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ND3 is worth more than Frawley. The top 5 picks in the draft is where good recruiters find stars of the game. Frawley is not a star of the game.

Classless once again.

I don't think Roos would agree. If we are looking for a premier mid - Pick 3 is a great deal more valuable than Frawley. Roos' exposition on the de-equalisation of the league was fairly and squarely aimed at the League offices charged with giving us our compensation.

Well, I care what is good for you; you need to work on your grammar.

Looks like he is a proud little fella. If we rate him 30th and are forced to take him Pick 22 or pass on him... What do you do? Shoot the hostage. That reference was from The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down...

Wow. Can't believe he said that back then. Rock bottom... He didn't know what rock bottom was. He's about to find out.

So you agree that Roos would have put a high priority on keeping a bloke who had played 15 of a possible 66 games?

Well, he didn't play much footy in 2014. I was surprised he mentioned him at all really. Hasn't played much footy for him.

Yeah! Wait...wait...you're serious. Oh. Ha!

I don't really know the juniors that well, I am just alluding to the need to talk the kid down so we can pick him up for Pick 65...

Whatever you say buddy. He will be playing for your team next year. In the red and the blue, and you can sit there bitter and grumbling if you want to - it won't change a damn thing.

One thing is for certain, the kid will be a hell of a lot better player the minute after the bidding process is over... Right now? I could take him or leave him. Meh.

We should have put up a fight about the 'no draft assistance ruling' - at least that is backed up by a rule of the effing game. This is just happenstance piercing our O-ring - Clark is not worth what he was worth and clubs won't pay what we think they should, precisely because he can go into the draft. We can stand on principle if we want to - but we will be howling at the moon, and how we will be howling if Pick 33 turns into something for the Cats?

As for this half-pregnant Free Agency - it was implemented poorly by the AFL (shock, horror) and requires tweaking with other regulations to make the competition more competitive. With that said - FA has been an interesting bag for us - we have lost Moloney and Rivers as they declined, gained Byrnes as he did the same and managed to turn Sylvia into Vince which is a massive win for the club. If Pick 3 and the extra money gets us something valuable - are we working well in the new paradigm?

Ok, you're Roos and you don't have a functioning midfield - what is more value to you; 1. A CHB, pushed/pulled out of the backline on around 6% of the salary cap? OR 2. Pick 3 in the ND that can be used to acquire a ready made midfielder or a midfielder of the future? I think there is grey here - Dunn was a free agent but very wanted by the club, he stayed. I really question how highly Frawley was rated by Roos and co.

Perhaps he means the offer has been sitting there unchanged for a while.

This.

When we got Byrnes we were trying to game the system because the AFL said that you will get one pick for net players lost and it would be the value of the sum of the players brought in and lost. Then the AFL changed the rules on the fly, again, and Byrnes and Moloney 'cancelled' each other out and Rivers got us Band 4... Not that I am bitter about how the AFL establish their rules or anything... Give me two weeks in charge. Two weeks. That's it.

My dad knew him quite well being a journo and then involved at the club. Was well enough to have a beer with mates last week. I am too young to appreciate Robbie but I do appreciate his effect on my dad, which has been vast and lasting. He made an impression in my life.

Hird also took some of the good stuff...

You may think that, but why would Roos be so quick to move on? If he was 'blindsided' - he certainly changed gears quickly. We all have our own theories - mine is along the lines of: we wanted to keep him at a very reduced rate, or even on the Rookie List, and were expecting that to happen or him not to play football anymore, after he decided he didn't want either of those options, the club moved on very quickly from that. I think they moved on quickly because they know that the longshot he can revive his career isn't worth fighting for. Now it is all about getting something back from this awful scenario.

Excuse me? Good lord.

So he didn't try very hard to keep him?

I like to think of Demonland is a MFC-aligned pub that we are constantly in. We have our Cheers like regulars, there are a few cliques, there are a few crazy people talking nonsense alone in the corner, there are tossbags bagging out the place but never leaving, there are attention seekers trying to get anyone to look at them, there are about 4 women, and there is a general sense of hopelessness that somehow morphs into unchallenged hopefulness and then challenged confidence. At some point, the pub will be right and we will be right in our confidence.

You want to put that bloke in the ruck? The last place I would put that bloke is in the most physically demanding position on the ground.