Vipercrunch

Somewhere to chat about any MelbourneFC related content that come's up on the AFL Daily podcast. Not everyone's cup of tea but I usually find myself having a listen if I'm out and about in the car during the day. You can listen to it straight from the AFL website or on one of many streaming services such as Spotify. From todays episode (27/02/2023) about 14:10 to 17:30, some discussion about how we went with the scratch match against the Saints. Very postive about Lachie Hunter, then if Damian Barrett is to be believed, some bullishness from contacts at other clubs about Melbourne's chances this year and then Nat Edwards is a bit lukewarm about the first glimpses of the Grundy and Gawn partnership. Nothing super new or controversial, but Lachie Hunter's first outing caught certainly caught the eye of many outside of the die-hard supporters who watched the practice game.

Just as you posted that the commentators where also talking up his involvements and he had 3 touches in a minute. Shown a lot.

Petracca with a set shot early in the 4th. And he.... nails it. 73-38 Kick to hot spot where there was lots of numbers. ANB had kept his width though. Ball got out to him who went back to Gus who had drifted forward who dropped it into Trac about 35 out.

The commentators keep saying it's 8 periods today, but all the early official info was only 6. Anyone know whats actually going on?

Too unselfish by Chin (Chandler) there. 40m out running in, just kick it son.

Getting annoyed with the intercept marks in our F50

Just found my Kayo pass in Spam also. And how good is Bazball. And Harry Brook looks like a future star.

Lovely tap from Gawn to Oliver for the center clearance but pretty much an uncontested mark to Wilke. BBB and TMac need to do better than that.

Gawn now forward, Grundy ruck with Clarry, Trac and Harmes in the square.

Loving Lever's mullet

Really hoping the medicos can sort Salem's issues out. It's easy to forgot just how good he was in the 2021 finals series.

I'd like for them to be asked rather than just assume what they'd say.

Given his frank discussions after the 2021 GF about experiencing burnout at times during his coaching career, good chance the club and himself are keeping his media and public roles to an absolute minimum during the off-season allowing him to focus on the players and coaching.

I wonder how many ex-addicts or family members of addicts or people who work in drug re-hab want to abandon the war on drugs.

It was an unusually frank and honest admission. Goes against what the club was saying that all the players barely rested after the premiership and came back cherry ripe. Perhaps he was the only one? Who knows, but it could be career suicide for any of our fringe players to do it going forward.

That would be nice, and given this is the unofficial practice mactch, it would be a big surprise. Last year the unoffical one was streamed on the AFL and clubs websites and only the official practice game was on Fox.

https://megaphone.link/NTETP6007515146 Link to SEN interview with Kye

Interview coming up on SEN in the next few minutes.

Good chance this is somewhere else in this thread (I looked but couldn't find), but heres a link to Momentum which I think is perhaps the best of the short docos. https://www.afl.com.au/ondemand/stories/719234/momentum-melbourne-fc?episode=1#full-film

The next few months are going to be tough if you get upset by that.

David King was apparently there this morning and will be on SEN “soon” to share his observations.

Finish Top 4 after the H&A and be playing our best footy in September. Whatever went wrong after round 10 last season can't be repeated or heads should roll. That should see us playing in the GF.

I think I just heard Dwayne Russell on SEN say all "official" practice games like this one will be on Foxtel/Kayo. I expect any unoffical games we play against other AFL clubs will be streamed on the AFL site.

Do we have a substantiated explanation as to why Brayshaw spent most, if not all, of pre-Christmas training on an exercise bike or rowing machine?

I would love some indication from someone at the game about the affect of the wind, especailly after half time. The commentatiors barley mentioned it, but you could see the trees in the background really moving around, could often hear it in the effects mic and at three quarter time, the players hair was all over the place. It seemed to have become very influential, but it was hard to tell which if any end it favoured. Great game to watch. We'll go in as underdogs again for the GF, but who knows what happens if we play our best footy. Shame the AFL has made such a mess of the ground situation. The AFLW competetion desrves so much better.