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Garland? You'd have to be joking.

I think it is time to end our farcical, schizophrenic attitude to where Martin plays his footy. He strung about ten of his best 15 games together last year as a back-up ruck to Jamar who went forward and kicked a few goals. Let's work on him there and develop his prowess forward. With Clark there now, the back-up ruck just has to be dangerous enough to take a good tall forward away from Watts or Jurrah leaving those two with the third and fourth talls and making life more pleasant for rpfc.

Xavier Tanner I presume. Unfortunately, his highlight reel is full of heroics at North Melbourne, and very little from his couple of years as a Demon.

Here we go again...it's SELLAR! Can't even get our players names right.

Thanks for such a great review of my book. As was mentioned above, this book really only recounts the first chapter in Liam's incredible journey. Assuming he has a full uninterrupted pre-season, which will be his first ever, a fitter and stronger Liam Jurrah should take his game up another level next year. Thanks to all Dees supporters who have cheered him on and taken him to their hearts. Finally, an apology from me for occasionally being overly sensitive to criticism levelled at him by Demonland posters.

I used to think it was silly to talk about delistings this soon, but in the last couple of years I've done a full 180 and decided it's actually very important, because it effects the list management decisions we make in the short term. Harrington and co would already have had a conversation like this one months ago. I wonder whether this impacted on the decision retain Joel Macdonald and to a lesser degree contracted players like Dunn and Bate; moving them on this year would've meant we had another kid from a very low draft pick on a two year contract next year when we need to clear spaces. I'd be looking to set aside two spots for rookie promotion - in this early forecast Nicholson has got to be a certainty and it's not unreasonable to expect we might want to promote one of Evans or Lawrence depending on how the year pans out. As RL said we've got two compo picks plus Viney coming in, and no doubt we'll want to use our second round pick as well (assuming Viney consumes our first rounder) - that's a total of six players we need to clear out. These are my six as of now: Macdonald Dunn Bate Jetta Spencer Strauss Obviously this is the very early forecast and there's a whole season to play out, so there's a lot of scope for changing my mind, though I'm not expecting my mind to change on the first three. I struggled with number six - I chopped and changed with Strauss and Bartram in my mind in particular, but I think it's far enough out that it doesn't matter yet anyway. So long as we keep in mind that we need to clear six players out.

You've gone very early, but Spencer, Dunn, Bate, Batram, Jetta and Fitzpatrick all need to show considerable improvement.

One would have to presume that he has sat down and had "the chat" with the coaching staff (presuming that they could actually contact him; and if they couldn't, end of conversation) and the necessary 100 pc commitment wasn't found, or he wouldn't have been delisted in the first place. Obvious enormous talent, but commitment underwhelming.

No he Played for Melbourne , Was a very good player, and made a decision in his best judgement for himself. I would like to see anyone on this website turn down 1Million dollars a year. Give it a rest, i am getting sick of it

How appropriate that the Bulldogs have a player from Labrador training with them.

Yes. Gary Ablett Jnr doesn't have hair.

Moloney's 2011 was a vast improvement on what I thought he was capable of at the start of the season. He's still not an A-grade midfielder; rather, he is a B-grader capable of A-grade performances when the circumstances are in his favour. As other have noted already, his output was drastically lower against the very best teams. The round 1 draw against Sydney was his only good game against decent opposition and he was positively ineffectual against most of the best sides. Jones was a different kettle of fish. His effort could not be faulted, even if his execution was lacking at times. Moloney might have won the B&F and polled the most Brownlow votes but I rated Jones' year superior in most facets.