Whispering_Jack

And because Melbourne plays on Friday night, no need to hold back one or two carry over players as it did before the finals.

I knew something was missing last night and now I know. The presence of Carlton, a club that no longer appears to have any relevance in the AFL and despite the club’s long list of past indiscretions, always seems to be first in line when the AFL hands out goodies like Friday night games and draft relief.

And for the sticklers, Melbourne’s win over the Cats has seen it overtake them on percentage (yes I am aware that %age doesn’t count in finals)..

The TAC Cup finals are now well and truly upon us after the wild card round last week. AFL Draft Central has its preview of the first week here.

Three new faces. Knightmare Power Rankings - September

Could someone please remind me how many games has Melbourne won against fellow top 8 clubs?

Please watch your language folks. Sometimes little children stray into this thread and we don’t want them corrupted by malediction and profanity.

When they played the national anthem, the Melbourne players and their coach stood as one with arms interlocked while their Geelong counterparts stood as individuals. It’s all about the team and not individuals and our boys played like a team all night - the others played for themselves as exemplified by their captain’s tantramous exit onto the interchange bench in the third quarter when he robbed his team of a certain goal at a crucial time in the game.

According to an American friend who supports the Eagles and was at the game, Johnston is the second lowest paid kicker in the NFL. He still earns $US487,500.00 which is not bad coin for someone who spent a lot of his time while on Melbourne’s list playing in the Casey seconds.

There are criteria for inclusion in the club’s Next Generation Academy i.e the player has to be indigenous or come from a multicultural background. I don’t think Smart is in that category. Stingray’s Toby Bedford is eligible this year. http://m.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-10-11/next-generation-academy-launched

If someone can locate the genuine Chris from Camberwell, the offer still stands of a gig on one of our Demonland podcasts so that he can illuminate us with his voluminous knowledge of what the MFC needs to succeed in the world. If we could find Alan Jakovich, then finding Chris from Camberwell should be easy.

Still out of our reach ... and still a favourite to go #1. Jack Lukosius - Knightmare’s best draft prospect of the past decade

So back on Steven May, it would seem that Collingwood, having apparently missed out to Richmond over Tom Lynch (GCS), is making a big play for May. This would of course, be devastating for the Suns and it will be interesting to see how this is played out.

Earlier this year, the talk of the town was about how North Melbourne had hit an AFL draft jackpot with star academy prospect Tarryn Thomas surging into top 3 draft pick calculations meaning that the Kangaroos would be forced to bid their highest draft selection to get the talented Tasmanian youngster. North Melbourne could be forced to match top-three bid on Tarryn Thomas at AFL draft 2018 The Kangaroos even made arrangements to bring Thomas over Bass Strait to play as 23rd man for their VFL side in the final round of the home and away competition. Now, surprise, surprise ... they are claiming to have cooled off on him due to “due to a worrying mix of off-field issues and lack of on-field form”. AFL draft 2018: North Melbourne cools on formerly highly-rated prospect Tarryn Thomas If this sounds somewhat familiar then cast your mind back a few years to when a young WA draftee with plenty of wraps on him was said to have been expelled from school with rumours of misbehaviour and even violence that saw him drop from a top 5 contender to selection to be picked at 26 by the Eagles who were widely believed to have been responsible for the rumours in the first place. Next week, Jack Darling will play game number 170 (he’s kicked more than 300 goals) in a qualifying final against the Pies - and he’s more or less a model citizen. I smell the same sort of blarney about Thomas and I hope someone picks him around # 10 just to stick it up North.

Mitch isn’t even in the Casey side for this Saturday although it’s not clear as to whether or not he’s injured. Preuss would be handy but what role would he play if Max remains injury free?

I am not a great fan of threads such as these but really, Fremantle has nothing much to offer us and very little to offer to Jesse Hogan except home town environment and football oblivion at a club that's going nowhere. I like the Goodwin comment that he's going nowhere.

The Dockers really have me puzzled. They currently have picks 5, 77 and 95 and, apart from some of their younger brigade who they would want to keep, they don’t have much material for trading. It’s little wonder therefore that they’ve recently re-signed veterans and crocks like Ballantyne, Bennell, Mundy and Sandilands. I can see their so-called rebuild taking up the life of Ross Lyon’s contract and can’t see them going anywhere very soon.

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.

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?

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