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Story on DFA’s on the first day of the delisted free agency period. Delisted free agents: Who's on the shelf? Who gets a lifeline?

Champion Data has ranked the AFL teams’ fixtures from to the hardest to the softest - WHO HAS THE HARDEST 2020 AFL FIXTURE? CHAMPION DATA RANKS ALL 18 TEAMS 1 West Coast 2 Hawthorn 3 Gold Coast 4 Essendon 5 GWS 6 Carlton 7 Richmond 8 North Melbourne 9 Geelong 10 St Kilda 11 Collingwood 12 Western Bulldogs 13 Brisbane Lions 14 Port Adelaide 15 Adelaide Crows 16 Melbourne 17 Sydney Swans 18 Fremantle How do last year’s premiers (who played most of their games in the last half of 2019 on the MCG) end up with the 7th toughest draw?

The only issue there is that we currently have four rookies listed so that, if we took Bennell as a rookie it would have to be at the expense of a senior pick. That is, senior list = 39 + rookie list = 5.

I wonder if it’s possible to trade our picks 97 and 115 for GWS pick 60 and our agreement not to pick Tom Green at 3? This would enable GWS to do a trade with Adelaide involving a trade of picks 4 and 6 and give us a better third pick down the line for what amounts to no cost.

The name sounds like American porn star.

The bloke is truly a legend and has done so much for sufferers of MND. I will buy the book at first opportunity.

I think he finished second behind Peter Moore for the 1984 Brownlow, played in a couple of premiership teams and captained the Tigers. While he often came across as being up himself, it’s hard on his record to say he was overrated.

This from the profile on Brodie Kemp CLUBS looking for a player who can do just about anything need look no further than Brodie Kemp.

Agree - only a basket case would agree to the deal suggested by Ralph.

Erm ... you might have missed the trade involving Tim Kelly?

It’s quite possible we’ll see large numbers of players changing clubs but that might happen through delisted free agent pick ups rather than via trades. We’re seeing clubs placing too high a value on some players up for trade and hence there are often no takers as other clubs take the view that they simply have to wait for players to be delisted before they strike. We will possibly get someone like Sam Murray that way and might also find that JKH and/or Stretch are let go if they can’t be traded.

Is it too late for our basket-case of a club to make application for a couple of priority picks in next month’s draft based on Mr Ralph’s expert opinions?

The question is does Ben King want to end up at Melbourne and is he really that good?

REPORT: FRINGE GIANT CONTEMPLATING FRESH START AT NEW CLUB The little known out of favour Giant could be on the move.

Interesting. This means that we have four vacancies at the present time and this will remain at four if we gain Langdon and Tomlinson and lose Frost and Stretch. Three, if we get Elliott. Essentially, we should have 6 or 7 new names on the list after the draft plus a few drafted last year who have yet to make their debuts (Bedford, Jordan and Nietschke). And on top of that, well over a dozen others who missed a lot of games in 2019. Therefore, we can expect a very different Melbourne taking the field in 2020.

Needless to say, he never made it.

Paige Cardona just tweeted - "Why have the AFL given the Suns pick 2 to go with No.1? Why not put money into the clubs soft cap? Invest in development, facilities etc? There's no guarantee these kids won't request a trade in a few years time. Pushing other clubs back in the draft is robbing Peter to pay Paul." She’s a Collingwood supporter in case anyone’s wondering.

AFL would love to have the Giants in a grand final but more than that, they like the $s involved in a Collingwood grand final so bye, bye Toby Greene.

Except thanks to the corrupted regime that runs the game and picks and chooses who gets priority picks and where they get them, it won’t be a number two draft pick.

Expected Munro to do better. He was in the best every time I saw them play. Still, I suppose the players who tackle and work hard aren’t noticed as much as the ones who do the spectacular stuff.

Turned on just after half time and saw the scores. Switched off immediately.

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We weren’t gifted that pick. It was the appropriate compensation according to the existing rules.

I wouldn’t be too sure of that. I tuned into last night’s game expecting Collingwood to kick a cricket score against Essendon and they struggled to shake them off until after three quarter time. On second thoughts, it was a cricket score being close to what the Poms managed in their first innings.

Ask for a priority pick or bring back Tom Bugg.