Whispering_Jack

An interesting early umpiring decision. Played me with ball tacked, 360 degrees and penalised holding the ball. Happened a few times last week - play on.

Burgo said on the MFC site that there’s a scratch match against Collingwood (both clubs are in the Maroochydore hub) for the reserves players which would provide some insIght into who will play in the main game. If there are any track watchers up on the Sunshine Coast, this is your opportunity to be the first with the news.

Cometh the hour ...

Order to end of Round 11 - Adelaide 1 12 20 27 42 49 62 Brisbane Lions 18 19 39 66 Carlton 6 25 43 Collingwood 13 32 40 69 Essendon 10 44 65 70 71 Fremantle 5 28 Geelong 11 16 17 35 Gold Coast Suns 7 26 36 72 GWS Giants 30 48 67 Hawthorn 4 22 41 47 59 63 Melbourne 23 46 60 61 North Melbourne 3 9 29 58 64 Port Adelaide 24 31 37 51 55 Richmond 14 33 50 68 St Kilda 15 57 73 Sydney 2 21 54 56 West Coast Eagles 34 52 53 Western Bulldogs 8 38 45

The run home after Round 11:- 1 PORT ADELAIDE Played 11, 36 pts, 142.7% TO COME Geelong Hawthorn Collingwood Essendon North Melbourne Sydney 2 BRISBANE LIONS Played 11, 32 pts, 119.6% TO COME North Melbourne St Kilda Carlton Collingwood Gold Coast Sydney 3 GEELONG Played 11, 28 pts, 130.7% TO COME Port Adelaide Adelaide Essendon Richmond Sydney Western Bulldogs 4 WEST COAST Played 10, 28 pts, 117.3% TO COME Hawthorn GWS Giants Essendon North Melbourne Richmond St Kilda Western Bulldogs 5 ST KILDA Played 11, 28 pts, 111.6% TO COME Essendon Brisbane GWS Giants Hawthorn Melbourne West Coast 6 RICHMOND Played 11, 26 pts, 116.6% TO COME Gold Coast Essendon Adelaide Fremantle Geelong West Coast 7 COLLINGWOOD Played 11, 26 pts, 116.0% TO COME Melbourne North Melbourne Brisbane Carlton Gold Coast Port Adelaide 8 GWS GIANTS Played 10, 24 pts, 104.7% TO COME Sydney West Coast Adelaide Carlton Fremantle Melbourne St Kilda 9 ESSENDON Played 10, 22 points, 90.0% TO COME St Kilda Richmond Geelong Hawthorn Melbourne Port Adelaide West Coast 10 MELBOURNE Played 10, 20 points, 109.9% TO COME Collingwood Western Bulldogs Essendon Fremantle GWS Giants St Kilda Sydney 11 W. BULLDOGS Played 11, 20 points, 89.9% TO COME Adelaide Melbourne Fremantle Geelong Hawthorn West Coast 12 GOLD COAST Played 11, 18 points, 100.9% TO COME Richmond Carlton Brisbane Collingwood Hawthorn North Melbourne 13 CARLTON Played 10, 16 points, 94.7% TO COME Fremantle Gold Coast Adelaide Brisbane Lions Collingwood GWS Giants Sydney 14 FREMANTLE Played 10, 16 points, 88.2% TO COME Carlton Sydney GWS Giants Melbourne North Melbourne Richmond Western Bulldogs 15 HAWTHORN Played 10, 16 points, 85.2% TO COME West Coast Port Adelaide Adelaide Essendon Gold Coast St Kilda Western Bulldogs 16 NORTH MELB Played 11, 12 points, 82.1% TO COME Brisbane Collingwood Fremantle Gold Coast Port Adelaide West Coast 17 SYDNEY Played 10, 12 points, 78.2% TO COME GWS Giants Fremantle Brisbane Lions Carlton Geelong Melbourne Port Adelaide 18 ADELAIDE Played 11, 0 points, 55.5% TO COME Western Bulldogs Geelong Carlton GWS Giants Hawthorn Richmond

Off Twitter - After six players departed the club in the AFL Women's Sign and Trade Period, Melbourne has re-signed a whopping 23 players! That includes Niamh McEvoy and Sinead Goldrick, who'll both join after the Dublin Gaelic season.

So 12 Demons plus a Kangaroo joined forces to take on St Kilda plus 2 Kangaroos in a 12 v 12 match. Highlights - • Braydon Preuss in his first game back (explains why he wasn't really an option for Saturday's game) dominated around the hit-outs. • Mitch Brown scored five of his side’s nine goals. • The delivery inside 50 allowed Brown to do his best work. • Jayden Hunt was excellent – presented at the ball really well. • Joel Smith was probably the other standout down back in the wet conditions. • There's also an update on some of Melbourne’s other young prospects in 2020.

They are playing footy in Tassie where a few draft prospects are showing their wares. Scouting notes and weekly wrap: TSL – Round 5

Looks like the answer is yes.

Zac Williams is the type of player who would add to the mix at Melbourne. The cost might be high but is he a worthwhile target for the club’s recruiters? Clubs circle Giants star, despite five-year offer

I would now like this form translated into a game against a top 8 team rather than a bottom 2 or 3 team.

Picks 13 and 15 respectively in the 2004 AFL Draft

Closing in on 200 AFL games. I hope he gets there.

Recruiters are going to be busy. When the 2020 trade period starts post-Grand Final

But then there’s a score review. Touched. Decision on the scoreboard. Behind. Dees get up by 1 point.

Late in the season, we were ravaged by injuries and we kicked poorly. The end result - a 17 point defeat. Can we improve on that this week? MELBOURNE B Christian Salem Steven May Jake Lever HB Angus Brayshaw Sam Frost James Harmes C Nathan Jones Michael Hibberd Jordan Lewis HF Jayden Hunt Bayley Fritsch Kyle Dunkley F Harrison Petty Jake Melksham Christian Petracca FOLL Max Gawn Jack Viney Clayton Oliver I/C Oskar Baker Jay Kennedy Harris Oscar McDonald Corey Wagner EMG Marty Hore Alex Neal-Bullen Braydon Preuss Billy Stretch IN Steven May OUT Braydon Preuss (omitted) COLLINGWOOD B Brayden Maynard Jordan Roughead Jeremy Howe HB Jack Crisp Matthew Scharenberg Chris Mayne C Tom Phillips Scott Pendlebury Josh Daicos HF Callum Brown Brody Mihocek Travis Varcoe F Jamie Elliott Will Hoskin-Elliott Steele Sidebottom FOLL Brodie Grundy Adam Treloar Taylor Adams I/C Levi Greenwood Jack Madgen Josh Thomas Rupert Wills EMG Tim Broomhead Tyler Brown Ben Crocker John Noble IN Jack Madgen OUT Mason Cox (detached retina)

Wouldn’t it be great if he came of age with his first big bag against his grandfather’s old team with Eddie in the commentary box or the studio reminding us for the nth time about the family history?

I suspect that there’s going to be a fair amount of trading going on when the trade period actually happens. With so many unknowns about this year’s draft selections on top of the large number of academy picks, it might well up as a free for all. The quality of each club’s drafters could well be determined by this draft. In the meantime, picking up Kossie wasn’t a bad outcome for us at last year’s draft table.

What I like about the game today is that we did it with a young side - 3 first year players in their teens in Pickett, Jackson and Rivers plus Swallow who just turned 20. We’ve also picked up a good ‘un in Langdon and Tomlinson adds to the mix. Very much like Port Adelaide last year.

West Coast have been woeful throughout the game but they put on a show for about five minutes and suddenly lead by 11 points. Reminiscent of the last five minutes of the first quarter of round 1.

The leadership group was changed a few weeks ago with the addition of Jake Melksham and Jake Lever. One of them was interviewed in the media and explained that the club wanted an extra leader for the forward line and the backline. Hence, Melksham and Lever will be the two official on field leaders today. It goes without saying that a number of others will be called on to provide leadership to provide a winning outcome.

Thanks for the reminder - it was my only AFL game this year too. That’s good news for a few of today’s players. Jake Melksham and Angus Brayshaw were the standouts and Charlie Spargo was good both up forward and in the middle. Kozzie Pickett was exciting and Trent Rivers and Tom Sparrow showed out. Rhyce Shaw was experimenting with a crazy game plan that involved moving the ball any way but forward and our kicking for goal was pathetic. We need to be on target tonight.

Today’s game against North Melbourne is one of those make or break games for Melbourne. With both Max Gawn and Jack Viney out of the side, others will be expected to step up, be counted and show leadership all over the ground. A couple of weeks ago the pundits were describing them as “irrelevant” but a win today could see the Demons in a position to prove them wrong and remaining in the mix to challenge the top sides as we move towards the business end of the season

The value of good small forwards.

That would be up to the AFL when they prepare the fixture for Rounds 14 to 16.