Lord Travis

Reckon we’ll bomb long too often and Sicily will pick them off all day. He’s the key player we have to make accountable to get the 4 points IMO. Predicting Hawks by 9. Hope I’m wrong!

No excuses today. Let's bury these losers. GET IT DONE DEES!

How are people proposing we get Wines? We’ve got no first round pick to trade this year, and have to use next years first rounder in the draft, as we haven’t used one since 2015 draft. Unless we’re trading a gun of our own like Petracca or Oliver, then we have no way of getting him across.

Goal kicking is the big one. It's the only thing separating Clarry from the truly elite midfielders. If he can start kicking goals consistently then he will immediately become a top 5 player. At present he isn't as damaging as most of the above listed due to this one aspect. He's got them beat for clearances, contested ball and tackles, but at the end of the day the game is about kicking goals. He needs to contribute more in goals and score assists to elevate himself to the elite level. He's more than capable, it will just take time to find that balance. Still only 20 years old and less than 40 games into his career! His output thus far is phenomenal, and I honestly think he's already close to being the best Melbourne midfielder I can remember in my time. Finally a superstar in red and blue!

Judd won the Brownlow, best and fairest, and was All Australian in his 3rd year as a 20-21 year old. He finished 2nd in his second year as a 19 year old... but was second to Ben Cousins, who was one of the best midfielders of the decade. Clarry is far ahead on pure numbers, but Judd definitely impacted games more. No one else has ever had as big an impact that early in their career as Judd did.

He's my favourite player, and is well on his way to being the best Demon midfielder in my lifetime. Very different player to Judd though. While he's putting up far better numbers than Judd did, he doesn't have the explosive bust out of packs and he doesn't hit the scoreboard either. Judd would often go for a run, dance around some opposition and bang through 3-4 goals. His impact on games was huge, and faded in the second half of his career as his groin was shot so he lost his explosive pace. I love Clarry, but his impact isn't the same at this stage. If he starts hitting the scoreboard, then he'll genuinely be a top 5 player in the comp.

If we lose to either North or Saints this year I don’t think I can go on. Watching them play today, they are both absolutely diabolical and an embarrassment to the league.

Don’t blame him. Playing at that level is beneath him and a waste of his time. If he was at any other AFL club he’d be getting a game this weekend. Unfortunately he is at Melbourne and the selection panel here has proven to make repeated mistakes and ruin development of elite young talent. Hopefully he cracks the senior side soon and never has to look back.

Currently playing in the Casey practice match and dominating. Very strange he isn't in the team again this week. Hopefully he is straight in next week. He gets nothing out of playing at Casey, he's been a level above VFL from before he was drafted. It's a waste of his time, and a waste of the clubs time. He needs a consistent run at AFL level to develop and become the player we think he can. He's an obvious talent (pick 3), and is also quite flexible. Can play inside or outside mid, wing, half forward, half back. His skills are decent, he reads the play well, and he lays a good hard tackle. If we don't give him games this year, he'll walk and become a star at another club.

I see Mathieson is in for them. I’m assuming we brought Bugg in to knock his block off? Decent changes this week. Tyson is an obvious in as a starting midfielder for us. Buggy provides defensive pressure, which we lacked last week. Strange Brayshaw isn’t named... not sure what’s going on there.

1 tackle for an entire game for someone playing a defensive forward role is poor. He was second worst in the team for tackles on the weekend. He spent a lot of time jogging around confused in no mans land when we had the ball, and not putting in effort to chase properly, instead just providing a token jogging chase when we didn’t. He had 2 disposals for the first 2.5 quarters of footy. His game was unarguably poor and he deserves to be dropped.

Laughable to not include Oliver. Already won a best and fairest and is a top 5 in the league ball winner. He should comfortably be near the top of this list.

I didn’t see this last night, but these interviews usually pop up on the club website in the video section 1-2 after airing so will keep in eye out. After Tyson injuring his knee at the camp last year, then the fallout of the camp this year and not selecting him, we opened ourselves up to speculation. Fact is Tyson should’ve played on the weekend. He’s a better option than many who were selected and subsequently failed on the weekend.

Oliver Petracca Hot jam donuts

Burn the state to the ground and then commit Harakiri.

We won the 4th most quarters of any team in 2017. Those one quarter lapses are the only thing stopping us from being a top 4 side and genuine contender. I believe it comes down to leadership. If 3 goals in a row are scored against us, the leaders automatically drop players behind the ball and stem the bleeding for a 5-10 minute period. Once we've stabilised and withstood their onslaught, we reload without the damage effecting us on the scoreboard. It's not rocket science, yet we continue to allow teams to pile on goals when we could just clog the space and shut the game down to kill their momentum.

Clone Oliver and Petracca and play them in all 22 spots

Wagner out. Brayshaw in to play HBF and rotate through midfield. Maynard out. Tyson in to play midfield. Frost to potentially come in to play FB, purely so Lever can play roaming CHB as third defender where he excels. Would then mean one of Hibberd or Hunt could push up the ground more. Not sure who would be dropped for Frost to bring that balance though. Hannan and Garlett on a warning. If either have another down game next week then they are replaced by Bugg. Will give Salem the benefit of the doubt after the big fall when he was tunnelled. 12 touches for a midfielder isn't good enough, so he needs to show some decent form next week.

6- Trac 5- Gawn 4- Oliver 3- Hogan 2- Jones 1- ???

Our whole defence had a poor game. Jetta had a rare bad game. Lever was poor. Wagner was horrific. O Mac got outbodied repeatedly. Both Hunt and Hibberd lacked their usual spark. Salem played more midfield but had a shocker, potentially due to that big fall in the first half. Our mid/small forward were shocking too. Jeffy and Hannan barely got involved bar 2 minute cameos. Nibblers output was well down. Harmes had a good second half but was missing in the first half. Oliver and Petracca rotating down there were our most dangerous options, but we need them in the middle to get it down there in the first place! Petracca, Oliver, Jones, Hogan and Gawn all had a dip, even if they weren't super clean.

Can't question the effort. Can question the terrible decision making. Constant bombing forward to outnumbered contests. Defenders all flying for the same ball and none staying down. We bullied Geelong in every way today and still managed to lose. Embarrassing to lose that one. We are a far better team than them now and we need to start playing like it.

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Is there still anyone on here that thinks Wagner and Maynard were the right selections? The selection panel has learnt nothing from their repeated mistakes last year.

Other than the one tackle, Wagner has been atrocious and cost us 3 goals directly.

Was involved in the possession chains that lead to 4 of our 6 goals. As soon as he left the midfield we conceded clearances straight away. He’s been the most influential player on the field thus far!