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And topping off the perfect night - No injuries

Agree, great kick from Lever. But then how the Cats left the biggest man on the ground on his own, in space, when every player was in our fwd 50 is mind blowing.

At Adelaide Oval Melbourne 7 wins 5 losses Brisbane 2 wins 6 losses

How good to wake up this morning and your first thought is of last nights game. Bliss

Love how it is after midnight and there are still 86 members on here.

Also agree but I’m fairly philosophical about it. Between our lack of injuries this year, timely injuries to opposition players and other results often falling our way this is about as lucky as I can remember us being. So much so I have dropped the toast on the floor a couple of times just to make sure it still landed butter side down.

I assume there is a Geelong version of MFCSS but they just expect everything to go right?

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?