Dee Zephyr

Never ever have I seen so many Melbourne supporters on the Mernda line. We might just crack the 80k mark tonight.

And with that, Jon Ralph rises in popularity on DL.

Unbelievable, people will Demonland anywhere these days.

It’s a beautiful day out there and tonight will be special. The kids are always taken aback by the ceremony, it’s become their favourite night of the year. @WalkingCivilWar a truly special night to be out there on the G. On the game itself, I feel better with Lever back in defence.

Lol…some Carlton fans on the forums want a mini rebuild and a coaching change. You have just have to laugh at some reactions directly after a match.

I was at Casey on Friday and saw he copped a knock about half way through the session. He went off for treatment on the sidelines and didn’t finish the session, only some runs along the boundary. Just an observation.

What do you think we’ll get? 80+ would be a great effort.

The other day someone on here mentioned the expected crowd was 83,000.

Far out …still two sleeps and an afternoon nap to go. What a wait!

So the mean tweets and posts directed at him personally are warranted are they? That was my point. Mr Potato Head…really?

Wow, is it really Jackson’s fault that Freo are having a shocker? The pile on is a bit much.

Of course the only time they ping Libba for a throw is when I have him in a same gamer for possessions.

Sheesh, people parked their MFCSS in the training thread when mentioned Oliver didn’t train today. I thought everyone would’ve had kittens.😁

He did sit one drill out DP, but I saw no issue with his running, kicking and turning. Your guess is as good as mine layz, he trained and linked up well in the short match sim. The strange part is DD, Oliver was in gear ready to go and just prior to the warm-up he went in the rooms and didn’t reappear.

Arrived just before 10am and the team was starting to prepare for the session. They did some fun warm-up exercises in their respective lines to begin with. Noticed Kozzie was part of the forward group. Players on modified duties were Salem, Spargo, Verrall and K Turner with the former two running laps mostly. The serious stuff begun with some kicking and handball drills at high speed spaced out over 50m or so. The next exercise consisted of two groups split into white v blue. Basically kick to a pack and which ever team won the ground ball would try and attack with precision at high speed mainly looking for a player over the back. When this ended some of the squad mainly the whites went in the rooms, that included Brown and Melksham. The rest stayed out for some match sim. I counted about 26-27 players left. Harmes, Joel Smith and a kid in the 17 jumper with long hair (no idea who sorry) were included in the sim along with the main extended listed squad. Match sim was 13v13 and was at high intensity and fast. I have no idea how the scores were kept but it was Blue 4.20-44 to White 3.25-43. I only saw one goal and it was from Dunstan after some good ball movement. Blues won the match with the last play because Langdon marked a Chandler pass inside 50, I guess hitting a target counts as a score. Highlights in the sim included a Sparrow tackle on Laurie and Grundy taking a couple of pack marks. After this they split into their lines again for some extra work. Petty was with the forwards as was J Smith. The backline only consisted of May, Lever, Turner, McVee and Hibbo. Rivers was with the mids as was Gus. Lever, Gawn and Viney trained fully and seem ready to go. Brown also trained fully. I wasn’t going to post the following but we had reporters there asking MFC officials why Oliver didn’t train. I’m sure it will be reported he was absent. Viney and Gawn stayed out for extra work with Stafford as I was leaving. Kozzie, Trac, Grundy, Fritta and Harmes stayed out for goal kicking practice and there was also a cheer in the end of session huddle. There were a few other observers there so if I’ve missed anything maybe someone else can post it.

Yes.. he’s moving really well and so is Lever. Hibbo not looking hampered either.

Nice job Andy. What a surprise Judd has been, speaks well.

Yeah what’s up with that?

It will be interesting to see this week layz. We have often heard ANB and Spargo are two important cogs. One of them is missing this week and one thing we’re all sure of is that Harmesy’s two way running has never been an issue.

Harmes is too good for VFL.

That would be magnificent.

When they showed Viney on the screen shaking his head I couldn’t help shake my head also. Just wondering if you fellas did the same. 😁 I found Viney’s post-match interview interesting. He touched on a little about how we’ll get extra recovery and extra training heading into Richmond, something we obviously didn’t get heading into Essendon. No excuses, but we were very slow to cover the ground when Essendon switched and moved the ball. It really was uncharacteristic.

Was Sparrow out there? Some reports of a possible delayed concussion after the Merrett tackle.

Yes, I thought I saw it mentioned in an article and that it was stated in our medical report.