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I think she may be wrong on that one. Someone will punt we will take him with our 2nd round, especially a SA club, who would probably be happy to have him if we declined.

Do Adelaide still have draft penalties this year? If so its only Port at pick 12-18 we'd have to worry about.

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Do Adelaide still have draft penalties this year? If so its only Port at pick 12-18 we'd have to worry about.

no, they are back in the draft, as they surrendered picks when Tippett left.

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It was a good typo so I'll leave it there! Maybe he will go Ok on Demon master chef next season, who knows.

GRRM I appreciate your comment. Not all players need to bulk up but they need to be strong enough to play. Hopefully his frame is suitable, I don't know enough about that sort of thing to pass judgement.

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I don't think we have to worry about specifically SA clubs.

That thinking was maybe relevant 20 years ago.

It's a national game now.

Scott Thompson sends his warmest regards

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Scott Thompson sends his warmest regards

He sent his warm regards 9 years ago.

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i still refer to him as 'that traitorous f..k'.

absolutely loathe him for walking out as he did.

How did you view Jeff White ?

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If there is a club that rates Billy before our second pick we'll have to use it.

If no club rates him first round, we only have to worry about clubs who finish lower than us on the ladder rating him round 2: i.e. St Kilda, GWS, Lions - at the moment. Anything other than that scenario would see him go Round 3.

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no problems with white because unlike thompson he didn't threaten to sign with west coast (like thompson did with richmond) for a year with the agreement that they'd trade him back to a melbourne club (or adelaide in the traitor's case) at the end of the year.

freo did very, very well out of trading white. pick 2, which they on-traded to the tigers for chris bond. oops...

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no problems with white because unlike thompson he didn't threaten to sign with west coast (like thompson did with richmond) for a year with the agreement that they'd trade him back to a melbourne club (or adelaide in the traitor's case) at the end of the year.

freo did very, very well out of trading white. pick 2, which they on-traded to the tigers for chris bond. oops...

didn't realise that Thompson did that - I thought he got homesick and asked to be traded back to Adelaide.

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didn't realise that Thompson did that - I thought he got homesick and asked to be traded back to Adelaide.

I reckon you're right. I'll find out.

I could live with that.

And if we use our second pick? Will you commit suicide?

If no club rates him first round, we only have to worry about clubs who finish lower than us on the ladder rating him round 2: i.e. St Kilda, GWS, Lions - at the moment. Anything other than that scenario would see him go Round 3.

Thanks. That's what I said. Next time feel free to press the "Like" button.

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no problems with white because unlike thompson he didn't threaten to sign with west coast (like thompson did with richmond) for a year with the agreement that they'd trade him back to a melbourne club (or adelaide in the traitor's case) at the end of the year.

freo did very, very well out of trading white. pick 2, which they on-traded to the tigers for chris bond. oops...

Dont thinknhe did that.

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didn't realise that Thompson did that - I thought he got homesick and asked to be traded back to Adelaide.

I was under that impression too, and if I remember correctly we traded him really early on and got it done and out of the way. Happy to stand corrected though.

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didn't realise that Thompson did that - I thought he got homesick and asked to be traded back to Adelaide.

My brother, who knows the family, told me that Scotts father fell out with Neil Balme (correction - Neale Daniher) because Balme (Daniher) kept playing Scotty injured.

The dad said "play him again injured and he will never play for Melbourne again". And so it happened.

Now this is hearsay but I believe my brother.

Edit:- Must not get my Neils Neales confused.

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My brother, who knows the family, told me that Scotts father fell out with Neil Balme because Balme kept playing Scotty injured.

The dad said "play him again injured and he will never play for Melbourne again". And so it happened.

Now this is hearsay but I believe my brother.

Neil Balme? Didn't realise Scott Thompson was playing in the mid 90's.... I think you might mean Neale Daniher...

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My brother, who knows the family, told me that Scotts father fell out with Neil Balme because Balme kept playing Scotty injured.

The dad said "play him again injured and he will never play for Melbourne again". And so it happened.

Now this is hearsay but I believe my brother.

Did not know that either !

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Anyone get to one of the U18 games to see Billy play? He was getting some harsh reviews from SA posters on bigfooty for his poor footskills early on. Seemed to go alright in the one SANFL game I saw him play, but most of his disposals were handballs.

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Neil Balme? Didn't realise Scott Thompson was playing in the mid 90's.... I think you might mean Neale Daniher...

Sorry bout that, I stand corrected.

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And if we use our second pick? Will you commit suicide?.

Is everyone on this site a sanctimonious [censored] or is it only reserved for the special few.

There are some good posters on here but a majority seem to be sad wankers whose entire lives revolve around having petty semantic arguments with strangers online or trying to assert some kind of moral/intellectual superiority over others. Heres a tip, unless you're gonna share an opinion of your own and not just ridicule the opinions/thoughts/musings of others just shut the [censored] up you dont actually have to comment on every little thing.

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Is everyone on this site a sanctimonious [censored] or is it only reserved for the special few.

There are some good posters on here but a majority seem to be sad wankers whose entire lives revolve around having petty semantic arguments with strangers online or trying to assert some kind of moral/intellectual superiority over others. Heres a tip, unless you're gonna share an opinion of your own and not just ridicule the opinions/thoughts/musings of others just shut the [censored] up you dont actually have to comment on every little thing.

I think you just did what you are complaining about.

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Is everyone on this site a sanctimonious [censored] or is it only reserved for the special few.

There are some good posters on here but a majority seem to be sad wankers whose entire lives revolve around having petty semantic arguments with strangers online or trying to assert some kind of moral/intellectual superiority over others. Heres a tip, unless you're gonna share an opinion of your own and not just ridicule the opinions/thoughts/musings of others just shut the [censored] up you dont actually have to comment on every little thing.

Well, I laughed.

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  • So Pickett fence has friends who have friends who have friends.....wow.....ground breaking stuff, maybe we shouldn't go near Billy Stretch then.

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