Uncle Fester

Maybe... and I say this having no dog in the fight as I haven't seen any of this years crop other than youtube highlights, and am not interested in second guessing the professionals... but spending #3 and spending #46 are differnet things. You expect a top ten pick will be a ten year player. You hope a later round pick will one day be a best 22 player.

Yay! I'm famous

Just emailed him to tell him I agreed with this.

Not a fan, and doubly so with WADA hovering. I'd rather the pick go on a random 18 year old and the money to someone like Jesse or Gus or Viney jnr or Salem etc A poor man's Chris Heffernan with the Sword of Damocles hanging over him.

He cared. He cared about getting our ball back,.

It was like watching a cheetah run down a gazelle.

I missed the first game against the Sts (was working, and when I heard about the heartbreaking result I had no wish to watch it again), but I've got to ask: who was the foolish Sts player in the clips at the start that thought giving Jack a 'don't argue' was a bright idea? Man, that was killer tackle that the Sts boy will still be having nightmares about in his dotage.

Dealing with Essendon is always like pulling teeth at the best of times.I say let them whither on the vine and see if we can get a good (non druggie) player in the aftermath.

Brad Hardie to the Bears rings a bell. They wouldn't kick it near him. But they were a rabble and hardly a football team at that point, so maybe the example falls down.

Is there any reason we can't rookie him? I ask because I've never spent more than 30 seconds looking at the rules around that

Rising Star... pfft I'll take that handball off the pack over any awards and accolades.

Is it wrong to get morning wood about these things? Eh, I don't care if it is or isn't. I'll just enjoy it.

Yeah, I'm with you, but there is an element that goes past that in right into the nasty. Anyway, on the Iceburg (I just made that name up - how cool am I?) A mate at work (also a dee-tragic) was over the moon when we picked him up. Reckoned he was a real find. Played juniors with him or something. I only get to see him for about 8 seconds a week (ie he's working now as I have my 4 days off), but I'm hoping to corner the lad and find out a bit more about the enigma that is VanDemon-iceburg, or whatever his real name is.

Look, lay off. Players enjoy it as long as people aren't being a dick about it. They work hard to get where they are and like to talk about what they do, even if it is in a joking and self deprecating style. How do I know this? I grew up surrounded by the greats of the club. At most BBQ's there was at least one or two greats of the 50's and 60's there. Norm Smith was at my parents wedding. Why is that, you ask? Because my uncle is a triple premiership player that later captained the club. Do the maths and you'll know who I am talking about. Leave DVI alone, FFS. They talk to him because they like talking to him, and because he talks to them as humans rather than demi gods. Which, funnily enough, is they way they prefer. PM me if you really want proof, but for those that only want to argue the point don't be butthurt when I ignore you.

Essendon also has Satan as #1 ticket holder... but they don't advertise that for some reason.

They were billeted together on the GC for the draft. Other than that I don't know.

I reckon we've got ourselves a new locker room pest in Brayshaw.

I've been able to spell TOMATO backwards since I was six. Now I own and run my own multi billion dollar business, have a Lear jet, a 500 foot long yacht, a 38 million dollar mansion, 503 staff, and 65 beautiful mistresses at my beck and call. OTAMOT. It's how the big boys roll.

Keep thinking of the movie 'The Club'. I hoped to find a vid of the scene, but the best I could find was a quote: Jock: [referring to Geoff] He's been up his mum and his legless sister and he thinks he's killed his old man!

If Sylvia got more BOG's and kicked more goals all of us would ignore the laddish stuff he got up to. I don't care what our players do if they can back it up on the field - criminal stuff excepted. If Petracca's hobbies include getting smashed and acting like a moron, I don't care, as long as he gets 30+ possies a game and two goals. But the has to get the touches and goals to get away with that.

That is disturbing on so many levels

I reckon Gatto would have made a great full back in his younger days. I can see him shaking hands with the FF and CHF before the game and saying: youze guys have a family? It must be nice to have a family. And a house. Youze wouldn't want anything to happen to them, would you?' Then he'd spend the game talking to his bookie over the fence as the CHF and FF duitifully handed him the ball every time it was kicked into the forward line.

Yep. They can take our word.

What? I'd take 2 & 3, celebrate and try to do a Dyson/Salem deal with one and get whoever the Sts didn't with the other. Brayshaw, young gun, and later 1st round pick sounds better than your plan

Yes. It's not quite 'get them for nothing' but the bargaining position is greatly diminished. The ace in the hole for the player is to simply say I want this trade, and if you block me I'll just walk into the draft and you'll get nothing.