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Gold Coast coach Stuart Dew says Lachie Weller trade a good move for Suns So Weller has played just one game this year for the Suns. What happened?

Mentioned above that Melksham is having a fitness test on his ankle.

An Adelaide contact of mine who's a Port Adelaide supporter is a big wrap for Petty who he thinks will end up as good if not better than Jacob Weitering of Carlton. He's not a fan of the Crows who he says doesn't do enough for players recruited from interstate and that's the main reason why they struggle to keep them in the state.

What a beautiful sight!!!

6. Jake Lever 5. Nathan Jones 4. Jake Melksham 3. Tom McDonald 2. Angus Brayshaw 1. Max Gawn

... and we sent Carlton to stone motherless last.

Filipovic missed a game and then missed another week for the bye. That's 2 weeks.

Yes. I think it’s pathetic for people to take any joy out of injuries to sportspeople and that applies to Tom Scully. However, I don’t have a problem with GWS having to part with $1m for a player who might not play many games this year.

Mykelti Lefau seems to be going well - any chance that he could be rookied as a Category B as an international player (born in NZ, I believe).

Hush your mouth. How could you possibly wish injury on any footballer. It’s not sportsmanship!

I thought that the mean spirited streak that used to run through Port fans was dying out now that the area has become gentrified. Don’t worry about it; the Collingwood fans you’re going to come up against will be much worse?

In the third quarter we kicked long bombs into a crowded forward line and, with Hogan playing downfield and TMac not there, the result was inevitable. Plus the fact that the Saints were very good on the rebound when they got the ball out and the result was 6 goals to 1.

That’s about 10k per possession for Mayne, isn’t it? Not bad if you can get it.

That crowd is absolutely pathetic. More people turned up to the women's game in 37 degree heat yesterday in Alice Springs.

I went to the play Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and they gave away prizes for particular seats that were supposedly prime numbered but they weren't. I think it's part of a gag or something.

It was hard to work out many of the players. It wasn't so much an intraclub game as match simulations in which one team had white tops and no numbers. You could recognise some of the players but the Casey boys were only recognisable by their lower skillsets.

Great to see so many curses bite the dust and how good was The Melk?

Jeff Kennett runs the Hawks who play in Northern Tassie. Is it a coincidence or is he reviving his economic rationalist ideology on the Hawks’ fiefdom up there?

There’s no update on the MFC website training dates page. Not sure whether training is on or not.

Is there training tomorrow?

I think the final round of 2017 fitted in brilliantly with the era of #fistedforever.

Maynard's one game for the club was impressive enough and in hindsight, he probably should not have been dropped. His performance in that VFL final for Casey against Richmond was a standout and if he can match the strength and resilience he showed that day, he'll be a regular in the AFL next year.

On the other hand, if we end up picking some players from the 1 to 25 list that comes out next week then could that not mean that we've done well in the draft?

Sounds about right then. We got a second round pick for Jack Watts and Geelong got a late first rounder for Motlop. The system suddenly starts making sense.

Brings back memories of that tv show Petrocelli about a big shot lawyer who practiced in a small town in the USA. I'm sure Petruccelle the footballer isn't as bland. After losing Trengove and Watts we really do need some Jacks up our sleeve.