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'Administrators' usually baulk when posters claim controversial things just to see a few people react. Probably why you are so unpopular around here.

Look, guys, no offence but I don't pull these demands out of my rear end. Goddard got Pick 13 as a Band 1 and I expect Franklin will be Band 1 - which is a pick BEHIND your first round pick. There are 5 Bands that mean different things to different teams. Bands 1,3, and 5 are relative to where a team finishes and is the pick BEHIND that teams pick. Band 1 for Hawthorn is Pick 20ish. Band 3 for Melbourne is Pick 22ish. The AFL is making this stuff up as they go but I expect them to give us a nudge in the right direction and claiming Sylvia is Band 3 is a way of doing that.

WYL making the most sense. All those saying that we should 'move on' to the next candidate - we can't interview 'The Next Candidate' because Eade and Williams are under contract to teams that will be playing in September. The media want a resolution because they are nothing more than a group of hyperventalating Zombies that have a talking-point to run into the ground. We don't need to rush. We have no competition and we have an interim coach that is right up there with the secondary candidates. There is no need to move on from Roos, there is no need to rush to appoint anyone.

Misson has built a flag winning team. He can develop footy players. Blaming him for not 'dressing up' the current squad is akin to Matt Preston firing his Personal Fitness Instructor because he doesn't have a six-pack. Put down the fork, Matt!

Perception is such a weak reason for doing something. I don't care how others see the MFC - just because they see us in a certain light does not mean we should alter how we go about doing what is best for our club. We should try and win as many games as footy as this limited group can win. We should go cap in hand to the AFL to fund the pay-outs of employees. We should ask the Commission for draft assistance to allow us to compete sooner than we otherwise could. We should explore every avenue to get better.

At this point it is muscle memory...

We don't have a Board yet. I have no issue with Roos and his position. We keep asking of him something we shouldn't get. His commitment should not come until we have a Board, and PJ has illustrated a way forward for the club and the millions of dollars the AFL is about to pump into the club. We have plenty of time and with only the Lions and the Eagles as possible vacancies we have minimal competition for our Melbourne based alternatives in Eade, Williams, and Craig. I am happy to leave it for a while.

I don't know how my post - that was warning of the dangers of 'getting rid' of everyone who 'just needs to go' - illustrates that mentality. Ok, so here you are betraying your footy IQ. Trengove, Viney, and Toumpas are all great talents who simply need time and injury free pre-seasons. Gawn is developing incredibly well for a 208cm bohemoth, Clisby has the making of a very neat and capable backman, Kent has shown more than a great number of teenagers have in his first few games, and Garland is, right now, in the top 100 players in the game and finally getting the positive attention he has long deserved. The fact that you dismissed all these players instead of walking back your self-indulgent comment about our terrible list, tells me that you don't care to have a serious argument, you only care to inflame and [censored] off people. You can do that, but don't expect any desire from us to engage with you when you get over whatever issues you have and what to have an honest conversation about the Dees.

He would get Pick 20 because the pick you receive is either before a round or 'mid-round' and that is the pick behind a team's pick. If we were to lose Buddy Franklin it would be Pick 3, for Hawthorn it is Pick 20ish. I expect a second round 'mid-round' pick - Pick 22ish.

Yeah, it's down 31. It's in the OP.

Are you a Carlton supporter?

I just wanted to mention Red Alert... 'Affirmative' 'For King and Country' Memories...

Yeah, this is the AFL we are talking about. They are making it up as they go. I expect to see Pick 22ish if Sylvia goes.

...is that they drive the modern game: a product of fitness, power running, and high footy IQ. And also belief, confidence, and trust - in yourself as a player and your teammates. Jnrmac (the poster) mentioned in the Sylvia thread the importance of said KPI and I love KPIs so I had a little look at what has happened with that stat recently. I found that we went from -12 Uncontested Possessions compared to our opponent in 2011 to -39 in 2012, to -76 up to the point Neeld was moved on. Thoroughly ridiculous and dire numbers for a thoroughly ridiculous and dire situation under Neeld. The juicy morcel that I must mention (that almost makes me want to waste a couple days retroactively looking at 2013) is that since Craig has come in we have an Uncontested Possession count compared to our opposition of -3. An improvement of 73... ! Leaving aside the low numbers from the slopfest down at Mordor (Geel 148 Melb 129), our UP numbers have increased by 47 a game to 228 in the other 3 Craig-led games with opposition UP dropping 31 a game to 226. It does not mean you win, or even look like being close (the Sydney game) but it does mean you are running hard and trusting your teammates to get you the footy, and when you are being aggressive offensively it takes away time for the opposition to attack - attack is the best defence. While Paul Roos would be a fantastic option for the MFC over the next few years with excitement and hope renewed immediately, Craig has shown to be the catalyst for improvement in his short time at the helm, even with an unwanted record of impotence in getting the ball forward arriving last week. Hopefully the improvement will continue over the following 7 weeks.

I would expect a secound round pick following our pick. Pick 22ish. I would prefer to keep him, but if he left I would be figting for that.

...or a tab. For those running an OS later than Windows 95... And for those using Windows 95: you can play early Red Alert and I envy that.

Trengove, Gawn, Toumpas, Garland, McDonald, Clisby, Kent, Viney? That would make a decent VFL team...

Name them. Alf - this thread is over in the Draft Board. Change your 'Favourites' Demonland link to this (http://demonland.com/forums/index.php?/forum/1-demonland/) and you will be able to navigate between the two Boards better.

Apparently Brown and Rawlings got 2 year contracts when Neeld came on board, and Royal got a three year contract from 2011 under Bailey. That's the info I have heard.

Draft assistance is a tool to even the league when there is a team that is a hindrance on the league. We should receive some form of draft assistance. The question of whether we get Draft Assistance for the 2013 AFL Draft is completely irrelevant to culture.

I think they are all OOC.

Please. Thompson is in the top 50 players in the game. He would not be a Rodan or Byrnes role player. Would rather a few 'has beens' helping out some talented kids then some strugglers. Matt Jones is the exception to recruiting mids from state leagues.

Good to hear we played with some effort. We are just not very good. Unless we have a ridiculous summer, this will happen again next year. Oh, and AFL - draft assistance please. We played a team in our oh-so even league and played with as much effort as them and still got it into our third of the ground on 19 occasions. 19!