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We were 21 points down on expected score at 3 quarter time - I saw it written on the board they take out to the huddle

Is that how you normally do apologies? Sorry. Not sorry.

Which time? It will get overlooked I reckon, but iirc they had a 28 point lead, we scored a goal to make it 22, then they scored again to tak it back out again. We scored once more in the third, but daniher got the first of the last to make it a 26 point lead again. That's impressive. Normally when teams run down say a five goal deficit the margin doesn't yo yo.

Love means never having to say you're sorry

I have a lot of time for Caroline Wilson. She is a proper journalist. She had a niche - the politics of football, and is still the best at reporting on the back room stuff. Unfortunately her niche has become the template and has metastasised into the gutter gossip peanuts like to Tom Morris trade in. Click bait chasing ****knuckles

We're so lucky that no other dees players make clangers - just nibbler. Sheesh.

True dat.

Was exactly my thought.

Just sat down in the TV room to watch the replay. I see Buckley is on the fox panel. With Lyon. Shudder. But just have to watch 25 min of their pre match palaver for the sheer joy of hearing them butcher it. Off to a great start with Brown gushing over the Daicos brothers for 2 minutes. Gonna love this replay. Go redlegs (By the by, allegedly they can put people on the moon but the AFL can't put up the post match pressers on their app until just before midnight? They will have to wait).

I've got a question. Where does that rank on the best home and away wins list?

I'm a Smithy fan, but I prefer him up forward. I have to say he really is the ideal sub given how many positions he can cover.

Rescue our season? Give me a spell. If we lost we still would have been 4th at the end of the round, with a soft run home. The media's addiction to drama is mind numbing. The same sen crew were talking about Grundy getting traded at seasons end such was hysteria over Grundy being omnited. Manufactured drama.

There's a thread about media bias. Could care less about media bias. But the ridiculous bias against us by some posters, who supposedly 'support' the dees, and just parrot the medias weekly talking points, does my head in.

FMD - just heard the call by sen in the last 30 seconds. Whately: 'Melbourne rescue their season" Rescue? The footy media is pathetic

Only 39k but at the ground the dees fans were brilliant and super loud in the last quarter. I have zero doubt it was a big factor. Good work dees fans.

Hate seeing that on the ponies - always worry the owners have jumped off.

We were never 1.38. Or anywhere near it

Great point. I reckon we'll know 10 mins in where we are at. If we are moving it quick we will def look to score quickly and put the lions on the back foot from the get go. When on, we really look to put score board pressure. A point of discussion the dees have over our key rivals is our ability to make it hard for the opposition to score AND pile on goals quickly. That's a big reason why are always in games.

First para under the first headline (author: Buckley): The dees were too good for the lions, but with the lions' record at the are still big question mark in my mind about their ability to beat the top 2 sides.

Agree with all of the above. I don't think he'll come back in for the crows game though. The work on his forward craft stuff gives them cover so not being selected for the crows is not made an issue by the media. And the crows leg speed will trouble us, so one less tall makes sense. Also gives brodie a decent chop out - no game this week and managed minutes playing as a pure forward (so no being smashed in the ruck) next week. Back in against the plodding tigers.

And then there is the whole Alanis morrisette ascribing the wrong meaning to irony thing.

Exactly. Far from putting a question mark on brodie's place in the team, going back to work on his forward craft reinforces their commitment to the two ruck, resting forward model. I actually think it is as much a comment on Maxy's forward craft in the sense that to maximise his strengths he has to play more ruck time coz he is average up forward. The same could be said of brodie, but maxy is the big dog. And a better player, so it makes sense to have him playing his optimal role.

Or risked being scored against on the counter. We didn't have the run in the legs for fast play in the last quarter and the oppp cant score if they dont have the ball, so tempo footy was smart. But if I'm right, we might well look to put the lions to the sword if we get 2-3 goals up.

It absolutely will be. But, one I think we are a better team with a superior method, particularly defensively. And two, we match up really well against them and despite them winning the last two games we have had the wood on them under goody (and even in the loss in the finals, our advantages over them were evident in the first half, before we ran out of gas). The other factor is, whilst both teams are coming off six day breaks, they have to travel and we dont.