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A corky? Fair dinkum. It would have to be a shocker to hamper him in four or five day’s time.

He’s had a consistent season and from all accounts made significant improvement from the start of the year. This raises the question about what it takes for someone playing at that level to get promotion to senior football.

The story is protected by a firewall that I can’t even break through despite having a subscription but it’s about a Demons flag that flew over the MCG on 19 September, 1964 and has been in the possession of the family of radio presenter John Burns ever since. A Grand Old Flag Comes Home “Burns hopes this ’64 souvenir can exorcise Demons A MUCH-LOVED radio personality hopes to hand back a “grand old flag” – said to have flown above the MCG on the day of Melbourne’s 1964 premiership – as the club seeks to end its 57-year premiership drought. As AFL finals omens go, they don’t come much more timely than the discovery of a precious piece of Demons memorabilia from that cherished day long ago.”

This is where NGA’s can come in and help with getting young kids from multicultural societies more attuned to the way our game is played. Jason Taylor is right when he says the AFL should have thought things out a bit more. From next year, clubs with NGA’s won’t be able to match bids up to 40. Why bother putting money, time and resources into such a program if you’re doing it for other clubs?

And they’ll never call him Swallow again!!!

Watch it here

It’s already the night before team selection for the final round and we’ve heard nothing official about the incident. Has this been put into the too hard basket or is it being dealt with behind closed doors?

The final Casey game of the season, if it takes place, will not be against the Northern Bullants but rather, against Carlton at a date, time and venue to be decided.

Pity we let Francis go far too early. He was obviously a talented footballer as a teenager when drafted and needed patience in his development. Port Adelaide proved that to be the case when he played for them later in his career. Anyway, they don’t have a stepfather/stepson rule in place so it wouldn’t have helped us anyway.

Medal in the high jump coming up - and it could be gold too.

Not worried by Port winning. If we’re to go on to win a flag, it’s all up to us.

Correct weight with the rider that, subject to Covid19, he has the opportunity to show that he can consistently produce what he’s currently shown for only one quarter every few weeks, in which case, his ranking would go much higher.

No. It’s absolutely not what was asked. The response that if “our team thought he was worth pick 6 to us” we would use it on Mac Andrew actually begs the question which is actually whether you believe on the evidence actually before the public at this time you would forgo the use of pick 6.

Obviously, but that wasn’t the question asked. Let’s assume that we’re back in late 2018 and Melbourne has draft pick 6 (which it had for a little while). Your choice is to take Steven May and change in return for that pick and change or use it on a promising but slightly built young ruckman who has played half a dozen NAB Cup games and two other trial games without starring in them. He’s promising but you won’t know for a few years whether he can really play at the highest level. What would you do with pick 6?

Deakyn Smith had an ankle injury recently but it’s a bit of a concern if he’s had a recurrence and we’re not being told about it.

So you reckon he’ll go at pick 3?

6. Christian Petracca 5. Tom McDonald 4. Clayton Oliver 3. Christian Salem 2. Max Gawn 1. Steven May

Is tomorrow Sunday?

Danger game next week vs Hawks because we struggle against teams outside the 8.

Laurie didn’t play -> mystery injury of the week.

Well …

He’s not on the official injured list so it can’t be too serious … could it?

Bombers a chance for the finals if they get up in Geelong tonight.

It was a fractured eye socket and I believe his first game. With Nathan Jones it was a pity the club didn’t test him out v Collingwood on the SCG where we would be better served by him on the smaller ground. ,

Concussed and will miss this weekend’s trial games as well. Wishing him good luck for a speedy recovery.