Machsy

Brisbane - I'd take Mayes, Aish, Rockliff or Rich off their hands. Carlton - I'd like Menzel plus serious change. Collingwood - I'd be happy with Sidebottom. Geelong - would want but never get Duncan. He is pure calmness and class. Like a second coming of Enright, but plays midfield. Geelong wouldn't give up adequate compensation. GWS - won't want talls except for defenders (Durdin?) but I'd look at Shiel, Plowman or O'Rourke. Richmond - would have to give up Vlastuin or Conca. Ellis is overrated. St Kilda - Jack Steven, or a kid like Billings. Can't see it happening. Bulldogs - I'd want MacRae, but he's their only class. Desperately need a decent forward as Jones is an embarrassment. Play hardball with them. Maybe Stringer, but I get a bad feeling about him.

Careful, Goddard looks scarily similar to Watts...

Dunstan has done well. But he's not a pick 2, as was being advocated. He's a Brock McLean clone, as I said at the time. Petracca is a HFF. Not what we need, and not good enough for pick 1 either. That's madness.

Petracca?! FFS...

Time is a flat circle, Saty.

You're right, we won't. Because I watched his kicking action and it was awkward, robotic and lacked penetration. Won't see him playing at Sturt for a while, due to wrist surgery, I believe.

Setting the bar pretty low to say he was an excellent kick. Salem, Watts, Strauss, Toumpas, Vince... These guys belong in that category. Not Taggert. Being a good decision maker isn't much use if you can't get your hands on the footy, even at VFL level. He was ok overhead from what I saw. It probably didn't help him being played out of position on a HFF, but even when we were short in the midfield he didn't seem to get a go. The brief stints he had in there seemed to be ineffectual. I missed the one supposedly spectacular game he played, and watched keenly at VFL matches from then on. I never saw anything to suggest the hype was justified.

Ask Mark Neeld. That's all it took to impress him. ... I wonder if Taggert being the only one to write him a letter says something about how much he inspired prospective draftees to want to play for him..?

I agree, and I can't for the life of me figure out what "weapons" he had. What were his outstanding attributes? Being a little bit taller than a stock standard mid? Letter writing?

I think all the midfielders we brought in (Vince, Cross, Michie, Tyson, Riley) were better than Taggert and he already couldn't get a game. Wasn't likely to this year. What would another year on the list do for him? It was a pretty weak draft though, not a lot of stars shining through just yet.

Put the moz on us with Frawley, is what you did! Not that he'll leave, but thanks to a nothing article we now have to suffer through all the incessant fear-mongering, woe-betide-is posting behaviour, and even worse, the fools who throw themselves forward in a desperate effort to be the first to vocally proclaim Frawley is a certainty to leave.

Ian Man?

Even if he were keen, I think there are better out there we should be targeting, and his type are easy to come by.

I'd like to believe that you often write musings involving Handel on your iPhone, and as such autocorrect has altered your post. It's more entertaining to me than a simple pun.

I don't think Betts works hard enough defensively. I think he is one of the players holding Carlton back, and we don't want that.