The heart beats true

I’m no medical expert, but does this mean they aren’t broken? Just curious 👍

Anyone else think Langdon has broken ribs and we won’t see him until after the bye? I’m not trying to be masochistic, I just think it’s odd the club just calls it ‘ribs’. Did I miss info about this somewhere?

Demons fans, next week at the game cheer hard and loud for Adam Tomlinson. Hasn’t dropped his head, continued to work hard and deserves his shot. We need guys like him being professional and giving it their all regardless of what level they are playing. I have a lot of admiration for players like him and Mitch Brown.

I genuinely reckon 2/3rds of all Melbourne club members this year brought memberships so they’d get finals tickets. Not many show up on game day - which is bizarre given where we’ve come from, and how good we’ve been the last few years. I will say the apparel is moving. Hopefully the club is making its money there.

Tracc shouldn’t have played. I think this will serve us well in the long run as he owes us one, and will know it. Stick May, Langdon, Salem, TMac, and a fit Petracca back in that side and the game is played very differently. That’s 4 of our top 6 players, and much more competitiveness and skill around, and forward, of the ball. Freo are good, but they aren’t that good. They exploited a hole in the game that wasn’t there until May went down. Petty was hobbled and it got much worse. I don’t think Lever is 100% yet. They won’t get another crack at us looking like that behind the ball again.

Wasn’t a problem in September last year when we out scored teams by 20 goals. Everyone is allowed to have a bad day at work, which Ben had today, and Tom wasn’t there. You’d understand about a bad day bad at work if you had a job, or a personality anyone else could possibly work with.

I’d just like to apologise to the club, players, sponsors and supporters. Without fail when it’s my birthday we get beaten. I shouldn’t have attended, as this was always going to happen. In all seriousness Weed is mentally shot. I feel for him but he gave up on contests tonight, and knew he was going to get beaten. I think he’s a great bloke, but he doesn’t have the mental determination for elite sport. Our stoppage and clearance work was really, really poor. I know there’s a lot of talk about Yze, but I didn’t see anything shift or change in the game that suggested we tried much - and we got absolutely slaughtered. Happy to be proven wrong. In general we just didn’t show any spirit after half time. As a fan I was disappointed in that. Kept waiting for it and it didn’t come. Not the end of the world, just a chance to learn and reevaluate.

What I learnt from that is: A)Derm doesn’t watch much footy that isn’t Hawthorn. He waffled on about Sam Mitchell but I was at that game and the hawks kicked the last 3 goals to make it seem a lot closer than it was. Sure, they tried to play keeping’s off and work the ball on the 45 angle - but they still didn’t kick enough of a score to genuinely threaten us. B) Andy doesn’t watch much footy, and when he does he doesn’t understand what he’s looking at. C) My afternoons are better spent not listening to the radio.

I still think a new regional Victorian team that plays out of Kardinia Park makes a lot of sense. But I mostly think that because I hate Geelong, and just want to see them have to share a stadium that all Victorians have paid for.

He uses his headshot as his avatar, which is enough to suggest he’s a [censored] - but what confirms it is the headshot makes him look like he’s auditioning to host The Price Is Right. ’Jonny Ralph…come on down’

Thanks for this info. I guess I’m some what confused as to why there will only be 35k max at the footy on Saturday and I can’t buy any tickets undercover. The AFL want me shell out $350 for these reserved tickets - but if I got GA tickets and gave them $150 I could just walk up and sit somewhere dry and not get wet. It seems ludicrous. I guess that’s what I’ll do.

Strange question, but I’d love some help. I’ve got 2 memberships, but I’m taking 5 other people to the footy on Saturday and I’d love to buy reserve seats undercover for everyone because the age group ranges from 8 to 70. Any idea how I do this? When I look on the ticketek site the seats are all garbage. Will more become available?

Maysy will just have to console himself with his Premiership medal, and the fact that every Melbourne supporter adores him.

I see Bevo is having a whinge about Naughton being blocked off his run for marks. If they start paying those as frees Max will get 5 more free kicks a game. I hope this whole thing back fires and it shows everyone how to beat Naughton, and finally allows the media to talk about #freekickbulldogs

Not their job?

I legitimately don’t think he was being a smart [censored], I just think he’s an excited kid. He’s so young. There’s no need to take the joy out of everything is there?

Oh that’s cool. I was on the wing, and perhaps it got drowned out by the sound of North supporters constantly booing?

Are you in the cheer squad? Any special plans for our home game as Narrm this week? Was listening yesterday at the ground, but didn’t hear any ‘Narrm’ chants.

Gees I’ve watched a lot of games of footy this year with very, very ordinary crowds. The AFL has to be concerned.

I reckon there was 5,000 North supporters there, but they booed and whinged as if there was 50,000 of them. The atmosphere was weird, and only got stranger with Norths insistence on making their ‘activations’ as American as possible. It just doesn’t feel like a football ground. It’s like a big basketball stadium. They’ve added giant screens, but all they do with them is run commercials on the side - so you don’t get to see anything at a better resolution. It’s a dud stadium. If the AFL had its time again they’d do a lot differently.

I just saw footage of the pregame at Dreamtime at the G. That Richmond circle around their indigenous players was class! Hearing people yell out ‘Car’n Narrm!’ at the footy today was brilliant. It’s easy to be cynical about what impact optics create, but I really think this stuff is critical in the evolution of our country, and who we want to be.

Meh Crows

She sounds like the kind of person this country needs a lot more of!

So you’re saying your wife has questionable taste? (Sorry, couldn’t help myself)

They were really sour today all day. I was a bit surprised at how often they whinged and had tantrums about obvious free kicks. They seemed very unlikeable - and I’d know.