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Agree, he's not Darren Cuthbertson.

That's what this thread is all about - great stuff! Would take pick 2.

He is a great kick but takes an eternity to get the ball from hand to foot - feel like I'm channeling Clint.

is he a midfielder?

Agreed. Possibly a Roos project though with a tightly defined role.

That list looks light on for pain to me, right now only Frawley and McDonald cause any concern. It's unlikely that important players will get one year and be added to this list. It will be interesting to see if others on that list improve their rating under Roos (if they don't get traded this year).

Compensation is an unnecessary complication IMO - it makes FA a pseudo trade market which has the potential to gum up the works and and creates the unhealthy discussion about whether Sylvia is worth pick 19 or 35 and causes funky things like the Monfries trade to avoid compensation dilution. The salary cap prevents rich clubs poaching weak clubs players. The compensation is salary cap space. Nothing will protect successful clubs poaching unsuccessful clubs players but that is a different story.

I don't think you've grasped the concept of Free Agency. I think the questionable part of AFL FA is granting draft picks for players lost - there's a good case for no compensation IMO.

A good source told me that Richmond cannot trade their 1st round pick without specific board approval - they wrote that in their rules.

It's very good news and I hope we re-sign Sylvia too - if he was UFA at some other club everyone here would be falling over themselves to sign him to MFC - there'd be a 50 page thread

He got the 3 votes in our win against the Dogs this year and the 3 votes in our win against Essendon in 2012 - our only 2 wins against non- expansion teams - maybe not so useless.

via Tiger source - sounds true.

Freo will score around 80 points plus or minus. They won't be able to lock Hawthorn down for the entire 120 minutes. Hawthorn will have the momentum at some stages and have to take their scoring opportunities to win the game, if they don't they'll lose - Hawthorn 9-15 loses, Hawthorn 14-10 wins. FWIW, despite it going against trend I've tipped the Hawks to kick straight - Gunston and Bruest - and win by 3 goals.

The AFL doesn't really care about MFC winning flags, they'd like us to have some chance to do so, but that's not the key issue - they really don't want us to be a s horrible as we have been. They'd be fine with us mid-table and hopeful of better. Look at NMFC, they're on the up on the field. The Saints and Dogs nearly won flags. How many games do you think we'll win next year and where will we finish? I reckon there's a very good chance we'll be in the bottom 4 and a fair chance we'll win less than 5 and be in the bottom 2 - if so there'll be another opportunity to apply for a PP. If not - if we're out of the bottom 4 then it's probably not required.

That's Roos2Simpson - don't you know anything?

He said 3 clubs in it MFC, Carlton and Port. Also said:

This guy appears to have genuine inside info" http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/daniel-cross-melbourne.1031940/page-5#post-30248602

oh boy wowee!

a head-ducking hand-stomper?

or he'll end up in jail.

no she is saying richmond would be better out of it and she's right. we're all very hopeful roosy can fix our cultural and psychological problems but dusty's are in another league.

wilson writes: "and the reason for that mess is crystal clear" It's clear to me what she's saying - we should ice any ideas of getting dusty.

That penny may finally drop

Off the bench - great show

You're dreaming. Most likely no PP. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/clubs-oppose-priority-draft-pick-for-melbourne-20130910-2th5k.html