Adam The God

Laughable excuse. If it was about price then I'd understand. Doesn't sound it. Have you ever been to a stadium before?

This is still gold, from the last time they "won" it.

That'll do. We haven't lost in that either.

Hope it's the retro kit as we haven't lost in it.

It's not actually. Unlike the contractions "they're" or "we're", "who're" should be written "who are".

I have no inside info, simply a feeling that he's already verbally committed to us, ala Lever. I expect a Demonland "insider" will take a similar guess sooner or later too.

I noticed it and thought it too, but I'm glad we didn't. Particularly, as Salem's was arguably worse moments later.

Maybe I'm slow to the party here, but is that you, deeluded?

It was Robbo on AFL360, apparently relaying what Lewis had said on 360 last week. But as strange as it may sound, I reckon our supporters in the media (Lyon et al) will help keep this group pretty levelheaded. There's so much MFCSS about that you won't hear too much Carlton-like rubbish (ala "they know we're coming") and I think when the rest of the media is hyping us big time, this will balance us. I don't think we handled the pressure of media hype earlier in the year, but now we're in our groove, it'll be interesting to see if we can handle the pressure of media hype as the season progresses.

There's something about the way he and now the rest of his team mates are handballing that reminds me of the great Geelong team and the flag-winning Bulldogs of 2016. Exciting stuff.

Great post mate. Melksham's linkage between the midfield and forward is absolutely pivotal to the way we play. And as you say, his delivery and decision making is clearly elite. Well done, Melky!

Actually, we played without Max and still smashed them in the stoppages.

I love this kid. Rarely wastes it. Great peripheral vision and game sense. Tough as nails and a great side step. Incredible to think he's only played a handful of games.

I've been hard on Max is the past but I reckon that was his best game for the club. Absolutely mauled Jacobs and those taps to advantage ?. Wonderful team effort though.

We still haven't lost in the jumper and already took out the AFLX premiership too. ?

I think you've shifted the goal posts here, Steve, with a bit of revisionism. You made it very clear that you felt Oscar wouldn't make it. He has and will.

Hogan, McDonald and Weideman. Where does Lynch play? The only thing I can think of is us leaking our interest in Lynch to provide us some leverage in the McDonald contract talks.

Lol. The irony. The constant of people not liking being told they're offending someone so they revert to complaining about labels by labelling others and not having the mental capacity to realise they're doing the same thing. I thought we were supposed to be educated as Melbourne supporters. ?

Lol. I don't like him as a player either, but I wouldn't not attend a game because he was playing. Ridiculous.

No change. Spargo is already one of my favourites. Rarely wastes a disposal and provides good pressure. If there's any change it's Bernie for Hunt or Garlett.

He was, but as soon as Curnow was out I knew he'd be in for a massive day. Basically played by himself and we set up beautifully down the line and Carlton weren't ambitious or courageous enough to switch the ball, so it meant he just played anchor all day. It'll be interesting to see how he goes against better opposition.

I'd much prefer we're careful with our cap and keep money in the coffers for the likes of Oliver, Brayshaw, Salem and Petracca (midfields win you flags). Naturally, I'm sure we've looked at our list and positioned our payments in a way to keep Tom, but we may not have envisaged his drastic improvement. A year ago I would have been happy to let him look elsewhere, but as a forward and wingman he is a star. I wonder if it's a typical MFC moment where a player dominates in a contract year and as soon as it's signed, they start playing lazy footy. We'll see. If it came down to putting one of our guys on the trade table to keep Tom, it'd be Tyson. I see him on the fringes in the coming 2-3 years, but he would offer a bottom 6 team great value (as he did us in 2014).

His disposal is just horrible. Those dinky switch kicks or loopy kicks into the corridor. He's done and has been for a year and a half (if not longer). As soon as Baker or Smith are ready, they'll be in. That's the only thing keeping Bernie in the team IMO.

I'm surprised to be honest. If Steve is an AFL scout, he put his neck on the line in a pretty overt way and it backfired. I generally like your posts, Steve and props for partially admitting you were wrong, but it has to be said that I wouldn't be employing you if you really view KPPs in the way you did with Oscar. Most switched on footy observers know that KPPs take longer. It was clear that Oscar had some tools and traits that would eventually prove damaging with a more developed frame. In the meantime, it was clear the FD saw game day development as the quickest way forward. And that has been vindicated. To be kind, we all have different views and if everyone thought the same way, we would have drafted Fyfe, Sloane etc.

I'm not even sure he should be playing this year. He's a liability against good opposition.