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Dr Peter Brukner, a professor of sports medicine at La Trobe University who has been a club doctor for Collingwood and Melbourne, defended the Demons’ decision to allow Petracca to return to the field after his initial assessment. “Initially these things may not seem too bad because you often get bruised ribs -- that’s something some people can play with,” Brukner said. “He [Petracca] would be pushing: ‘Let me see how I go’ sort of thing. As I said, sometimes it takes a little bit of time for the breathing difficulties and the bleeding to manifest itself. It’s probably not that unusual that he went back on. But I think they quickly realised he wasn’t right. Then he started to complain about feeling worse, and they quickly went into action.” Brukner, who was at the game and spoke with Melbourne’s club doctors in the dressing room afterwards, said the Demons had done well to send Petracca to hospital as quickly as they had. “You can miss these and ignore them and just say, ‘He is in pain.’ But I think they did very well to get him off to hospital as quickly as they did,” Brukner said. “He would have had a tube inserted into his lung to expand the lung, and sedation and painkillers because the fractured ribs are very painful. And then they would just be observing the spleen side of things to make sure he was not continuing to bleed, which, in rare cases, they have to take the spleen out if that’s the only way to stop the bleeding. Usually, the bleeding just settles down by itself. “You can imagine, there is a cut on the spleen … and it just stops bleeding after a while. It just depends how severe that laceration was. A horrible injury.” (The Age, 11 June)

1 each to Langdon, Gawn, McDonald and McVee for at least trying.

Hawthorn couldn't even get 30,000 at Marvel. Pathetic for a "big club.

He came in and stood about two metres closer than the mark. Probably trying to crib some space.

I don't. They'll think winning is easy.

Pleasing that he says tackling is part of the game he enjoys most.

The last home and away game in 2021 was nail-biting. 😬

So far the only drum that's beating is Eddie's.

May on May Day! ☺️

Against the Tigers, we won clearances 32-25, stoppage clearances 24-15 and contested possessions 136-119. In what way were we "smashed"?

6 Gawn 5 Lever 4 May 3 Rivers 2 Turner 1 Pickett

Why in that graphic is Brisbane named first?

Hermannsburg is also renowned as being the birthplace of Albert Namatjira.

And a hotel and a whole suburb.

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My perception is that the umpires changed the technique of boundary throw-ins not long ago. They sling it across their chest more angularly, rather than just straight over their head. This might be to get the ball thrown a greater distance, but I think it has lowered the depth accuracy and given more error in direction. You often see the ball going well left or right of where the ruckmen expect it to land.

Pavlov's dogs only needed occasional reinforcement to stop. 😄

"Since round 10 last year" is picking an artificial point to skew the stats.

The lesson would be that Lever and everybody else shouldn't jump to conclusions.

Surely they'd be Fullo, Jeddo, Willo, Kyo, Hunto and Shano? ☺️

Last year Melbourne scored 2002 points, Sydney scored 1994. Not much different.

I wonder if Fullarton is happy that no-one can spell his name?

Not difficult at all. They were both lured home (by Fremantle) and for family reasons. "The other guy" worked out for Fremantle, Hogan didn't and still wasn't happy. He had a navicular stress fracture and mental health issues that didn't help.

Yes. I take issue with the word "refuse" in the SEN headline. Just because we can't fix a problem doesn't mean we've refused to address it. What forward has actually realistically been available for trade or at our draft picks? For all I know, we've tried.

Spargo will be part of the new, improved delivery inside 50, or I think that's the theory.