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Absolutely spot on. His ability to read the ball in flight and position himself is better than any forward on our list and close to best on our list in general. On top of that his strength is underrated and he doesn't get bodied off it or out of position as much as some others we've tried there. His kicking for goal like JVR is of someone who doesn't overcomplicate things and kicks through the ball naturally. The hope is that they don't start introducing little aspects to their routine that can stuff it all up. I get vibes of T-mac half way through 2017 when he went forward. We all know Grimes' MO but with Petty marking everything that came his way you have no choice but to defend 1v1. A great game against quality opposition and as much as I dearly wanted to give Gawn 6 votes I gave Petty the nod for this reason, 10 marks with 7 inside 50 and 4 contested, it's very darn impressive.

Yeah true but ah well, they can spend their time thinking about about how to deal with friends giving them stick about the finals win drought for another year.

His second half was sensational. He's the type of player that doesn't get fazed if he loses a one on one contest. He can put it behind him and move on to the next one easily whereas it lingers with some other players. He's got the head for AFL footy.

That's the flexibility Smith gives you! Love having him as the sub.

Oh boy they don't make cups big enough to drink all these up!

Both had their knees shot out as well! Totally agree though a pleasure to have both at our club. Great post Monbon!

I'm more along the lines of managing ruck minutes for Max rather than resting entirely. Possibly mid minutes for Viney as well. If we must go the resting route then it's probably 1-2 players max but I'm not super keen. I do think you can flirt with form and the mix too much and that would be dumb but I do see the side where some of these guys could use a little chop out. All in all I lean towards letting it ride and managing minutes in game as much as possible.

I would have thought so. Didn't feel like Jordon took the scruff of the neck on this game.

Realistically how far off is AMW from getting a game? Any chance before the year is out? There's an intent about this guy that I really like.

Great call!

They've horne-swoggled themselves good. I'll shut the door behind me..

He's like a fine motorcycle.

Totally agree, think English is very deserving of it this year and has taken his game to another level.

Exactly. Plenty of movement and making defenders accountable.

It was such an end of show closing click bait bit. Love how they don't mention the other free kick of having to go down to Geelong every single year.

Wow, we had a lot of fun didn't we? We laughed, we cried. It's the end of the night and this one is for the road. I'd like to give a shout out to Nugget's Music Videos thread, the original random music thread that taught me everything I know about pasting rando youtube clips on DL. In the meantime, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here:

What a day, what a fightback. Richmond are no slouches and in good form but we showed them who is boss. Time for the old dusty trail. Have a good week Landers!

You're going home in the back.......

On The Round So Far they talked about the 'fixturing free kick' that has Melbourne doubling up against either West Coast, North or Hawthorn equal most. You really gotta love it how mid year these same people said we had the second hardest run home..

What has changed in the way we play. I don't believe our defence is playing as well as they could but I can't help but think these high scores we are conceding are partially by design. Are we pressing higher up the ground? Are we playing faster and 'embracing' the imperfections more? A month ago I wouldn't have fancied Melbourne in a shootout but now we seem like a team that doesn't care how many points the oppo scores as long as we score more!

Thought Tommo would have liked that game back.