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Im someone who suffers badly from MFCSS but both Port and Dogs looked sh1thouse last night. If we play either of them, and they dished that sort of form up, even I am confident we would beat them pretty easily.

Dogs are as reliant on Bont as tigers are on Dusty

If they do bring the GF forward, and thus dispensing with the byes altogether, then winning the Qualifying Final will be crucial. Going straight into the Prelim with a week off would be a huge advantage

Port Douglas and an interstate member. Hoping that I could fly down and see Melbourne play a final at the Gabba

A very cursory look at the stats would indicate that Adelaide Oval is the place for us having a 7-5 winning record there. Of all teams we are the 4th winningest at Adelaide. At the Gabba we have a 11-15 ranking us 11th Optus we are 2-3 making us 10th Alice would be ok at 3-4 as long as we didn’t have to play Port who we have lost to 3-0 We suck at Metricon ranking 15th of the 18 teams (Gold Coast ranking 18th!)

In his draft year Petty was known as a good reader of the ball in flight and of the play. He still is, Smith obviously relies on his pace

Bombers easily for me, Cats second. West Coast and Port are now also in my top 8 of most despised.

One team has a big prize if they win, the other team has key outs and their season is done and dusted = Rnd 23 2017.

I had beers with a couple of Taswegians last night. One barracks for Hawthorn, the other the Saints. Both said they had barracked for the same club all their lives and wouldn’t swap to a new Tasmanian based club. I assume the Melbourne supporting Tasmanians on here feel the same. It would take a generation or more to get most on board.

Personally I’m glad the Club has given him another year. I want to see what he can do with all those athletic gifts if he can get a full pre-season without injuries. It’s not much of a sample but one of the Casey games I saw him play his kicking seemed much improved.

NicNat is a cameo footballer. He does a couple of neat things in the first few minutes of the quarter and then you don’t see him till the next quarter.

My favourite stat from tonight, aside from the scoreboard, was working out that Luke Jackson is still just 19 years old. Freak.

Bowey a future 200 gamer.

Excuse my ignorance but there is some crowd at the Dockers match. What’s happening at our game? I just assumed no crowd

Really good interview here. Considering all the crap parts of society have put her through Tayla comes across as open, thoughtful and very much the team player. https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/994644/i-m-all-in-harris

Eddie Betts in the W.A Today “As AFL players, we are educated on this every single year. Every single year, we go through racial vilification awareness. So every single player knows it. Every single person that gets drafted knows it.” This is what I don’t understand about Walker’s comments. He has been privileged enough to have more information about indigenous disadvantage than probably 98% of the population. He has played with and against and, no doubt, been friends with many indigenous players since being crafted as a 17 yo. He has been lucky to play alongside (literally) one of the great players and roles models in Eddie Betts. How Taylor can still hold these racist views is astounding

Don’t feel bad about being pro Toby. He is pretty much the funnest player to watch in the AFL when he isn’t playing your team Plus he hit Dangerfield which makes Tobes even more loveable

Perhaps around the other way Lucifer?

That was the absolute pinnacle of woeful decisions amongst a mountain of woeful decisions. He (In my head I thought it was Sylvia) got rubbed out because IF he had of connected it MAY have been dangerous. Just a shocker. Maintain that rage Wrecker.

Whilst this season we have lost tall players in Tegan Cunningham (183cm) and Meg Downie (176cm) we have gained some serious height over the past 2 drafts. Last year we bought Maggie Caris (190cm), Isabella Simmons (184) and Alyssa Bannon (177cm) while topping up this year with Georgia Campbell (182cm), Tahlia Gillard (190cm) and Ali Brown (177). We can add Tayla Harris (177cm) into this Land of the Giants. Hopefully a couple of them will prove to be as mobile, skilful and athletic as they are tall.

I hate the Cats (real cats too) and went straight to outrage when I read the story on the AFL site but I couldn’t maintain it when I realised that a home team wanted to play match at home instead of away. Seems reasonable

I am still up about this game six days later. To win away from home, in a hostile environment and against a good team with a fair bit to prove was fantastic. It is up there I reckon with the Bulldogs game for the best win of the year

I just looked at the ladder. Richmond are 12 th. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haa

Here’s a sentence you don’t see often. Joel Smith’s kicking has been good today

Salem is back in town!