Elusive Tunbridge

Gone. He'll be sent straight to the tribunal, three weeks down to two with an early plea, and Roos will send him to the naughty corner. Other teams will look to provoke him until he proves he can control his temper.

If Jesse isn't clear what the coaching structure will be next year, he'd have to be a little bit thick.

Any ginger wearing 13 is all right with me.

So wrong in so many ways.

If you want to believe a club official at the AGM, back at you.

I thought the possibility of a twelve-month suspension figured in the decision to offer Melksham four years rather than three. Trying to read the minds of the notoriously closed-mouthed Melbourne FD.

Distributing "like" like confetti on this thread. Demonland in "up" mode.

Might be worth giving him a go, if Goodwin likes him, but I expect Essendon to price him out of the market.

Butter wouldn't melt in your mouth, old dee.

Cut White and you'll wind up getting another rookie on the same money - you have to fill the list. He'll stay. Jamar's retirement would free up some money, but the salary cap is certainly an issue. Confident it will be sorted.

Agreed, CF. Bilious History is a special branch of fantasy fiction.

I'd like to see Aish at MFC. After the last round of trades/drafting I'm confident that if our selectors think he's worth getting, they won't pay overs for him.

A vandenBeg/newton type? Would that be like an apple/orange?

Plain, weedy nobody like Jesse would have no hope of finding a partner himself, especially in a small town like Melbourne.

Perth is a very nice place to visit, but after six months the walls start to close in. And they don't have the G.

Of course you would. We all know that.

American Sniper - bad in so many ways. Eastwood claims it's "... the biggest anti-war statement (in) any film". Chatting to the chair again.

Agreed. In the best of all possible worlds, Ollie is in the Port LG.

But then, if we had drafted Wines, he might have had a career-ending injury at his first training session and we might still have got Petracca and Brayshaw. Endless vistas of speculation...

I expect you know what you mean.

The shift nutbean describes is just a collective adjustment to an unpleasant but increasingly evident reality. I think we got Pick 3 for Frawley as part of a backroom understanding between PJ and GMcL over the provisional pick we were denied, incidentally. And "groupthink" is actually a technical term from social psychology that has never been used accurately on this forum, as far as I'm aware.

Gone Girl. Bitter and twisted, which I thoroughly enjoy, and a very strong cast. 2 1/2 hours is a bit long, and the end seems to drag out. Maybe a function of the novelist being the screenwriter - couldn't kill her babies. A warning to those who don't like plot holes - this thing is a colander. If you can ignore the defects, it's worth a visit.

Been drinking your own bathwater so long your taste buds can't detect irony.

Is that a red sky at night, or in the morning?