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Banner idea: "Undefeated so far - We're High As A Kite Let's clean up the Bombers, give them a fright."

I'm embarrassed for them. By all means have something that "supports" the club, but what they have planned is disrespectful, condescending, and shockingly elist. They are treating the league, its fans and the rules with utter contempt. I will stay seated and quiet when they do their stand and golf clap gimmick. Wouldn't be surprised if some Bombers fans do the same.

The interchange cap rule is going to really benefit teams like Melbourne. You're going to see a lot of 50/50 contests this year, more than other years.

imo it's less Gawn's fault and more the midfielders. There are 10 seconds left and they didn't defend the defensive side of the contest (facing the opposition goal). Instead they were positioned to attack (stand behind Gawn). It was a massive defensive error in the midfielders behalf imo.

He cost us two third-quarter goals yesterday, and also fumbled an easy handpass in the third quarter, which almost cost us a goal. Thankfully he recovered and handballed on, but I was done with him when he fumbled it. We can't get a break sometimes. We either can't hit targets, or hit targets and the receiver fumbles it lol

Jesus Christ... Not sure what's worse, your comment or the fact 7 people liked it. Melbourne controlled the play all day bar a few patches. They didn't capitalise but GWS had all the run and as you said, at times played like a team that *seemed* 10 goals ahead. But you know what? It was always a 50/50 contest. Even when they were 20 points up. We couldn't score, but we pushed them to the boundary and defended an explosive and transitioning team SUPERBLY. Have you not watched this team for the past 4 seasons? In 2012 that would have been a 15 goal loss. They took it to us, we toyed with them, let them get some air, and then took control when it mattered. That was a superb win. A great team effort. They didn't lose it. We won it. They wanted to play a certain way, and 9/10 we stopped them from playing their way. It was 50/50 all day. Grunt vs speed. Defense vs attack. We took control and demanded attention at the pivotal moment. We finally play like winners and that's the crap you post! Gee whiz!

We are still in this. We are playing quintessential Roos football. We have them exactly where we want them. This final quarter may well define Roos tenure. We have controlled the play, go forward more often, and are playing on our terms. If we lose this, expect a massive media backlash against Roos. This is the quarter when his style is supposed to shine. Time to put this team to the test.

Handing it to them on a silver plater.

This was always going to be a 50/50 match. Can't keep up with them so have to play it on our terms. You can tell Roos is coaching today.

This was always going to be a 50/50 match. Can't keep up with them so have to play it on our terms. You can tell Roos is coaching today.

Roos style to slow it down. They're too quick. Probably a good thing.

No Dunn was a shocking oversight.

It's certainly one of the round's most interesting.

Debatable. They're more like Melbourne of 2007 at this stage, though. And Melbourne "topped up" in 2002 and in 2003, which was a "mini" rebuild after the disaster that was the 2002 finals. Finals in 2004, 2005, 2006. We had zero depth though and fell away every year after looking the goods around half-way through. Richmond will either fire and make the top 4, or crash and burn...hard. Last night's match reminded me of Melbourne v St Kilda in Round 1, 2007. Melbourne expected to win comfortably but it was the beginning of the end. Start of the rise for the 'Aints. Only difference between that Richmond was playing a pretty inexperienced and dysfunctional (at times) squad that doesn't run two ways hard enough for long enough. Toiges very lucky to get away with that last night. Blues were a 4-5 goal better team for 70% of the match.

Just another player from the Daniher era that probably won't be part of the club's rise. Don't mind him and much prefer him to Garland but I guess playing and developing Oscar is more important at this stage.

Gee, that voice...

No sun in your eyes on level 2. Level 2 Southern Stand and Level 2 Olympic Stand are more or less the same view: best view in the house. Olympic Stand is much nicer though. Nicer crowd. Noice.

I want to know how if at all this frame will help Ugandan children and if putting this frame around my profile picture will raise awareness about the Paris attacks kthxbai

Except we wouldn't lose.

I still question the financial viability of Etihad even once the AFL takes over. They are not going to run the stadium at a massive loss. Etihad ran only up until recently on a loss every year, primarily as a means to keep costs for clubs as low as possible, and they were still astronomically high. Of course Eddie is talking about this from Collingwood's perspective, but at the end of the day if it benefits Collingwood, it's probably going to be beneficial for everyone else. Even they run at a loss at Etihad for their home games there. From the city's perspective, Etihad is the elephant in the room. It more or less breaks the entire Docklands precinct off from the rest of the city. Anyone who doesn't factor in the stadium as part of the reason why Docklands stinks (metaphorically) is very naive. The Aus Open has demoted Hisense Arena and replaced it with Margaret Court Arena. I don't see why the idea of knocking it down and replacing it with another stadium has been met with such contempt. And I find it ironic that you're worried about the parks along Swan Street while standing behind the ugly concrete heap that is Etihad and the surrounding Docklands area. I agree with others here that this all seems like a pipedream and the logistics of Eddie's and Richmond's plans make both very difficult to ever come to fruition, but I think that Etihad, its design, and its placement weren't thought through very well. I think it's clear that the city of Melbourne, the government, and many of the clubs share this train of thought. Etihad is going to be left behind, already is being left behind with the likes of Adelaide Oval, the new Perth stadium etc leading the way. Mark my words, Etihad will eventually go the way of Waverley.

brb changing pants

You're welcome.

Good read. Predicting a ladder during the pre-season is pointless. Especially this year where the gap between 5th and 12th will be miniscule.

Watching replays on YouTube.