Demons banish ghosts of Queen's Birthdays past
Melbourne won their first Queen's Birthday game against Collingwood since 2007 by 46 points.
Rohan Connolly, a senior football writer for The Age and radio broadcaster with sports radio station 1116 SEN, has been covering the game since 1983. A multi-AFL Media Association award-winner known for his passion and love of the game, he analyses the AFL for the newspaper and contributes a blog and weekly video, "Footy Fix", for The Age's football website, Real Footy.
Melbourne won their first Queen's Birthday game against Collingwood since 2007 by 46 points.
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Melbourne coach Paul Roos labelled the Demons' victory over Collingwood another step along the club'sĀ evolution.
In 33 years I've only awarded three perfect player scores. Patrick Dangerfield's stellar performance on Saturday night was one such effort. Here are the others.
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North Melbourne faces their most challenging week of the season after their second loss of the season, a spate of injuries, and only six days to prepare for another big game against Hawthorn on Friday night.
Patrick Dangerfield played the best individual game of the season as Geelong defeated North Melbourne by 31 points at Etihad Stadium.
West Coast have been dominant at home and dismal away, but it's far from season over for the Eagles, according to their opponents in the run home.
With apologies to at least seven midfielders, here's the team.
No MItchell, no Priddis, no room as Rohan Connolly struggles to fit all his candidates into his best 22 of the year so far.
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