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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.

It's October 2 and not only are we fine with him leaving, we have been for a few weeks now, he already has a nominated club, we have been allowing him to talk to clubs, again, for a few weeks now, and Mahoney has already said we are happy to facilitate a trade to Geelong. None of this smacks of the club trying very hard to keep a bloke.

Melbourne Football Club Supporters Syndrome "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong, and it will be even worse than what we thought is was going to be. And when things are going right, it will only be a matter of time before this is corrected." Dr rpfc

It is fairly obvious that Roos moved on pretty quickly from his crocked CHF. We haven't fought very hard to keep him have we? I don't think we wanted it to end like this but Roos is a pragmatist - why have such an investment in a bloke who cannot get on the park and doesn't help where we need the most help - in the midfield?

Of course there is. But we are talking about the conduct of Dunn. Which is what brought this topic into this thread.

Fixed. Oddly enough, point remains.

^^^ The dangers of acid, kids.

Here is the confirmation - the club made a mistake - whodathunk it? Hogan said his back injury came to a head when he played for Melbourne against Geelong in the club’s second NAB Challenge match in Alice Springs, back in February. “It was a bit sore going into the game, but the physios insisted it was just tightness. I was training as though I was feeling OK and I was a bit aware of it, but it affected me during the game in the third quarter, when I tried to kick it,” he said. “My whole body seized up and I’ve gone ‘this isn’t tightness’. I basically couldn’t run in the last quarter and then I woke up the next morning and I was basically the same – I was just stiff. http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2014-10-01/hogan-aims-for-round-one-debut

We will see.

If...

It's pure PR management. We will get Pick 3.