Leopold Bloom

Sliding doors. Voss coach of Carlton. McRae coach of Collingwood. What might have been if it was the other way around.

Here’s the 2021 NAB AFL National Draft Top 20 1. Jason Horne-Francis (North Melbourne) 2. Sam Darcy (Western Bulldogs) 3. Finn Callaghan (Greater Western Sydney) 4. Nick Daicos (Collingwood) 5. Mac Andrew (Gold Coast) 6. Josh Rachele (Adelaide) 7. Josh Ward (Hawthorn) 8. Jye Amiss (Fremantle) 9. Josh Gibcus (Richmond) 10. Neil Erasmus (Fremantle) 11. Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera (St Kilda) 12. Josh Sinn (Port Adelaide) 13. Ben Hobbs (Essendon) 14. Campbell Chesser (West Coast) 15. Leek Aleer (Greater Western Sydney) 16. Darcy Wilmot (Brisbane Lions) 17. Tom Brown (Richmond) 18. Angus Sheldrick (Sydney Swans) 19. Jacob van Rooyen (Melbourne) 20. Kai Lohmann (Brisbane Lions) Picked straight after Daicos and just before Rachele. Great drafting if he comes good.

Right on cue, the Suns kick a couple to make me look stupid.

Suns need to be careful to avoid this becoming a slaughter.

Getting nervous.

I read somewhere that Fyfe’s salary is $1.1 million. That might put off some potential suitors.

COATES LEAGUE TOP 50 RANKINGS AFTER ROUND 3 *Ranking, Player, Club, Position, 2023 Games, 2023 Ave. KFC SuperCoach Points* 1. Tom Beaumont (Tasmania Devils), MID, 2 games, 173 points 2. Indhi Kirk (Sydney Swans), MID-FWD, 2 games, 166 points 3. Sam Marshall (Brisbane Lions), DEF, 2 games, 155 points 4. Ryley Sanders (Sandringham Dragons), MID, 3 games, 152 points 5. Harley Reid (Bendigo Pioneers), MID, 3 games, 152 points 6. Harvey Thomas (GWS Academy), MID, 2 games, 151 points 7. George Stevens (GWV Rebels), DEF, 3 games, 144 points 8. Nicholas Watson (Eastern Ranges), FWD, 3 games, 143 points 9. Josh Smillie (Eastern Ranges), MID, 2 games, 141 points 10. Cooper Simpson (Dandenong Stingrays), MID, 2 game, 131 points 11. Tom Anastasopoulous (Geelong Falcons), FWD, 3 games, 130 points 12. Angus Hastie (Geelong Falcons), DEF, 3 games, 130 points 13. Archer Reid (Gippsland Power), FWD, 1 game, 129 points 14. Archer Day-Wicks (Bendigo Pioneers), FWD, 1 game, 129 points 15. Jake Rogers (Gold Coast), MID, 2 games, 128 points 16. Malachi White (Geelong Falcons), MID, 2 games, 127 points 17. Diesel Moloney (Western Jets), DEF, 3 games, 125 points 18. Jagga Smith (Oakleigh Chargers), MID, 3 games, 123 points 19. Darcy Wilson (Murray Bushrangers), FWD, 3 games, 123 points 20. Colby McKercher (Tasmania Devils), MID, 2 games, 122 points 21. Ryan Maric (Gippsland Power), FWD, 2 games, 122 points 22. Tom Evans (Bendigo Pioneers), MID, 3 games, 120 points 23. Levi Ashcroft (Sandringham Dragons), MID-FWD, 3 games, 120 points 24. Jared Eckersley (Gold Coast), MID, 2 games, 120 points 25. Caiden Cleary (Sydney), MID, 2 games, 119 points 26. Will Lorenz (Oakleigh Chargers), FWD, 2 games, 116 points 27. Oscar Ryan (Murray Bushrangers), DEF, 3 games, 116 points 28. Tye Gander (Sydney), FWD, 2 games, 115 points 29. Sebastian Amoroso (Gippsland Power), FWD, 2 games, 115 points 30. Connor O’Sullivan (Murray Bushrangers), DEF, 3 games, 114 points 31. Ethan Read (Gold Coast), RUCK, 2 games, 113 points 32. Cam Nyko (Eastern Ranges), MID, 3 games, 113 points 33. Alex Molan (GWV Rebels), MID, 3 games, 113 points 34. William Brown (Sandringham Dragons), FWD, 3 games, 113 points 35. Jackson Savage (GWS Academy), DEF, 3 games, 111 points 36. Will Graham (Gold Coast), MID, 2 games, 111 points 37. Mahmoud Taha (Calder Cannons), MID-FWD, 3 games, 111 points 38. Tyson Sruk (Eastern Ranges), DEF, 3 games, 111 points 39. Kobe Shipp (Dandenong Stingrays), DEF, 2 games, 110 points 40. Joel Freijah (GWV Rebels), MID, 3 games, 109 points 41. Malik Gordon (Bendigo Pioneers), FWD, 1 game, 109 points 42. Luke Teal (Oakleigh Chargers), DEF, 3 games, 108 points 43. Max Stobie (Gippsland Power), DEF, 2 games, 108 points 44. Cody Anderson (Eastern Ranges), MID, 3 games, 107 points 45. Harvey Langford (Dandenong Stingrays), FWD, 3 games, 107 points 46. Zeke Uwland (Gold Coast), DEF, 2 games, 107 points 47. Hugo Garcia (Calder Cannons), MID-FWD, 3 games, 106 points 48. Jake Smith (Western Jets), MID, 3 games, 106 points 49. Coby James (Murray Bushrangers), DEF, 3 games, 106 points 50. Joshua Cooper (Brisbane Lions Academy), DEF, 2 games, 106 points

Isn’t Uncle Nev employed by Collingwood these days?

The crowd at the Gabba tonight and a few of the Lions players will no doubt let Crisp know what they think of unsociable behaviour towards women.

After that debut, what chance that he picks up a Rising Star nomination?

Me too but let’s not allow the facts get in the way of a good story.

Norwood’s SANFL side is playing against Woodville-West Torrens in a Friday night game and getting flogged late in the third quarter by 10 goals. They’ve only scored a single goal!

WJ’s mystery injury of the week!!!

Duursma is the nephew of Jamie Duursma , son of Dean Duursma who played Under19s and Reserves with Melbourne and a brother of Xavier and Yasmin (Port Adelaide AFL and AFLW respectively).

The fact that Duursma's training as part of the AFL Academy experience doesn't mean we have any ties to him. It's an allocation made on a number of issues including proximity for training purposes. Since we do train at Casey Fields and he's from Gippsland, it's logical that he trains with us - plus the family connection.

Goody sighted in Bali late last week.

Yeah, Mac let the club down but it’s a club that’s languished from the beginning with a poor culture. Perhaps the club’s let the kid down as well.

Where does Kynan Brown fit?

Is he suggesting here that he’s downgraded his ranking of Melbourne’s drafting efforts because we selected a player with some injury concerns? If so, he would have missed out on recruiting Joel Selwood who sustained a serious knee injury during his final year of junior football that caused him to fall to Geelong's first pick at seventh overall in the 2006 AFL draft. Those recruiters who overlooked him missed out on a 355 game player, long time Cats’ skipper, a quadruple premiership player, a six time All Australian (and three-time captain of that team) and a great of the game. What a dill!

This is the bloke we want but we can’t get to him.

If you’ve seen so little of him, it’s interesting that you conclude that he’s a “small player stuck in a big player’s body” and you wouldn’t take a chance on him as an 18 year old to develop his game. He plays for North Adelaide in the SANFL Under 18s and is 198cm 88kg and has played ruck and key forward roles and kicked goals. Why could he not become more imposing than BBB (a late developer) with some gym work and a few pre seasons under his belt? By comparison, a lot of people around here are salivating over the rangy stick figure key forward Matt Jefferson who is 194cm, 76kg and while he can admittedly take a grab, he doesn’t have much physicality and, at this stage of his career is by no means a strong man?

So this kid gets picked to play in the elite exhibition match for the Australian Academy vs Collingwood, plays well, catches the eye of recruiters, disappears with an injury and conveniently returns on the eve of the draft. Essendon family and Essendon NGA. Nothing to see here. 'It is what he wants': Why explosive NGA talent has eyes set on Dons

I think they gave up on the concept soon after this so Melbourne are still the reigning world champions.

Based on us losing Jayden Hunt, would this bloke be worth a try?

If Tim Taranto is worth 12 & 19, what then is Luke Jackson worth?