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Jack can be as unsociable as he likes. Don't care about giving away free kicks if it completely throws the opposition off their game.

Trade to GWS for two first rounders, on-trade one for Prestia, on-trade another for _________ and keep pick 4 for Parish?

Gary seemed to know more than he was letting on.

GWS are doing a very healthy job of getting multiple top 10 draft picks in their club every year AND retaining their best selections from years past. Of course, they're only in that position because of the extremity of their draft concessions in the first place. They can now lose depth players and get first rounders in return. No other team has that luxury.

The best teams need to build their core through the draft then recruit the missing pieces. We're still a few more drafts away from being in that position.

If he goes to North he's an idiot. They're going nowhere. I've heard Collingwood have offered him $200k more than GWS have, per year. GWS offered him the same deal as Shiel.

Best mates since they were kids. He re-signed with the Giants last year though.

Would be amusing if the truth revealed that both of them rated Toumpas higher than Wines.

It's most likely due to confidence in his body, especially after the injury concerns with his back, etc. He'd be rightly concerned about penetrating kicks and the risk it poses to his back. As long as he stays healthy the confidence will sort itself out.

Patty's manager Paul Connors flew into Adelaide today. He'll be meeting with Patrick either tonight or tomorrow. Make of that what you will but the timing is hard to ignore, to say the least.

No harm in just signing a simple 1 or 2 year contract extension with Adelaide and delay his free agency. It gives him a chance to just put it out of his head, focus on footy and see where the chips fall for both clubs in 12 months time. If he waits, I think he'll find Geelong fall in a heap and Adelaide actually contend within a year or two.

Would be ecstatic if this happened, not only to screw over Geelong for their laughable arrogance, but it would say a great deal about Dangerfield's character if he stayed true to his club after the events of the last month. I imagine he's going through a really difficult period at the moment, but after that match yesterday I reckon it'd be impossible to walk away. Rightly or wrongly, he would be derided by punters for walking out now.

Roos probably wouldn't come out and say that unless something was in the works. Who knows, maybe Prestia's all a sideshow?

Like his parents, Prestia was a member of Melbourne Football Club as a youngster and supported the Dees until draft day in 2010. His dad Osi has been involved with Melbourne coterie groups and still supplies fruit for the red and blues to this day. The lures to go home were strong. "There was always the temptation of going home to Melbourne," Prestia told the AFL Record this week. "But I thought, 'I've already started here, I've already gone through hard times at the club, where we got smashed every week, and now we were coming into the phase of winning games' … I just thought there was no point leaving." http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-05-25/prestia-home-in-the-sun Those quotes have new meaning given the drugs revelations; he went through the hard times when the club started and I would imagine he's less than pleased to be in the same position after only 5 years.

His family has ties to the MFC, so it makes sense. Not unlike Aish with his ties in SA.

600k at 4 years would be band 1 compo, based on Frawley's compo.

There's enough inept clubs that would pay well overs for him anyway. I could see North, Carlton and Richmond all putting forward offers to Garlo. The AFL will probably look after us again, depending on how we finish off the year.

So did he take home a lovely Melbourne-based brunette last night?

We can look at free agents all day long, but they ain't gonna come to our club unless they're DFA.

God help us if this boy leaves our club, because nothing will save the MFC if that happens.

There are actually people who want Hogan dropped to the twos? Like, seriously? You'd be cracking the shits as well with constant, moronic bombs into your forward line.

It's hard to work out what happened on Saturday. Was it Ablett? Was it the Suns being resilient after an awful week? Was it North Melbourne not bothering to turn up, or just being found out? I suspect we'll have a clearer idea in a few weeks.

FWIW, isn't Jaeger part of the "God squad" with Ablett? He doesn't strike me as a disloyal type, but if he's looking at property in Melbourne with a girlfriend living down here, plus the turmoil up there... who knows.

Interestingly enough, I'm well informed he's having an extended period of time in Melbourne at the moment. Recovery related I wonder? Or...