Sydney Pennski

To think a couple of so-called experts predicted that Melbourne would finish bottom four and win only three or four games for the year.

6. Harvey Langford 5. Kysaiah Pickett 4. Jack Steele 3. Brodie Mihocek 2. Bayley Fritsch 1. Ed Langdon

XT is not essentially the same thing. He’s smaller and faster and would be useful against the smaller to medium sized forwards.

You don't need to know any more about Oliver than the deal we took to extract Clarry from the club. It speaks for itself.

Looks like he might be a bit on the short side at the moment. In the past, the Coates League used to hand out jumpers with the lower numbers going to the shortest players. The number 3 suggests that he needs to grow a bit.

Random question without notice: When does the AFL plan to introduce a team located in Darwin?

Well, thanks to the powers that be, one club has been killed off for 2026 namely the Northern Bullants who were booted off and weren’t given any financial assistance to survive. That’s a whole scandal by itself.

Reported on today's training thread that he would be running by Christmas.

My info is that he’s going to Carlton if he’s going anywhere.

Once Geelong comes to grips with the fact that King is handling its IP at the pointy end, I suspect they might have some second thoughts and let him go to Melbourne sooner rather than later. Hopefully, he’ll take Max Holmes with him.

Average height of the team just went went up by 6cms.

From the Pennski File Melbourne fans are well known for their pessimistic outlook, and my expectation from this game is that the roof is about to fall in. With the exception of Kozzie, the Dees finally found their kicking boots last week with 18.11. I highly doubt that this performance will be repeated this week. Meanwhile, dual Coleman Medallist Charlie Curnow, who has recently struggled with his kicking, posting 0.9 in his last four games, will kick five straight as the Blues fall in by a point in controversial circumstances after Adam Cerra accidentally bumps into a field umpire preventing him from paying a free kick to Bayley Fritsch right in front of goal as the siren sounds.

Interesting free kick stats from the two two Kings Birthday Weekend games between the Demons and the Magpies ~ • AFL Pies 29 frees Demons 20 frees • VFL Pies 33 frees Demons 17 • Overall Pies 62 frees Demons 37 frees We really do play dirty, don’t we?

6. Harvey Langford 5. Jake Bowey 4. Max Gawn 3. Kysaiah Pickett 2. Christian Petracca 1. Tom McDonald

6. Clayton Oliver 5. Kade Chandler 4. Christian Petracca 3. Max Gawn 2. Xavier Lindsay 1. Jack Viney