Post match. Pies demolish Dees - All comments.

[jackcass]

Ugly win but sometimes that's a good thing for teams to do. Remember, 11 players with under 50 games (Langdon, Witts, Grundy, Elliott, Thomas, Keeffe, Williams, Fasolo, Dwyer, Frost, Seedsman) makes this a very inexperienced team.

Add to that Maxwell, Sidebottom, White, Adams, Karnezis, Clarke, Sinclair, Brown, Lynch, Scharenberg, Freeman, and Gault didn't play at any level for the Pies this weekend and we still beat the Dees at AFL and VFL level.

Take that, next!

[Kosh]

[GreekLunatic]

why do people bang on about melb improving. I went to the game and the way melb played could have put anyone too bed we won ugly but id take 4 points

[Funkadelic]

Wasn't pretty but 3 goals against is very good defence, thought a lot of the young guys stood up down back was great to see. Thought the caff had a really good game also. 4 points, no injuries, next!

[hermie]

Clinton Young was only good today because the dees recognized that if he has the ball they generally get it back,how does he kick it lace out to the leading backman?because he is just not that good,if he was the hawks would have kept him.Also never seen an afl footballer miss a target with a handball as much as him,seedsman is a much better option

[Doc63]

Well, considering one side was trying to win, and the other was just trying not to get thrashed, it was a pretty good effort.

Really, if they are happy serving that crap up every week, its just a matter of time before the wall breaks, and they revert back to getting pumped each week. And their supporters seem happy with the effort. Its a very taxing game plan to play week in week out.

Anyway, I though Young was very good. Just the type of player that can be very damaging against that game plan. Seedsman too, though not as good as last week, his 10 running bounces really broke the lines on a few occasions.

Frosty & Keeffe were great down back, but really, how would you like to be a key forward with that set up?

Pendles & Swanny drifted in & out of the game at times, but I thought Caff was excellent all game. Clokey did as well as could be expected in that type of game, and I think Goldy is going to break some poor bastard in half one day.

So, 8 & 3 at the half way mark. I'll take that, especially after getting pumped in round 1. On the Dogs, we need another percentage boos this week.

[Doc63]

[Doc63]

[Cam]

Crowd was 68000 according to the scoreboard not 58k... Packed with Dees fans who don't have the passion that we do. Had we been on the end of that umpiring display the cacophony would have been boo-licious.

Frosty and Langdon. Wow. From nowhere.

Not sure what is up with Swanny.

Melbourne's one plan was do not kick to a risky proposition. Then occasionally they turned it over with some brain fade. Waste of an evening watching that tripe. It was like running in the ocean. Blah.

[Doc63]

[didick]

[didick]

I was walking through Fitzroy Gardens to the G about an hour before the game and I was amazed to see Mick Malthouse walking through in his Blues gear and carrying a training bag. He clearly didn't want to be seen and wanted to get where he needed to without attracting attention. I'm a pretty fast walker but I couldn't keep up with the old campaigner. Then the crossed the road, not at a crossing, through traffic and escaped out of sight by an underpass under the rail line.

[Raw Hammer]

[collie dog]

[Neil Appleby]