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Giving a club Pick 50-60 in this draft is akin to handing someone a spatula after the meat is cooked and served. There at the table and you walk in and say 'here is your spatula that you need for the cooking that is done.' I think only 50 kids will be taken in the ND this year. And Ebert for Bell is not going to happen. Kane Cornes would fetch a pick in the 4-9 area anyone is interested.

Warnock is better than any defender they have, and Pick 9 this year is about Pick 14 in any other year so yeah they would do that and I don't think Pick 14 for Warnock is good for the Dees. I would not do it.

Let me spy on the club's operations for a month and I can give you an appraisal of coaches, fitness blokes etc. Everyone sounds so uninformed and silly making judgements on things you cannot see. You can appraise a player, but a line coach? A part-time coach? BB? Santa Clause?

Both of them by themselves would get Pick 9. Would not do it.

Hey everyone!! You know what this means - it's going to be a bumper trade week!! And we are going to get Pick 9! Going to be AWESOME. I'll bring the trail-mix. Who else is bringing 'eats'?

Of course they will. If we are 5 and 11, of course they will. Preparing properly for 2011. Some on here are over-reacting to the distaste of the last 6 or 7 weeks of the season. We will sacrifice games next year to develop players and play youth. It is going to happen, they are trying to win flags, not respect. They'll like us when we win...

I going to make an argument and then I am going to cement that argument by refering to the awful Footy Classified and the stupid penultimate segment that lists 'calls' that no-one has ever 'called' and then have a go at this supposed 'caller.' I am a poor debater...

I'm sorry, is this 2003? Bruce has always delivered helicopters, and he is constantly one of our best players. Top 3 in the Bluey I would say. He will not be 'on the out.'

I just threw up a little... Can people stop posting that? It's nauseating.

Next year is about winning? How about 'next year is about building a team to win a flag.' These are the decisions the FD have to make that will hurt our chances to win games in 2010 but are needed to win that flag: Watts over Miller/Newton Scully in from Rd 1 if fit. Trengove/Morabito, Blease, and Strauss given games over Bell, Dunn, and Batram. Martin as backup ruck to Spencer/Jamar/Meesen/PJ. Only one of those to be playing with Martin. Bruce, McDonald, and Green to play periphery roles. There are probably more, but these are the ones that scream at me.

This is exactly the problem I foresee. Those that want Bailey to earn his new contract and leaving it till mid next year are not thinking this through. If we get a draw like this year and take out Richmond in round 4 and replace with Carlton we could play better football than this year and have one or two wins (or less) going into the QB clash. We would be seen to be regressing, the fans who say we had to wait are supposedly vindicated as Bailey is removed and a caretaker in his stead takes us to 6 wins in the remaining 10 games in the soft side of the draw. The only way to give Bailey a full 2010 is to give him 2011 right now. Welcome to the real world folks.

Newton is the only AFL footballer that mispronounces 'Gym.' A gym? What's a gym? Some of you got it... I know you did...

48 isn't a footy number, it's more a Greg-Blewett's-best-score-in-Perth-number. 9 or 13.

They kicked the the ball poorly and we have a fantastic backline. Our midfield was awful from go to woe, that is why I temper my enthusiasm. How about this? - Our forward line was extremely efficient, our backline was fantastic, and our midfield is lucky we are about to get Tom Scully. I think you have completely misread what I am saying. I am not talking about the ability to win games on field, but the fans ability to deal with reality. The confusion and seething anger on this site throughout the 2007 season was, in part, because the fans had readied themselves for a far better year than that ageing team could produce. If we get a hard draw to start the season and Bailey hasn't got this rumoured 1 year extension, we will shake our fists and wring our hands and force the club to make a decision based on unrealistic expectations. I have posted that we are a chance to win 12 games next year, but we are equally a chance to be 2 and 9 heading into the QB clash.

I used to get excited by depth as well. But it's not about your 15-25 best players. It's all about your best 6 or 7 - the better they are, the better we will be.

1st bolded part - Stats rule? I'm saying that? The discrepancy is undeniable. We see the game through the lens of a MFC supporter, everything else is surreptitious to us. The Saints were poor, but at any stage they could, and would, blow us away. And they did. 2nd bolded part - BB59, we do care, otherwise you wouldn't be posting, nor I responding. Don't hide behind that "I don't care what you think" defence... I'm not indicting the club with the opinion that we are further back than those first 3 1/2 qtrs suggests. I am merely attempting to hold the reigns on expectations or else, half way through next year, this place is going to be 2007 all over again: Confusion, anger, and idiocy.

If Butcher is as good a prospect as Trengove or Morabito then yes, take him at two. If he is not, don't take him. We need stars more than we need supposed 'balance.' (I say supposed balance because our midfield is in awful shape, much worse than the forward line. Bate, Watts, Jurrah, Sylvia, Petterd and Wonaeamirri will kick enough goals in the next 5 years. We need some blokes to get the pill and kick it properly to them.)

Then everyone had a poor season, and considering McLean is only competing for the Bluey against Melbourne players, he is a shoe-in for top 5.

Shouldn't you do this by going through each games 'three word analysis' and go from there. I think there are some on here your weekly analysis wouldn't match.

When you get challenged you hide behind a patronising tone as if to say to everyone else "how could anyone possibly disagree?" You are not convincing me at all about the motives of Bailey against St Kilda. They had 37 clearances to 19, they had 124 contested poss. to 91, they had 67 Inside 50s to 39, and they had 90 more possessions than us. But you account for this by saying that stats are not important, and that it all happened in the last 15 minutes. Must have been a busy 15 minutes. We were efficient in front of goals and they missed targets. As soon as they started to use the ball better, we drowned. We still have miles to go before we sleep...

I'm not advocating free games, nor am I saying he cannot be dropped. What I am saying is that if his attitude is good and he is fit, I would much prefer a 10 possession 1 goal game from Watts than a 15 possession 2 goal game from Newton or Miller. He is the future, and the sooner we drop the pretense the better.

McLean and 18 for Pick 6 is not the greatest deal for us. That one you have is abhorrent. We're not Fremantle.

Jon Anderson (so take this with a grain of drunken salt) said on AW this morning that McNamara wants to go home and that we are keen to elevate McKenzie. My view is McNamara is gone if this is true and McKenzie should stay on the RL as he has another year to go.

Hardly. Have a look at the stats, the Saints were toying with us and smashed us in every KPI that there is. They finally hit their targets in the last 15 mins and we were annihilated. As for the positional changes - Bailey couldn't do an effing thing on the field this year without it being a tactic of tanking. If people on here think that Jurrah playing wing is a laughable tactic of someone who doesn't want to win, I should alert these cynics that he will play FF in the future but when he is being mauled, they will throw him onto a wing and you might have a different view as to whether Bailey was tanking against a team that had won 19 games.

No. He is our CHF in our flag tilt. (If he isn't please tell me who) We need to pump games into him, and if it is to the detriment of our win/loss record, well, so be it. I have already said that we could win 12 games next year, wtih a favourable draw, but I want to see our talent exposed to the AFL.