Todd on defensive laspes, crowd figures keep going up, and Burns

MORNING all, on this Melbourne Cup Day.

The day where many of you will probably place a bet, attend work functions, get pissed at the pub or all of the above.

While the nation stop for about three minutes to watch a couple horses race from one end of a Flemingtion track to another, Perth Glory are probably still licking their collective wounds after Sunday's game - which even made international media, though probably because El Zorro stuck a shiny sword into the bodice of the Glory.