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and the Federal member is Adam Bandt! So it certainly looms as a battle! What will be interesting to hear will be Guy's perspectives on the concept, having seemingly flipped from a pro-development bulldozer to a development naysayer. No guarantee he gets in of course...

Yes, Murray's already on the job! It may well be that this is a pincer play between Bartlett and McGuire (and the new Lord Mayor Sally Capp who's a Collingwood Board member) to get traction on the sensible outcome which would be to cover over the Richmond - Flinders Street rail corridor.

Don't shoot the messenger guys, but as East Melbourne resident that lives a couple of hundred metres from the proposed development, I think this is going to be VERY difficult to get up, most particularly the office component which would place a 6 story barrier between East Melbourne and Yarra Park. The oval may be more doable but even then, the residents have been campaigning for years that Yarra Park is just that....a park. Not a car park, not a sporting field. Furthermore, the civil works required to incorporate a level oval on what is a quite pronounced sloping piece of parkland would completely change the nature of the area. I'll be very surprised if this gets traction.

Not to mention the 12 months we lost on Melksham for what was generally regarded as an overs premium at the time it was concluded. Looks like turning in to a who blinks first exercise. Is there any possibility we have a quality alternative use in this year's trade period for 29 so that we can present Dodo head with a take it or leave it? Or are we determined to go to the draft with a 2nd round pick in hand?

The beauty here is that we get to see if the leg's come good before we play in the space (unlike O'Meara and Prestia). We are now a destination club without doubt IMO and can afford to be choosy going forward. No need to entertain Lumumba type trades where the desperate need for run off half back and line breaking abilities outweighed the existing concerns about H's mental state / robustness.

Saw the Gawn and Garland ones. Which was the 3rd?

What was disappointing for me was the lack of support from his team-mates when he was obviously labouring under a heavy tag. Jones and/or Vince could've done more in my view, along the same lines that Viney himself has flown the flag for team mates several times this year. I think Clarrie will be superb in this arena in due course and hopefully Gus. Doesn't seem to be Tyson's thing, not Vandenberg for that matter.