Whispering_Jack

That has to be the answer. The Saints fostered him for such a long time and, when they finally gave him his chance, he performed reasonably in his two games. It seems heartless on their part to then turn around and single him out as the first player from the club to be delisted ... unless he’s been given some assurance that he will be rookied later on down the track.

That’s “talk” and it’s possibly reasonable in Carlton’s situation (although even that flies in the face of the precedent the AFL twice set a few years ago in refusing to give PP’s to the MFC when it had a worse record than the Blues) but there’s the AFL’s canary in the mine which is the competition’s basket case - Gold Coast. The AFL is desperate to save the Suns and the competition from the embarrassment of multiple 100 point floggings so it will try its hardest to help them. It wouldn’t surprise me therefore that they might decide to hand out PP’s this year after pick 10 or even earlier.

You wouldn’t give pick #1 in the draft for Mitch McGovern but there is the matter of the priority pick that Carlton originally didn’t really want because chasing priority picks is indicative of a lousy culture. If the Blues are given a priority pick after the first 10 picks that should do it for them. Adelaide might have to package up that pick with something else to trade down to the early pick that would deliver them one of those SA young guns. Who can guess why he would no longer go back to WA? All I know is once upon a time, a bloke called Mitch Clark who wanted to go home from Brisbane to Fremantle and somehow, he ended up at Melbourne.

I don’t think we should underestimate the value to an AFL side going through a finals series to have your State League team playing in September as well. The last three AFL premiers have had their VFL counterparts play off in Grand Finals:- • 2015 Hawthorn – Box Hill (runners up); • 2016 Western Bulldogs – Footscray (premiers); and • 2017 Richmond – Richmond VFL (runners up). The Casey Demons have had a superb season making it to a home qualifying final but they have been struggling with the loss of players to injury/retirement/holding players over. Last week against Williamstown they had 9 AFL listed players which left them badly exposed for lack of depth and this was reflected in the way their they lost their composure and were overrun by the Seagulls. Casey are fortunate to have some very good VFL-listed players but the last three or four players selected for the team have been playing suburban or country football for most of the year and it’s tough for them to come up against a combination that’s been playing together all year. This week they get Tom Bugg back plus Jayden Hunt and Joel Smith returning from injury. Mitch Hannan is an outside chance to play this week but the club has ruled out Jack Viney. That would give them 12 MFC players which is the bare minimum. Players like the skipper Jack Hutchins, Jay Lockhart, Corey Wagner, Mitch Gent, Jimmy Munro, Angus Scott and some up and comers like Cory Machaya and Cory Stockdale should see them through this week. If they can win this week, they go to a preliminary final and hopefully, by that time they might have a few more players back from injury.

The general view is that there will be a deal done with Carlton but it’s unlikely that the Blues would give away their first pick.

Before the event?

Tall forwards named for NAB AFL Draft Combine

Calling this thread pornography isn’t attacking it. I would have thought it was more of a compliment to some of the regulars here. Besides which, you’re straying off topic. Didn’t Melbourne play the GWS Giants yesterday? How many kicks, handballs, marks and tackles did the unmentionable amass during the game?

It’s a bit out of focus but it’s the best I could do with what I had at my disposal to take pictures. The AFL would be embarrassed to have this club playing in a final on the MCG.

6. James Harmes 5. Max Gawn 4. Angus Brayshaw 3. Sam Frost 2. Clayton Oliver 1. Christian Salem

Undefeated during the life of the current Scott Morrison government.

It looks as if there will be two compulsory changes.

How many top 8 teams have we beaten now?

How many top 8 teams have we beaten now?

Just do it!

The key game apart from the one at Casey Fields is Box Hill v Geelong VFL at Box Hill City Oval. Hopefully, the Hawks continue on in the same form as we left them with last Saturday.

In that case you really do have to stop reading this thread.

Made a little quieter as a result of some unfortunate banter between people (not you DZ) who have been warned in the past about that sort of thing and had their posts hidden pending possible action by the mods. If people wish to make personal accusations about other posters, there is a procedure available - personal messages to each other in private and even then take care. The rest of us are more interested in the football than people’s vendettas.

You really do have to stop reading pornography.

No noise of acclamation at the Adelaide Oval tonight. The Bombers lead frees 12 to 6.

Goddard is going ok.

As predicted, Melbourne has taken a conservative approach with both Jayden Hunt and Joel Smith. Hopefully, they will come up and play for Casey in the qualifying final next week. This means that after allowing one carry over emergency (there were 2 taken to Perth last week) Casey will have no more than 10 AFL listed players taking part in Saturday’s game v Williamstown.

Yeah, it was one of our better days during that period.

The fact that we have signed Austin Bradtke, 17, 205cm tall as a Category B Rookie means that at least one or both of Filipovic and King will most likely not be retained. While both of them are young and it takes time for ruckmen to develop, I think the club needs to bite the bullet and go for a player who would be able to fill Max's shoes if he gets injured in the future. Bradtke would assume the role of development ruckman and others such as Tom McD and Sam Weideman can play the role of forward/ruckmen to help out. I think that's about all a club can carry given there is no VFL development league these days.

So who was responsible for the 190 point loss in the first place?