Lord Travis

Today was one of our best wins this millennium. It was so exciting to finally see Viney, Bradshaw, Petracca and Oliver play together and boy did they produce the goods! Gawn was incredible, Weiderman will be good with more size, Watts was genius, all our players dug in and did what was needed. If we could bring that intensity every week then we're finals bound. Go Dees!

Was enough force to rock Watts' head back and he might get a week for it hopefully. He's been dishing out cheap shots his whole career and is one of the most cowardly gutless cheats to play the game in my lifetime. Nut punch to Daniel Kerr, repeated corkies against players who he knew who just couldn't beat fairly. Sam Mitchell is undeniably a sh*t bloke.

Hope we bring the intensity and take this game out. Sick of losing to those dirty cheating snipers Mitchell, Lewis and Hidge. They're all appalling people and deserve none of the success they've achieved. Take them out Dees!

I'd like to know what was said in the interview. It would've been refreshing to hear someone describing what happened behind closed doors without the [censored] PR spin. EDIT: Thanks for that SaberFang. Interesting listening.

From AFL site: Saturday, August 6 Melbourne v Hawthorn at the MCG, 2.10pm AEST LATE CHANGES Melbourne: Jesse Hogan (knee) replaced in selected side by Cameron Pedersen Hawthorn: James Frawley (jarred shoulder) replaced in selected side by Kurt Heatherley FINAL INTERCHANGES Melbourne: Angus Brayshaw, Clayton Oliver, Billy Stretch, James Harmes Hawthorn: Taylor Duryea, Brendan Whitecross, Jono O'Rourke, Tim O'Brien

Hogan out hurts, although I guess we weren't expecting him to play. We need avenues to goal. Good luck to Weid today. From what I saw early in the year at Casey he has the tools to be a good key forward for us once he adds more muscle and size to compete.

We need TMac to sign from a list perspective. One of our weaknesses is ready made quality key defenders, We're currently playing both Frost and OMac, who are both young and still finding their way. Mac is the only one on the list who is a sure thing. I don't rate TMac that highly, I think his decision making is poor, his skills are average, but he can usually hold his own to defend one on one if required. That said we still need to re-sign him from a list perspective and find another quality key defender. Losing him sets us back a step when we need to keep moving forward. We have improved this year, but so have other clubs and we need to keep up with them or we'll never crack into the 8.

Is it time the mods open the trade board again?

Just needs to get fitter. His kicking is actually brilliant, top ranked kick in his draft in the testing. At the moment he gets no ball on the outside as I he isn't fit enough. He smashes in with the stoppage and then can't spread to follow up. With added fitness he will be a weapon and IMO could become our best player.

Hoping we see Oliver back in this year. He's one of your best talents and since the club is going down the path of pumping games into kids regardless of form then he should be at the top of the list. Petracca, Oliver, Brayshaw, Viney. That's our midfield core for the next decade right there.

ANB out after one game again to make way for an unfit Vandenburg who is in rubbish form this year. Yet another poor decision by the selection panel. They have been woeful this season.

Insane that some players get suspended for accidental contact that happens as part of the sport, but others can get off from BITING their opponent and pleading guilty to doing it too. Insane. Olivers reaction was pretty tame considering. I'd have ripped his teeth out one by one with pliers to ensure he never bit anyone ever again.

To quote Sam Newman "If Melbourne don't win this they've wasted their season". I agree with him. We're playing on our home ground against a teaming missing it's top 5-6 midfielders. If we can't win this freebie we may as well give up. Hopefully the players learnt from the Essendon embarrassment and we win this by 60+ Get it done Dees!

Wouldn't bother with him. We need key defenders or quality midfielders. We already have some key forwards developing, and he's rubbish when he gets sent into the ruck. At 26 years old he's not worth it unless he is super cheap.

Think this will be a 40-50 point loss with Roos saying "the team just seems tired. It's a long season and it's a young group" etc afterwards.

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[censored] pathetic effort. You'd think they could just flood and kill the ball for a minute. That's just stupid and lazy football.

I'll be heading to the match and we better f*cking win. I'm sick of visiting that rubbish stadium to watch losses to average teams. Get it done Dees!

I'm just sick of Hawthorn. We haven't had a good grand finals in years. Every grand final involving Hawthorn recently has been boring as batshit. Will be great for football when this team falls away finally.

Good to have him sing on for a few more years and reject opposition interest. He's an important cog on our half forward line so hopefully he can remain injury free and build on his decent form this year. Only a few key players left to sign up now...

Love Gus but not 100% sold on the change. We need run to match the Saints at Etihad and Stretch is one of best for this. I would've rested Omac after his injury last week. Hopefully we can finally beat them though!

Was too young to remember him playing, but I don't like snipers. Hard and fair, but no sniping. To my family Mitchell is nicknamed 'The Nutcracker', as he smacked two guys in the nuts ack 2009-2010 and got away with it. Hodge is 'The Drunken Flail' as he's a drink driver and has belted numerous guys in the head. Lewis is known as 'Balding sniper'. All 3 are overrated dirty footballers.

Last night was a close game anyway by two teams not at their best. Umpires decided it in the end unfortunately. If the AFL is serious about equalization it will change the rules so top 4 teams cannot bring in free agents, only lose players. Until they do we are stuck in an endless cycle of the same few teams at the top. 3 teams have won 9 of the last 11 flags. It's rubbish.

Mitchell is a nut punching sniper. Caused a few key cookies as well. Hodge is a dirty sniper who smashed blokes heads into goal posts or just straight up punches them in the head. Lewis is a dirty sniper who whacks blokes in the head when there is a pack around a ground ball. Their senior players are [censored] blokes and I have zero respect for them. I hope we never have players who resort to the sort of dirty cheating that the Hawks players do. Be hard and fair.

Hawthorn can't score without getting a free kick to aid them. Free kicks 15-7. No surprises there. Sick of watching these shitstains win.