DemonDave

But this is two weeks in a row now where he's been completely blown away down that same wing. Last week it was Jetta, which is excusable, and Gary Rohan who is reasonably quick. And he purportedly had an excuse in that he'd just made a long run the other way. But tonight, against Cameron Bruce? No excuses. He's not quick, of that much I'm certain. Which tells me a chink in the kids armour is he's not got enough pace to play outside on the wings.

Have a look at Riewoldts stats, and impact he had on games when he came back from injury and into the finals and rethink the above statement. The Saints won 8 and lost 3 when their captain was out last year, to me thats covering the loss of their best player fairly adequately.

St Kilda managed pretty well without Nick Riewoldt during a large chunk of the Home & Away season last year. Arguably good teams can cover extended absences by their best players.

Always see David at the pub cheering on the Dees when they're playing interstate. A great supporter

Once the sub is on he becomes a 'normal' player. I saw Milburn on the bench during Fridays game after he was subbed in for Selwood.

Given our 'mix' was fairly right last week, is it simply a case of IN: Frawley OUT: MacDonald Or will the presence of Buddy,Roughnuts and Hale as three talls up forward spare MacDonald at the expense of a Jetta or Maric?

Stef Martin was our representative in the Grand Final half time sprint the last two seasons. And didnt disgrace himself by finishing top 4 both times. However as has already been discussed its speed going forward, combined with lateral movement, awareness and decision making all combined that make players stand out from the crowd. Plenty of full-backs and full-forwards are probably super quick over 20 metres, I think thats where Watts' speeds have been measured quite highly at draft camps etc. Good for direct short-sharp leads, but of littler or no value to midfielders who have to run 20kms a game.

Did none of you guys even realise Bartram was playing today?

I havent seen Jack Viney play yet, but I hear his kicking on his left boot is a bit suss, probably best to let someone else risk taking him in the draft rather than get a dud...

You'd think on pre-season form Jetta, Petterd and Trengove pick themselves. And its one big bloke out of the other three. My guess Martin due to his versatility. Trengove maybe a sub fitness pending.

No Bate!

Correct, we still had the player we swapped with the Cats for Biz playing, the Gurg! He got reported too. Have a look at the selected side on wikipedia (yeah I cheated, sue me), it names Ingo at fullback, and Matthew Collins(!) at CHB, with sideshow bob nicholson in a back pocket. From memory Simmonds started at CHB on Lucas. For what its worth, my team: B: Bartram Warnock Garland HB: Grimes Rivers Davey C: Trengove Moloney Green HF: Jetta Watts Petterd F: Dunn, Jurrah, Maric R: Jamar Jones Sylvia I/C: Bail, Tapscott, Martin, Bennell Emerg: Bate, Gysberts, MacDonald

What did some people expect on here, a Scorsese-esque epic? The ad is good, not great. Would you rather the club didnt make any ads at all? I stood at the corner of Flinders and Swanston yesterday lunchtime just waiting for the NB ad with Frawley on it to come up on the electronic billboard of Y&J's. It also is a fantastic initiative!

Got mine in the mail tonight, new format this year! Should make for some good bedside reading over the weekend.

That makes them send like the weather forecasters on the evening news!

Well Richmond have no sponsor on the back of their guernsey. St Kilda have Linen House as a guernsey sponsor. THe Dogs have a taco shell manufacturer as their major sponsor. You dont know how much our major sponsors contribute compared to other clubs, how do you know they dont bring in the big dollars? I say they're doing a more than satisfactory job..

McDonald was drafted as a forward/ruckman, so will be interesting to see how far they develop him as a backman, or whether its being done to get him used to expectations at this level before swinging him back forward. I was very pleasantly surprised with his level of comfortableness at the Brisbane game. And its great to hear Gawn coming along, albeit slowly. Lets hope he can get 15-18 games at Casey under his belt this year unscathed.

"Richmodn promotes Brad Miller to senior list" is the byline of that article. Who the hell are Richmodn?

True, also not many teams have as good a second forward as the Hawks do in Roughead.

No Franklin, Hodge & Mitchell. Arguably 3 out of their top 5 players. So we should be expected to win this one...

Can someone tell me the rest of the Round 1 team? Seems even though its still 3 weeks away,I missed the announcement of it...

On a tenuous best 22 link, is anyone watching the Chooseday night football game tonight? Our team consisted of (amongst others): Jones, Sylvia, Moloney, Morton, Davey, Jurrah, Jetta,Dunn, Bate, S Martin, Frawley, Rivers, Bartram. Yet surprisingly somewhat, to me anyway, this was from 2009. Theres 13 players right there that would expect to play a fair bit of footy for us this year (Martin maybe). The game was the Freo game at the 'G late in the year where we spanked them so it was good to watch. And for the record others playing that have since gone included: Robbo, Miller, Mclean, Valenti, P Johnson, Junior and a few others....

Young Emmett will need to get growing on those whiskers, check out the Tigers Dunne and his top lip!

Also amazed they fit Tapscott's neck into the frame...

Ha the first two I looked at without reading these posts were Dunn for his mo and Maric to see if they'd 'shopped a smile onto him! Channel Seven should do one of those 'super slo mo' shots if he ever does crack it for a smile..