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https://www.sen.com.au/news/2017/08/10/you-re-a-coward-if-you-boo-james-hird-robbo The only coward I see is the head footy writer at the Herald Sun who protected Hird during the drug saga and was a cheerleader for the disgraced Essendon Football Club. If only the term 'fake news' was around during that time, Robbo would have been crowned the king.

Bench for mine - Brayshaw, Stretch, Weideman, Maynard Emergencies - Watts, Harmes, Wagner

Looks like Weid will play for sure. T Mac going back? Pedders surely wont play there

Two wins will only get us in if Essendon lose to the Crows, and we overtake them in percentage over the final two rounds. (This is assuming both teams lose this week and win their last 2.) We need to win all three.

Oliver, Petracca and Kelly in the midfield. Talk about the perfect blend. Three young superstars all with their own rare and incredible skillsets. Ok Ill stop dreaming now....

Roosy could get 2.5 mil per year if he went up to build that joint. I was going to say rebuild them but you cant rebuild something that never really existed.

Any journo peddling this bull shite should be barred from any access to the MFC and its players. They are essentially calling our coaches thoughtless, because you would need to be a pretty poorly run footy club to put Hogan up for trade with what hes been through this season and with all the close mates at the club that have helped him through it, not to mention the support from the club in general. The media just get worse and worse.

Elimination final 1 of 3 About time this club stood up and took its chances for the first time in god knows how long. Even when we played finals in 2004-2006 we always faded late in the season and threw away golden opportunities. It is an MFC tradition, and it has to stop this week or it never will.

You think his teammates like him? He was the captain during the whole drug saga, and his 'leadership' was a disgrace. Good riddance.

He was concussed on the weekend, that much is certain.

Are the* Sorry to be that guy.

We are going to find out so much in that time.

Glad Melk is free to play In - Brayshaw, Weideman, Hannan Out - Harmes, Pedersen, ANB Watts probably deserves to be dropped, but he loves playing on the MCG and this game is huge. You cant just replace his skill set and foot skills. But if he has another shocker hes gone.

Three rounds left, fighting for finals. I agree he has looked tired the last 2 weeks but we are fighting to make finals and he is our weapon so theres likely zero chance he gets rested. We have an eight day break so that will help any sore bodies.

We are $1.65 favourites... would much prefer to go in as the underdog.

We didnt recruit Lewis and Hibberd to not make finals. There are three games left and its all there for us to take. A massive fail if we dont get there. Every single Melbourne supporters should be sick to death of not being there in September.

The Crows will slaughter Essendrug. We absolutely must take care of business vs the Saints.

Surely we are going hard at Kelly? Surely?

Awesome, he will be cherry ripe for preseason. Imagine our opponents trying to pass the impenetrable wall of Jake Lever and Joel Smith next season,.... good luck!

Too bad Hogan is missing, he loves playing the Saints. Always tears them apart.

Calm your [censored], there is still three games left.

Port are rubbish. They had a few easy kills early in the season to get them off to a good start,. but have been exposed badly against top 10 sides. Though I have to give them credit for those early kills. If Melbourne had taken its opportunities we would be top 4.

Adding to that, Joel Selwood is out for the rest of the home and away season. They play Richmond, GWS and Collingwood.

Hawks season officially over.

Have to put the last 2 weeks behind us. If we make the finals we deserved to get there, who cares who we lost to along the way or how we got there? Every team has bad losses during the season. We have the talent do to damage in September. When team selection comes out on the Thursday night for the Elimination final, is anyone here going to give a [censored] we lost to North twice? No. We will be on cloud nine ready to play our first final in 11 years.