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Those kicks on friday night just showed he is mentally shot at the moment.

We gave them Martin for next to nothing. Hopefully they can repay the favour.

He has a habit of dropping the easy marks. He can't be that mentally weak surely. Hopefully it's a technique problem.

I'm comfortably satisfied that the illegal drugs Dank sourced are now in the bodies of essendon players.

A thought came to me. Is there a difference between sledging Clark about his illness and Viney riding Ablett's shoulder into the ground at every opportunity?

Beating Geelong has overtaken any self indulgent Dee fantasy i have.

To me after Kent got floored, there was a typical weak melbourne shove to Shaw before H showed up out of nowhere throwing his weight around. That really fired the boys up.

Def Garland. I had completely written him off.

Thank God for Nathan Jones. I can't imagine where we would be without him.

I'm with The Oracle. Dees by plenty.

I think he lost a lot of weight to get on top of his back/hamstring issues. He was quite a solid lad in the early years when he kept breaking down.

Essendon supporters are just unbelievable. "Just so proud of the boys". They feel like they were vindicated and they did nothing wrong. Stuff the haters, #donthesash etc etc. Remember when all of us Melbourne supporters took to social media to gloat about getting away with tanking? Yeah me neither.

This is true, but they def won't be playing this weekend at the very least.

Left out James Hird.

This is not "bad governance". This is an absolute disgrace. Illegal drugs or not, what they did to the players is horrible. If this happened at Melbourne i'd be baying for blood. Essendon supporters are such nuffies.

I'm aiming for 7-8 wins. In the first 8 rounds.

I would love to know if the rumour of Neeldy overruling Viney has any truth has any truth to it, or we just choose to believe it hoping Viney wasn't silly enough to to do what he did.

Nah. He's very good at membership telethon.

It really seems like a pattern over the last few (actually more than a few) years, that we can't convert what we train onto game day against opposition players, not witches hats. In better news, I'm a Watts basher, but he is showing some signs of belonging in that forward line finally. Let's hope he can build on this in the season proper.

I was at work for the duration of the game but just looking at the final score makes me want to take up smoking again.

I'm genuinely frightened of losing this game. It would be so Melbourne to lose to a VFL side.

I think we have next to no chance of winning this. Gold Coast are ready in my opinion, with or without Gazza. Rocket is a superb coach to boot.

Would make sense if you had the inside info. We were paying close to 2-3 bucks before the teams came out then the odds quickly swapped sides.

I'd rather he play. We seem to play even worse when the other team is undermanned.

Yeah it will be a real deterrent going forward. If you cheat your run the risk of missing 3 NAB challenge games.