Uncle Fester

We're getting Ben Lennon?

There is no law that says you have to read them. No law at all.

Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Is he going to make six trades or five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself.

Could we be that fortunate? Hell, I'd trade 90% of the team for a player like that.

"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" - Abraham Lincoln, 1864

I wanted him gone this time last year. To me he is another Sylvia - talented but rarely brings his best on game day. And I have no idea what his real position should be. He's been tried everywhere and never looked like he belonged in any of them.

How did the scum do from that? One good year and a tonne of money and picks spent. FFS we beat them this year. I don't want Dangerhead. I love his work but the price is too high, and I don't want the club giving away everything on a bloke that may or may not crash into a goalpost each week.

Bit player journey man.

He might not always be 100% right, but I'm yet to see him 100% wrong. But we'll see. COB on Thurs will make or break many a post.

I never had an issue with Essendon until recently. The couple of kicks in the gonads you gave the hawks in the 80's was good to see, and I always enjoyed Sheedy's theatrics. Even 2000 doesn't burn as I knew going into it that is was a David and Goliath match up, but David wasn't allowed to bring his sling to the game. But this stuff is just ugly. It's blatant and unrepentant cheating, and the club from the top down wants to blame everyone but itself for its actions. It's the arrogant #standbyhird, do what it takes, we are right and ASADA and the AFL (and the rest of the world) are wrong attitude that rubs me the wrong way. I don't dislike Essendon anymore or less than other teams, but the attitude it has displayed over the last couple of years makes me hope that it gets a smack on the nose with a rolled up newspaper complete with a crowbar inside. Maybe a couple of smacks. The 'we can do what we want and you are wrong to try and stop us' line of thinking really needs to be killed ASAP. For the game and for your club.

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.

I'd trade almost every player on the list for the right price. And that price is that we become a better team for the trade. I don't want to lose Jack. I really don't. And I'd be filthy if it was just for a pick on some 17 year old, but if it lands us an A grader then I say do it.

You want to look back and see just how ruthless Norm Smith was. You could be good. You could be very good. But if he didn't think you'd stand up on Grand Final day and help us win another flag, then you were out the door and replaced by someone he thought could. Football has always been a ruthless sport. Good players chase cash and success, good clubs do whatever it takes - regardless of sentimentality - to build the best team. It's been happening for almost as long as the game has existed. If trading Trenners gets us a better team then we would be mad not to do it. If it doesn't then we are silly to try it. That's all the really matters. It's all that has ever mattered in this sport. So the only question is: will we be a better team for such a trade this time next year?

If he doesn't get a game or fails to kick 10 goals then we bought a stuggling player. If he kicks 15 this year we've done OK. Not great, but certainly OK for the price. If he kicks 30 we've won by a fair margin. If he kicks 40+ then we've just been given 2 or 3 extra wins for the price of pick #61 Now I don't presume to know how it will pan out, but pick #61 on the 3 in 4 chance he'll add something to the team, and a 50/50 that he'll add a lot, says to me we've risked very little in order to (hopefully) gain a lot. I fail to see the downside in this trade.

He was even better than I remembered - and I remember him as one of the best ever to pull on a boot. No matter how heavy the traffic or how good the opposition he was untouchable. Dodge, weave, balk, blind turn... and not a finger laid on him. He was pure silk wrapped up in a skinny, all knees and elbows body, with a humble and selfless manner.

And the AFL - not wanting to be second fiddle to any of them - makes sure it is the only people with the true power and ambition to do just that. Get rid of the sub rule? How the hell did that abortion happen in the first place?

Martin - with 17 clubs.

I don't want him. The price is too high. 2 and 3 could get a shot at a really fine kid (Here I am having faith in the recruiters), and a Tyson / Salem deal. All eggs in one basket is insane from where we are. It's a Judd deal, and just ask the Scum how many flags that got them. You build a team. You don't give up the chance at the best in the land because BP was a retard and you think one player will make the team.

He's not a spud. But he's not worth #3 either. And last season he may have well stayed home in most of his games for all he influenced them. And that' bleed red and blue', want to be a one club player', 'I want to see Roos commit' blah de blah just made a very cynical supporter base shrug and say 'just give us the #3 and go already'

Honestly dont give a [censored]. I only care about how we go, and he's not one of us. He can win five brownlows or get dropped back to the Keon Park All Stars for all it matters to me. #3, on the other hand, I take a keen interest in.

If we did a normal trade (ie team to team) and they offered #3 for him we'd sign before they'd finished speaking. Thanks for the memories Chip. Enjoy Box Hill.

I didn't have the pleasure of seeing that one live, but I remember seeing him chase a loose ball on the wing / HFF against Collingwood and he gathered it just as two Collingwood players arrived running straight at the ball (or more likely him) head on, and he spun between the two of them and left them grabbing at air, and continued on as if it was the most natural thing in the world. I don't remember the year or even if he went on to kick the goal (although I'd like to think he did), but I do remember that the spin - that he had no right to try let alone get away with - was the closest thing to perfection I've ever seen in any sport. Any help finding that would be appreciated.

Why would you like to play for us?

'Originally published as In-limbo Demon wants big break' Really? I'm not surprised that heading was changed.

If by mettle he means narcasistic sociopath that will destroy everything he professes to love rather than admit (to even himself) that he stuffed up bigtime. Then yeah, he's got mettle like no other.