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This is Rucci shaking his own tree for the SA market with a few vague quotes about FA discussions with Adelaide officials - it has nothing to do with us other than the fact we have one of the best FAs.

So Scarlett Pick 15. I got the double chance so I think I would be Pick 14. I also lost to scarlett from memory. OMR beat robbo24? (Pick 13?) Not sure on that. JCB i think went out in the semis so he would be Pick 12 and snomeD, RR, and JA should know how they finished?

I never understand why they don't do this more. If Misson says 'he won't be ready till Round 10', why not put him on the LTI and give yourself more flexibility? Clark was not on the LTI for ages last year and this was when we all knew he was done for the year. Aiden Riley was recruited while recovering from a broken leg, what he does this season should be completely irrelevant to his career really. I am sure he will have his goals for this year but the expectations from the club for him in 2014 would have to be in the basement.

If I am bored enough maybe the old thread will enlighten us about where the top 8 finished... Just a terrible memory when it comes to this stuff. Won my NFL Fantasy League though...

I can't quite remember my team (lol) but my keepers would be Goddard, Sidebottom, Evans, and Greene. If you didn't have two kids that qualify, bad luck.

The draft is structured with subesquent rounds reversed so HT will have 1, 32, 33, 64, 65, etc Draft Order: 1 - HT, 2 - 45HG, 3 - Hollywood, 4 - STINGA, 5 - Jarka's Jokers, 6 - Jako Lives, 7 - DL7, 8 - M_M I have written down the first 8...any help with how the finals finished? I came either 3rd or 4th from memory. Thanks for letting experiment with the Percentage Determinator. It wasn't perfect but it kept people trying to win till the end which was the point.

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I think there will be some vicious bumps... It is utterly amazing what confidence can do to a football player. I hope they have shorter memories than the fans - just get out there and play some football and they will be in a different stratosphere to last year. Unfortunately, I think they will remember the last few years in a handful of games in 2014...

I always have to have the last bird...

lol Independent members of a forum make up what? Sorry, buddy, maybe you will feel better about it when we are winning.

I didn't say you did, but this useless 'Bailey was bad but not as bad as Neeld' is self serving or naive. Maybe both.

What's this 'we' business then? And I prefer Community. You do nothing but 'mind other people's business' on here. The way you throw around insults and snide asides is all I was criticising. Is this about your recent Nazi metaphor? Or was it a simile? You can post what you wish, I was merely doing the same. Oh, I am making friends here aren't I? Here, in the spirit of tomorrow, here is a GIF that all NFL fans can get behind:

Online shopping is easier to get right and do well. And its more beneficial to the club as we get a bigger cut. Fans not seeing merchandise in stores is a peripheral issue really.

You have complained in the past at others, invariably Machsy, being abusive toward you - and here you are being indignant. If you don't like this community, mjt, there is no law or academic requirement I have heard of that keeps a person here.

I know the opinion of him on Big Footy - but that means as much as the thoughts of some Landers on Gysberts, Morton, and Maric... From what I have seen he is a courageous player and a terrific tackler - always aiming for the hips. He, like Michie, another we are excited about due to the online whining of opposition supporters, will have plenty of opportunity in our midfield.

I honestly don't think that there is a population of posters who think the above large enough to warrant this hubris. Neeld was a disastrous failure - that is an opinion that will not find much disagreement. When posters want to talk about the context of the mess we find ourselves in we cannot simply start with October 2011 and the hiring of Mark Neeld. The reasons for our current malaise begin well before the rot set in, well before our malaise started, and - like a skipping stone - the reasons why we continued to struggle continued through the Bailey Era and into the Neeld Era. If you and BB wish to rank coaches - that is a very short thread: Daniher, Bailey, Neeld. Happy?

They can be coupled together with Daniher's last few years to explain the decisions that left us with the list that we are left with. Would it be better to say the 'Eras' of these coaches? As opposed the men themselves? The Bailey Era is lumped with the other failed eras because that is what they are. The latter half of the Daniher Era saw the MFC trade away picks and brought in discarded help because he thought he was close to a flag. The start of the Bailey Era was stunted by the 'retirings' of seasoned pros that had a few years left with the pros that had no years left, The Bailey Era then saw no mature bodies brought into the club to restock save for Meesen and MacDonald, with the 'siren call' of the draft beckoning we were at the mercy of a skill we have never been quite adept - choosing the right teenagers, especially at the pointy end of the draft. The claims of poor development are not without cause, but are left somewhat moot by the fact that Morton, Gysberts and Cook have been abandoned by the AFL at large. The Neeld Era shook this tree and while saving us another year of Morton and Gysberts left the confidence of a young, talent-bereft team in tatters. Losing Moloney for nothing was a headache, nearly losing a number of players if he had stayed would have been an embarrassing disaster similar to what the Lions had to endure this past off-season. All throughout these eras has been an abject inability to pick talent in the draft. The cupboard was bare and hopefully the last two drafts are filled with successes, because we need them.

What I mean is that the repercussions in the 90s to salary cap irregularities, terrible draft choices from 2001, trades (Holland, Pickett), and 'retiring' of seasoned pros in the urge to get younger after 2007 make up the reasons for why we are where we are. The reasons behind those failures are for the purposes of blame arrangement and that is a waste when it such a shared arrangement. Good decisions need to be made on most things from here on in. That's what matters.

This disaster we are in, and hopefully coming out of soon, has been a skipping stone since the late nineties. The lines of blame are so wide as to render them useless for judgement. Anyone saying that Neeld was when the rot started is revising history. And, ADC, anyone making nazi comparisons is belittling history.

Are you having a stroke live on the internet? Is that what this is?

Yep, the pool man in his red shorts... That's it. No red shorts.

Bump. The bloke is at it again: http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2014-01-31/garland-focuses-on-44th-player I love this. Maia Westrupp would make 45 but splitting hairs can be a waste of time. Our 4 rookies may get paid less and have less opportunities and security but they should be treated as equals in a well run club.

Do you remember a couple of years ago when the Bummers wore them in a few away games against Richmond? Talk about a terrible 80s throwback... It was like our light blue abortion or Boy George; something from another time that should be left for the pens of historians and the amazement of time travellers.

An infestation of none?