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Gift? No. But I can imagine that if two players were seen on level pegging for the sub role, then the Club may give it to the bloke who is only 3 games from life membership. Personally I want Jake to get to 100 games for the Club, it is a significant achievement. He probably wants to too. As long as it isn’t detrimental to the team performance there is still room for a bit of feel good

Most of you have interest in 2 games a week - to watch Melbourne win and hope Freo lose. I hate Essendon enough that I’d rather Freo won if it guaranteed an Essendon loss. The rancid cherry on the top is my utter contempt for Jake Stringer.

I’d still have Flower just over Oliver but I understand how some may not.

Born in ‘64 A bit off topic but I’d love to see how our 1975/76 ‘centreline’ of Alves, Wells and Flower would go against our current day version of Langdon, Oliver and Hunter.

The bloke is a national treasure. He is a [censored] funny satirist and takes the [censored] out of every team. That’s what he does!

I was against getting Grundy but he was very influential tonight I am very bloody happy to have him

Judd McVie is shaping as my new favourite player. So clean. Salem has significant competition for his spot

I watched most of the match. There was obviously a huge gulf between the two sides. In this cast the stats don’t lie, Megan Fitzsimmons was clear BOG. Assume she will play predominantly forward this year. Goldie was a cut above as well

The kid must be feeling 10 feet tall and bullet proof at the moment. Imagine being 19 years old and running around the colosseum while 40,000+ people yell Rooooo as you slot 3 goals on debut. How bloody cool would that be…!

Handy day to be wearing red and blue Melbourne AFL beat Sydney 134-84 Melbourne VFL beat Sydney 88-47 Melbourne VFLW beat Darebin 130-8

Just quietly Freo are currently 16th

I thought the standard of the game was akin to the AFLW in the first couple of seasons; skill and fitness levels weren’t quite there aside from a couple of exceptions. Heath and Goldie were clearly a class above. Of the VFLW players I thought #16 Woolcock, #11 Lehman and (I think) #6 Kirkwood were good Like you Dees_In_October, I was trying to work out who was who. You definitely did better than me. Where did you get the stats from?

I was going to write up my thoughts for the game, but i can’t do better than Deegirls one line summary.

FWIW if you Google ‘small meniscus tear recovery time’ it comes back with 2-3 weeks. Obviously there are a lot of contributing variables

Yes and their only 2 wins for the year can be against Fremantle

We have found one in Judd McVee

Wonder if that video indicates that Kate Hore is the next captain?

Huge! Unparalleled! Exceptional! The other teams can target each others players. The other teams can argue about the injustices of the system. We will stay loyal and get on with winning flags. Love this group.

I’ve only read the last 3 pages of this thread but I think you are all being pretty bloody harsh. I thought it was a really good game with some great skills. I don’t watch many non Melbourne games but thought that was a ripper

Well in that case, lets hope he gets lots and lots of opportunities to prove you correct. 🤞

Robbie Flower Clarrie Oliver David Schwartz Allen Jakovich Brett Lovett

We were at 26,751 members this time in 2013. At 52,738 we are literally twice the club now to what we were then. And whilst the season still hasn’t even started, we have already passed our FINAL membership tally of every year of our existence aside from 2021 and ‘22.

They lost me at “With exceptional ball users in Petracca, Oliver, Viney, Angus Brayshaw” without mentioning Bowey. The problem with most footy commentators is they don’t know as much about each team players as that’s team’s supporters, particularly the passionate ones who would inhabit places such as this.

Reading about the exodus of players Carlton on the AFL site. I didn’t realise the we got Tayla Harris plus pick 44 and gave them pick 32 back. That’s an out and out steal. But wait there’s more! We used pick 44 (that became 42) to get …….. Tahlia Gillard. Has to be the AFLW, all time draft steal!!

Bloody hell. Huge getting Grundy. Great job. Can’t wait to listen