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This is probably the most interesting time of the year outside the playing season. Strong and effective trading and list management can play a big part in how the team fares in the year ahead.

Young Tiernan Stynes (son of Jimmy) looks like being another tall potential father son and he’s around 14/15 years old. Apparently, he’s a top basketballer at under 16 level. Imagine Stynes and White as young talks playing with a mature Luke Jackson in a few years time!

Sadly, beyond redemption. No.

Scully? Don’t recall him playing for Melbourne. My only memory of him is as a fringe player at Hawthorn.

We’re a much different club playing in a much different competition than 10 years ago. There’s no status quo and nobody’s going to let a club go to Tassie under your conditionsZ

Sadly, Chris Michaliades passed away this week aged 29. He represented the VFL and also played for Port Melbourne.

After Port Adelaide beat Melbourne by 51 points (after a 4 day break), Glen Bartlett publicly excoriated the team and the media joined the chorus. All I’ve seen so far from the media was the commentators saying they did well after a tough year and a massive win last week. And Eddie sulked ...

If one of those commentators mentions that a player kicked to a dangerous spot again, I’ll explode.

There would be more than a few clubs who have been in touch with management of both players.

If healthy, I would clear space to have him at the club.

In that case, why not keep Preuss?

Actually, if Naitanui plays against the Doggies in Round 16 we would have been a finals side.

Is this the first time in history that the Eagles have had less frees than the opposition over in Perth?

Tipping the Dockers beat the Dogs tomorrow to finish ahead of GWS on the final ladder.

Umpires always kill us.

Looking for a scenario whereby we play a final against Collingwood which means they finish 6th and we finish 7th. That entails GWS beating St Kilda, us beating Essendon and Freo beating the Bulldogs AND us making up the percentage differential with the Saints. Unlikely, but ...

Paul Puopolo and Ben Stratton will retire after Round 18.

You can tell your friend that there was a game

His name’s Neale, not Neal-Bullen. They won’t look at it or they will find a way to rariinalise their way out of it.

The thing is that this is 2020 and most teams have been up and down like a yo yo. You can’t bank on the Dockers or anyone else to save your skin.

6. Steven May 5. Ed Langdon 4. Max Gawn 3. Christian Petracca 2. Clayton Oliver 1. Trent Rivers

Show me a team that had anything near that sort of a challenge.

There’s very little strength shown at the very top of the club as shown by allowing the situation whereby we were the club to play Sydney and Freo within 4 days up in Cairns just 5 days after playing in Alice Springs and being one of only two clubs not to have a bye during several weeks of football frenzy. Eddie would have gone down kicking and screaming rather than allow his club to hit the wall and miss a finals series that way.

Could we retaliate by dropping ANB?

The West Coast v St Kilda game was part of Round 17.