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Kosi ends up having to serve 2 weeks for his sling tackle. And Joel Corey gets a reprimand and 97 carryover points for his sling tackle. So the AFL have at least kept this 'rule' alive for now.

Do we know why Gys didnt play this week? Another mystery withdrawal ala Nicholson last week?

For what its worth, of our opponents this week Jake The Pushup King has been suspended for a week by the Chooklotto MRP tonight. So thats a plus for us as hes been in OK form (though not AA form as the peanup Tony Shaw had him in his AA side a week ago on Fox). As for our changes, I seriously hope we dont get deluded into thinking we can play three ruckmen, it sounded ominous when Bailey floated it today in the press he usually gives pretty clear hints early in the week as to what selection will hold Thursday night. In: Jamar. Out: Gawn (possibly the unluckiest for a long time to get dropped). Tapscott to get game time into those tree trunks of legs at Casey. Blease to get an emergency nod (as he too was mentioned by the coach).

The Good: Further developement of McKenzie and Watts 12 different goalkickers. The Bad: Jurrah. If the delivery into our forward line was so bad for Jurrah to thrive today, how come another leading forward in Green managed 5 goals and 9 shots on goal? Youve gotta learn to demand and find your own football. Lack of a crowd. The Ugly: The burger bar being shut. The continual confusion over who Maloney, Pettard and Bartrum are on here. Who the hell are these guys?

You mean like this footy card from last year?

Dane Swan. Yze took him to the cleaners, and it was reported in the papers the next day Swan was in tears in the rooms afterwards. How times have changed!

Woohoo! I got my wish and I only had to wait five hours...

Can we just hand the Vice Captaincy back to Beamer now please? The guy is the heart and soul of the footy club. Numberous footy analysis shows this week highlighted his ferocious attack on the footy at the first bounce on Friday night and how it set the tone for the others to follow.

Loved getting excited by seeing him play on Friday night. And watching the replay (twice) confirmed to me he looks every inch a senior ruckman in waiting. It was somewhat of a blessing, if you like, that both Jamar and Spencer went down to hasten his progression. What I also love about the kid that Ive read in interviews with players is that he's a very confident, nay cocky, young lad. I think its a good trait to have if you want to succeed.

An Essendon player who got dropped this week kicked eight goals in a game a mere month ago. Yet Kyle Reimers is quite a divisive figure. If he played for us and did that, you'd think he'd have to play six shockers in a row before they contemplated dropping him. Us I'm not so sure, medium level players tend to coast a bit easier in our current makeup....

Four debutants in 3 weeks! Good grief, they'll all need to start wearing name tags to get to know each other.

Kyle Cheney named as one of the interchange froms for the Hawks as well...

No Bartram! and Jetta and Bennell somehow survive. Great to see the younger Tommy Mac get named emergency for the first time...

Have a look at the all time list of players win-loss% (with a min 50 games), any wonder these guys are 'sick' of losing: 21St- 20.91% Matthew Warnock (11W-1D-43L) 22nd- 21.30% Cale Morton (11-1-42) 25th- 27.23% Nathan Jones (26-3-72) 28th- 30.81% Matthew Bate (26-1-59) 29th- 31.16% James Frawley (21-1-47) 38th- 33.77% Lynden Dunn (25-2-50) Shocking figures. The top two are the worst of any League current players. Any wonder the culture of losing is ingrained in their psyche. (Source: All Time Losers)

Ive never heard Matty Warnocks name mentioned on any of their twitter banter. Does this mean he has also been ostrasiced by the cool kids, as they figure he's off to the Suns on a multi year million dollar deal? Say it aint so!

Just because you were 'tough' during your playing days doesnt mean this translates to being a brilliant coach who can instill this quality in your charges. As Rhino said, if its such a genius plan how come he hasnt been coaching non-stop since the end of his playing days? By that basis David Rhys-Jones and Dennis Banks would be peers with Norm Smith and Jock McHale.

You can bold McDonald and Davis as well, theyre both on our senior list...

Yet the article from the AFL states: "The merger was originally proposed to members of the Bentleigh Club in July 2010, after discussions with its board."

The minimum list changes each year as I also understand it is 3. Whats to stop us 'downgrading' some of our fringe youngsters who dont have any trade currency such as Strauss and Fitzpatrick back to the Rookie list? It means having to delist them and take the chance no-one else will rookie them first, but it worked for Newton and McNamara this year. Otherwise its tough picking out of contract candidates, which is a good thing! The list still needs further balancing i think, too many tall developing players not enough smaller onballers, as has been seen in the last fortnight with two rookie listed onballers getting a game ahead of highly drafted kids who have had stagnated developement.

I think we also have to keep in mind this week will be Jurrahs ninth game, equalling the most he has played in a row for the seniors so far. He's still so so new to the game we cant expect a sustained level of brilliance without slight form drops over longer stretches.

FWIW, according to the live streaming chat on afl.com, Nicholson has been bought onto the senior list to take Grimes' spot, as he has (already) been placed on the LTI list.

Some more quality journalism from everyones favorite trash-rag the Herald Sun. Check out the snippet from this article: Its Not Too Hard Being Green "Green's teammate Brock McLean said the team would keep faith in second-string ruckman Stefan Martin in the absence of Mark Jamar. ''Obviously Jamar is a massive loss - he's an all-Australian ruckman - and hopefully we get him back soon," Moloney said today. "

Scully said at the aftermatch function at the Wharf Hotel that he was a pretty good chance to play in the VFL this weekend. So I assume that'd be the plan if he's right to go..

Gawn has been named emergency the last two weeks now hasnt he? The match committee wouldnt pick him as one of the 25 if they didnt think he was ready surely would they? Or is it just to show him encouragement that he's on the right track?

Was amazed when they said last night Flower topped our goalkicking three times, yet only one our best and fairest once. Thats an amazing stat given he was our only decent player at the time. I remember the thrill of rushing home to see the midweek State Of Origin games against WA knowing he'd be playing amongst, and often outshining, the best in the business...