Lord Travis

Good win by Port in a frenzied final quarter. Great to see Tigers lose again. Sick of them!

Butters is a gun and I’d take him over everyone our list except Petracca (hides from incoming assault)

Just chucking this in here in case anyone else runs into weird issues trying to redeem the $5 Kayo deal you get this year through Telstra. No matter if I went through Telstra account of AFL app link to Kayo, I couldn’t get it to work and kept getting generic error about account creation/link. Went through Telstra support and nothing wrong on their end. Went through Kayo support and after a week of no solution they discovered my mobile number was attached to an account that was never activated. Kayo accounts use a platform called SteamMotion which uses your mobile number to verify, so they can stop people redeeming multiple free trials. Somehow my phone number got attached to an account with an email address and details completely unrelated to me?! They removed it from their end and I was able to then able to create the account fine. Hopefully this post helps someone else if they run into similar issues!

Poor quality game tonight. Swans struggling to get their corridor game going well and blew lots of easy shots at goal early on. Bombers just hanging in there.

Petracca talks are well underway. Sounds like an extension will get done this season. Likely it will be a decent deal, but not a one club kind of deal, so he’ll be a free agent again in a few years. Oliver’s contract is more about money than anything. Club has been in dialogue with his manager, but they’re still not close. Club wants to lock him in longer term, but he and manager are pushing for short contract on bigger dollars and then becoming a free agent after that. If he doesn’t get to play finals consistently in the coming years, he’ll chase free agency to a stronger club. This one will drag out a bit from what I heard. Hopefully it gets done. Clarry is a gun and it would be a disaster to see the best inside mid we’ve had in my lifetime walk out on the club.

Judging by the score I’m not missing much. Standard Melbourne performance when we’re favorites!

Kayo broken for me. It is the ****test thing I’ve ever paid money for. Such a worthless money sucker platform. 2/3 matches so far it won’t load. Can’t even pay to watch the ducking game anymore. The AFL media deal is pathetic and against the spirit of the game.

On form we should win comfortably, but GWS will be fired up at the start as it’s their last hurrah today at 0-2 and abysmal contested differential last week. Should be a slog and poor quality game. Just need to banks the 4 points and get back to a few games in a row at the G.

Collingwood losing by a point after the siren is the next best thing to a Melbourne win. What a great night!

Step one - don’t send out finals brochures before we’ve made finals! That 2017 [censored] up was like salt in the wound for members when we stuffed up in the last round and didn’t make it.

Travis Johnstone - best kick I’ve seen in red and blue. Loved watching him stream up the wing of the G and hit Neitz with a laser on his chest. He copped a tag every week due to his impact and ability. Loved he was a big game player who always stood up in finals. Lead the league in kicks and score assists. Underrated despite never reaching his full potential. David Neitz - champion of the club and a great leader. Could perform well both as a forward or defender. Leading Melbourne goal kicker and games captained. Only 300 game player. Legend. David Schwarz - knee injuries stopped him becoming the best player in the league. His 1994 season was incredible. Loved his athleticism and marking as a kid. For a big guy he was freakish with his ability to evade and weave through traffic before slamming through goals. Allen Jakovich - most exciting demon I’ve seen. Would kick bags and bags of goals and pull insane scores out of his [censored]. He was an old fashioned footballer. Back injuries robbed him of becoming a great of the game, as he was on track to being one of the greatest goal kickers of all time with huge average goals kicked. Fastest player to 50 and 100 goals ever. Adem Yze - like Travis, a silky kick. He excelled off half back, midfield and up forward. Kicked some brilliant goals too, a real talent. It annoys me he’s often remembered for struggling at the end of his career and not being a gun throughout most of it. Oliver and Gawn close to entering my list, but will wait until post career to judge.

Jake [censored]!?!

Side note: Langdon is definitely a superior wingman to Hill and cost half the price. We nailed that trade!

We looked better with Jackson in the ruck. Perhaps the unpredictability of that allows our mids to get on their bike a bit. Lots more movement in the middle there.

****ful umpiring both ways so far. It’d be great to watch a game and not notice the umpires impacting the game for once.

[censored] rule just handed Saints a goal. Get rid of the rule and let defenders defend instead of standing around like witches shags for [censored] sake!

Trash umpiring costs Brisbane the win at the end. What a surprise! Sick of umpiring being so inconsistent and impacting the outcome of games so much!

Pretty much agree with the above post by Accepting Mediocrity. I don’t like the way the rules been implemented due to even more problems and inconsistencies from the umpires as a result. It was just unnecessary and doesn’t solve any problem. It was also rushed in without trial and clearly wasn’t thought out properly. It’s frustrating the AFL keeps trying to manufacture higher scores so they can get more revenue from ad breaks at the expense of the games quality. More goals equals better footy is incorrect. The old Swans vs Eagles stoppage fest grand finals were better viewing than any grand final of the past 5-10 years. The intensity of repeat contests and finally breaking through was far more interesting to watch than aerial ping pong under little pressure.

Stand by early observations that it’s a [censored] rule. Any rule that is reliant on umpires to make snap judgement and communicate it while somehow watching both the player with the ball and the player on the mark is never going to work. I think we’re all just sick of rule changes designed to artificially create scoring opportunities that are often having the adverse effect. New rule change to fix another rule change to fix another rule change etc. It’s tiresome and the game’s getting progressively worse as a result.

Another thing of note, though I don’t have stats, is reduction of boundary throw ins. The Pies vs Dogs match had one boundary thrown in I saw. One. For us, less stoppages, less contest, and less opportunity to capitalize on the most dominant tap ruckman in the league.

Yep. Less stoppages means less contested situations. Contest is our strength and the new rules minimize situations we excel at. We’ll likely struggle against highly skilled and well drilled possession based teams like West Coast.

Just won an auction and bought a house. Melbourne are winning. This is the best day of my life!!!

Can’t attend today as I’m going to an auction to try and buy a new home. Wish me luck! I’ll be watching online this afternoon and hoping for a better first up effort than round 1 the last few years. Fire up Dees!!!

Good to see all the rubbish new rule changes made to increase scoring are working out well...

Can we have Bailey Smith please? Exact sort of midfielder we’re crying out for.