It's time to start the annual guessing game of which guernsey numbers will be given to our new players and which players (if any) will change their numbers. Here's the current list after trades, retirements, delistings and free agency departures:-

1 Jesse Hogan

2 Nathan Jones

3 Christian Salem

4 Jack Watts

5 Jimmy Toumpas

6 Chris Dawes

7 Jack Viney

8

9 Jack Trengove

10

11

12 Dom Tyson

13 Jordie McKenzie

14 Lynden Dunn

15

16 Dean Kent

17

18 Daniel Cross

19

20 Colin Garland

21 Cameron Pedersen

22 Viv Michie

23 Bernie Vince

24 Jay Kennedy-Harris

25 Tom McDonald

26

27 Aidan Riley

28

29 Jayden Hunt

30

31 Jack Grimes

32 Michael Evans

33 Dom Barry

34

35

36

37 Max Gawn

38 Jeremy Howe

39 Neville Jetta

40 Mark Jamar

41

42 Jake Spencer

43 James Harmes

44 Rohan Bail

45 Matt Jones

46 Dean Terlich

47 Max King

48 Jack Fitzpatrick

49

50

Anybody have any inside info?

Must be some record - six players with numbers 40 plus who regularly play.

Lamumba will wear 8, Frost gets 10, Garlett gets 15, Stretch gets 30, Newton gets 26, Brayshaw gets 19, McCartin gets 17, Oscar McDonald 34.

And please, please, please retire No. 11, that number has been too abused in the last few trade/free agency periods, only bloke i'd consider giving it to is Jack Viney.

Fitzpatrick elevated to 28 maybe?

i want 17 left empty so brett lovett's son can have it when we get him next draft.

i'd really like sos in 18 as well, but perhaps he'll start with a high number, then take it over once cross retires?

I am completely over all this.

Just play guys......nothing magic in numbers, guernsey or draft for that matter.

I am completely over all this.

Just play guys......nothing magic in numbers, guernsey or draft for that matter.

What else is going on then?

Fingers crossed we can get through a year without feeling the ridiculous urge to 'reward' players by 'upgrading' their numbers.

Time to give #11 a rest.

Lamumba will wear 8

...and he will sew it on sideways so it's all mystical and whatever.

What else is going on then?

Fingers crossed we can get through a year without feeling the ridiculous urge to 'reward' players by 'upgrading' their numbers.

If numbers are meant to have some mystical powers, let us never forget the geniuses who "rewarded" the Cockatoo twins with #. 30&31

Fitzpatrick elevated to 28 maybe?

Fitzy's make or break year in 2015. We've seen what he can do in small doses. Time to back the kid in.

I am completely over all this.

Just play guys......nothing magic in numbers, guernsey or draft for that matter.

Let's all just shut up shop till April then shall we?

No talking about anything until football games start again people. Is there a cricket thread?

Elevations - No one over number 25 deserves one besides those who surely would've been offered before.

So it's a matter of placing the new guys.

Lumumba: 8 - same as his Pies number

Garlett: 36 - Davey's old number

Frost and Newton - take your picks of 17, 19 or 30

Pick 2 (Brayshaw): 10

Pick 3: 15

Stretch and pick 40: 26 and 28

Rookies: 41, 49 and 50 unless they are current players back on the list where they keep the same number

11 definitely not used. Let's wait and see if after a big year Max Gawn can step up and grab it. We know he's loyal and passionate about the club. It's just whether he's good enough to wear it.

As an alternative thinker I demand Harry O go for a ridiculously high number.

As an alternative thinker I demand Harry O go for a ridiculously high number.

I think the winner of the demon bracket each year should inherit 50 as an homage to the Demonbracket50.

Lumumba should wear 49 as it represents 7 squared, as he is the Prince of all 7 continents of the world.

I think the winner of the demon bracket each year should inherit 50 as an homage to the Demonbracket50.

Lumumba should wear 49 as it represents 7 squared, as he is the Prince of all 7 continents of the world.

Show some respect, Prince of the universe. Peasant.

Gawn 11

I must say that if I was an AFL player, who had played matches in the seniors, there's no way I would want to change my number. I'd much prefer to make whichever number I had, my own.

There's a lot of superstition around player numbers. Was it 1999 that the Wiz changed numbers to from 33 to 8 and his form plummeted, leading him to change back?

Number 1 or number 50, make it your own.

And please, please, please retire No. 11, that number has been too abused in the last few trade/free agency periods, only bloke i'd consider giving it to is Jack Viney.

Viney's got his number and he's going to make it his own in the same way his old man made #12 his own.

I would like to see it retired for at least this year.

Elevations - No one over number 25 deserves one besides those who surely would've been offered before.

So it's a matter of placing the new guys.

Lumumba: 8 - same as his Pies number

Garlett: 36 - Davey's old number

Frost and Newton - take your picks of 17, 19 or 30

Pick 2 (Brayshaw): 10

Pick 3: 15

Stretch and pick 40: 26 and 28

Rookies: 41, 49 and 50 unless they are current players back on the list where they keep the same number

11 definitely not used. Let's wait and see if after a big year Max Gawn can step up and grab it. We know he's loyal and passionate about the club. It's just whether he's good enough to wear it.

Pretty much how I'd see it.

I went up to RDB during that Melbourne v Bulldogs game where Scumdog Millionaire got a swag of possessions (think it was the pink socks fiasco match) and said: "Looks like we've finally got ourselves a decent player to wear the no.31 after all these years."

Oh dear.

Let's never speak of this again.

I went up to RDB during that Melbourne v Bulldogs game where Scumdog Millionaire got a swag of possessions (think it was the pink socks fiasco match) and said: "Looks like we've finally got ourselves a decent player to wear the no.31 after all these years."

Oh dear.

Let's never speak of this again.

Blasphemy !

With Michael Evans gone we can put 32 on ice for the arrival of Dangermouse

Lumumba 8, Brayshaw 10, Duggan 11, Frost 15, Oscar McDonald 26, Newton 28, Stretch 30, Garlett 33,

Time to give 11# to a player who will play 250+ games with heart and soul and run like the wind.

19# Taylor Walker next year