Katrina Dee Fan

You can tell I'm not a rugby person, I had to Google who that is....

Love her to bits.

Jason Taylor told my ghostwriter today at training that it's a formality, that once paperwork is done, we'll have Ricky Mentha. By the end of today he'll officially be a Demon. Good news :)

One more bit from GW: Salo is sure he'll be right for well before round 1. He had knee surgery and his recovery is coming along really nicely. Despite the oppressive heat, the session isn't shortened, nor is it tempered at all. They are going HARD.

Thanks Andy!

Can we please bring back the facepalm emoji? yes, Kevin, it’s a joke :)

From GW: Aidan turned up later than the others. Xavier running laps with SpargiPants. Tons of media here. Probably for the draftees but Tracc turning up was a surprise. I can almost smell Cleary racing to get here.

He’s got to get used to being back in hard work mode. Nonetheless, hope it doesn’t get infected…!

More from GW: JT said we’re definitely picking up Ricky Mentha, it’s not official yet until all the paperwork is done some time this arvo. This was always plan, ie. if he makes it through the draft, which he has, we’d get him as a cat. B rookie.

According to Ghostwriter, Harry Sharp is there, but Aidan “Peaches” Johnson isn’t. Probably has to clear things up with his job today.

Update - Trac’s here! The new boys look nervous.

Early scoop from The Ghostwriter: Hey Katnip, Some early info… It’s bloody hot already. It’s only 9am and Vines is running laps, he has to leave training early for a family function. The new boys will be here this morning but not participating in training per se. According to Goody we will “high likely”be picking up Ricky Mentha tonight As you know, Kat, despite being described as “… an athletic brute who imposes himself on the contest” Aidan’s nickname is Peaches. The new boys will be going to the Mansfield camp. JT is looking pretty damn happy with himself… And so he should. More to come.

Maximum on the list is 44. We can only go to 38 senior players if we don't use up the two spare rookie spots.

You have pretty much capture every bit of my thoughts there. Did you invade my thoughts or something?

And I'm sure all the first three options can be found at the fourth!

I just hope we made the right choice of Aidan Johnson over Riak. At the moment I'm in two minds.

What was the communication? Coz right now I’m livid.

I wondered around and finally found The somebody who Picks out random grammatical errors in posts..... (BTW it would be more authentic to say Frank Sinatra instead of Harry Connick Jnr. But that's simply my version of pedantic :) )

On the club's socials this morning they put up interviews with both boys. Harvey said he'd trained with Melbourne during the year, and was expecting to be drafted by Melbourne. He expressed he's excited about joining Melbourne, and that his favourite player to watch growing up was Petracca. I don't think we have much to worry about.

Why not? We do!

Banno was dudded, I reckon.

A quick look at his Insta, his responses are about as monosyllabic as his interview last night. He's simply a man of few words.

I would think so, yes. Great opportunity to meet the new teammates.

Yep, 44 is Kentfield. Any reason he's missing?

I didn't really get he was unhappy with being selected, I just got that he's a teenager still going through the non-communicative grunty teenage boy phase that they all seem to experience at some stage.