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Have a shot, Jack

Harmes has certainly made amends for the early part of this game

Pedo's played his role again.

No one is going before Buckley or Dimma

When was the last time we had someone with the pace that Hunt has that just allows him to stream through the middle and setup a forward target?

When Gawn goes forward can him and Hogan not stand next to each other?!

Yet some here think Dawes should reinvented as a backman.

Score update please, the AFL website is blocked...

Thanks I had no idea

and ANB in the ruck

Dwayne: "Melbourne have just coughed that up and allowed 2 metre Peter to mark with no one anywhere near him!" Derm: "Geeeee he's a big lad, in my day a key position player was 6"1 on the old metrics scale" Lynch: "Looks like he's going to run around and slot that off the right slipper"

I hope he didn't get that scoop from Mission!

He did mention Tickmaster and Ticketek in the same sentence, while Ticketmaster do not charge to print at home, Ticketek certainly do.

You're thinking of Ben Newton.

Hawthorn play home games at the MCG, Etihad and Launceston.... they've gone alright over the last couple of years from memory.

Yeah I was trying to not be to harsh, I'm not a fan. Its players like him that make us bad, go missing when the team is under the pump, happy to do the odd piece of good work when everything is smooth sailing.

Lumumbe is the defintiion of a front runner, horrible when we're horrible, good when we're good.

Need to work on our tackling, no one seems to pin the arms and then clear the ball to easily.

Any danger of manning Riewodlt up?

Frost has looked good to date, involved a lot more early.

This. Every Vic clubs has to play a minimum of 1 home game at Etihad.

A win tomorrow would take us past 38,000

I went to the NAB game so I might as well go to this, deja vu hopefully!

Yes, Chris is 27, but his body is 44 going on 45.

If you watch how we've been rotating our key forwards this year then I don't think Dawes has a place in the side. Each match we've seen a key forward drop back in defense to either help out or near the end of the quarter to ensure another score isn't conceded, its generally been one of Pedersen, Watts or Hogan. There's nothing stopping Dawes being pushed back, but considering he can't mark we can't afford him to do that only to spill a mark and concede a goal. Dawes will be great for Casey and the Weed but for him with Melbourne he is the past, Pedersen is the medium term and the Weed is the long term. I know at the end of the year I'd be offering a 1 year deal to Pedersen over Dawes. Dawes has played AFL, he's won a premiership, he's made some decent money, and the bloke is smart and has a career for life after footy, I don't feel sorry that his career is coming to end, rather thanks and move on.