Chelly

After reading the comings and goings on the Paddy Dangerfield thread I realise that we're missing something. This thread is for off beat trade and draft rumours, not the ones that have been endorsed as possible by members of the journalistic profession but by normal, everyday people, like the local barber or your cousin from Ballarat. You know, really authoritative stuff from posters like Nudge and Chilliboy who are right there at the coal face. Anyone like to kick things off?

Does this Dangerfield stuff have any basis in reality at all?

For those going out to Visy Park today to see Angus Brayshaw, here's an appetiser - And for more, Paige Cardona's Phantom Draft currently has us taking Brayshaw at # 2 but note the caveat at the end about his ankle injury: As for Roos being there, I should think he would because apart from seeing the draftable talent, he has a fatherly interest in one of the players.

Would this bloke be able to work together in harmony with the rest of the team?

He will end up at the Bulldogs.

Just announced that Mitch will appear on this week's edition of The Recruit as an intruder but if he gets through the programme he can get a contract with the AFL club of his choice.

6. Lynden Dunn 5. Matt Jones 4. Nathan Jones 3. Bernie Vince 2. Cam Pedersen 1. Tom McDonald

Worst thread ever.

I think you've both committed a breach by alluding to the unmentionable and should be banned.

It's worth noting that Gaz is a different beast to Marc Murphy.

I have a good cure for the curse as handed down to me by an old Creole lady from New Orleans. First, you gather thirteen chicken bones and put them in the sun to dry for three days. Then when they are ready, you work yourself up into a frenzied lather to add to the potency of the cure. You then began the incantation saying, 'With these bones I now do crush this curse and all my enemies". Then you take a hammer or alternatively use your feet to stomp and crush the bones as if they were your enemy. When you are completed, you sweep up the dust and place it in a bag. You then sprinkle the dust and remains of the bones on your enemy's property or, as in this case, around their grounds. Anyway, that should do the trick.

It's early but the HUN Barometer has it

I reckon that whatever juice Essendon might or might not have been on started wearing off yesterday afternoon at Subiaco.

Concerned that he's emphasis is on changing positions and a different team rather than changing the way they play - i.e become a little more attacking perhaps?

I have to confess that I did swipe it from another site but it was too good an opportunity to pass up.

Whoever we go for the first thing we need to do with the player is ensure that we have adequate insurance cover.

THE ESSENDON DOPING SAGA PLAYED OUT ON FACEBOOK

Jon Ralph of the Herald Sun tweeted overnight:- "@RalphyHeraldSun: Stunned by Melbournes critics. No Hogan, Dawes, Clark. No Garland/Gawn/Jamar. McDonald hobbled, The Fitz off. That's 8 of 10 best talls out" Says it all.

Sorry, but if the club's telling us that, then I don't expect to see him back until Round 5 or 6.

Meanwhile the club website's official injury list still dates back to the Richmond NAB Challenge:- Injury list: NAB Challenge, round one v Richmond Mitch Clark (hamstring) – 3-4 weeks Colin Garland (ankle) 4-6 weeks Aidan Riley (leg) – 8 weeks

For the last couple of seasons I have been making the outrageous prediction that Melbourne would win in round one and we've been smashed. I won't make any predictions this year.

Will AD warn Collingwood that their players shouldn't hang out with a convicted crim?

Clarkson is showing what makes him a great coach. He has changed the set up so that it can live and thrive without Buddy Franklin and so far, they don't even appear to have missed a single beat. On the other hand, North wouldn't be worried yet about he season ahead but I don't think the hype about them challenging for top four is warranted. In fact, I'd like to see us knock them off this season - they've been our hoodoo team for way too long.

Sorry but when I think back to recent AGM's I didn't notice that great a change in presentation and in the things that the speakers stressed on the night. The only difference I saw was in the way Paul Roos ran his presentation which was as polished a performance as you can get. It was all too brief as I would have liked to have seen one or two of the younger recruits but I suppose Roos wanted to keep them under wraps.