Straight Sets Simon

Deserves a statue. Amazed by some of the recent criticism of him on here (A F in this thread), he's still criminally underrated. His kick to Lewis was really special, very few inside midfielders would even dream of kicking the ball that well.

Sitting in fourth with a healthy percentage clear of fifth is nice.

Still issues with how we kick the ball forward but a second forward would have straightened us up a lot and nullified loose Majak Daw.

I'm normally pretty scathing, but aside from some structural issues without a second key forward we simply dominated for most of the game.

Frost might get looked at for his sling tackle on Anderson at the end of the game.

Wagner had a nice game watching on replay, didn't really notice him at the ground but he was lovely and composed all game.

Not enough love for the kick by Jones to Lewis who then kicked a goal. Lewis is frustrating but his kicking for goal is great, something we need to see more of.

He had one goal kicked on him from Brown genuinely beating him in the contest.

That crumb and pass by Fritsch to Hogan in the second quarter was sublime.

We did need a second tall yesterday, that's my point. Keep up.

He did as well as anyone could one-on-one with the 200cm Ben Brown. Brown got one goal from a dumb free kick that Frost gave away, a second from a very dubious holding the man call against McDonald and another from a Gawn ruck infringement.

He provides structure and a marking target forward when Hogan is up the ground. There were at least a dozen occasions when we could not get anyone to take a mark in the forward fifty because North had numbers back and we didn't have any options. When Majak Daw is taking uncontested marks in your forward line you know something is wrong.

Just watching the replay I'd actually forgotten about the free kick Goldstein got for elbowing Lever in the head. Second worst umpiring decision of the year.

He and Bugg are the worst fumblers.

It will be interesting to see how we go up against the highly-skilled and well drilled Hawks. If we can sustain the pressure we will be a chance, but I’m prepared to see us get cut up with their excellent field kicking.

He’ll be good but we did pay overs for him.

No he didn’t. It wasn’t just the softness of the free kicks but the inconsistency of the umpires to pay them the other way, especially against Brown.

I think Brown put mayo on it, just not confident it will go our way.

I think Jetta could be in trouble.

I went to watch Melbourne circa 2012-2015.

19,000 people at the St Kilda game tonight and that included a strong Adelaide contingent.

Pedersen would have been handy today. Despite our good win, our inability to take a mark in the forward fifty hurt us a lot.

Please.

It's crazy. No team should get that much prime time, even the good ones.

Don't care because I'm loving seeing them be rubbish. A lot of lippy St Kilda supporters around who often give it to Melbourne. No doubt they are bitter they passed on Petracca.