Uncle Fester

Now I know who you remind me of.

Your first point is the one that stood out most for me: he hits the pack hard - bash and crash style - but always has it in mind to dish it out to a player that is free if that doesn't work. I know... highlights and all that... but its nice to see a talent that knows that instinctively rather than someone that has to learn it as in the case of the Jones boy.

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.

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

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.

We didnt pass on Selwood