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It's in Frankston, not Frankston North. It's also at the base of beautiful Oliver's Hill, where there are many multi million dollar properties with arguably the best views in Melbourne.

As for who we've played ? You do realise everyone gets to play them ? There's not a superstar team in the competition. We've learnt a lot from our early defeats and are a different prospect to the team that ran out early on. Not to mention the inclusion of McDonald. We'll lose more games of football, but there's not one team I think we can't beat.

Those that want to replace Weideman with Pedersen are the same morons who don't rate Goodwin. The investment being made in Weideman will pay off big time. It gives Gawn a rest and Tom McDonald doesn't need to be wasted in the ruck. Weideman was quiet, but will get better and better.

Take Bugg off before he kicks another and gets a recall.

You're speaking rot. Sydney lost at home to North two weeks ago. North are battlers.

I was talking about the perils of a loss. If we lose we'll be 4/4, which would make finals difficult. I expect a comfortable win.

This is a must win game. I don't believe we play finals without beating a Gold Coast team without Tom Lynch. Nor would an aspiring finals team deserve to be finalists with a loss today. Most importantly, we'll be 4/4 with 14 rounds to go. We'd need to win a minimum of 8 matches from the 14 (preferably 9) to play finals with two games against Adelaide scheduled, a game at Kardinia Park, games against Sydney and the Giants (the latter will have plenty of players back by round 23), and a game against West Coast in Perth, but this time with Naitanui and Kennedy. There will basically be no wriggle room to make finals with a loss today. I think we'll win and win well, but a loss will most likely mean 'season over'.

The main thing for most players is playing with their mates as long as they're being fairly rewarded. If they think the team is about to embark on something special, which they do, they won't leave (unless special circumstances, such as go home factor or a personal issue). Brayshaw won't be going anywhere.

I like Hunt, but he's down on his 2017 output. He'll get another chance and hopefully takes it. They like Neal-Bullen's pressure and by playing the talls, even though they're not often in the F50 together, Neal-Bullen's pressure is being rewarded with selection. I get the decision even though he's butchering it.

If you'd seen Wilkinson play you'd know why he was delisted.

I'd like to see Garlett back in if his training standards have been deemed good enough.

Wilkinson produced one of the fastest (if not the fastest) times ever recorded at Draft Combine. Unfortunately, he was a rubbish footballer, which I'm very confident is the reason he was delisted. It's clear he was racially vilified by another player, as well as an opposition supporter, what isn't clear is if he was racially, or sexually harassed within his football club. It's an interesting test case for the AFL and I'll watch with interest. There's not much more to say until evidence is submitted.

He squared to Hannan inside 50, but Hannan missed the set shot. We all know what he needs to work on, but a fit and firing Hunt is a real weapon. I hope they persist with him.

Hunt had 11 kicks. Eight hit their target. Two that missed were "up and unders", but neither resulted in turnovers. One was a good pass with 30 seconds to go to Tyson on the boundary line (wing), but Tyson's opponent maneuvered himself ahead of him to spoil it over the line. Hunt's kicking last round was good all things considered. I like Hunt's speed, courage and urgency. He's not immune from being dropped, as we've already seen, but I hope he gets the opportunity to regain some form, because I thought his game against St Kilda was heading in the right direction.

I definitely don't want Hunt dropped.

Listen to this week's AFL podcast in which Angus is one of the hosts and you'll be under no illusion about his commitment to stay. Listen from 14 minutes 39 seconds. http://www.afl.com.au/news/2018-05-08/podcast-how-a-demon-got-his-mojo-back

We got struck in the ar$e by a rainbow when this bloke accepted the role.

This is too easy. Managers never rule out a young player like Brayshaw leaving when he's in the final year of his contract especially when two weeks ago he didn't have huge currency with his incumbent club (from a financial perspective). That's what managers are paid to do. To see what options might be out there to put some pressure on the existing club. This goes on all of the time. But in no way does that mean his preference is to leave. I have zero doubt his preference is to stay - assuming Melbourne's offer is reasonable. Players "consider their options" all the time when they're in the final year of their contract. So when anonymous posters say "I have heard he's looking around", unless it's a rock solid source, such as the player himself saying he's not happy and wants a move, I take no notice of that sort of hearsay at all. None. It means nothing.

I'm glad you added that. It's nothing more than regurgitated hearsay. I place no weight on that whatsoever. Thanks for clarifying.

I didn't call you a nuffie, but I did explain how many "I've heard" commentaries have zero veracity and how nuffies can believe them to be fact. I'll ask again, who told you he was looking around and how would they know ?

These are the worst kind of posts on footy forums. You provide zero context and one is left guessing as to the veracity of the contribution. From experience one nuffie relays a comment they've heard from another nuffie who read the link on a news outlet that Brayshaw, who wasn't getting a game at the time, should potentially seek a trade to Freo. Cue the nuffie relating 4th hand info as though it's fact. It happens all of the time. Said nuffie actually "heard" nothing. Having said all of that, I'm virtually certain Brayshaw won't want to leave all of his mates when they're on the verge of maturing into the side we and they have hoped for. It just doesn't make sense. And if it doesn't make sense it won't happen.

Who from ?

Brayshaw's manic attack on the ball and player is back. He doesn't have Petracca's ceiling, but he can become our Cotchin. Oliver, Viney, Petracca, and Brayshaw can become the best collective of midfielders in the AFL.

They're not normally inside the 50 at the same time. They orchestrate it that it's usually only two.

Weideman has now played 3 games and will be starting to feel more comfortable at the level. As Steve said, he's invaluable for Gawn and means McDonald doesn't have to ruck much. Oscar McDonald has improved immeasurably because they kept the faith and kept playing him. It's the same for Weideman. He's shown glimpses of what he'll become, which is a contested marking key forward, who can provide ruck relief. He's still only 20.