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north can score quickly. we don't look like scoring. we are broken.

good on them. they're hungry for a scalp.

Sparrow has been destroyed in the air and at stoppage multiple times. He needs to be a bull.

Fritsch, Oliver, Viney, Salem, Sparrow all MIA so far. Imagine if they actually get into the game.

Oliver has -2 AFL Fantasy points.

we are playing with zero confidence.

they have looked like scoring each of the three times they've gone forward.

27k tops.

if we don't win today then it's very clear there is something wrong. we should win and win comfortably. A team with 14 premiership players shouldn't be playing as it is.

Jesus, Port are shocking. Brisbane looking good again.

Worked out a treat....

Petition to stop people responding to this thread unless they have a constructive update. Startiiiiiiing... NOW!

You're trying to explain a sunk cost fallacy to a Melbourne member who sinks $1500 a year into his membership costs lol

Grundy is an established AA ruck and arguably one of the best rucks in the league. He might even push AA selection this year. Crazy we got rid of him, crazy he ever even played at Casey, and crazy we never played him in finals, ESPECIALLY if our intent was to trade him. We might have gotten more for him. Instead we had Schache suit up 🤡

I think we're playing him because no matter how bad he is at AFL level, having him in the VFL will bring his trade level down even more.

Explains Hoskin-Elliot winning the Kent Kingsley Award for Spuds Who Play Well Against Melbourne.

I swear I meant to write someone else... I think I was reading about Oscar Allen and my brain went into auto-pilot. Yes, I have a brain.

Freo throwing the kitchen sink at Chad Warner. Watch us recruit Charlie Dixon and Oscar Allen.

I might have my numbers wrong but North hasn't won at the MCG since 2017. Against guess who?

need to stick with Tholstrup. For multiple weeks. If he's not playing this week I'll be really disheartened.

11th is generous. We're much closer to Adelaide than we are to the Bulldogs. Or even Hawthorn.

That is coach-killing territory. It's the kind of drop off you'd experience from losing key personnel and also probably your coach. Think Richmond this year. Or Hawthorn in 2022. You're talking key resource changes. I'm thinking Goodwin still needs one more pre-season to turn it around but the football department might be really close to the cliff here. I'm not sure he even survives the year unless his and his team's coaching improves. That's not to say I'm calling for that personally, but the club is one really bad loss away from the board stepping in. We're looking at a a sub-20k crowd this Saturday night, a loss could really up the volume on the jungle drums. I don't think we'll lose though. Missed pre-seasons, and losing Brayshaw... you can't justify that drop-off even with those. Especially when you consider how we started the season with really strong wins. The drop off is holistic across the season and reflective of broader issues. Melbourne can't be the only team that just goes from being top 2 in multiple statistics, to bottom third and literally all of them, after a single pre-season. That's a major red flag.

I find it so hard to believe that it "simply didn't work". We played good football with both in the side. Gave up way too early. And then picked Schache over him in a final. To top it off we ship him to another contender. Smh.

I'm here all week!

watch Collingwood win this lol