Go Ds

It's bad enough he gets Kenterfield. Anyway Luker is too close to Luka. 🙂

Of course! But it'd be pronounced Yoda.

Yeah, Jed could be Clampett or (Adam's) Apple or Jed Adams could be pared down to Dada. Luker could be Yoda. Then again these guys are paid to play footy, not sing or make nicknames or get ideas off a fan site.

Yeah, basically adding a Y or O to a surname for a nickname is so MEH. Too many of these nicknames are like this. While Rex Hunt tried way too hard to find interesting nicknames and going through Brewer's Phrase And Fable is too much I wish there were more Bisons, Discos and Chunks.

Where's Boof, Simmo and Wally?! 😯

Nope! I just had a problem noticing every last thing said on here.

Umm, fantastic goal but was there a reason you posted it just now?

These are official? If anyone wants the dorkiest post ever i could post ideas how to remember all those numbers. 😂

Thank you! I havent memorised the new numbers yet so saying number 40 draws a blank.

Who is "new Taj"?! I thought maybe i got confused and wrongly thought Woewodin was delisted. But he was.

Any idea when he'll be back into full training? At least game 1 is months away .

Maybe. But I reckon sometimes recruiters virtually play a game of "chicken". Latrelle was in the mix and being Kosi's cousin Melbourne quite believably might nab him. But if they felt Melbourne didn't quite rate him #12 then maybe both Melbourne and the clubs with picks before Melbourne's next one might risk this fact and both wait to pounce at or near that next Melbourne pick. It wouldn't surprise me if this has happened before - a bit like an investor selling at, say, 4.00, but suddenly the share price drops from 3.96 to 2.00 and stays there for years.

Sorry, i really wasn't making out you were insensitive. Your comment really didn't come out that way.

This is one of the amazing things in life. Kindergarten teachers could probably make many good guesses about which kids will be successful, which will grow up to be adventurous or intellectual and maybe even which kids will or won't be lookers. But there'd be factors they don't know about. It could even be that a few years later a stepfather changes a child's life either way. And of course with other things, like matchmaking , on paper and actual real-life chemistry are two different things. The early drafts probably had way less useful stats on draftees making the drafts more random. But even now all the variables for 18 and 19-year olds , who often are still really just kids , and then all the variables.... and permutations for many years after, including people in their workplace and team, those in their personal life, how they use their spare time and money, injuries and so forth are just so many it's almost a miracle we can predict anything. There will always be X factors that will affect how accurate a draft pick will be. (And of course even if all the #1picks turn out to be correctly the best of their crop with maybe a dozen playing each year some will be more "#1 " than others.)

Alas, if the poor guy can't bring his cat back he'd really be pushing it to bring strangers back. It's fantastic that these days immigrating doesn't mean losing all connection to one's past. But it still would have its down side. So many people would find it devastating to have to give up a cat. My heart goes out to 31.

Who would have ......picketed it?

I remember back in 2009 I was working with one of THOSE Hawthorn fans - you know, otherwise nice and good company EXCEPT when they'd bting Hawthorn into the conversation. I met his fiance at a work dinner. As a Dogs supporter she also found his fanaticism tiring/amusing. Though banter I was right in saying that if I could choose a happy, successful life over a more successful team then I would. I didn't quite get the first part and I know I so easily could have chosen my grandfather's St Kilda and feel even more cursed re footy teams. We've had a fair bit of bad luck over the years. But seriously if I jumped over to Carlton or Essendon circa 2000 i would have smirked big time if a fellow Dees supporter jumped over to Geelong or yhe 'new' Brisbane Lions. Maybe we'll always have a weakness with our fans choosing MCC memberships over Demons ones. But who knows. For all we know we're on the verge of a successful era with all our ducks in order. Maybe.

And you shall have them. Amazingly these days it's so easy to have almost any song at your fingertips. Ministry covered Lay Lady Lay, yes? I know the title but finally Im gonna play the song you mentioned (which is probably way closer to my tastes than Whitney. Oh, and maybe Kosi could have instead selected the fast One-Armed Scissor by At The Drive-in or The Rapture's House Of Jealous Lovers.)

Oh, yeah ..... who? 😂 Sorry, but I saw Flower, Schwarz , arguably Petracca (and Stynes, Lyon, Neitz, Jakovich), and Gawn by now. But I take your point . No one's wanted what's happened in recent years.

Tommy? Ahhhh! So that .......deft second-round pick sure gives a mean handball?! 😉😂

Sometimes there are great "rags-to-riches" stories. I sure hope Cully becomes a big one, especially given the loss of AMW last year may have been bigger yhan we realised. Maybe both have strong 2026 seasons. We're due some luck.

Really? He couldn't even get past Whitney! 😂😂😂

Im gonna stick my neck out here; the song's a banger! Whitney's not my taste in music either (and I just can't sit through I Will Always Love You) . But there are guilty pleasures out there that are fun to hear occasionally. I'm actually impressed Kosi had the guts to choose this AND he feels comfortable enough with his teammates to do so. Ironically if it would have been less interesting if he chose the most obvious 'cool' song. 😂

Stephen Smith, in his first week as Melbourne president after taking over from Brad Green, joined Shane McAdam in a kayak." Yes, that's abrupt! Did they hear banjos or something?

Ummm, what are you basing that on? I can't remember watching games back then and regular seeing every opposition forward thrust turn into a score. But from 1993-95 (despite only that 7th seeing us play finals) each year only three teams conceded fewer points (while our FOR tallies were worse in the rankings).Then the wheels fell off as they reached the cellar and they ranked low at both ends. What have I missed?