Ricky P

That Denham bloke is an absolute goose. Not sure why people care about what he says. We played shite last week, we'll probably better this week. Bout time everyone moved on I reckon.

Such a great finals series and run in. Rnd 21 - 52k at the G to watch us beat the Swans to make the finals - plugger kicks his 100th. Rnd 22 - 76k at the G to watch us beat the tigers by 76 points. Farmer takes a screamer on Garry's head. Qualifying final - 60k at the G to watch us beat Adelaide - farmer kicks 7 or 8 on McLeod. Semi final - 88k (second biggest crowd of the season) to see us [censored] the Saints. Prelim - 73 k to see us lose to North. Too good in the wind and it was a bit wet as well wasn't it? Farmer screamer in the first minute - the crowd noise then was absolutely amazing. Malcolm Blight says after the Grand Final "Melbourne were the team we were really worried about".

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-03-28/mrp-write-off-round-one

We need top-grade talent in all positions. You can never have too many midfielders. I would carry Prestia to Melbourne.

This is pretty small time. I couldn't care less about Essendon. I also think you should find a better adjective for the golf claps...

None of these factors will be considerations. He'll play when he's fit and earned his spot. The club doesn't debut high draft picks for publicity purposes any more.

No chance he'll play next week. He hasn't played a game of football in 18 months.

Who cares? We'll [censored] them no matter which players we pick.

We've finally got actual games to talk about and we're still crapping on about the draft...

No chance Trak will play against the bombers.

Forever in our hearts.

I love Liverpool but I wouldn't call it beautiful.

I actually reckon this reads like it was written by the work experience kid.

Fascinating post WJ. As a massive Melbourne and Liverpool fan I've often reflected on how different they are. But you have identified some similarities which I never thought of! I spose the legacy of Bill Shankly and Norm Smith looming large over both clubs would be another similarity. It's fair to say Liverpool did a little bit better with their next appointment though. I wonder how different Melbourne would be if we had managed to get RDB to coach the club in 1965... On Hillsborough, well, kilometres of column space has been devoted to that, but the new inquests are meant to deliver their findings in the next few weeks and the final public memorial service will be held this year. So perhaps that fight is finally coming to an end.

Lol. We never learn.

Over the next couple of weeks we're obviously going to hear about how goalkicking is the big flaw in Jesse's game and that he is the next Travis Cloke. In case this notion is put to you by any of your mates, please feel free to furnish them with the following information: - Hogan is the 13th most accurate shot at goal since 1965 (of players who have had 50 or more shots at goal) - http://afltables.com/afl/stats/accuracy.html - Hogan was a more accurate shot at goal than any of the players in the top 10 for the Coleman Medal last year - http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/melbourne-beginning-to-look-like-a-simon-goodwin-team-after-two-years-of-paul-roos/news-story/708c2557c2fa1de1bcc54cbb617ef788 Any journos who are reading demonland (we all know you get most of your 'scoops' from footy fan forums) should also feel free to use this information in any of the razor-sharp 'analysis' they provide for the footy public.

Part of the purpose of pre-season games is to get blokes match fit. A lot of blokes looked stuffed in the second half. Ideally Maxy plays as close to the full game as possible each week as he is so far ahead of all our other options. I think flogging him yesterday is getting him ready for playing 90% game time in the real season. Also a bit surprised that Frost isn't spending time in the ruck.

Agreed. We were only a goal or so up at the start of the last but blind freddy could've told you we were going to win.

You what?

Practice games means nothing.

I reckon he's gone. Which is a massive shame because he's making a reasonable fist of it at the moment.

Sandy seems like a nice old bloke and I have a soft spot for the old-fashioned showman-type commentator, but I reckon he's past it. Calling Vince, McDonald was particularly memorable.

The NT News is easily the worst tabloid in Australia. The actual quotes did not reflect the severity of the headline. NT politics is also an absolute circus so I wouldn't be surprised if this is just Giles trying to get more money out of the AFL.

Have you tried calf raises? I had this as a footy player (much lower standard obviously) and it completely ruins your season. Calf raises fixed it.

I still have nightmares of that Sunday 5.40 pm game where Adelaide beat us about 7 goals to 4 at the G in front of 12k. We didn't kick a goal till the third quarter and Juice kicked about 4 out on the full from twenty out directly in front. To me that will always be #peakjuice