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He’s worth whatever someone is willing to pay for him. Essendon will play hardball again and perhaps Sydney will blink this time.

I think last year we all mocked Mick Malthouse for being one of the only ones to not Predict a Top 8 finish for us.

Mark Robinson Top eight: Richmond, Geelong, Brisbane Lions, Western Bulldogs, GWS, Collingwood, West Coast, North Melbourne Premiers: Richmond Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Nat Fyfe Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Matt Rowell (GC) Bold prediction: Retired Richmond star Alex Rance returns at the bye break. David King Top eight: West Coast, GWS, Richmond, Collingwood, Western Bulldogs, Brisbane Lions, Port Adelaide, North Melbourne Premiers: West Coast Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Max King (StK) Bold prediction: Welcome back the 2014 version of Ken Hinkley as Port Adelaide thrives. Glenn McFarlane Top eight: Richmond Collingwood, West Coast, GWS, Western Bulldogs, Brisbane Lions, Geelong, Hawthorn Premiers: Richmond Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Matt Rowell (GC) Bold prediction: Ross ‘The Boss’ Lyon’s mobile phone starts ringing about staging a bold coaching comeback in 2021 … or perhaps even sooner. Jon Anderson Top eight: Richmond, Collingwood, West Coast, Western Bulldogs, GWS, Geelong, Brisbane Lions, Hawthorn Premiers: Richmond Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Patrick Cripps Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Liam Stocker (Car) Bold prediction: The Western Bulldogs will become the competition’s glamour team with a high‑scoring and fast‑moving brand. Scott Gullan Top eight: GWS, Western Bulldogs, Richmond, Collingwood, West Coast, Geelong, Hawthorn, Carlton Premiers: GWS Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Tom Green (GWS) Bold prediction: Essendon’s shared coaching set-up will blow up in smoke as the Dons go neck-and-neck with the Suns for the wooden spoon. Lauren Wood Top eight: West Coast, Richmond, Collingwood, GWS, Western Bulldogs, Brisbane Lions, Geelong, Hawthorn Premiers: Richmond Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Patrick Cripps Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Izak Rankine (GC) Bold prediction: Contract discussions to dominate the year right to the wire, but Jordan De Goey and Darcy Moore will stay in black and white. Jay Clark Top eight: West Coast, GWS, Richmond, Collingwood, Western Bulldogs, Brisbane Lions, Geelong, Melbourne Premiers: West Coast Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Patrick Cripps Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Matt Rowell (GC) Bold prediction: Carlton hits the jackpot with Jack Martin, who delivers a career-best year after lobbing at the Blues for free. Jon Ralph Top eight: Richmond, West Coast, Geelong, Collingwood, GWS, Western Bulldogs, Hawthorn, Brisbane Lions Premiers: Collingwood Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Patrick Dangerfield Coleman Medal: Ben Brown Rising Star: Izak Rankine (GC) Bold prediction: Gold Coast go from hunter to hunted in the list management space, linked to every out-of-contract star from Brad Crouch on. Michael Warner Top eight: Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Geelong, Hawthorn, Brisbane Lions, Western Bulldogs Premiers: Richmond Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Patrick Cripps Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Izak Rankine (GC) Bold prediction: AFL renews push for 18m goalsquare to get the green light. Rebecca Williams Top eight: Richmond, Brisbane Lions, West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Geelong, Western Bulldogs, Hawthorn Premiers: Richmond Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Patrick Cripps Coleman Medal: Jeremy Cameron Rising Star: Izak Rankine (GC) Bold prediction: Honeymoon period to wear off quickly for some of the AFL’s new coaches. Chris Cavanagh Top eight: Richmond, West Coast, GWS, Western Bulldogs, Collingwood, Geelong, Brisbane Lions, Melbourne Premiers: Richmond Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Patrick Cripps Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Matt Rowell (GC) Bold prediction: Hawthorn’s Jon Patton to prove the bargain buy of the 2019 trade period and kick a career-high 50 goals. Gilbert Gardiner Top eight: Richmond, GWS, West Coast, Geelong, Collingwood, Western Bulldogs, Melbourne, North Melbourne Premiers: GWS Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Stephen Coniglio Coleman Medal: Ben Brown Rising Star: Isaac Quaynor (Coll) Bold prediction: No coach sackings in 2020. Sam Landsberger Top eight: West Coast, Western Bulldogs, GWS, Richmond, Brisbane Lions, Collingwood, Melbourne, Hawthorn Premiers: West Coast Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Izak Rankine (GC) Bold prediction: Essendon nosedives into the bottom four … delivering new coach Ben Rutten an early compensation pick as free agent Joe Daniher successfully departs. Brad Johnson Top eight: GWS, Richmond, Brisbane Lions, Western Bulldogs, West Coast, Melbourne, Collingwood, Essendon Premiers: GWS Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Lachie Neale Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Hayden Young (Fre) Bold prediction: Melbourne to rise from 17th last year to land inside the top six. Cam Mooney Top eight: GWS, Melbourne, Richmond, West Coast, Collingwood, Geelong, Brisbane Lions, Western Bulldogs Premiers: Melbourne Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Lachie Whitfield Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Matt Rowell (GC) Bold prediction: 2019 for Melbourne was exactly like Geelong 2006. 2020 for Melbourne will be exactly like Geelong 2007 … mic drop! Daniel Hoyne Top eight: Richmond, West Coast, GWS, Collingwood, Western Bulldogs, Geelong, Brisbane Lions, North Melbourne Premiers: GWS Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Tom Lynch (Rich) Rising Star: Matt Rowell (GC) Bold prediction: We will see a record number of matches decided by under 12 points this season. Reece Homfray Top eight: Richmond, West Coast, GWS, Hawthorn, Collingwood, Geelong, Brisbane Lions, Port Adelaide Premiers: West Coast Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Josh Kelly Coleman Medal: Josh Kennedy (WC) Rising Star: Dylan Stephens (Syd) Bold prediction: Hawthorn to re-emerge as a contender. Can jump from outside the top eight to a top-four team. Tom Mitchell returns and Jon Patton a big boost. Matt Turner Top eight: West Coast, Collingwood, GWS, Richmond, Western Bulldogs, Geelong, Hawthorn, Brisbane Lions Premiers: West Coast Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Marcus Bontempelli Coleman Medal: Jack Darling Rising Star: Dylan Stephens (Syd) Bold prediction: Essendon brings Ben Rutten in as full-time coach mid-season after a poor start to the campaign. Andrew Capel Top eight: West Coast, Richmond, Collingwood, GWS, Geelong, Brisbane Lions, Western Bulldogs, Hawthorn Premiers: West Coast Wooden spoon: Gold Coast Brownlow Medal: Patrick Cripps Coleman Medal: Jeremy Cameron Rising Star: Izak Rankine (GC) Bold prediction: For the first time, South Australia’s two AFL teams will miss the finals for a third straight year.

Four-time premiership Hawk Lewis questioned Kolodjashnij’s future in the game due to the impact on his quality of life. “Football, I would hope, is so far from his mind. He had days where he couldn’t be exposed to sunlight,” Lewis told SEN on Monday morning. “If that was me, I would be making a call on my footballing future if I was suffering those types of symptoms. “I haven’t been exposed to anyone like that. When you see it day to day and you see that he is a really good guy and a happy guy, and you see the emotions that he goes through during the day – he isn’t able to do what he loves doing and he has to be home all the time because he can’t be exposed to light – that’s when it hits you. Is the game worth that?”

It’s been mentioned in Game Threads but hasn’t had its own discussion. Melbourne to move midfielder James Harmes into a new role Melbourne midfielder James Harmes is set to move into a rebounding half-back role in one of coach Simon Goodwin’s tactical changes for the new season.

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Some people would melt down if a first year player went up on a fan site banner.

Round 1 just became infinitely more important.

It's part of my MFCSS retraining program.

There was a fair amount of debate in our area as to whether the game warranted a full blown match report because it was felt that it was really an elevated version of a training session with match simulation but against a team in opposition colours. Although notionally the stronger side, North seemed to be using the occasion for the purpose of working on aspects of their game plan, one of the features of which seemed to be based on taking the longest possible route out of defence and good luck with that — I’m sure it’s not going to be a major feature when the the real thing starts but it explains in part why the Kangaroos were restricted to eight scoring shots. They were lucky that their kicking for goal was fairly good — it was the only part of the game where they were far superior to Melbourne. That’s the background to a game that never reached great heights in terms of quality apart from the performance of Jake Melksham before he departed the game at half time. Angus Brayshaw lifted his game almost to those heights when he went to the middle in the second half after a lacklustre first 40 minutes. He was immediately manhandled by the North on ball division which was a clear mistake — you ruffle his feathers at your own peril. In this case, Gus was stirred into demonstrating, albeit briefly, to all those standing in the shadows of the now non-existent gasometer, the ingredients of a third placed Brownlow finish. Let’s hope that it’s back because it was sorely missed in the Demon midfield in 2019. The area around Arden Street has certainly changed since the 60s and 70s but, despite the million dollar amenity at the southern end of the ground, it still feels like the home of one of the AFL’s poorer clubs. With a decent crowd in place, they didn’t look keen on making dollars from the sale of food to the hungry fans on hand — one of my takeaways from the game therefore is there were no takeaways; not even a single sausage roll! And on the subject of sausage rolls, the last few premiership teams have set the pace in terms of dangerous little men up forward to kick goals and while scoring was at a premium, this seemed to be a focus in yesterday’s game with Kozzie, Toby Bedford, Charlie Spargo and Oskar Baker all featuring around goal with livewire performances. I liked Tom Sparrow’s efforts, particularly in the first half before he was shoved aside in the middle by the Brayshaw cameo. Jay Lockhart is coming on and looks like being understudy to our All Star Nev down back. Mitch Brown was good too although his kicking for goal let him down. A word of commendation to the Casey boys who filled in — a good few of them including the veteran Jimmy Munro and the underrated Mitch Lewis (who always seems to be out with injury) showed they weren’t out of place at this standard which is probably half way between AFL and VFL. The team had no trouble finishing off the game which is again a contrast to 2019 but one of my highlights was Trent Rivers. His form showed why the club’s recruiters were so delighted that he was available at pick #32 in last year’s National Draft. The All Australian Under 18 has pace and, despite one blooper, disposes of the ball efficiently and gets his hands on it often. So they were my takeaways apart from the reasonably good news on the injury front which I mentioned elsewhere. Melbourne 2.4 3.8 6.12 7.13 (55) North Melbourne 2.2 3.2 3.2 5.3 (33) Goals Melbourne Bedford 2 Baker Fritsch Melksham Pickett Spargo Best Melbourne Melksham Brayshaw Spargo Rivers Lockhart Sparrow Bedford Fritsch Lewis (Casey VFL) Munro (Casey VFL)

Good news Dees fans ...

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Doesn't look like Petty will be ready Round 1.

Games like this will always be open games because they barely train together before the game, they all come from different clubs and styles and are not training for a particular style of play let alone a type of defence for it not to be a free for all.

Good to see the Dees cheersquad target being used.

Can't touch Dangerfield in any jumper.

Thank you North Melbourne Football Club.

4 picks before Fyfe too.

Josh Kelly is a freak too. Wish we could have found a way to make a play for him too.