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The Demons kick off the long weekend with an open training session at 9.30 on Saturday morning at Gosch's Paddock. They then move on to Casey Fields for the Casey Demons game v Collingwood VFL. Some features to look for at training - • will Jack Watts train freely enough to satisfy selectors that he'll be right for Monday's game? • which players will miss the training session meaning they will most likely be saddling up in the VFL later in the day? • will we see Max Gawn and Jesse Hogan? • and of course, no injuries please!!!

Fair dinkum unbelievable. There's really not much reason for me to read the Age any more these days. The sports section was just about the last thing left but without its better writers, Quayle, Connolly and Flanagan, all that's left is a couple of cricket journos and Caro who is not much chop on a number of levels IMO. RIP The Age

Even with the extra $s through the new collective bargaining agreement, clubs like the Swans who are paying massive sums for the likes of Buddy and Tippett need to open up salary cap space and therefore some players will inevitably find themselves on the trade table.

Knightmare agrees with you WTM - Knightmare's AFL Draft Power Rankings: June

Vision of the two games from the Coburg perspective

That's a cheep joke Biff.

This is an interesting contribution from AFL Draft Central's Matt Balmer:- Matt Balmer’s 2017 AFL Draft June Power Rankings Meanwhile, over at 9's Future Stars, Plough has come out with his first TOP 20 draft picks 1. Darcy Fogarty 192cm/88kg MID/FWD 2. Cameron Raynor 187cm/88kg MID 3. Jarrod Brander 195cm/83kg FWD 4. Luke Davies-Uniack 187cm/85kg MID 5. Jayden Stephenson 189cm/76kg FWD 6. Lochie O'Brien 184cm/75kg MID 7. Sam Hayes 203cm/93kg RUCK 8. Connor Ballenden 199cm/95kg FWD/RUCK 9. Adam Cerra 186cm/75kg MID 10. Hunter Clark 186cm/79kg HALF BACK 11. James Worpel 185cm/84kg MID 12. Charle Spargo 173cm/75kg SML FWD 13. Jack Higgins 178cm/78kg MID 14. Joel Garner 183cm/81kg MID 15. Paddy Dow 184cm/78kg MID 16. Matthew Ling 182cm/74kg MID 17. Patrick Naish 180cm/67kg FWD 18. Callum Coleman-Jones 199cm/98kg RUCK 19. Lachlan Fogarty 179cm/75kg MID 20. Jack Petruccelle 184cm/73kg MID

I hope we're not taking any comfort from the stories about Collingwood's injuries. We've been down that road a few times before and it's rarely panned out the way we would have hoped. It's 22 v 22 and a must win.

It's a bit strange if it's the year to date because apart from Petracca, the only other player in the side didn't play at the weekend is Buddy. Surely a few Bulldogs deserve to be in there, not to mention Clayton Oliver and Jeff Garlett?

A comment about Corey Maynard? I know statistics don't tell the story but for a convert from basketball he seems to be adapting well based on his numbers.

Great result for us - of course we have to win games too but a victory in the next will see us in the 8.

Looking like a Round 13 return for Jesse v Western Bulldogs Melbourne Demons forward Jesse Hogan 'unlikely' to return against Collingwood

I think you've ingested too many bananas.

By way of a postscript to the Indigenous Round is this story about what might have been ~ Revitalised Jurrah kicking goals in Alice

Could you at least hang in long enough to arrange the annual dinner you've been promising to organise?

It's hard to believe for those of us who were around back in the day, that 1987 marks 30 years since the demise of World of Sport, an iconic programme which began in the early days of television in this country and was a viewing must for so many of us every Sunday morning. There characters were larger than life, mainly lovable and with the recent passing of Lou Richards, most of them are no longer with us. Here's a piece from the very last show ~

Still can't see them lining up anywhere near as selected. Mitch White and Jack Hutchins can play in defence and Ferreira is knee high to a grasshopper and won't be playing at FF surely?

A vexed question indeed on a number of levels. One needs to consider the weather, mode of transport, train timetables if traveling by rail, traffic conditions and the like. Also the fact that we're not playing this weekend might be a factor in making your decision.

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Flipper's out for another week or so with a hip flexor injury. The MFC's injury list stands at 9 players:- Angus Brayshaw (concussion), Lochie Filipovic (hip flexor), Colin Garland (knee), Max Gawn (hamstring), Jesse Hogan (testicular cancer), Pat McKenna (hamstring), Joel Smith (shoulder), Jake Spencer (shoulder) and Aaron vandenBerg (heel). Players whose names are in bold are not expected back any time soon. The other's are expected back within the next month or so.

That really happened???

A big step from being a hero on a footy field to one in a crisis like this - Former Demon in mid-air rescue Well done Chelly

Will Sutherland who is captain of the Australian Under 19 cricket XI and the son of current CEO of Cricket Australia James Sutherland is one of the players selected in Vic Metro's squad for the under 18 carnival. An interesting choice coming up for the kid.

The Victorian Metro squad has been finalised - here