Behind the scenes: capturing the Melbourne moments

AFL Media senior photographer Michael Willson goes behind the scenes of Melbourne’s round nine clash against the Brisbane Lions at the MCG and delivers an outstanding pictorial gallery of the club’s match day …

10:46am - Senior coach Paul Roos walks from the car park to the change rooms

10:52am - Captain Nathan Jones and Colin Garland make their way to the change rooms

10:53am - Bernie Vince and Billy Stretch prepare to have their taping done before the match

10:56am - Paul Roos makes notes on the whiteboard in preparation for the team meeting

11:29am - Jeff Garlett makes his way onto the ground

11:35am - Jeff Garlett, Nathan Jones, Jack Watts and Max Gawn share a laugh as they read the AFL Record

11:39am - Billy Stretch warms up before the match

11:43am - Colin Garland watches the women's exhibition match before the clash with the Lions

11:49am - Jack Viney ties his bootlaces

11:50am - Christian Petracca and Jack Viney prepare for the team's first warm-up

11:51am - Jesse Hogan listens to music while getting some physio work

11:53am - Tomas Bugg relaxes in the rooms

11:58am - Jayden Hunt stretches his back

12:05pm - Paul Roos offers some words of encouragement to Jack Viney

12:22pm - Skipper Nathan Jones prepares for some boxing

12:27pm - Max Gawn focuses before the team runs out for its first warm up

12:52pm - Tom McDonald puts on his guernsey before the match

12:55pm - Paul Roos addresses his players in the team meeting

12:56pm - Paul Roos exhorts his players to follow the game-plan in the team meeting

12:57pm - Max Gawn pauses as he looks at the number 11 on the back of his jumper

1:02pm : Ben Newton and Nathan Jones grapple before the match

1:04pm - The team walks up the race and enters the arena

1:12pm - Paul Roos ponders a move from the coach's box

1:20pm - Jack Viney attacks the ball with typical ferocity

1:43pm - Backline coach Jade Rawlings shows his players statistics at quarter-time

2:16pm - James Harmes sprints away with the ball

2:28pm - At half-time, midfield coach Ben Mathews takes players through first-half vision

2:29pm - The players listen as Paul Roos analyses the first half

2:30pm - Paul Roos drives home the message as he prepares his players for the second half

2:36pm - Nathan Jones speaks with the players before the second half begins

2:39pm - Ben Kennedy keeps a close eye on play as the second half begins

2:45pm - Paul Roos relays messages to the interchange bench from the coach's box

2:48pm - Max Gawn puts everything into this handpass

3:09pm - Paul Roos speaks to his players at the three-quarter time huddle

3:10pm - James Harmes gets a massage as he listens to the three-quarter time address

3:12pm - Coach-in-waiting Simon Goodwin speaks to the forwards at three-quarter time

3:22pm - Viv Michie is mobbed after his first AFL goal

3:50pm - Christian Petracca thanks the Demons faithful after a victory over the Lions

3:52pm - Tomas Bugg, Nathan Jones and Jack Viney sing the team song

3:56pm - Players share a laugh with Jeff Garlett in the post-match team meeting