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Rhetorical? Helpful.

Yeah, we should not allow any young Demon to wear that number simply because some simpleton bolted... That is being do,instead by numbers in the other direction - you have gone from one extreme to the other. There is a happy middle and we got there with Viney jnr and we will get there with whoever gets 31 in the future.

So not happening? We have to surely act on the rules of the day, and not make decisions on what may be.

As much as I get frustrated with those naysayers. This picture is fresh pudding. I would like to eat the pudding for a couple of years. I...I really butchered that idiom...

Yes, it will be around 59/60. Good point.

I'm glad he is laying down some truth to those fools on 5AA. We may be terribly run, stupid club with a history of bad luck and poor decisions but... I forgot where I was going with this...

Can I just say that it is good for footy that 12 months after PA was where they were at they are the preferred destination for a talented SA boy coming home. That is very welcome.

The reason is simply to force change every year so the PFA can say - 'we brought this many kids into the system, and this many players found new homes, blah blah.' It's completely arbitrary. And its all about Primary list deletions - 3. Hogan, Clisby, and Magner coming onto the list could mean we don't go to the draft at all. Of course, we won't do that though...

Please show me the article that quotes the AFL saying they will scrap compensation picks.

For the same reason we want to spend pick 2 for Rockliff, Shuey, et al. Skip the dev stage, give the bloke a role and watch him become a star. I would trade him an established mid, but he has the skills to be Ryan O'Keefe. Get Roos to help him with his finger that's up his arse and get him to work hard off a wing/hff.

Yes, 8 Brownlow votes going to Rd 4 when Guerra decided to use the Telstra Dome turf to injure the best player of the first seventh of the season in the AFL. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Bloody Guerra.

lol at those who hate the spin - what do you want the club to do? Every person/organisation/entity spins. It is simply a way of stating facts in a way that reflects the best for oneself. If you abolished all PR firms today, they would spring up again tomorrow with a new title and a compelling campaign against whoever abolished them... As for the Successor Search of 2013; we came up empty. But that's ok. That means that we are happy to admit failure rather than make a decision for its own sake. That's progress.

He doesn't have to sign now, there is no need for ultimatums now. Should we start acting like a decent club or should we just continue to act like the toddler of a club we have been these last 7 years? Play good footy, get players to want to stay, and don't fret the end is near when they do leave. We can meet his wage and trade him or get Pick 5 for him as comp.

Headed for the backline.

I am really sorry to correct you here but Colin was an UFA because he has 'played' at MFC for 10 years. 2004 was his first year. The top 10 earners rule applies to players OOC after 8 or 9 years and are not in the top 10 earners at the club; they are UFA. Sylvia was most definitely very well paid at Melbourne.

You can think its Band 4, Band 5, Little River Band, Band-aid... I don't care. But don't give me the rhetorical flourish "I don't know we're that is coming from" - I have been boring this site for a year about 'where it is coming from.'

Where is it coming from? Is that rhetorical? I think he is Band 3 as Pearce and Chaplin before him. Band 3 is the pick behind out 2nd round pick. About 24 when pushed out by other comp picks. That is where it is coming from. You can tell me it BS but don't tell me you don't know the logic. The logic is sound, the answer awaits.

Yeah, sat-home, out problem is fan whingeing about the shite we have thrown up in the last 6 years... Do you read yourself? Are you Dr Who? You wanna fight about it? Am I drunk, maybe, who wants to know, I'm not driving I can do whatever I want.

Yeah, guys, start a new thread and I will cut and paste stuff from the other 30 threads on it in the last 5 years. Actually, no I won't.

I would like to see him given a small role to play after form and consistency for Casey has demanded that role.

Again, the Viney situation is different to what we did with Scully and Trengove when we gave them these loaded numbers. And it completely different to an Evans wanting a lower number. Most blokes want to forge a career in a number of some meaning to them, whatever it may be. It is different to the MFC telling them to forge a career in a number of some meaning to the MFC.

The fact that he hasn't played yet is no big deal on my eyes, frankly we have played kids for no reason these last few years and have ruined their introduction to AFL football and their confidence as a consequence. Get his body right and teach him how to play a role and we will see what 2014 holds for him. We still have a number of kids so he isn't helped in that regard.

Titan - you are arguing something else to changing Jack to 12 from 7. He has his number and that shouldn't be changed. But what you are saying simply won't hold up. Evans was given 50. He wanted a lower number because most players want lower numbers or numbers of significance. He got 32. There is no crime in wanting a lower number after one or two years at a club.

I think we are finding out that hiring a coach for three years down the track AND get someone that stands out. Eddie wanted Bucks. GWS targeted Cameron. Sydney chose Longmire internally. And Swapfox - it wasn't the media who said we are to sign a successor now. It was Roos and Jackson in the opening press conference. So we don't have a SA for a year. Roos doesn't need one and he can have some luxury of time for the decision.

You're right. Now you allude to something other than whining that can be done - what do we do? I will get the DeLorean, you fetch your Flux Capacitor. Let's do this.