Neil Crompton

Only one way he can repair this. Sign a new contract extension. Otherwise I doubt the players will have a lot of faith in him and he may not get many leads honoured.

What evidence? (just asking for a friend)

I just watched Curtin’s highlights and he looks like a ready made Steven May mark2. I’d be really happy to nab him in the draft if we could - f..k WC.

Are you going to mention your horses name Red?

While I am totally against trading Harry, as I feel he will be a key player in our premiership attempt next year and the year after. As such I cannot follow the logic of wanting to trade him. I'm assuming we'd do it to try and get better currency to obtain Pick 1. However, I'm also assuming that WC would only trade Pick 1 if they were guaranteed of getting Curtin, and another high first round pick, and maybe more. Even if we traded Petty, I don't think our haul would satisfy WC - ie we still won't have a pick high enough to guarantee them getting Curtin. We would probably have to trade up to get Pick 2 or 3 or possibly 4 to be able to guarantee WC a pick that would get Curtin. Problem is, I don't think we'd have the picks left to offer WC, along with Pick 2 (3 or 4), that would entice them to trade with us. So, I cannot see the point in trading Harrison if we cannot guarantee getting Pick 1. But as I said, I am against selling Harry and I'm against selling our future first pick. Will be interesting to see how this pans out.

Well, if WC don't want to play ball with us so that we can get Reid, then more than happy for us to pick Curtin at 6.

I guess we will all have to wait and see. I cannot see the club telegraphing what their plans are. But rest assured, there are plans afoot. Have patience and a little trust. We do drafting a lot better than we do finals.

I don't think anyone here will or could forget WCW. But just maybe it's time for healing instead of continually picking at the wound. I think I disliked the AFL far more for their inaction on this than Maynard for doing the deed. But my sincere hope and energy is focused all at Gus and his healing - so much so that I don't have a lot of energy left to waste on the AFL and that knuckle-dragger Maynard.

Someone in another thread was saying how when they read the post of a particular poster they associated that poster with a particular voice. When I read a @Bitter but optimistic post I immediately hear the voice of the eunuch from Game of Thrones.

Why would Oliver want to leave the Dees? This rumor doesn't ring true at all. However, it was obvious, from the optics, that Oliver was not himself once he returned from injury - both form and on-field attitude wise. Is it this that has perhaps initiated these rumors?

If we had 22 Spargo’s who then would give them the ball for them to be able to have a kick?

Could it have possibly been that Todd felt that, if we had selected Wines, he would have been a selection competition for Jack in their early days?

It's probably best for JJ, but not so sure it's the best for the Dees. I thought we wanted to keep him.

I think if we are being honest, we were never going to win it last year. But that was definitely our premiership to lose this year. But unfortunately we threw (kicked) it away. I never mind being beaten by better sides on the day, but we have been the better side in both finals. That is what hurts.

2 days a week, for 6 months of extra field and goal kicking practice for everyone. We talk about having generational players in our team, but i'm sorry, you cannot be generational if you cannot hit a target.

I actually disagree with this. Despite the injuries, despite what i thought were poor team selections, despite some dubious umpiring decisions, and despite our obvious lack of decent (basic) skills, we should have easily won both finals. So, for all the bad, we should be playing in the Prelim. I really hope that sticks in the players throats. This team has thrown away a premiership. They deserve to be called over-rated chokers.

I guess if Grundy doesn't want to be a Dee anymore, why should we pick him?

Wheelo, if our 4 key backmen are the 4 lowest rated in our team for pressure, what can we deduce from this?

I haven't seen a Binman thesis for a while now - and I think it could well be a good omen for the outcome tonight! Go Dees.

How about we trade him then Jimmy? We can't have someone who continuously "kills us". I'm sure we could con another team into taking such a defective player.

Chook, it's funny how cricketers only have less than half a second when facing fast bowling, to play or let it go, to go forward or to go back, to defend or to attack the ball. There are 3 decisions at least to be made in that time and then to execute that decision all in less than half a second. Maynard had about the same time to make one decision - do I evade him or do i hurt him? And he doesn't have time to do that? What BS.

You are like the tide Rollo - you keep saying you are leaving this thread, but you keep coming back. For what it is worth, your position has been made abundantly clear, so no need to repeat again. And for what it is worth, your opinion on this topic, even given your legal background, is not shared by 99.99% of Demonland. Please accept that. And please don't respond to my post, it will simply be "returned to sender".

Gus going off was the difference between us losing and winning. He plays a full game we win. F'ing Maynard!

Agree that he was in the air and couldn't have avoided Gus. However, he had the duty of care. He could have easily remained front on and lowered his arms onto Gus's shoulders or onto Gus's chest to limit the inevitable impact. Instead, he deliberately chose to turn his shoulder and ram it into Gus's head. He made a bad choice and deserves to be suspended. I'd give him 6 weeks!

Between injuries, suspensions and [censored] form, our key forwards next week might well be Schache and Jefferson. Heaven help us.