Uncle Fester

Goes alright. With a couple of pre-seasons under his belt he might become a first 22 type.

He used to scare me as a kid. I think it was the eyebrows.

If he wants to come here then this years 1st rounder and a later bunch of pick swaps will do. If he doesn't then we can offer all our first rounders until 2050 and we will be wasting our time.

Wasn't his best, but he wasn't on his Pat Malone. About 15 others could say the same. We just never switched on as a team.

How often does selling the future for the next wunderkind work? A first rounder and a swap of later picks or a fringe player that suits their needs is enough. Otherwise we walk and grow our own. Adelaide know they are going to lose him. They don't hold the whip. They will agree to a good deal with whoever he nominates. It's the new world. We'd do the same, because not doing it will backfire.

#StandbyHird

And we got a guy that should probably be AA this year for what now?

He can give them all the votes he wants. Hell, he can give the whole team 10 votes each. I reckon our boys would rather the 4 points than the dribblings of the simple minded.

I always thought Maxwell was just an average player (but an above average thug), but in 2009/10/11 he was a superb general. He might not have been able to do it himself, but he was bloody good at making sure the young talent was in the right place at the right time. We've complained for a decade that we have had no older leaders, and now we have got one almost for free some think that we've lost in what was pretty much a gift. We will play finals. Of that I'm sure. And when we do Lewis will pay back his paypacket in the first game - and every young talent in the side will learn a million things from him.

[censored] off back to Punt road you bloody fifth columnist

And Richmond chose Corey Ellis with that pick... Sigh... They should have just handed it to us.

Under the radar is fine with me

Goal of the year, mark of the year, the Chas, the coaches award, AA spots.... We play for one thing, and that it to be the best team. The rest are just fun facts. The real fact is that the goal kick started us to smash a team that we probably should have gone down badly to. I'll take that over a fan based (sigh) voting system.

Plenty will try, and plenty will die trying. You either have it or you don't. Plenty of kids grew up wanting to be a Flower or Ablett. Plenty of others wanted to be a Bradman or Warne. Talent does what it can. Genius does what it must. Some things can never be taught now matter how great the teacher.

Creates. Always creates. Something good seems to happen when he is around.

Ollie, Ollie, Ollie Oi, oi, oi

And why wait for a revolution?

Yep. Billy is very much the smiling assassin. Gets the job done, and you don't really notice what an impact he had until you see the stats and / or watch the replay. Sorta like Clarries hands

If Trac can have a day out a couple of times this year, in the way he did against Carlton in the pre-season, then I'll crow. Until then it's cameos and potential. Don't get me wrong - he has all the tools, and I have very high hopes for him, but he needs to show it for 4 q's regularly. (Hoping tomorrow is the start of it!)

I think Tracc and Clarry are going to give us highlight reels for many years... usually one setting up the other... Thank the ghost of Norm that Picket rang the club and talked them into picking him.

I have a couple of Collingwood supporting mates (yeah, I know... shoot me now) and for the last decade they'd rag me about living in the past, QB is your GF... blah blah blah... but when we started beating them... well, the tone has changed. Now they are talking up the importance of QB, and how they will get revenge this year. It's their GF at the moment. Or at least SF with Anzac as the GF. As an aside I'd always love when they say it's our GF. I reply that our GF's against them brought us six flags and them one. Real GF's. They go quiet at that point.

I hate Choo Chho. His name should be Clearance Oliver.

Seems fair. Two quality players plus Weed, from a draft we didn't have a lot to offer. And hey, if one of the late picks or someone in the rookie draft turns out to be a gem , then we;ve not just won, but killed it dead.

And there it is. That's the golden rule in the AFL. Not rule of law, not precedent, not even common sense... but what is good for us in the next 24 hours. Drug cheats, FA, PP's, fixtures, MRP etc etc etc ad vomit. Thank god for the MFC, coz otherwise I'd walk away.

Best of luck to all in their future. Thank you for doing something I never got the chance to do.