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As voted for by Demonland. Jason Taylor would be kept busy.

Roos front-half to get a hold of us like the WC game. Hope our middle can hold up.

The Glenn McGrath. Stepped on a footy.

It's the 2017/18 contract negotiations that disturb me. In a semi-good way. Just don't want to lose players through unnatural attrition - inflated contract offers from rival clubs that we can't possibly match. Geelong and the Hawks have been lucky - through culture/team bonding/success or some such but those days are dying I suspect.

Go to the Match Preview thread if you don't fancy talking about our drafting.

Cheers Demon Jack, BarnDee and Member's Wing. I must apologise though, I was just being a disingenuous arse. I meant can someone explain it as in; Motlop is sledged by the opposition and then narked on by his teammates and misses a game despite being BOG - and we should then steer clear as such? I probably don't have the full story.

Just plonk him in a pocket you think Roost? I wonder when Eddie Betts's contract is up? That would rub some serious salt in.

Didn't we put a sizeable offer to Hanners this year though? And it may conserve our dollars now but if we have everyone of the same age come through at the same time it squeezes the cap as there's nothing being cleared through retirement/natural attrition etc., no?

Especially now that they've run out of coca-Cola.

Sick as in out injured for the remainder of the year or sick as in awesome?

Just back from work and basically haven't slept for two days. Q. Do I sneak a couple hours now or just wait till half-time to hit the sack?

Olisik - Ollie's sick?

I saw an advert for a pet-tracker today. We could call him Ace.

But I'd suggest this is more JackTrengove.

JackWatts would look positively regal in such garb.

And can someone else explain Colac to me?

Can you explain your reasoning here Fire?

All came practically free and if they represent our bottom end by year's end we've made some serious in-roads in strengthening our list.

Had a feeling we've been tracking a season behind the Dogs in our overall development for a while now. Hope this is the case and the foundations will click into place next year.

Or may speak English as a second language. Ease up.

Can you please stop whatever it is you've been doing Ultimate D. Cheers.

I find this wording curious. Are you suggesting there was indeed some form of set-back in our recruitment efforts but we'll continue to negotiate and haven't given up hope?

Wonder if Roos will steer Taylor away from the Blues' fire-sale. Mental scars and all that.

There goes Kennedy. Interesting that they're not looking to increase our age spread but build instead as we have a big generational hole in the middle of our list. We might then be a way off yet still but later have a solid group that can keep us atop for an extended period. It's a true rebuild. Hopefully we can manage our salary cap with this approach although it will probably be dependent on a sniff of early success.

Any idea on how serious Vburg is? Hoping Newton can nail down a spot with an extended run.