The Backyard Charizard

Petracca standing next to Savage... Makes Savage look like a slightly build Yr 9 girl...

Saints transition well again... Membrey marks 25 out on a slight angle... Runs in.... and.... Goals for his 2nd... 33-22

Frost marks all on his own in the F50 after Gawn and Jones combine on the wing... Both Gawn and Jones have been everywhere so far... Runs in.... Goal! Frost has 2... 33-16

Frost has been great so far... Petracca snaffles a beauty off the ground in the contest... Smooth skills on show by the young fella... Would love to see a replay of that...

Petracca score involvement... Bugg snaps a beauty... No point at the scoreboard or "Shhhh" from the little bloke today!

Dunn gives away 50 to Riewoldt... Tackling after he marked it... On the wing now... Pumps it into the 50....Dunn gives a free down field after he kicks it... Bruce with a shot... Across the face... Behind Saints... Bit of ill discipline from Dunn there...

Geary with an uncontested mark in attack... Misses an easy one... Dees need to concentrate on not letting them get away on the fast break...

Well done Jack Watts on the 50.... Great hustle and smothers it out of bounds...

Riewoldt misses a pretty easy snap from 15 metres out... We are getting burnt when they get it in space...

Courage by Vince in the backline... Frost snaps.... Goal! 20-13

Riewoldt kicks one after quick movement by the Aints out of the backline... Coast to Coast.... 14-12 We look vulnerable once they get free in the middle

Pressure is great around the ground by the Dees... Gawn is destroying it in the ruck... Game is being played at a quick pace early... Jack Steven is a pest as usual... Hogan in everything.... Watts marks ball 30 out on a slight angle after a quick defensive transition by the Prince... Misses it right... Unusual from Watts... 14-6

Membrey goal after being all alone in the F50.... I'm guessing all our defenders had pushed up because they were nowhere to be seen as Riewoldt kicks it forward

Petracca first touch is a beauty, head over the ball and 100 miles an hour... Settling well...

Hogan strong grab 30 metres out directly in front after a stab pass from the Bugg and...... Goal!!!

First goal Hogan with an easy handball in the goal square from Kent

Good spoil Nev

Petracca, Kent, Garlett, Watts and Hogan excites me.... Apologies Frosty but I hope you are playing up the ground and driving it long to the above mentioned 5

Nice to know we have an AFL umpire in our ranks at DL

Just a note from Melbourne training on Thursday.... Matt Jones had some fairly heavy bandaging around his mid section... I'm no expert but I'd be guessing bruised ribs?

Hope everything is ok with your little one... Hope the boys get up for you!

After going to see the boys train on Thursday you can clearly see they are up and about... The confidence is sky high and with Jeffy and CP5 roaming the forward line I am extremely confident about this one. The excitement between Petracca, Watts and Hogan was enough to suggest a huge win is not out of the question!

Jack actually gave us a few minutes of his time after training and was hardly a robot...

At training yesterday, William (7) and I were on the boundary watching Christian & Jeffy having shots from the boundary, when Christian dropped the F-bomb after missing one. Now, my son has heard plenty of colourful language and he wouldn't have even noticed it, but Christian came up and apologised for saying it in front of Will and gave him a high 5 and proceeded to stop having his shots and took a few minutes out to find out who we were and where we were from. After Will told him we'd come over from Adelaide and saw both Casey and Melbourne on the weekend but had to go home straight after training he said "I'll try my hardest on Saturday and when we sing the song we'll make sure you can hear it all the way over in Adelaide" The kid is a ripping young man indeed!

Ok, my stay has been extended due to the open training session being on Thursday morning at Gosch's ... Will be driving back to Adelaide once training has finished and my son hopefully gets Jayden Hunt to sign his new number 29 guernsey... Parking suggestions most welcome.