With Rivers and Moloney definite outs this week we can give a big effort and still lose honourably.

The young players will be learning every second they're on the field and I'm happy to take that.

To give Richmond a walk up start for yet another set of early draft picks would be a travesty.

Definitely time to look at the bigger picture...just have a look at the Dorks and the Blues.

(And I didn't mention the 'T' word once and I think I got away with it.)

We must pick up Naitanui and then deal hard for a low 1st rounder to get Hurley.

This will go a long way to building that spine we have sorely missed.

Don't get me wrong, Rich would be awesome too but we have a plethora of current and up coming midfielders.

Look whats happened to the Eagles without their star running players, look at the Saints not dominating the middle, look at the Bombers, did you see the Tiges on the weekend get smashed in the 2nd half by a dominant group of Crows running players?,.

We need to build on our midfield stocks to add some who can win their own hardball & also deliver pinpont to the forwards 1st up & we need another pick around 10 - 15 for a Key Forward, then more Key forwards further down the draft for insurance.

Hopefully we'll grab Robbie Warnock via tradeing someone?

After 11 rounds we have 1 win. Play the kids give them Game time. At years end have a HUGE cleanout and start afresh. Bailey has no reason to have made Favorites. He must treat the situation as a business

We've allready started fresh in 2003, and we're freshening up since, now we're extending the house to fit our kids in their own rooms. Some of these kids will be tradesmen, some will be lawyers & some will be bankers, & some will have to get out when old enough to go rent.

Let the tanking begin.

If you don't finish first, you may as well finish last.

I hate you Ricky Bobby....

With the excitment Nautini is generating, he has the potential of been a fan-favourite and a marquee player which is something we desperately need.

A type that brings supporters to the game to watch.

Even in such a dissapointing season this year, players like Auzzie Wona bring Melbourne supporters to the game because he is exciting to watch and a player of the future.

If Richmond win LESS than 5 games, even if they don't finish last (ala Carltank) they will receive a PIORITY pick in the first round.

Having aready won 3 1/2 games if they loose to us Twice our No. pick is assured. If not we've snookered ourselves.

It's "four wins or less" (16 points), not less than five wins. So Richmond's draw comes in to play there.

So the only basis Richmond could steal the priority pick at 1 is if they didn't manage to win another game all year.

Melbourne x2

Freo at 'g

WC at Subi

Essendon at 'G.

Port at Aami

Carlton at 'G.

as well as the less likely Brisbane (at the dome though), Adelaide, Geelong and Hawthorn.

If Richmond can't manage a win out of that... we'll see them in round 22. Surely we can't lose a priority pick in our last game two years in a row. It would go down in history that we copped almost as much of a penalty for winning two games against tanking opponents, as Carlton did for sustained flagrant breaches of the salary cap.

Given that Meloburne winning three more games for the year is optimistic. I'd say I'd love four wins and pick 17 as a bonus.

I'm also starting to get the Naitanui bug. Maybe I want pick 1 too...

But I'd hardly complain about Hurley coming in, being given the number 9 and told to become the next David Neitz. I can see it now - early career playing at CHB and beating Wayne Carey (sorry.. Lance Franklin) and earning AA honours, then going forward and getting another AA and a Coleman medal.

Seriously, given the hype NicNat gets, might as well spruik it up a bit for Hurley as well, just in case.

Four wins and bottom of the ladder, please!

Seriously, given the hype NicNat gets, might as well spruik it up a bit for Hurley as well, just in case.

Haha