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I think for the first time in many years we've seen the gap tighten between the quality of teams in the eight. Obviously a top four finish is every teams aim but i wouldn't be surprised if a Hawthorn finishes 5th or 6th this year and wins it.

I think we will be very competitive today but North will eventually be too good and win by 3 or 4 goals. Really need Kent and VDB to dial up the forward pressure ( and get more of the ball) in the absence of Jeffy. I think both these players need to lift massively or they will soon find their way of the team.

Was about a 30 second clip where you could see the the two forwards do a lot of blocking for each other and intelligent leading to ultimately give Jesse a mismatch on Marchbank instead of Davis. Was interesting.

Top post but i don't how you can count CP5 as one of our three stars when he hasn't played a game yet.

Hey Beelzebub, just saying i really like your posts and all but was just wondering, is your pursuit of happiness and catching it relying on our beloved football club having the ultimate success?

How much do you want to bet?

After the Tom Boyd saga, what they have gained is sending out a message that their not letting their best talents go home after one year. GWS will get burnt in this saga, but what sort of message would it be sending to current players and prospective players if they gave in to McCarthey last year.

Can't argue with that. Just goes to show how hard it is, even with all the research and information that the modern recruiter is armed with, to nail top draft picks.

Someone must have told the GWS recruiters....

I like it but what happens to two current teams. What i would do would be to split the league into two divisions based on ladder position. Every year two teams get promoted/relegated. After playing everyone twice. the team on top of the ladder in division 1 is automatically promoted to the premiership. The remaining eight teams play a normal final eight with the winners winning promotion. Bottom four teams go into a lottery system for the draft so their is no(or little as possible) tanking. The team finishing 9th in the Premiership automatically relegated. The final eight battle it out for the flag although the two losers in the Elimination Finals play off to see who else is down to division 1. I know a system like this would never be approved by the general football public but at the very least each team would get to play each other twice and it would hopefully make each game more competitive with not as many blowouts.

I don't think many people in the inner circle of the afl or the outer saw the severity of the outcome coming. At the end of the day we have a player who will be a good contributor to the MFC albeit not until 2017 though.

As their has been a lot of speculation (especially after the essendon verdict) wether we should have kept our 2nd round pick this year, i thought i would check our recent history of what we have done with this pick over the recent seasons. Only players picked in 2nd round, not taking into consideration priority picks and expansion team extra picks. Rating System: Good,Pass and Bad. N/A = traded out pick. 2014- Alex Neal-Bullen pick 40 11games. Good 1st Season but too early to rate. 2013 N/A 2012 Jack Viney (f/s) pick 26 49 games. GOOD 2011 Rory Taggert pick 36 0 games. Bad 2010 Jeremy Howe pick 33 100 games. Good 2009 Luke Tapscott pick 18 48 games. Bad 2008 James Strauss pick 19 24 games. Bad 2007 Adam Maric pick 21 31 games. Bad 2006 Ricky Pettard pick 30 84 games. Pass 2005 N/A 2004 N/A 2003 N/A 2002 Jared Rivers pick 26 194 games. Good So since 2013 and going back to 2002 , we have traded out our 2nd rounder 4 times, made three good picks, 1 ok pick and 4 bad ones. About a 50% chance to get a 100 game player out of the draft with our second pick. We should still get 100 games out of Melksham so although the trade looks damning, it won't be the worse bit of business that the footy department has conducted.