Dr. Gonzo

Anyone willing to compare our fixture to every other team and convince me we didn't get screwed!!? I had a quick look over every team's run and ours seems easily the worst! 2x 4 day breaks plus having to play in 3 states in 10 days. The Tassie game kills us, I assume we are going there because we will be absolved of playing in Perth as we've already played the Eagles? Very interested to see who else goes there at the moment it's just us and Brisbane and Brisbane won't leave Queensland until then. The "bye" we've already had kills us as well, absolute rubbish the AFL will get away with that, surely the AFLPA would have something to say about that??

Reading that thread is hilarious. You could change the names around and think you were reading demonland. And they won a hat-trick of flags only 5 years ago!!! Imagine if we ever win (another) hat-trick we'd be set for life!!

I think he simply misread the room. He thought with the shortened games the quickest team would win. That's why he preferenced small forwards over having another key forward, that's why he wanted Bennell to get a couple more weeks in him rather than go at 50% gametime, that's why the players were going gung-ho at a frenetic pace. He was proven wrong and so has rejigged things to go with a more traditional setup. It's a shame because I genuinely think we should have beaten Geelong and Richmond and that's on him. But at least we've got it right now and if we can keep up the form we saw on the weekend I don't think anyone will be complaining.

Footage? I can't remember this at all

I don't get why they went after Wingard. Burton was coming along nicely for them and didn't want to leave and the pick they sent to Port ultimately ended up as Zac Butters I think.

We were awful tonight, but Melbourne were sensational. When the game was there to be won, we couldn’t get our hands on the ball. There’s not much you can do in that situation, that was some of the best footy I’ve seen all year. -------------- For as sh*t as we were and all the problems we have I think we have to give credit to Melbourne because they were really good. Gawn dominated.

It's so funny, guys like Kelly, Scully, Jack Martin, O'Meara get touted as "future Brownlow Medallists" or sometimes "multiple future Brownlow Medallists" in Kelly's case without having even played a game of AFL footy! As Melbourne supporters we know about taking draft prospects hyperbole with a grain of salt but when the footy media and those in the footy industry ge sucked in makes you question just how great their footy knowledge really is

More performances like today will convince more supporters to put their hands in their pockets

I missed this was it 2nd or 3rd quarter?

It's gotta be down to fitness. He's finally able to show what he's got because he is fine tuned like an F1

Maturity and composure

Really??? The Giants have been terrible ?

I was thinking about this the other day as well. Fingers crossed our injury luck holds up but at the moment TMac is the only injury concern and should be available next week whereas other clubs have players dropping like flies. One thing that annoyed me about the game was that the Hawks clearly went in with a tactic to block Max out of all marking contests. A couple were done subtle enough but most were blatant. He only got one free kick for it the whole day but it was clearly a strategy directed from the coaches to limit his impact. It didn't work but it did nullify him in a few contests.

So glad we got his signature back in March - absolutely love this guy and love that he is a Demon

Petracca - Beast Mode Gawn - champion Kozi, Bennell, Jackson - exciting Weid - solid OMac - composed Viney - Bull Oliver - maturing

Scully - BOOOOOO Frawley - booooo Frost - meh

Racism will always exist. Institutional racism can be eradicated.

It's not just the media reporting on racist idiots like Hanson. It's the medias reporting and agenda in general. I mean look at the commercial medias subtle and more often blatant racist reporting regarding "African gangs" "Muslim terrorists" "Aboriginal bludgers" etc etc etc It's not just racist agendas they drive, but they are often the most abhorrent.

Everything was rolling their way, even a kick out of their 50 into the centre of the ground went over Greenwoods head and he was surrounded by 3 Melbourne players. If he drops it we are off but he pulls in a one hander! The holding the ball against Weideman also extremely stiff.

I'm watching the replay this morning, I forgot how arsey all the Suns 1st quarter goals were! All 3 were kicked from relatively wild snaps Weller's was the most conventional being a kick from 50 out on the boundary. We were reamed by the umps as well, multiple ridiculous calls went against us, none moreso than the 50 against Melksham and the non holding the ball call in our goal square.

What a fantastic post, you've clearly articulated why any whinging about racism or oppression by white people is utterly ludicrous. Being called names doesn't hold a candle to institutional discrimination, oppression and in a lot of cases, genocide.

And Todd Viney beat Boris Becker as a junior tennis player!

The only issue with May is his age. I was happy with the trade at the time I'm just worried that King is going to be a gun athletic key forward, something we've been crying out for for a generation.

Did you know Pendlebury has a basketball background? I had no idea!!

Exactly, would be a backwards move. Plus Smith isn't very good