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In contrast to last week I had to scratch my head to find anyone worthy, but here goes ... 6 K Pickett 5 Steele 4 Gawn 3 Petty 2 Langford 1 XL

You can't drop Melksham after that game. You can't NOT bring in Fritta after his last game either.| Sadly, Laurie will probably go if Fritta is fit. Not sure what's happening with Rivers.

"bring out your dead..." St Kilda, Carlton & Gold Coast so far

He took a couple of overhead contested marks today that others - more experienced - would have missed. He's very very good.

He's been really good the last 2 weeks

6 Kozzie Kozzie Kozzie (first time I remember him backing up a super/BOG game with another the next week. So much of his foot passing today was breathtaking) 5 Steele of the century. Turning out to be one of the best trades we have done in years. Smashed it in the middle so Anderson and Rowell had limited imopact. 4 Maximus. Dermie on SEN was saying before the game that even though he thought Gawn was a better overall ruckman, Witts would beat him on the tap. Max smashed Witts and Dermie had to admit he was wrong. 3 Milkshake. Just for that mark alone he deserves votes. Great to see him back in the side playing well. 2 Sharp. This kid runs and runs and reminds me a bit of ANB. Glad he got some reward for hius efforts today (ie a goal). 1 Salem. Best game in a while for the old fella. Special mention to Langford, Mihocek, XL and ... everyone actually.

He's been looking good, but he's missed 3 gettable goals so far. What a difference it would be if he'd snagged 5 so far.

what's the url? Asking for a friend.

6 Lever (took 10 marks for the game, and the only player IMHO who strung together 4 quarters) 5 Kozzy (record 33 possessions, his last quarter was surreal with his tackling and goal) 4 Steele (16 tackles! Boy did we need his hardness and he helped turn things around after Q1) 3 Max (say no more) 2 Windsor (his third quarter!) 1 Fritta (4 goals in the 2nd half was a welcome return to the Fritta we know and love)

Its been a few years since I took up the 3 game membership option so things might have changed. On the MFC app you can access tickets and choose to activate one of your 3 games. It should connect to your Ticketek account and automatically generate a bar code for your daughter to use.

Did anyone else hear the Fox promo about our game tomorrow? Apparently it's the 250th game for McDonald and STYNES.

IMHO the lasso rule has been a roaring success. It's kept the ball in play more often and removed most of the 50/50 boundary calls where umpires had to make a call about 'intention'. Obviously there will be examples of bad decisions, but I think this rule is a keeper

I kind of think this is the point, though not yours. Announcing that you're gay and played AFL football should not be of concern or interest to anyone. So why is it? Why don't we know about other AFL players being gay? Given that statistically they'll be amongst the 660 AFL listed players, obviously those who are gay aren't currently comfortable in announcing it (eg at a Brownlow function). That is why we should applaud past players who announce their sexuality so that one day, in the future, AFL players won't care and no-one will be "very surprised that in [2026] people care and report on what someone else’s sexual preference is". When they're not surprised, society has moved on.

I had to say this arvo "go, mate" to my Geelong supporting colleague who was dreading driving down to Geelong in this weather. Us footy fans in the office have an understanding that when your team's playing you can leave work early if necessary and you're not expected to do weekend work that would make you miss the game. It's a bit of a 'nudge wink' kind of arrangement but it removes resentment and creates camraderie amongst us footy fans.

Sadly, one of our players had ~"Sweet Caroline" and when they kicked a goal it probably got the biggest crowd sing a long.