If someone really, really has too much time on their hands, can they report on other clubs and how many nominations they have on their lists? Be interesting to see if we are a standout, or if our numbers are industry standard.

One other thing for discussion - people are always talking about our lack of decent facilities playing a big part in the development of our players, but the question I am throwing out there is how much? My personal opinion is that we are using this as an excuse. While it isn't ideal when you compare it to the power clubs, we have had it for many years so why didn't we do something about it? What I mean by that is that while the Junction Oval facilities were very basic, why didn't we use that to our advantage and have a number of state-of-the-art locations across Melbourne. Again, this is not ideal as it could involve splitting the team up at various stages throughout the week (ie. a group of players could be doing rehab in one location, while the other group could be doing weights in another location). I have not seen the facilities at Geelong, but I'm pretty sure they use multiple locations each week.

While player development is so important in the quest to win a flag, a lot of it still depends on the success of recruiting.

This is just an opinion!

No money.

I dont have that much time, but I thought I would look at a select few clubs. I chose to look at Geelong, St Kilda, Carlton, Essendon and Richmond.

Reason being - the grand finalists from last year and of course Geelong the best team for a long time.

Carlton and Essendon as they are seen as young up and coming like us.

Richmond because they are where we were last year and the year before.

The numbers are:

Geelong - 8 - Amazingly, no Ablett, Chapman, Enright, Corey or Steve Johnson

St Kilda - 11 - No Dal Santo

Carlton - 12

Essendon - 9

Richmond - 3

I am pretty sure on On The Couch on Monday night they said our 18 was a record.