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Again, no, they will also bid if they think we will take him with our second rounder if pushed to. We are a sucker and the even breaks won't start anytime soon...

I would have 2+1+1 as the auto-contract for teenagers in the first round.

Played up here for Ainslie. He goes ok. Kicks goals, neat runner.

Draftees cannot choose their employer. It is laughable that in the AFL an 18 year old is only on a 2 year contract no matter where they are taken in the draft. The massive investment of a pick in the first few and only 2 years tied to that club... Outside of the need to lengthen the initial contract to 4 years for 1st round draftees, the AFL should make contracts tradeable without the need for players to consent. This is indeed possible, as their contracts are with the AFL through the clubs. Unless a player has a 'No Trade Clause' built into their contract - they should be subject to being traded without their consent, just like they are drafted to teams without their consent. That's life in a professional, draft regulated sport.

Ok. Ignored.

Nearly went to Essendon at the end of 2012. Real Demons don't flirt with other clubs, or do they?

Tanking will come into vogue again though... NFL doesn't have an issue with tanking - as Herm Edwards said - "You play to win the game!" It doesn't have an issue because there are only 16 games and each game is an event in and of itself - there just seems to be too much pressure to win for coaches and admins that tanking just doesn't seem to happen. The fact that teams are literally one or two players away from contention also stops the desire to be bad...

In the NFL you have to 3 years removed from high school.

Not really, Nasher was right in banning him for his reprehensible logic, even if he scooted past it as the reason for his decision to ban him.

Well, you know my thoughts on the draft age, so if they lifted the draft age to 20 or 21 I would be ok with 6 years to FA...

Nothing is wrong, other than I think it is wrong... Fitz is 24 midway through next season, if he is going to be better than Dawes, he better get his skates on...

Here we go again. Fitz plays two games, Dawes in his first few games back straightened us up immeasurably. I seem to recall you walking back your 'Fitz > Dawes' argument during the year... When I see a bloke mark, or not mark, the way Dawes was toward the end of the season it tells me their confidence is down. I also agree with Chris that he is a role player and I think will be more important when Hogan is introduced to that forward line.

You need to just move on, the only poster people are judging is you, olisik. You are the one that read it wrong, and the one with the terrible point about key defenders. Slink away, don't attack.

Do people realise that clubs have been helping the spouses/families of players since the beginning. Whether it is finding them real estate at half value, or finding them a placement as a nurse, or finding the child of a player a surrogate father after the war took his dad... To complain that we did this and then didn't get 'anythin out of it!' with gnashing teeth and a frothing mouth is unscrupulous.

This was the logic of what HH said: 1. Houli was called a terrorist. 2. People are called Terrorists because of their chosen religion - Islam. 3. Houli was religiously vilified because of his religion, not his race. 4. That is fine. Frankly, I find point 2 of his logic utterly reprehensible. If taken in a vacuum, HH wouldn't have been banned, IMO Nasher has sub-consciously read the reprehensible logic behind the post and banned him accordingly.

To be fair - he equated being called a 'terrorist' to vilifying someone's religion while he was saying all that... I really don't think HH is the hero of the Anti-PC Agenda...

HH missing a couple of weeks on here will do him some good. I agree he was banned for stupidity rather than offensiveness but the fact that he thinks you can call someone a 'terrorist' because of their religion means he needed this teachable moment... And besides, he was having a terrible few weeks on here. Form really nosedived from a low altitude.

At some point, we would want to be a top 6 side.

Nathan Jones met with Essendon a couple of years ago and was close to going there. He is nothing but a fantastic Demon, do you agree?

It's designed to stand out - I would criticise Redleg for trying to win attention to his posts, but, frankly, there should be attention to his posts - they are usually reasoned, well thought out, and rational. Occasionally, that's in short supply... Edit: Or sometimes the formatting gets screwed up... I stand by the attention thing, some of deeluded's posts read like the inside of Maurice Sendak's mind...

OR you know the other team will take him with their subsequent pick...

This would be a good point if it were not for the fact that key position backs don't have to get lots of possessions to be the best. As pointed out in another thread - Talia averages less than 12 touches a game and he goes alright...

I want Roos to earn his pay check. It took Dunn 9 years to do something with his talent, Watts has the talent to help us get back up the ladder. Roos should back himself to get something out of a bloke that has progressed each year but at the rate of continental drift...

It's only that way because of people like Nicky Winmar, Scott Chisholm and the 'Army of PC Thugs' that drove away the acceptability of vilifying someone.

When are posters going to realise that Demonland is not The Anonymous Internet© - If there is such a thing - and that people own this site and are liable for what is on this site. You are simple if you think that Nasher is impinging your free speech - it's not just your speech on here.