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It was a win we had to have, now we need to follow it up with a win against Richmond. one game at a time.

Collingwood loosing Goldsack is probably a win for us, thought bringing in white at the last minute may change the dynamics of who plays on who due to his extra height.

Weeds goal

Dees are out to $3.00 to win on sportsbet. love it. The beauty of playing Collingwood, they have some many supporters willing to put their money on them regardless of how well they are playing that the bookies have to shorten their odds on and try to entice more people to back Melbourne with longer odds otherwise they take a bath... I am more than happy to take some of their money.

Port will want to play someone that they think they can beat, no point getting a gig there and having the opposition appealing to the locals more than them. As they like to play us in the NT on our home game they are not likely to want to give that up, so if we did play them a second time it would be their home game, and as pointed out they don't want to waste a home game, so it will probably be one of the northern teams. GWS is probably too dangerous, so are the swans, so that leave Brisbane and the Suns. If I was them I would do some feng shui to make sure the team the picked had less appear to the locals.

gee I am really disappointed in the standard of umpiring, players getting belted and pushed around, dropping the ball all over the place and they let the game go on until they pull one out of the pack. Seen far too many soft frees this round in marking contests up forward, it is a disgrace to see charity goals given like that. Even worse is seeing players bend at the knees and pick up the head high tackles.

Buckley has no doubt see the replay of our last two games, and where we failed badly, besides the usual poor disposal, it was the height of Danniher as well as all of the tall Kangaroos, I wonder if he will bring in Cox who is an emergency and play him out of the goal square. Keep cloak as CHF and give Moore a half forward flank.

unless dank has hard evidence that asada is going to believe then this is going no where. Even if he has hard evidence he has already demonstrated that he is an uncooperative and unreliable witness so again, no action can be taken. He is just a monkey trying to rattle the bars to get attention, but a monkey looks cute, he just looks a fool.

Sorry I did not see the show. is Danks who said he gave the essendon boys absolutely nothing now saying he gave the demons drugs!

On paper an on form we should have this, but our mental fragility is the question, are we going to come out trying to beat Collingwood by 100 points or are we coming out just hoping to win and being satisfied by staying close to them on the scoreboard. The dees have to set their sights high and give themselves a stretch target not just aim to get the 4 points by a point or a goal, we need to win and win well.

Another game we should win, I hope our guys have turned the corner and are going out to win every battle, every kick, every game.

This will be a real test for the Dees, can they get up after Saturdays nail biting loss. The pies will throw everything at us, they have to win or else they will be in a huge amount of trouble with their supporters and coach. I just hope the dees come to play and don't take this game lightly, like they did with Essendon.

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I don't understand this keep giving players are not performing WELL another chance. We want out best team on the ground every week if we have players who are not playing particularly well and we have players who can fill that role in the wings waiting them bring them in. No ones position in that team should be considered safe, well except for Max Gawn. Everyone else needs to play for the position every week. Have an off week or two and someone is playing better then sorry. Garlett, O Mac, Brayshaw and ANB in Vince (susp), Bugg, AVB and Wagner out

frost forward to assist in forward height and pressure, OMac back in for Vince who is likely to get at least 1 week. Garlett in for bugg and Brayshaw for AVB. Last possible change is Wagner go for ANB.

What a game, we have again found a way to win a game we could have won but given this was a far better side than many we did well. We had chances but did not take them. No point blaming Watts, he was trying to honour a pass from Hogan. As I recall Watts stats kicking from that side on that angle at the MCG were pretty bad, so maybe he wanted to make sure. Does not matter we had a lot of other poor turnovers, bad frees, 50 meters given and lucky that a couple of other 50 meters were not, as well as miscellaneous poor shots from goals or passes directly to the opposition. All in all a great effort, North are a pretty good side. The choice of keeping Lumumba in was a good one, he gave us run off the backline. Maybe frost was not the best option, but we needed a extra tall to take the ruck, he was one of the two options. He will probably be a decent player given a bit more time. We do have a problem with only having Maxxy, while did a super human effort today, North did get back into the game every time he was off the ground. All in all we are young side, very unlikely to make the 8, but looking to improve this year is about getting our game plan together and getting some consistency for our playing group as a team and getting same game time to our newer players. Today was a great start.

he may have missed by he was still wearing a Melbourne jumper they will give him 2 weeks

Look on the positive side you can get that $50 back by putting $10,000 on North to win as they have an even better chance of beating us now.

We have trouble covering really tall opposition forwards we don't have a player to cover them. Brown stitched us up last time, Cloak tends to have his better days against us. Daniher has become almost a legend at bomberland from his game against us, etc.. We need a backman who can play on a real tall. While Dunn does try he is still out marked to regularly, luckily he does a lot of body work to try to keep his player out of the game.

Does anyone know who was supposed to have been on McDonald-Tipungwuti because he just ran riot from what I saw and heard.

Hard to see any real game plan in the crap dished up in both matches. Yes we had two excellent brief passages of play/skill and structure against the GWS that resulted in multiple goals while shutting the opposition out. But 2 out of 8 quarters is not enough. We seemed to have a lot more inside 50's this year (so far) but it seems to be bouncing out just as quick and often back to the oppositions goals/points. We need stronger defensive pressure in our forward line and someone marking those bombs into the forward 50 that opposition players seem to have no trouble picking up and marking.

We bomb it to Hogan in the square because that is where he is. If he lead up the field a bit more then maybe we could pass it to him. Unfortunately he is usually having to wrestle himself free from one or two opponents who either man handle or try to shepherd him out of the contest. We need players to get between him and his shadow to give a meter on his opponents.

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I wont mind petracca and have suggested he come in, but most people here seem to think he needs a few weeks to cook in the VFL, I would still prefer him to play this week even half baked.

Everyones Talls give us trouble, we just continue to hope they dont cannot kick straight on the day...