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These juicy words come to you courtesy of Turbocat from the Geelong quarter of Bigfooty: Wouldn't mind a cigar and a brandy come 11pm on a Friday night next week…

Add a bit of sepia and Clarry looks straight out of those vintage 1950s Melbourne premiership photos.

Lucky Carlton. But give 'em a priority pick anyway.

What chance Bernie comes in for the grannie should we make it? Almost none, I know…but I want to see that photo of Lewis holding up the 5 fingers, with Jones, Viney, Gawn, Clarry, and Bernie in the foreground holding up the 1.

Interesting that the kit is MFC prescribed, but just like on gameday, the boots are "bring your own".

Tom McDonald. Hence my avatar. Looks like me. Plays like I wish I could play if I were a little taller. Actually plays like my dad a bit, from all reports. So basically, I'm a narcissist.

…be a bit miffed for a moment but then remind myself that I get to watch him play next week so it doesn't matter.

Hope you find a bit of time to watch Tom McDonald (you genius) go around in 2017.

Either that or James Harmes. Same diff though I suppose.

Nah. He needs a rest.

I get the feeling he thinks he's better than he is, and when that illusion is shattered he panics.

Selwood-esque, and my new replacement for the PedoFacts stat of Melbourne seemingly winning every time Pedersen played (that stat has gone off the boil and been retired as of this year).

He's not actually awful. He's just fricken frustrating. Ever since his first game we all could see what he was capable of. He's so far off that it's not funny. The fact that 50% of his max (which is what I think he's at right now) is serviceable is a tribute to how good he could be. Awful was just hyperbole obviously. I didn't mean it.

Possibly the first Email 90% of our list has ever gotten too.

It's not just 1000 taps to random spots/his feet. It's 900 taps to advantage and 100 to 50/50s.

If he didn't know how to tap the ball to the advantage of his teammates when he falls to ground or is outpaced by his opponent, he'd have finished up years ago. He's good at that though, and combined with his good game sense, off-field leadership and occasional smart ball use he's s handy player for us for sure.

Oh here I am about to take this ripper mark and win a Brownlow and oh seagull whoops I've dropped it.

Sam Frost, shortly after launching the first football to land on the moon. The bloke is a beast.

…Have absolutely no idea what to do with myself. Might make my first post in the "No T$ No B$" thread since the Mitch Clark era.

Thanks Neeldy.

I never said he wasn't. I just have very high standards for Trac. He's the one I always thought would be the best of the Brayshaw, Oliver, Petracca trio. Oliver's gonna be the best player in history so I'll concede that one but I'm very harsh on Petracca only because I think he's very very talented but is not very smart in his ball use.

Be satisfied with Colin Sylvia and Christian Petracca if that's what floats your boat. Neither of them were anywhere near it. Trac's still young, so he can make amends and show us all what both of them promised to achieve.

Sylvia was god-awful. Petracca is just awful. Smart.

There's a job to do for sure.

Just you wait. Fast forward 12 years and we'll have won 5 premierships and it'll be the first non-finals year of his career. He'll be the reverse Jones.