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Pickett missing round 1. Already missing a key player and next year hasn't even begun. While in parts he played well, he did let himself and the club down last night.

Finlayson the port sub tonight. Hope Jesse and Toby play well

Reunited with Norm Smith. Only 2 days ago there was an article on him in the Herald Sun saying he'll support the demons. A shame we couldn't send him off with a win

Just saw this. I had heard he hadn't been well. Had a fall then suffered complications. RIP Ron. A legend of Melbourne & football. Gee you always thought he'd be there to present us the cup on the G one day. Appropriate it was Melbourne v Carlton that was playing. His last match he probably either watched or listened to. A sad sad day.

I'm sure Jack was ruing his final kick

I'm sure our backline is absolutely furious with our forwards. I would be. They do there best to stop the goals and May did that only to watch our forward line butcher there shots

Steven May would have been absolutely fuming last night and even this morning. He did everything in that backline to stop goals and took some great marks in the final term. Unfortunately some teamates let him down

Yep and Viney will be living with that all pre season. That was the turnover kick that set up the winner

Viney will rue his final kick all summer

We're the laughing stock of the football world again. Sad thing is now it's because of our finals losses

The frustrating part was we kept Curnow to only 1 goal.

Just watching the ch7 coverage from earlier & Max was flat flat flat as you'd expect

Typical Melbourne. They get your hopes up & you can trust them again & they let you down

Has goody done his presser yet?

Well I'm barracking for a Brisbane v gws/port gf. I might jump on the big big sound bandwagon

4-6 we kicked in that final term.

How was Saad not pinned for deliberate out of bounds when it was no different to petracca. Anyway at least the storm won

16-28 we've kicked the past 2 weeks. Poor May, gave everything in that final quarter, busted his backside out there and others let him down.

Remember Pickett gave away that dumb free in the first quarter to have it taken off smith. He did some dumb things. But again it comes down to goal kicking. 8 more scoring shots. Some of those players are going to rue those misses and our captain is one of them. Max promised us 2 years ago they'll win one for us on the MCG. Well I'll still be waiting.

That game summed up our season.

Changes need to be made. Goal kicking again cost us. Gawn missed 2 sitters then for some dumb reason touched Oliver's kick in the line. Fritta missed goals he should have kicked. That last kick by Viney was horrendous

This is a repeat of last year's final quarter

Max has cost us 2 captain goals

We've had 5 more scoring shots

Why do we keep slipping over