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at some stage he'll get a go in the demon line-up. thanks all for the write-ups. hopefully a big win tonight with no injuries, and then more selection headaches next week with matt jones and oliver ready to go, and trac and trenners putting pressure on for spots in the 22.

Toumpas is hopeless. I feel bad for the kid as he's obviously a hard trainer, seems like a good bloke, but he's not an AFL level player.

The more updates the merrier for me.

Hoping for a tight tense tussle tonight. Crows by 13, Hawks bubble has to burst at some point - they've got by on squeaky bum time in the last fortnight. Time to drop one.

i want IN: vince, garlett, petracca OUT: m jones, oliver, hunt hunt unlucky, but i want this kid in, and vince can replace hunt's role as a half-back...with the added advantage of being that he's bernie and can also do a helluva lot more than a second gamer. hunt was solid last week. want to see wagner back up that game with another like that.

did he say that it was players who hadn't hit the 80 game mark or players that were already there? if the latter, my guess of the dees 13: hogan n jones salem watts petracca viney brayshaw gawn tyson oliver vince t mcdonald weideman so four of them are already at 80+ mark, in n jones, watts, vince and t mac. and in my view i'd question whether watts or t mac are close to elite. good players, not elite. nate and vince are, in my view. if you remove those four and add players who haven't hit that 80 game mark, i would probably add: stretch kent vandenberg neal-bullen

Eight tackles. He's a beast - even if he's tired he still works so hard.

In: Vince, Garlett, Petracca Out: M Jones (ribs), Harmes (looked sore after the hit), Hunt (omitted) If Jones and Harmes are fit I genuinely have no idea who else can be dropped. It's a happy place to be!

6 - Viney 5 - Gawn 4 - Tyson 3 - Watts 2 - N Jones 1 - Lumumba

We played like champagne millionaires for the last 15 of that second quarter and it cost us big time. We need to do the basics and compete with ferocity 100% of the time not pick and choose. There's some really good signs currently - need to put them away in the third.

hawks being kod when it comes to the frees.

bombers-cats is very reminiscent of our game v them - scrappy, low quality and dour football.

This has always been my vibe too. Plus his buggered back, that'd put you off flying every second week.

Priddis out. Tiges beat them over there in 2015. Eagles by 42.

We are awfully light on for ruck depth.

Lined him up, flattened him. Dog act.

well the likelihood is vince will be rubbed out. so: IN: Garlett, Brayshaw, ANB OUT: Vince, vandenBurg, Bugg

i still reckon he missed.

Oh, completely forgot about Garlett. IN: Garlett, Brayshaw, ANB OUT: vandenBurg, Harmes, Bugg

6 - vince 5 - viney 4 - gawn 3 - lamumba 2 - oliver 1 - kent

N: brayshaw, anb OUT: vandenberg, bugg maybe at a push harmes could be out for petracca and frost for pedo too, but i really can't see them making four changes

The positive is that whilst we are 'insignificant' at least we are not 'anonymous'. Journos want to write about us as we are a 'story'. Compare it to north at the moment as a top four incumbent or Bulldogs before this current revival and honeymoon period - totally anonymous. I would rather be pitied and ridiculed than ignored.

last year, statistically, they were right up for de%. that's what happens when you have about three or four blokes who kick it upwards of 20 times a game go sideways by 15-20m to direct targets - improves the overall percentage. that they're trying to re-tool troy chaplin into a third tall forward says a lot about where they're at at the moment.

brilliant player. but he was a thug who went down like a sack of spuds when confronted with a strong wind.

i don't like the bloke as a footballer (velvet sledgehammer is just about the greatest nickname in afl history, imo), but unfortunately he doesn't get a lot wrong in this column. Bashing the Melbourne Football Club is not the aim of this column - they have received more than their fair share of criticism over many years - but how to deal with a culture of a club that defies the best attempts to turn it around. How they can possibly drag themselves out of the mire which they continually find themselves in, year after year? Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-season-2016-melbourne-a-club-in-search-of-a-heart-20160409-go2h29.html#ixzz45NILzpvb