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7th. 251.

Too late!

1. Jones - 340 2. Viney - 340 3. Tyson - 300 4. Gawn - 278 5. Watts - 276

Just a lot less shithouse tats.

Petracca also said he was "Melbourne for life" in his SEN interview, after Maher joked about Carlton wanting him. Really setting an example of a dedicated young man who isn't getting ahead of himself, and he's bringing the rest of the team with him.

He'll definitely be the better of he and Daniel. Daniel's a solid player but not really a 'star' by my definition, and stands out like a sore thumb against winners of the past. It just highlights the farce of northern Academys; Sydney able to finish top 4 yet take the best players in the draft every year for a packet of chips. Heeney could easily have won last year if he weren't injured.

God, not Essendon, anyone but Essendon. I would almost give away the game. Drug cheating their way to picking up O'Meara for free.

... Superstar? No. Not even remotely.

I have to say, at 31 years old, Hickey was a perplexing "marquee" signing. Clearly the club knows something I don't, because I agree it seems like a mindboggling waste of 1 of our 2 selections.

Sounds like the boys are having a field day! Loving this! Great to see the team switched on.

So basically, team loses coach, plays like [censored] because they clearly couldn't stand the bloke, and as a result the AFL gives them a priority pick? What an insult. Basket-case of a club. The AFL needs to fix their back of house and pay for some facilities, but throwing a PP at them is not the way to solve Brisbane. However, I would be very favourable to a "priority draft adjustment" occurring, where Brisbane's pick 2 is switched with Essendon's pick 1, just because Essendon have zero claim to get that pick this year. It is beyond farcical.

The pathetic thing is that GWS could have their number 1 draft pick banned for 4 years and it wouldn't even impact them.

I noted that Maclure scoffed when Bomber said it, noting it was our best season in years. Aren't we also the only team in the bottom 10 who defeated Hawthorn this year? And for all the fawning over St Kilda winning 2 games more than us, half of their wins were due to luxurious double matches against us at Etihad, and 4 games against Carlton and Essendon. Their draw will be seriously harder next year.

It was Bomber, King and Maclure, though Bomber was the one who covered our team. He looked utterly clueless though, constantly looking down at some papers in front of him. A few bulbs short of a light, is Bomber.

According to the geniuses on Fox Footy tonight, apparently they rate Essendon and St Kilda a C+ for their season, while we are rated a D.

That depends on what cuisine you ate the night before.

That is daylight robbery for Collingwood. No way are the Bulldogs that dumb. ...oh, they did put Tom Boyd on $1M a year after his debut season. Maybe they aren't as smart as I thought.

For what it's worth, on Footy Classified they indicated only 4 teams are in the running. Collingwood frontrunners, followed by Carlton, then Essendon a distant third and Saints behind that. Hawthorn were "in the mix" but are too focused on getting Tom Mitchell (and can't secure Mitchell and O'Meara in the same trade period). Clearly Hawthorn can see the writing on the wall. They're [censored] when Mitchell/Lewis/Gibson/Hodge are done and are trying to 'Geelong' their way to ongoing success. Frustrating.

He has a weekly spot on Fox Footy. Did anybody watch him tonight? Was he asked about this?

1 year contract with a transition into coaching, very similar to what we tried with Crossy. An absolute yes from me, especially knowing the state of our leadership right now, and the fact we have no real currency to improve it this off-season.

Watch as absolutely nothing comes from this. The "cleaners" at AFL HQ will be working in overdrive to shred every document, sweep every rug and delete every file tonight. God forbid their precious little concession-riddled pet has an ounce of controversy associated with it.

And just about the average worker's yearly salary.

Exactly, against an interstate team, please! It's not that bloody difficult.

In the first 16 years of the AFL, a spread of 10 teams won a premiership (in a 16 team competition). In the last 11 years, only 5 teams have won a premiership (Hawthorn, Sydney, Geelong, West Coast and Collingwood), with 3 of these teams making up this year's top 4 - the other being the AFL funded, concession-riddled GWS, given handout after handout to ensure success. This has also resulted in an 18-team competition, making the likelihood of premiership success even smaller for clubs at the bottom. The AFL are directly responsible for this mess. They've created it with the introduction of expansion clubs and free agency at the same time; gutting struggling clubs of their access to talent, both via an inability to access the draft's best talent for 4 successive years, and the ability for expansion clubs to take other club's players without giving anything up (essentially free agency). And all to prop-up these plastic franchises, one of which is an unmitigated disaster after 6 years, the other struggling to even hit 10,000 members. Then, to top it all off, creating a mechanism of free passage for the competitions's best players to the "successful" clubs where they don't have to sacrifice any draft assets -- this was the key pillar of an equalised draft and trade period, now left in ruins. Their laughable "equalisation policy," basically devised and signed off by the likes of Eddie McGuire (a bit like the dunderheads in Labor having miners sign off on their laughable mining tax), has been a complete failure that made no in-roads whatsoever in helping struggling clubs actually climb the ladder and realise success. Considering Eddie's very own team have only achieved two premierships since 1958, maybe it's dawning on him that the system is fundamentally broken now. A sad state of affairs when the Collingwood president would be more aware of the state of this competition than the incompetent moron currently in charge.