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Let's go Dees get it done

Way too good, way too good... CL definitely the bigger prize but gee, I reckon I'd have preferred the EPL title. Silly I know considering City would probably trade places this season. I caved in and got Stan for this month. I've even deliberately tried to not watch any other shows on it so I won't get hooked and want to keep it, have too many streaming services as it is!

Yeah but when you have an inelastic product you can pretty much do what you want and fans will follow. And money does talk..

Well done Melbourne faithful! We've arrived!

It's all getting a bit more real now.. Such an amazing man, we'll be there for you Neale on QB!

Twilight over Night GF. Would have liked one at least one more traditional day GF before they pulled this lever but money does talk. Twilight is the best compromise we'll have I think.

Certainly taken things to a new level..

Yeah, you can make that case too I guess. Maybe he was a good coach that wasn't good enough? Had a good apprenticeship under Clarko, but maybe he also could have been replaced earlier when they realised he wasn't quite getting enough out of the list to take the next step eg. Mark Harvey-Ross Lyon. A few schools of thought here, he's probably in the Brad Scott territory.

Sounds like the bridges were burnt between the two parties. He's been a good coach, plenty to offer the game elsewhere.

Unrelated but what is the difference between an extremist and a radicalist?

Great post, thank you deejammin

We're on the correct track, that's it.

Not an expert by any stretch but I believe they were commonly used in clubs for dance track singles? I'm sure someone knows more!

Agreed Macca, way too good. Perfect bounceback from the CL disaster. They just have quality all over the pitch and deserve to be sitting top, glorious to watch when they're playing that kind of football.

Haha yes I remember Footyana, great fun. I believe Austen is a Saints fan.

Hell yeah! Would have loved to have been there in person this week for the first return to this amazing place!

It's not ideal but what can you do? It is a reasonable point you make though. No-one wants the easy road to a top 4 spot, I’d much rather be battle hardened and I think this Melbourne team relishes being battle hardened too.

YEAH WHOOP WHOOP!

I'm not going to share an opinion on this right now other than I deeply hope Heritier can get to a stage where he finds peace with this. That's all.

As has been mentioned, we'll have a much better picture when the time comes.

Here, we, go... We were apparently meant to feel sorry for these guys.

When can we sound the 'everythings ok' alarm?

Encouraging.

Just a shame that Joel Smith is injured, but I think Tomlinson gets his chance has Jake can get some much needed healing. Other than that I wouldn't be throwing too much brain candy around in terms of resting guys at this stage. If you're ready to go you go.

Mr Incoherent strikes again. We are great, but are we that great that 3 opposition mids need to sacrifice their own game to stop us? It's hard enough getting one coach to apply a tag let alone 3. The one thing I will agree with him on is that no matter how good these teams think their system is, they are going to have to modify it on gameday when they face us. The things that have gotten them to a point aren't going to prevail against Melbourne. It means situations where guys like Jack Higgins may be having a great season so far but his main ambition probably shouldn't be trying to get out the back to kick a few sausages, he may have to contribute to some forward pressure. It means Max King can't just demand their mids kick it on his head, he might have to move around a bit and create some leads. This MFC is not only taking teams best weapons away from them, they are taking individual players best weapons away from them too. Hawthorn came with a plan that was probably never going to beat us but sure as hell came the closest that anyone has. Tagging one of our stars and moving the ball at every opportunity from the back and trying to catch us out. There's no real need to get the rocket scientists working on this Robbo, just figure out the best plan and execute as best as possible. Having said that I'm more than happy for these types of headlines each week!