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Well this round is going well

It is seriously the biggest waste of time and energy.

Come on Dubs, I just want everyone to fall down today and make it a little bearable.

Fork in the road time. Will Melbourne take the learnings from last night and get it back on track or have we now been worked out and ready to fizzle like so many other reigning premiers before us? Long month ahead..

You're not suggesting this is acceptable are you? In that case he's got a notice period of 2 months to go and the company is better off walking him out of the building.

So, so deflating.

We lost the lead in the last and never got it back, it never felt like we would get it back. This has happened in this manner 3 times now and it's concerning. If it happened in a final we'd tear the house down. I hope the media really beats up on how we've beaten 2 top 8 teams amd helps rally us to a win over Freo.

Still hurts, I had this dream where we played them in a grand final and we were 2 points down and Kozzie had the ball and was bouncing down the wing but then had to go through the living room and out the back of a house to kick a goal and the time ran out. It was some initiative by Gillon to make the game more exciting so he introduced mazes like this etc

Darcy is a terrible commentator.

Above all I'm convinced of this. We can talk about generational talents all we want but it's more likely his departure will spark the making of a formidable Melbourne side.

I definitely thought he had a better first half but that surprises me.

Sky rocketer for this chart

Said he'd kick 3 in the gameday thread, had we won I would have gloated a lot more about it. Put in a decent first half before being nowhere to be seen in the second.

Reckon age is wearing Max? We're all in sh*t moods. Let's just chalk this one up.

You know what? You're dead right! But I meant what I said..

"I knew you'd say that"

Changes are becoming less relevant, we need to get back to doing what we do. Lever in, Tommo out. After seeing Chandler today I'd love to see him get a shot but not going to put any bets on it.

Gonna be really hard to get this one out of the head

Need to find some form

It's a no from me but I'm not shocked. It makes perfect sense for the club to explore the options and hold preliminary talks in the event that Jackson leaves. At least they are proactive.

We'll make sure there are plenty of almond available THBT!

I gave Gawn 1. Soundly beaten by English but 25 possessions, 8 marks, 5 clearances. It was more towards a game from the Max we know. I also don't feel anyone else deserved it.

6. Brayshaw 5. Fritsch 4. Oliver 3. Sparrow 2. May 1. Gawn

Loading end party starts in one week time, I've already ordered the croissants.

Really hard to get a read on this one, the easy thing to do is blow up but that seems like a simple option. We were OK, even reasonable in patches but we just couldn't sustain it long enough. The way the Dogs were slingshotting it from the back meant they were always a chance to get looks at goal and score. We knew this. They also worked their ground ball gane to a treat but the kicker may have been that they weren't expecting to get such service out of JUH. Sensational game from the lad. The concerns were there when it became really apparent that we could only score from centre clearance, I can remember very few times when we transitioned it successfully from the back and scored. I can also not remember many scores from Forward 50 turnover either and that 0 tackles inside 50 stat just doesn't help. The game was just not on our terms and although we rolled with it and managed to keep the scoreboard ticking over I'd say shoot-outs won't do it for us. That second half was nerve wracking and I haven't felt that nervous about a game for quite a while. I can't remember a game where I looked up at the clock as much as I did in that last. I honestly felt like we needed to kick 4 goals to have a chance, we didn't. It happens but it is still a test failed for me. I don't want to make any knee jerk statements like top 4 being over or top 2 being over but gee wiz look at our last 6 weeks of footy. Apart from a brilliant win over Brisbane there's a couple of patchy wins over Adelaide and Port and a bunch of Ls. I don't actually know what to say about it right now and that's neither a good or bad thing. I think we definitely needed to win tonight but we do have a massive chance next week against Freo where we simply must take a scalp. We don't have many losses left to give and I would have preferred to save them for later but we'll have to do it the hard way. Holding fire for now. Not doom and gloom but gee these problems are not easily fixable. We are a very good side but I think we need to stop pretending that we are that much better than the rest and that we have some kind of divine right to winning this flag. The other teams are pretty good too.