Heart Beats True

I love Nibbler but this is his worst game for some time. A couple of times he has shirked contact and looked very sheepish.

Good follow up by Fritsch but should have swallowed that with two hands. Pure showboating.

Sparrow looks gone. Nasty ankle injury.

Rivers is a momentum killer 🤦🏼‍♂️

Viney in the midfield has turned the momentum.

Turner on 🔥🔥🔥

Great kick by Billings. Turner looks by far the most likely forward.

To be fair, we’re giving nothing positive for the commentators to talk about us.

We are a shell of a football team at the moment. Truly pathetic by foot, zero composure. I’m sorry but Goodwin looks to have lost them. At the moment, we are looking like the bad Melbourne of old.

Rivers is having a shocker.

This game feels like a practice match. Intensity is non-existent from both sides.

Rivers 🤦🏼‍♂️

I’m sure it will be your normal political jargon straight from the CEO’s handbook of generic answers which won’t allude to much and still leave a lot of questions for supporters. Please prove me wrong Gary.

That would make it 7286 days for the Bombers which equates to 20 years since they won a final. The iPhone had just been released 😆 Let’s hope for another 20 years.

More so than a wine in a French restaurant 😏

Clarkson confirms interest in Viney as North attempt to “extract” experienced players from rival clubs Clarkson is still gunning for Viney.

I live 10 mins from the ground and it’s been very wet but drying up very quickly as well as warming up.

Kynan Brown and Jefferson should be playing. Really wonder how decisions around players playing when not in form impacts the “culture” of the team. The FD have missed a trick here.

I have a feeling that in T minus 30 minutes, PF may just explode with anger. Prepare yourselves.

I heard that too. He actually said it was the leadership group. Sam was very bullish about Melbourne though. He said that aside from our horrible recent trading, our drafting had been second to none.

He went to town against us a couple of weeks ago including 11 tackles and 18 contested possessions and is still only 23. Would be a great get for us.

Here you go: Melbourne premiership player Alex Neal-Bullen has told the club he would like to return to South Australia at season’s end for family reasons. His request is not related to any concerns about the club’s direction but based on the new father’s desire to be closer to family. This masthead confirmed with two industry sources who wanted to remain anonymous that the 28-year-old, who has two years remaining on his contract, had made the request several weeks ago. The Crows are understood to be aware of his desire to return to South Australia but have left the matter for Melbourne to work through. Port Adelaide are focused on securing free agents and retaining draft picks. The news will come as a blow to the Demons, who released a statement on Tuesday following reports that Christian Petracca was disillusioned with the club’s direction saying the star midfielder was certain to remain with the club until at least the end of 2029. CEO Gary Pert revealed they were engaging with players, coaches and staff to review the club’s football operations after a disappointing 2024. The Demons were contacted for comment. The Crows are already targeting Gold Coast playmaker Jack Lukosius, two years after they lured fellow South Australian and draft peer Izak Rankine from the Suns. Adelaide unsuccessfully pursued Neal-Bullen’s teammate, swingman Harry Petty, who is also from SA, in last year’s trade period. Petty recently re-signed with the Demons. Neal-Bullen, who has taken on a bigger midfield role in Petracca’s absence through injury, played in Melbourne’s 2021 premiership and is rated highly internally. He signed a three-year deal in April last year.