Demon Head

This is Melbourne’s first crack against one of last year’s Grand Finalists. To everyone’s surprise, both Collingwood and Brisbane aren’t in the top eight at the moment and the signs aren’t promising for either of them. The Lions have struggled to win games at the MCG of late. They had a great record at home last year but this year, they can’t even win at the Gabba. There’s not much comfort in beating North Melbourne on neutral territory at Norwood Oval in Adelaide on a ground that has dimensions of 165m x 110m compared with the MCG’s 173.6m x 148.4m. Fagan reckons they got their energy back but I would argue that it doesn’t take much energy to play against a bunch of kids on a postage stamp sized footy ground. That’s where the Lions will hit a wall on Thursday night. The Demons are in great form, their team defence is elite and the midfield is pretty flash too. Brisbane will find it tough adapting to playing on the wide wings at the best stadium in the country against one of the most focused teams in the country. Melbourne will take the game and go into the break with the four points.

With the current state of the club’s injury list, I think consideration should be given to the field of players out there in the state league competitions to cover potential gaps in our lineup in the event of ongoing issues. The one clear area where the Demons seem to have a vacancy is a ready made big man to cover the rucks if Max Gawn is injured or simply needs a rest for a week.

Let’s see how Port get through today’s game against the Tigers.

6. Jack Viney 5. Angus Brayshaw 4. Christian Petracca 3. Clayton Oliver 2. Bayley Fritsch 1. Judd McVee

They are much better now than when we played them the first time this year.

How did we lose to the Dockers?

Collingwood hasn’t really had a tough game since it beat Adelaide on 30th April. Last week it was a training run against North Melbourne and today, likewise vs West Coast (they’re 7 goals up halfway through the second quarter). They are ripe for a defeat in the very near future with or without de Goey.

Wishing James Harmes all the best with his personal leave. Hope to see you back soon Harmesy!

At the Southport Magistrates Court today, Mac Andrew was fined $1,000.00 and disqualified for six months, having already been off the roads for three weeks. That’s on top of the sanctions applied by the Gold Coast Suns. An expensive, but necessary, lesson. Hope he learns from it.

I should hope that some of us would have realised exactly what was happening and called it out.

Oliver Sestan played 99 games for the Canterbury Cobras JFC in the Yarra Valley Junior Football League.

Geebus - the way we’re going, the only player at the club left whose fast will be Oskar Baker

This is the reverse of when we played them on their ground earlier this year.

Finn Emile-Brennan?

One of the Foxtel commentators said that Vic Metro’s Cam McKenzie who is a St Kilda NGA (both parents are South African) will be this year’s Mac Andrew and get picked up in the first 40 by another club.

Don’t we have a no d!ckheads policy in place?

What’s happened to Finn Emile-Brennan?

KC. Care to comment on our NGA from last year.

Anthony Caminiti was once considered very highly. Could be worth a look if club is looking to replenish key forward stocks?

6. Max Gawn 5. James Harmes 4. James Jordon 3. Luke Jackson 2. Ed Langdon 1. Christian Petracca

Ironic if we drafted a young ruckman named Tom Scully and we took him on a post season trip to China.

Why just a century?

Are there Victorian clubs interested in him?