Chelly

Off to dinner now.

If anyone has further updates on Aussie and later Waylen Manson, feel free ...

Tiwi struggling and unfortunately, the game looks like becoming a blowout.

Food sounds good.

Hi Chelly. To be honest who wouldn't struggle in this intense humidity! I played golf here today and it's sweltering! Thank god for beer!!

Yeah ... apparently 90% ... well actually 60%. Temperature 32 degrees.

Tiwis trailing by 4 goals closing in on half time after putting up a bit of a fight and hitting the lead early in the second quarter.

The weather's a lot different to what it was for Aussie's last game at Casey Fields in August and i'm not sure he wants to return to Melbourne anyway.

Report from the game that Austin doesn't look fit and late in the first quarter had no impact on the game. Can't expect too much at this stage but he does look to have left his run too late.

Surely you wouldn't fly a kid halfway across the continent for one training session if you didn't intend to draft him?

One of my favourites is Max Gawn whose latest tweet says it all:-

My advice to Max is not to worry about the drive. The last bloke who did that ended up a permanent fixture playing on a cow paddock in Preston for the Northern Bullants.

Can't believe they didn't give Maxy the jumper number 1 in the footsteps of another Maxy (Walker).

The situation virtually demands it.

Has Travis Tuck nominated?

Agreed. In this day and age it shouldn't be necesssary.

I hope Waylen has a good day tomorrow and that he gets drafted - any club will do although I hope he finds a friendly environment like the MFC.

Good to see he's back playing and hasn't gone into hiding on the advice of one of the clubs that wants to pick him up.

Are there other players up there who are prospects to be drafted?

Agree with you all the way 'Chippy'. Moderators, close off this thread which is no longer relevant to the MFC.

Couldn't disagree more.

We're over the fact that Scully's done a runer but that doesn't mean these grubs should be let off the hook.

The fact that Aussie missed his appointment with the specialist in Melbourne doesn't mean he's not having his ankle looked at by someone up in the Top End or that he will be deterred from playing football.

In fact, he is expected to resume his NTFL career with the Tiwi Bombers against unbeaten ladder leader Nightcliff on Saturday, 10 December @ 4pm.

Of course, it's a total co-incidence that the Preseason and Rookie Draft is held just 3 days after that!

Am I dreaming or is there nothing in today's press about Phat Phil and Pinocchio.

The remaining picks will be taken next year - they're 16 year olds ATM.

The current PTT List:-

FULL PERMISSION TO TRAIN LIST

Adelaide

James Craig (Adelaide Crows), Will Young (Adelaide Crows).

Brisbane 

Nil.

Carlton

Nicholas Heyne (St Kilda).

 Collingwood

Daniel Farmer (Collingwood), Scott Reed (Collingwood), Trent Stubbs (Collingwood).

Essendon

Matt Little (Bendigo Bombers), Anthony Long (Essendon).

Fremantle

Zac Dawson (St Kilda), Brad Dick (Collingwood), Clancee Pearce (Fremantle).

Geelong

Nil.

Gold Coast Suns

Michael Coad (Gold Coast), Aaron Hall (Hobart), Andrew McQualter (St Kilda).

GWS Giants

Nil.

Hawthorn

Paul Johnson (Hawthorn).

Melbourne

Freddie Clutterbuck (East Perth), Tom Couch (Collingwood / Bell Park), Carl Nicolson (Glenelg), Fletcher Roberts (Sandringham Dragons), Jai Sheahan (Geelong Falcons).

North Melbourne

Marcus Darmody (North Ballarat), Lachlan Fairley (Western Jets), Liam Hoy (North Ballarat), Brad Mangan (Werribee), Will Martinello (Werribee), Tate Oliver (North Ballarat), Sean Tighe (Werribee), Gavin Urquhart (North Melbourne).

Port Adelaide

Ed Lower (North Melbourne).

Richmond

Pat Contin (Richmond), David Fahey (Coburg), Glen Grgic (Coburg), Ben Jakobi (Richmond), John McCarthy (Collingwood), Addam Maric (Melbourne), Leigh Masters (Coburg), William Wheeler (Coburg).

St Kilda

Ben Casley (GWS), Beau Dowler (Noble Park), James Hallahan (Sandringham), Danny Hughes (Sandringham), Michael Lourey (Sandringham), James Magner (Sandringham), Marcus Marigliani (Sandringham).

Sydney Swans

Harry Cunningham (Turvey Park), Campbell Heath (Sydney Swans), Jackson Potter (Pennant Hills), Mitch Thompson (Sydney University).

West Coast

Nil.

Western Bulldogs

Mark Austin (Carlton).

The names of a handful of players under the Alternative Signings category have also been announced:

Out of contract primary list draft nomination

 Nil

International player inclusion on rookie list

Collingwood - Caolan Mooney (Ireland) 

Richmond - John Heslin (Ireland)

Players not registered or played for three years inclusion on rookie list

 Geelong - Mark Blicavs (Athletics)

NSW scholarship player and international scholarship player inclusion on rookie list

 Brisbane Lions - Richard Newell (NSW Scholarship)

Carlton - Matthew Lodge (NSW Scholarship)

Collingwood - Michael Hartley (NSW Scholarship)

Sydney Swans - Jack Lynch (NSW Scholarship)

Alternative talent

 Adelaide Crows - Ben Dowdell.

Back in the 1960s there was dance craze instigated by rock legend Chubby Checker called the Clutterbuck. It was commonly misnamed the "Hucklebuck".

Manson is back home, Been there a fortnight as you rightly state.

Both Manson and Fevola will play with Waratah at the weekend against the Tiwi Bombers.

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The jigsaw puzzle will be completed in about ten day's time when the club will select four rookies to add to its lists which currently appear like this:-

Shouldn't this information have been recorded on the no T$ no BS thread elsewhere on the site?

Also, will the trend continue in the rookie draft of picking bigger bodied players or will we go for some smaller types?

You blokes are getting slack.

The Oracle just announced in his article on the Jack Trengove board that there are ten days to go before the rookie draft.

Also, you can now get bananas for $1.99 kilo. The bottom's fallen off the banana market.

That also makes sense. Fits in with mine nicely.

Agreed.

Helps me understand some of the things I've heard which were used to explain Scully's abrupt departure from the China tour. Even explains the incredible comment by Alistair Lynch in mid season on On The Couch that Demon fans should be feeling optimistic about the Scully situation. Just another part of the Great Deception.

We're best off to get rid of him. On Footy Classified Grant Thomas started to make a comment about how aloof Scully was, that he had few friends at the club and even commented about the lack of Demons invited to his 20th (what a pi55 up that would have been). Garry Lyon put a stop to that very quickly.

I wonder if our role in the conspiracy was influenced by our knowledge of the prognosis on Scully's knee.

PS: My surname is Zapruder and I was born inside the Texas Book Depository on 22 November, 1963.

I saw this in the background whilst watching Barry's interview.

Cameron Schwab and Craig Cameron catching up.

Does the body language say anything?

They're obviously discussing the contribution of GWS recruiting superstar Phil Scully to the events of the evening.

Either that or or one of them just broke wind.

It's looking less and less likely that Fev will get drafted by anybody.

Shame really because he certainly would have had something to offer to that mob from western Sydney.

T'was interesting the comments about how if it were Collingwood or Richmond they and their fans wouldn't put up with the treatment of their club over the issue but that Melbourne has a weak, compliant board and was prepared to cop it sweet.

Been happening for years and we need to do something about that mindset if we're ever going to go places.

We've been labelled as a "soft" club because our players like being mollycoddled but the reality of life in this professional game is you get nowhere with that sort of treatment. As a club, we're living proof of this and the playing group is going to have to learn what it takes to be successful - the hard way.

Here's the latest updated PTT List:-

UPDATED FULL PERMISSION TO TRAIN LIST

Adelaide

James Craig (Adelaide Crows), Will Young (Adelaide Crows).

Carlton

Nicholas Heyne (St Kilda).

Collingwood

Daniel Farmer (Collingwood), Scott Reed (Collingwood), Trent Stubbs (Collingwood).

Essendon

Matt Little (Bendigo Bombers).

Fremantle

Brad Dick (Collingwood), Clancee Pearce (Fremantle).

Gold Coast Suns

Michael Coad (Gold Coast Suns)

Hawthorn

Paul Johnson (Hawthorn).

Melbourne

Tom Couch (Collingwood / Bell Park).

North Melbourne

Gavin Urquhart (North Melbourne).

Richmond

Pat Contin (Richmond), David Fahey (Coburg), Glen Grgic (Coburg), Ben Jakobi (Richmond), John McCarthy (Collingwood), Addam Maric (Melbourne), Leigh Masters (Coburg), William Wheeler (Coburg).

St. Kilda

Ben Casley (GWS), Beau Dowler (Noble Park), James Hallahan (Sandringham), Danny Hughes (Sandringham), Michael Lourey (Sandringham), James Magner (Sandringham), Marcus Marigliani (Sandringham).

Sydney Swans

Campbell Heath (Sydney Swans), Jackson Potter (Pennant Hills), Mitch Thompson (Sydney University).

Western Bulldogs

Mark Austin (Carlton)

According to this article in the local media Wee Willie Wheeler leaves big impression, the kid's 176cm not 170.

Still small but draftable.

You seem to be missing an R.

That too!

I don't see what tanking has to do with the issue of the proper compensation for Scully.

Scully was a #1 pick.

Two mid first round picks as compensation is a joke and now that there's a cloud over how GWS put the Scully deal(s) together, the AFL should step in to provide proper and adequate compensation and not the joke they offered in the first place.