Nascent

Some very flat footed slow reacting defenders

Heath looks to be impeded in most ruck contests.

Taylor up on a wing now

Melksham not moving well at all

Good to see Matthews getting a run around the ball in the last 5 minutes there. Hasn't touched it much but you can see his manic pressure. Hopefully it turns for him after half time.

I've enjoyed the fight back this quarter and we're moving it a lot better, just been a couple moments where the first option wasn't given. Think I saw two from Craven, one from Stanley and a couple from Bonner in particular. Probably being unfairly critical as the pressur from the doggies looks pretty high.

A lot of first handball options being ignored in favour of dump kicks

Somehow scores are level.

Bonner and Stanley making poor decisions going inside 50. Dees only looking likely when Laurie and Melksham are moving the ball forward.

Defence under the pump, AMW, Taylor and Mentha getting amongst the disposals. Team struggling to move the ball forward. Edit: Berry done some nice things as well.

Cheeky bastards wanted a 3rd first rounder from us to make that trade as well.

That's a very strong bulldogs vfl squad, tomorrow is going to be tough.

This remains my favourite fan mock-up design I've seen online.

AFL website is actually a good resource for this. Just click on a match, select the players tab then click on a player. That will bring up the players total stats and also the ability to select each quarter with breakdowns provided for each. It's fairly comprehensive. Wheelo ratings has a tonne of awesome data if you want to look at more stats. https://www.wheeloratings.com/afl_index.html

We play footscray rd1 then, along with 3 other teams, we have a bye in round 2.

Fun day at the footy yesterday, despite being a close game I didn't have any sense of dread or stress while watching. Perhaps that's due to my recalibrated expectations, but it was nice going to a game and enjoying it all.

In his first year at the doggies where he started the season really well, he attended a MFC game as a spectator just a few seats away from me up in the nose bleeds. As he left the game I gave him a compliment about his form at the doggies and that brought a huge smile out of him. Small interaction but seemed like a genuinely nice bloke, happy he got to 50 games and hope he has more success there.

Thanks for the update. Is bill playing as a mid or half forward and how has his game been so far?

Is this game being streamed?

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/1970291?playlist_id=1911611

Sen commentators stating players like Camerona and Dangerfield started firing to get them back into the game. Checks stats Dangerfield: 0 kicks 1 handball 1 mark 0 tackles

Brads 4th year of making excuses. I'm surprised he's lasted this long with a notoriously impatient fan base. To be fair their list is rubbish, although I don't mind their draft last year. Shame Dodoro is no longer there, they may actually improve their list over the next few years.

The AFL admins would veto anything but the radio friendly classics. Still would've been cool to hear some iron maiden or similar.

Geelong still remain last on percentage, happy days.