Adam The God

I'd be looking at stocking up in the midfield again. Elite talent only though (ie. first rounder). Vince and Lewis are near the end. Jones will probably play another 3-4 years. Oliver, Viney, Tyson, Petracca, Salem and maybe Brayshaw. Could be terrific and add Hunt, plus Stretch to that and it's an exciting young group. But it's a little narrow for midfield rotations. Whitfield should be our second target behind Kelly. And who knows who else might be on the table all of a sudden. No one would have predicted we'd have Lewis this year. Of course, as a draft/trading strategy that's not great, but given our lack of clear needs, we're well positioned.

There were a few Dees around us. We were outnumbered, but you expect that in the Medallion Club. Slightly misleading this. We overpossess when we're under pressure. As all teams do.

Geez. I hope you went. Don't really need to rubbish the supporters after such a terrific win.

That win last weekend felt like a turning point IMO. On the siren, having 'gotten away with one' as it were, they are the games a full strength Richmond lose and they're currently sitting 6th. So it says a bit about our side.

The greatest defensive performance I've ever seen by a Melbourne side. So that's 30 years of going practically every week. Talk about being proud of your club. I came into the game with very low expectations, but we were on from the first bounce and didn't drop our intensity at any stage for four quarters. That's what a four quarter Melbourne performance looks like. And wow! Oscar McDonald had another terrific game. Hibberd, Jetta, Salem and Hunt were all brilliant. Frost serviceable. It's very rare you start by praising the defence in a game where you win by 10 goals, but our defensive unit was that good. Our forwardline press was the best it's been, in collaboration with superb midfield defence. Our spread from the contest was the best I've seen it too and our will to get numbers to multiple contests and outnumber. Now to the midfield. Oliver, Viney Jones were brilliant. I don't care what the stats say, those three were superb. I'm expecting a typical Melbourne loss next week, but one comment on our ability to play Etihad. Our game plan is totally conducive to the smaller, narrower confines of Etihad. Our zone clogs up space, but also allows us to turn defence quickly into attack. It'll be interesting to see how we go on the much bigger Domain Stadium. But, go you mighty redlegs!!

Wow. How is that for a spine? Shivers.

I'm sure the club isn't entertaining a Weideman trade. That's the main thing.

Please tell me where you got this from LT. I want to bait a few Collingwood and Essendon mates on Instagram.

Laughing at Collingwood supporters is always great too. When Watts dobbed the sealer I was practically laughing at the flogs in front of us.

Reckon we're a real chance to get 42,000 members this year if we win this week. Massive game.

Yeah, it's gold. I also love the paper plane at Argentina v Brasil the other night + Titanic. Haha, hilarious.

Congrats, mate. As for your post, I felt the umpiring was bad both ways. They got a great run of it in the second quarter. We had some key decisions go our way in the last.

What a win. I'd say that's our second best win of the year (behind the obvious Adelaide result): big crowd, played poorly for large parts of the game, minus Gawn and Hogan, the winner jumps into 6th, the loser has a very tough road ahead. But we held it all together and managed to hold on. I haven't felt as elated after a win in a long time. It's winning those close ones. Thought it was a terrific effort from Goodwin and co to turn things in the second half and for such a young team to respond as they did is very exciting. Oliver's third quarter was insane. The kid is a genius. Oscar started off slowly but by the end of the game was in our top 2 or 3 players. He was a rock. Clever little kick from him into the path of Harmes for Watts' sealer too. Petracca got the accolades and as I said to my old man during his ordinary first quarter and a bit, he is going to be that mercurial player that bobs up with a moment or two to turn the game. Sure enough, he did in that second quarter to keep us in touch. Had a couple of scum supporters in front of me from Brighton, given the botox in the faces of the ladies and their husbands wanted to punch my block off, but couldn't reach due to the 6'6ness of me. Loved giving it to them in the end. Some will say it's bad sport, others will say stick it right up 'em. Go the bloody redlegs.

Certainly the worst we've played this year. Our better players have struggled to be clean and have looked off most of the day. Our forwards have laid 8 tackles (11 if you include Tommy Mac who has played some time in the ruck). Bugg and Garlett are yet to lay a tackle. Can't see us winning this. We haven't lost the disposal count like this all year.

If you attack the ball, make sure you get it going forward if you can't mark it. Basic team rules I would imagine.

Wagner goes up to spoil. Takes his own man, instead of waiting down and falls to the ground himself. Collingwood get Casey out the back in transition and they get an easy goal. Our defenders do this too often and Wagner has shown this during 2017 at AFL level as well.

That's true. Let's hope history repeats itself there.

That'd be right. The team we play next week gets smacked, so will be out for blood next week. I swear it's happened 2 or 3 times already this season.

Yeah, I was concerned with Level 1.

He won't play. He'll be an emergency. They're just giving him a medal for dominating in the lower grade. (I hope)

They're all sold out. Well, that's what I was told by a friend who works there. Turns out there are a few there that will be available at Gate Open. I thought it was $10 for some category 1 matches and $20 for some other category 1 matches. Anyway, sounds like you only paid $10.

To be clear, I'm bemoaning the MCC, not the MFC. And I suspect it's the $60-80 that you add on top of your MCC membership for a dual membership. Yeah, we ended up going outside of the MCC last year and they were all reserved, so we went back into the MCC and sat on Level 4. We could just make out the game from up there. I hated it. We paid the $10 fee for the Richmond game and it was totally worth it and were going to do that here too, but they're all sold out now.

Gee, I'd love to be able to spend $1,500 every year on my membership, but I buy my MCC/MFC membership and attend every Victorian-based match and some interstate. I do my bit and I'm [censored] off that it still doesn't get me reserved seats.

The MCC is already sold out on Level 1, so I'm getting there when the gates open just to get a bloody decent seat. You pay your $700+ for a membership and you struggle to get a seat. Ridiculous.

Would look at all of these guys for the right price. Who are we kidding on here?