 10 years time we're saying that 3 of them are an even better midfield than Tracc , Clarrie and Viney (and maybe the 4th is the new Langdon or Salem) then wow!

Remember that players all spend time on the bench. I guess at times he could replace players in the forward line, midfield, perhaps defence and maybe the wing.

Wouldn't any player improving significantly this year do this? Even if the improvement is just 4 more marks or kicks or clearances per game, but they still play in the same manner, this will improve the sum total of Melbourne's output/success, yes?

Indeed! Go back decades and me and others would have things we wanted to share with only close friends, if it all , even back then. No reasonable person wants to cause drama and having to deal with an angry parent , as one takes a sneaky pic, or their kids suffering needlessly later due to oversharing is not cool. I'm still amazed what people share online. It's bad enough people announcing on Facebook they'll be away next week leaving an empty house - too bad if some of their Facebook 'friends' aren't trustworthy. (Some people add complete strangers, and good luck having the police go thru 100s of friends for a lead!) wow! A few days back some random FB asked ppl to share the names of their grandparents. Many did! 🙄

Red 11 35 1 17 5 3 6 20 19 15 8 13 2( Rooey absolutely killing it) 31 37 26 21 disco( no number) 7 32 Gawn petty may bowey Tracc Salem Windsor Lindsay Langford Langdon Lever clarrie Jvr Fritsch Chandler Adams Jefferson Disco Viney Sparrow VS Mentha Petty (again?) Johnson Fullarton Verrall Sharp(too good) Spargo Johnson Campbell woewodin TMac Sestan howes Roy George Adams.... Grey 39 (forward) 35 42 33 28 30 (too good!!!) 9 42 29 40 25 38 22 Roy George 26 and someone I didn’t recognise probs Casey

Yeah, that'll 'loin' me. 🙂 BTW there's a thread on here as well as Melbourne's official website listing the numbers. It would be better just to read the names but still.

Kids are full of enthusiasm - often for sport - and it's nice to have them around. I'm not sure how a pic of silhouettes could backfire. But even for one's own kids it's best to err on the side of caution with pics and info.

Umm, T Mac was starring in the forward line as far back as 2017. Remember that winning goal he kicked in the goal square away against West Coast, at the time?

I suspect that we took the foot off the pedal against Essendon (which is not recommended). If we'd only gotten 3 goals up, with the expected scores being closer to the actual ones, our eventual winning margin may still have been the same

Yeah, one should have taken a left at Albuquerque and ended up at the Port Adelaide training session!

Seriously though coaches just have to do this PR stuff. At times they're not in the mood or its time they'd rather spend elsewhere and they soooo don't wanna say the wrong thing. But the AFL and the fans want the 'fluff'. Thankfully sometimes they do say something interesting.

Surely! If the club, players or supporters are unhappy enough the coach will have to. What's the saying about there being only two types of coaches? (Those that have been sacked and those that haven't been sacked yet.)

I'm pretty certain I saw the expected scores had Collingwood beating us by a single-figure margin. We lost to them by an actual margin again in the last game too. So I'm sure they were a better team than we were, especially the team in freefall after the first Freo game.