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And now we are being trolled... Kudos people, you brought this on yourselves.

Not only is JT fighting for his career, he will be doing it at a club that openly tried to trade him. He won't be a FA next year as it stands but I think the relationship between club and player has been changed irrevocably now. I am not one to get overly despondent but even if he recovers, I don't think we will see the following renaissance.

Sad?

Poor fella. It's not about where he plays, it's about whether he will ever play again.

Burgan: "What does it mean to you - coming to Melbourne?" Prince: "Everything, and yet nothing. It means more to you. It reminds me of the old Brazilian saying: "if at first glance something is broken, I just fixed it."

Gawd...

Footy is a funny thing, before Jones went on his Bluey spree of three in a row, he was very close to moving to Essendon. Very close.

No, see my post above.

No, I agree with you. It reminds me of those losers who thought last year that Paul Roos was a chance to coach us. What a bunch a of unrealistic no-hopers - why even waste phone money calling people like that? Everyone knows that you should only pick the fruit you know you can get...

Who is the coach at the minute?

Yes, but that is idiotic reasoning; Luke Hodge would not have played a game from October to March. That's 5 months! Get a game you hack!

We got it, buddy. We are now aware what this means:

They will opt to do that on Thursday at 2pm. They haven't opted into anything until then.

Oh boy... We are going to need a bigger boat...

And people also get hung up on steak knives - "Pick 3 fair enough but do we have to give Pick 23?" I'm sorry but we are not in a position to turn down trades if clubs want our second round picks or perennially crocked solid citizens - we need some quality players and we need them now. I don't think this is an existential question but we have got to make the most of the three off seasons with Roos giving the spiel.

What if Lever becomes a star of the game? What will you say then. History will judge this trade if it eventuates, we won't know the sum of it and all we will be doing is what we are doing in this thread - baring our neurosis concerning an aspect of the game we get all too often wrong.

They better get this right. That's the guts of my opinion. I want to get better and we are rumoured to be moving on two blokes with feet issues on good coin who played a total of 2 games last season. I understand the desire to get some output for your outlay. But clubs are funny things, they drive and thrive on emotion and just because you were apart of the failed times, doesn't mean you can't be apart of the success. This smacks me as a cog in a larger plan or they really like this Lever kid who might be there around ND12. They better get this right.

Away from the computer to receive my jumper for winning the flag with my team up here and come back to this? Jeez... Makes me feel ill. Trengove running around with Dusty with Jake King watching on? I just threw up in my mouth. This better work. I know good culture - this hurts, they better Get.This. Right.

Effectively, he is at the club now. Surely 2015 and 2016 should be him developing a body to deal with the rigours of modern footy. I really hope we don't see much of him in the next two years.

It wasn't even Moneyball when Neeld did what he did. Neeld brought in players from other clubs aho, as you say, were of a different quality than the ones that Roos has been able to get. Dawes, Clark, Pedersen, Byrnes, Gillies and Rodan. Tyson, Vince, Cross, Garlett, Michie, Riley, and Lumumba. It is not Moneyball, it is just recruitment. One being far better at it than the other. Frankly, as someone who knows baseball, those that relate Moneyball to what happens in the AFL are kidding themselves.

Time waits for no man (or woman), ManDee. But I understand the desire...

I hear you, ManDee. It goes so quickly...

If only one could, ManDee. If only one could...

Frost might be headed for the PSD if he is up for it.