While I'm not a big fan of Sinclair he was there to help out the amazing Hickey given the latter's bravery in playing with a major knee injury. He did kick a great goal at one stage although he also missed other good opportunities. He may be our best bet until others are available? I'm not a big fan of playing the Lizard in the ruck.

I was at the game like others. My main observation is that our forward line looked stagnant at times and Melbourne was very effective in flooding back so that there were absolutely no options for the kicker going forward. We needed to take the game on more and get some quick ball in but that rarely happened. Rowbottom and Chad tried their best to get that going in the second half. We also lacked a lead-up forward like Heeney. Brown did that very well for the Dee's and also used his height advantage. Overall, I thought that we did well to get as close but we are not a contender this year. However, we may sneak into the top 8.