Chook

I stand by my predictions. Since my bold statement, we have just barely lost to the Pies, and have gone on to win three on the trot. Go the Dees.

I like the change in avatar, 45. I want to give a big pat on the back to everyone here, 95% of whom have probably gone every week during our darkest times. And to all the others, who have been flung across Australia and the world, but still kept the Dees close to their heart, despite living many miles from the Mecca, thank you for still supporting from afar.

I would consider Jurrah and Morton walk-up starters, Bail and Rivers on the cusp of selection, Wonaeamirri only match-fitness away from the cusp, and everyone else miles from being in the team.

Chad Cornes. That is all.

Still kicked 4 though.

Isn't that pretty much the 2000 manual with an extra chapter at the end?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/24/2882064.htm?site=sport&section=all This just in. James Frawley becomes first human to master unaided flight. Is working on cure for cancer.

Way to sit on the fence.

Then the rovers just shark the hell out of the opposition ruckman. It's pretty much what happens now whenever one ruck gets way on top.

I had an inkling they might. He's been playing pretty poorly this season. Are they going to go with a one-ruckman/pinch-hit set-up with Hudson and Everett then?

That mark just screamed "this is AFL." It was just so traditional - knee in the back, three feet in the air, marked out in front. Beautiful.

The Richmond fellas behind me were laying traditional Tiger crap on all of their players last Sunday, but I was amazed at how often they talked about Jordan McMahon. For a guy who wasn't even playing that day, I thought they were unusually obsessed with him ("he's earning 300k at Coburg and has never done anything good. Get him up to the seniors so he can get smashed every week and earn his money.") I nearly turned around and said to them that the only good thing he's ever done was to give us Jack Trengove.

Is this for real? J. Brown is not playing? If it's true, I'm kind of disappointed. I'd love to see him do his thing on the 'G, and it would be good to see how our defenders stack up against him and the Fev.

Give the kid a break. At least he played two more AFL games than you or I ever will.

Didn't we essentially get Brent Moloney for him? Beamer wasn't too bad a trade for Thompson.

Should we not judge Luke Molan yet? He hasn't played 10 AFL games either. I'm being facetious, of course. To the OP, just remember that Nick Naitanui is a year older than Jack Watts, and he also played in the WAFL the year before that. So essentially, NicNat has had 2 more years experience over Jack Watts. Yes I'm fearful that Jack won't live up to expectations, but I'm also patient enough to know that "playing up the ground and getting a few classy possessions" (to quote Yze_Magic quoting every Casey post ever) is probably all we'll get from Jack Watts for a while.

Woot! Party like a muppet on Endor.

You can take comfort in knowing that there's a special place in football hell reserved for guys like that. I have a feeling the ones who live down there don't take kindly to demon-bashing. Besides, this fool now has the pleasure of watching an even worse rabble go at it every week, instead of just once.

I'm almost with you. But I do want to see, at least once, how Rivers, Warnock, Garland, Macdonald and Frawley all go in the back-line together. I'll concede that even if this works, it won't work every week, so unless one of them can play another position, one is almost always going to miss out.

"Jack Watts played up the ground and got some classy touches." Wow. What a surprise. It's certainly better than getting no touches, though.

No, Sylvia.

I think ours is eclipsed (just) by the song of the team we played yesterday. I reckon it's the Tigers', then ours, then maybe the Bombers'.

God, this song gets so boring after you've heard it two weeks in a row.

I watch a lot of footy and I reckon he's the best young player this year by an absolute street.

I read an article last year in which similar was said. Obviously Matty Whelan was the other.