old55

All roads lead to Rome

Cloke is a restricted free agent - trade is not required.

Cloke, Goddard head updated list of AFL free agents Cloke, Goddard, maybe Chaplin.

And even if he does we're likely to get something in return that we can make useful because we're acting now.

Right, I get it, it's Julia's fault that Ricky and Brent want out.

That's a very good find, so ... 40 on primary list - no limit to "vets", each gets $100k discount on TPP 6 on rookie list That means a total of 46 like this year but one extra on the primary list and one less rookie for us. I'm going for 12 off total, including rookies - with some exchanging places between primary and rookie not counted.

Was clearly a Neil Craig target.

Well we won't die wondering like with Bate, Dunn, Miller etc on the list until they have no value. Cook and Gysberts shave trade value now and if we don't value them then we should access it.

We can only hope he's got 3 or 4 suitors - means we might get a trade rather than just delist.

No, you are.

We need players not picks anyway.

Jurrah's got no trade value. If only Port wants him he just goes through the draft.

Especially Nathan Jones.

BigFooty has us into Rischitelli

See if you can behave yourself this time ...

There's most of your answer

Let's see Box Hill Hawks in the VFL finals and Collingwood out - the conventional wisdom is that standalone resrves is better but I'm not so sure.

If we're interested in Gumbleton we might be able to help Essendon land Caddy with our pick 13

Strauss might be a nice kick but he takes a aeon to get it from hand to boot. Also learned to handball from Cam Bruce - loopy specials. I like him but ...

Rangey's 2013 R1 side: Backs: no-one Halfbacks: McDonald Mids: Jones Half forwards: Howe Forwards: Clark Rucks: no-one Interchange: no-one Coach: Neeld

That is a blow - hopefully we can win this week. I'm in favour of our eligible players playing for Casey in the finals. They may want to participate in Mad Monday this week so a week off to recover could be handy. I guess there's the complication of the compulsory 6 weeks break and the start to the pre-season to consider, but this could be managed. Overall I like the alignment - I note that Chris Dawes has nowhere to play this weekend because Collingwood don't take VFL results seriously. As Tim Watson remarked "you can't buy a bag of confidence in Lygon Street" - well not the sort Tim and Chris are thinking of anyway.

So Clark, Taggert and Tynan are choir boys are they? Looking forward to you telling them so ...

He's got 6 weeks compulsory leave to get over it.

No, he's a role player and he plays his role very well. He can also win his own ball if he's let off the leash but he's a very disciplined, hard running hard worker with heaps of courage. He's a Cameron Ling-prototype.

Jordie's not part of the problem he's part of the solution.