With the โ€˜hit and giggle' matches and the arduous pre-season training regimes now behind each team, fans, coaches, and players alike have set their sights on the real deal โ€“ Round 1.

For some clubs, the pre-season period could not have panned out better, whilst the unlucky remainder will be counting the cost of their campaigns.

Although there were a myriad of positives to be taken from the summer months, all teams will be striving to improve on their practice match form and learn from the lessons dealt out across them.

With the first bounce of the Sherrin just over a week away, we raise the big question that face each of the AFL's 18 clubs.

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Melbourne

What does their forward line look like come Round 1?

Like the famous Sixties spaghetti western, Melbourne's forward 50 entries on Monday were good, bad and ugly.

Demolished by 39-points, the Demons managed just a paltry 10 goals for the afternoon. Despite this damning statistic, the key worry for Simon Goodwin will be that only one of these majors came from a player taller than 186 centimetres.

Although the vast majority of their forward entries were chaotic at best, Melbourne did appear polished when they avoided kicking to one-on-one contests, however, their midfielders were far too keen to bomb long for most of the Labor Day clash.

Whether or not this is a tactic that has been enacted due to the injection of key forward Ben Brown is yet to be determined. What is known is that when Goodwin's men lack a tall target, Bayley Fritsch is forced to pick up too much slack.

Fritsch led Melbourne's goalkicking last season, and if key targets in Sam Weideman and Brown can't get on the park soon, it appears likely the 24-year-old will be asked to repeat his heroics.

Perhaps Majak Daw can offer some relief in the short term.

It must be mentioned that Melbourne were without many of their best midfielders for their clash against the Dogs, but there is no certainty that the Demons' entries will be cleaner or smarter once they return.

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