Whispering_Jack

And though mayest become a Free man.

Didn't we agree 12 months ago that it was going to be at Wong's in Elsternwick?

You should check your dates then.

Fox Footy has telecast the draft in recent years. I remember watching it last year and recall that it was a very ordinary production with the presenters concentrating on a small number of the players drafted, having a limited knowledge of the players on offer and spending too much time talking about themselves and not the draft. Quite frankly, if that's the best Fox Footy can do for the sport which it's supposedly dedicated to, I'd rather listen to SEN which provides a better coverage anyway. BTW, how many days to go until the non telecast?

True but that probably resembles all of us who post here, particularly if he believes he looks anything like the bloke in that picture.

You know by saying that, you're only going to get one possible response.

Are you going to the races tomorrow Redleg? I know you've been looking forward to it.

Admittedly, Aish would be a very outside chance to be available but it might very well depend on who St. Kilda goes for at 3. If the Saints take Billings which is possible, then the following clubs might look at other more preferred players next allowing someone like Aish to slip. Very unlikely but whichever way it falls, we should have a good choice of quality players.

A pity our own AFL doesn't take an example from the NFL which has given SF and Jax the bye after last week's game in London. The bye would come in handy for Melbourne after one of those energy sapping trips to Darwin.

I think it's time for the selectors to show a bit of imagination and give Doolan his chance but somehow, I think they'll remain true to form and go conservative for the first test.

If there are 18 in the field I'm tipping it to come 17th.

You forgot to remind me about the banana fritters.

Oh well, I think I must have offended our friend the big frog. This thread is such a cut throat business. Redleg. I think we're off to Chinese for dinner tonight. Remind me to order banana fritters for desert.

It's after midnight now but what happened to the pictures?

Is the horse not embarrassed to appear in public?

Someone named a horse after a sex offender?

Sorry. Missed it among the picture gallery that seems to have taken over this thread.

I agree and, in time, they will complement the inclusion of Shannon Byrnes from last year.BTW. How many days to the draft?

I'm truly disappointed in you lot. Last year someone came on every day with the countdown to draft day but this year, there's simply too much nonsense. It's time to get back to basics, discussion about the price of bananas and the fact that there are 21 days to go till draft day.

Cross cannot be officially listed until 1 November when the delisted free agency period starts.At that time we will have three primary list vacancies and four rookie list vacancies.

Thanks for that Macca. I also discovered after the event that the post match function was at the hotel directly opposite where we were staying and the keynote speaker was former champion SF QB Joe Montana. There's a big move to have a franchise either established in or moved to London. Problem is that the sporting media here is saturated with soccer followed by the rugby codes. NFL managed a couple of paragraphs in the newspaper I read here. In any event, I missed Joe and then I missed the storm that went through southern England last night. Slept through the latter and didn't know about the former until it was way too late. Forty niners are meanwhile in the middle of a five game winning streak. I wonder how long before I'm able to say that about the Demons?

By sheer coincidence, I'm in London at the moment and so are the San Francisco 49ers. I didn't get to see the game but was wondering why there were so many fans with their uniforms and caps wandering around Piccadilly. The closest I got to the game was when we drove past Wembley Stadium on the way to dinner with my London cousins. Only discovered afterwards that we won comfortably. Did the televise the game on Foxtel?

How can you discuss something as mundane as draft picks when you're in the entertainment capital of the world, London? How was Willy Wonka?

At the risk of derailing this thread I would like to congratulate the Redleg family on the marriage of Olivia and Scoop Junior. It was a wonderful wedding ceremony although Redleg omitted to mention bananas once in his very brief speech.

What did she look like 49 years ago?I could have met her at Festival Hall. I had a Beatle haircut and looked a bit like Paul McCartney ... or was it Ringo Starr?