Dr. Gonzo

Yep ;)

This is just pessimistic rubbish. We monstered teams in 2018, triple figure wins against the Crows and Blues as well as drubbings of the Dogs and others. Last year we belted Hawks and Pies in shorter games. Even in the Bailey years we racked up significant victories. I'm waiting with baited breath for today's game just like every other Melbourne supporter but to say we can't put teams away is plain wrong. Kick straight in our games this year and we would've won all of them by 40+.

Green = 1988 Blue = 1990 Red = 1991 1989 were also red but the pic of Yeats above is the 91 set. I've still got stacks of these from my primary school days, pulled them out to show my kids recently they asked "where are the hologram cards" haha

Lockhart, Hibberd and Bowey maybe - Joel Smith will probably never play seniors again

Agreed, I think his touch was a bit off being his first game and he could stand to lift his pressure a bit but he wasn't diabolical. Give him another chance this week to see whether he can fill the Fritsch role.

Eh, they should be without Prestia and Vlastuin - we still have the cattle to go with them if we're good enough. A win would be great but if we can fight it out with them I'll be happy. Getting soundly beaten may be a reality check though, let's wait and see.

Fritsch and May out will test how far we've actually come. Time for Melksham to step up to the plate.

They have the flexible schedule as well so no reason they can't bring it back. Must be keeping it in their pocket for the next tv rights negotiations.

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It's the last week of Thursday night footy which is a shame. I hated it when it first came in but now I'm 100% on board, great to kick back and watch a game of footy on a Thursday, makes it feel like the weekends already started. Would be difficult actually getting to a game but on tv it's a winner.

If they haven't even identified one specific site that they are looking at developing after all these years then what the bloody hell is going on?? Not saying that is the case as we haven't heard anything but surely they have at the very least the location bedded down by now!

Both things could be true. He may have met with Carlton while never really considering leaving Melbourne. In his head he probably was never going to actually leave even if he did meet with Teague.

But it's not in the MCG precinct?

Yeah reread it after I responded and realised that's what you meant - you were too quick for my ninja edit tho haha

Sign him up please ?

He's such a strong tackler for a small guy. Check his tackle on the much larger Henderson in the 1st quarter, outstanding technique.

2000 probably better offensively 2021 clearly better defensively and far more grunt around the contest

1994 and before that 1990

I was surprised Melksham got a gig and even more surprised it was at Sparrows expense. I thought he'd been good this year with his defensive work hopefully they back the kid in and keep him in the side now.

Our defensive structure has been outstanding all year. I could feel it against Freo with the amount of intercept marks we had, particularly with opposition kicks out of our 50 but it wasn't until the Saints game I could actually see what we were doing. It's been immense and I hope people will actually give some credit to Goodwin instead of saying "it must be Choco/Yze" - of course they'll be having an influence but I think what we're seeing is the culmination of a couple of years of Goodwin's gameplan coming to fruition and a huge part of that is the forward pressure we have with Kozzie, Spargo and ANB. Our stoppage work has improved significantly though with players keeping their width and no longer getting sucked into the contest and I think Yze can probably be given some credit for that. 33k is a poor turnout but on a crap day and playing Geelong on a late Sunday arvo it's understandable. Cats fans don't like travelling down the highway late on a Sunday and when you add in the weather it would've kept a fair few of them at home.

Agreed, I thought it was accidental at first but looking at the replay just now he definitely meant to throw his arm back. Obviously didn't mean to smash his face in but it was reckless and when you do that sometimes there are consequences like what happened to May. No way it gets looked at though.

CARNA MIGHTY DEMONS!!!!!

Who else?

Why? We already have LJ playing that role. He is an insurance policy and nothing more.