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I'd drink to that but I don't much like peaty islay whisky. Give me Highlands any day...

How the hell can this be regarded as anything but a brutal and callous assault? The fact that it's still countenanced means that the inherently brutal nature of Aussie Rules still lurks not far below the surface. Another aspect of this inherent brutality comes across when Mike Christian manages to explain and approve of all the thuggery and sniping in the Hawthorn Richmond encounter. It's like there's one rule for home and away games and finals are free for all gladiator contests.

I've heard he was in the team because a certain Geelong benefactor who passed away last year left him $1million if he returned to the cats.

6:Harmes 5: Salem 4: Lewis 3: Weideman 2: Brayshaw 1: Viney

?????I got banned for fluck! So what. Love it.

Hopefully a totally fractured fibula. I hate everything about this prancing fraud of a human being.

Reminds me of a refined Leigh Matthews...

I saw that: the commentators ignore it because, gee, he's such a great player...

Long way to drive for a night out...

I don't much like all this 'curse of Norm Smith' talk. It's all rubbish. Melbourne won the first seven games of 1965, most of them by small margins and then fell in a hole. Sure, they sacked Norm Smith but the writing was already on the wall. Barassi's departure had a lot to do with it and until Barassi came back in the early 80's Melbourne reverted to the level of mediocrity that all unsuccessful sides constantly practice. In a nutshell, it was death by a succession of committees who assumed the glory days were just around the corner simply because they were the MFC and were owed success. Northey came along - an inspired choice in retrospect - we recruited well - Spalding Dean, Viney Stretch, Johnson etc etc - Lyon came along and from 1997 to 1991, from the early Balme days and about every second year of Daniher's reign, the Demons were as good as most teams but not quite good enough. The post Daniher years were totally poisoned, I believe, not by the Norm Smith curse, but by the sheer folly of the management. How incompetents like Schwab and Co were allowed to fester is beyond the imagination. Mind you, the almost Hawthorn merger debacle and the rescue by an ill-fated millionaire with no football background signified there was something rotten in the state of Denmark. The nadir of Neeld were an inevitable result, sadly at the expense of an innocent and talented journeyman called Bailey who at least instilled some panache and fleeting joys to us long suffering supporters. Let's rejoice in what we have now. We have a team which has grown and prospered bit by bit, the way in the end good sides prosper. Where this journey takes us is unknown but it feels like it could be a good ride while it lasts.

A thousand times no....

And we already have Mckenna.

https://youtu.be/esOiB_fanzI I hope this works...

Don't you worry, Albo is lurking in the corridors, Et Te brute in hand. More to come, no doubt. In the meantime, we have a fundamental as anything christian as our so-called prime minister. He was the one who acted so christian-like when he was minister for immigration. How sad is this country, really, how sad that it's come to this where we only have a choice of a fundamentalist racist fascist and a born again fast talking bank and big business backing mental midget who has such a dubious history - sacked from Tourism Australia - an opponent of same sex marriage, to choose from. Bring on Albo, an ancient Oz wog, once as abhorrent to this anglo country as the Chinese are today, as the Vietnamese were yesterday, and long may he prosper.

Well trade away, is all I can say.

My point is that at a certain stage of a side's development first round picks aren't that important. In other words, a team gets to a stage where it will attract out of contract players - like Lever, for example.

How long since Hawthorn or Geelong have had a high draft pick???

Is that Wagner's Ring, or what? Ah, I know now, the friggin Circus Ring, alias parliament House, Canberra...

Mark Neeld for Prime Minister. Well, he'd be no worse than Damian Drum.

This is precisely how Malcolm Turnbull should have addressed his party on Wednesday.

I would prefer Mussolini. I want my trains to run on time.

This thread is proof that Demonland is a lunatic asylum. I hope Dutton becomes prime minister and sends you all to Nauru...I hear you won't be short of bananas and coconuts..

I fail to understand why there are people who want to trade a player who has already played some great football for the Melbourne Football Club, who, barring injury, will most likely become the number one forward in the game. How many first picks do we really need? Why not settle on making what we have now really competitive and eventually great? We don't need another dose of waiting for Jimmy Toumpas, Jack Watts or Scully or Trengrove etc to come good. Make the best of what we have now...

I thought he was terrific, the first half possesion wise, the second half for pressure and contest. I believe we have a potentially very special player coming through. Be patient, you non believers, he will reward your patience.

All this reminds me of 1987 when the likes of Harmes - Newport, Yeats, Williams and Eishold - stood up and announced themselves. I think we could be in for something good in 2018.