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On 7/9/2023 at 11:11 AM, Melb16 said:

Which of the below options do people think Chris Fagan would prefer:

1. Kossie plays for Melbourne this week

2. Kossie plays for Casey this week 

Casey has a bye this week.

10 hours ago, 4_Kent_Watts said:

If he could resemble a JV7 Type 2 and model his game on that I'd be happy. 

Doubt that he will turn out to have Jack Viney’s toughness but that doesn’t exclude him from having other attributes to make him a handy recruit for the club.

Hopefully, our shooting accuracy reaches that level on Friday.

40 years ago 

27 minutes ago, Demonland said:

In: H.Petty

Out: A.Tomlinson 

 

Now where have I seen this before?

15 hours ago, Elwood 3184 said:

Kynan Brown is playing today for Old Geelong Grammarians in B Section VAFA. 

Hope to find out how he went if one of my mates ended up going to the game.

No luck from my mate who just emailed that OGG won and Old Trinity kicked themselves out of the game in the second quarter.

Kynan Brown is playing today for Old Geelong Grammarians in B Section VAFA. 

Hope to find out how he went if one of my mates ended up going to the game.

Good luck to the 13 players drafted, but none of the names are exactly jumping out of the page to excite me.

None of the Casey listed (or ex-Casey/ex-MFC) players made it so with apologies for being selfish, that makes me happy that our VFL affiliate hasn’t been adversely affected. On the other hand, a lot of young men who are probably not far off the pace have again missed an opportunity to live their dreams.

2023 AFL MID-SEASON DRAFT

First round

1. West Coast - Ryan Maric (Gippsland Power)
2. North Melbourne - Robert Hansen jnr (Subiaco)
3. Hawthorn - Clay Tucker (Eastern Ranges)
4. Richmond - Matt Coulthard (Glenelg)
5. Greater Western Sydney - Pass
6. Sydney - Harry Arnold (Brisbane VFL)
7. Geelong - Mitch Hardie (Woodville-West Torrens)
8. Fremantle - Ethan Stanley (Box Hill Hawks)
9. Essendon - Jaiden Hunter (Perth)
10. Western Bulldogs - Caleb Poulter (Footscray)
11. Port Adelaide - Quinton Narkle (Essendon VFL)

Second round

12. Hawthorn - Brandon Ryan (Northern Bullants)
13. Richmond - James Trezise (Richmond VFL)
14. Greater Western Sydney - Pass
15. Sydney - Jack Buller (Claremont)

Of course Cerra was cleared. He had the best legal representation. Carlton is good at it.

Can’t help but feel that we should have made sure we were somehow involved in the MSD. We have a few on the list who look done and unlikely to play a part in future campaigns and should have been trying to do what Collingwood have managed with the likes of Noble and Johnson who have seamlessly come in virtually straight out of the MSD and made them a better team.

5 minutes ago, Winners at last said:

I was walking down Punt Road at night recently and tripped on a scooter that was lying on the footpath. (It was dark.)  The upshot was that I 'did' my hammy in that episode .... It took me 3 weeks to fully recover. So Clarry should aspire to that timeframe for full recovery. Perhaps the Club would be interested in this information?

Okay but did you train on the Monday after the incident?

58 minutes ago, Left Foot Snap said:

West Coast must really rate Harley Reid!!

Or perhaps they’re happy to take 3 first round picks off our hands.

My conspiracy theory this week is that the AFL and North Melbourne conspired to ensure that they lost to the Swans to keep their chances alive of special draft assistance at the end of the year. Couldn’t happen if they won too many matches.

Apparently the indigenous name for West Coast is Boorloo.

At least we know what the “loo” part stands for.

6. Clayton Oliver 
5. Trent Rivers 
4. Steven May 
3. Lachie Hunter 
2. Jack Viney 
1. Christian Petracca

9 hours ago, picket fence said:

Quad strains are nefarious injuries and unless 100 % he would not be risked

Especially older players like a Dixon.

58 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

So I take it we can draft Harley Reid

Not yet (if at all).

These rules are for the midseason draft.

On 5/7/2023 at 10:35 PM, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Fact was in the final quarter we out played them for the most part, kicked poorly, which kept them in the game when they shouldn't have been, they then got a bunch of goals through part fluke and part bad defending on our behalf and had a chance to steal the game when the shouldn't have been in it.

My conspiracy theory is that the long break in getting Ballard off the ground when there was nothing wrong with him was contrived to settle the Suns down and give them a run at winning.

Up until that point Melbourne had kicked 2.3 to nothing in the final term and GCS didn’t look like scoring. That trend would likely have continued but for the break in play.

8 minutes ago, Redleg said:

I don’t understand.

Why would someone resign if their employer was thrilled with their work?

Because even if your employer is thrilled with your work, it might not necessarily mean you’ve done the right thing. Richard Nixon might have been thrilled with the plumbers at Watergate but that means Jack [censored].

8 hours ago, Redleg said:

Why? The AFL is thrilled with his work.

Exactly why he should consider resigning.

7 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Correct - as you and some others have pointed out this process was an appeal and the advocate for the MFC had the task of convincing the appeals board that Tuesday’s Tribunal erred in their interpretation of the AFL’s rules. 

“The tribunal chairman Jeff Gleeson KC said that although it was reasonable for the young Demon to assess the situation in the way he did they decided ‘a reasonable player would have seen that in spoiling the ball in the way he did would almost inevitably have resulted in a forceful blow to Ballard’s head’”.

Besides being complete and utter gobbledygook, Gleeson was attempting to rewrite the rule book. If allowed to stand, the Tribunal’s decision would have forever stood as a grave injustice. 

Given the rebuff given to him by the Appeals Board, should we expect Gleeson to do the honourable thing and resign?

1 hour ago, AzzKikA said:

Deelicious!

I remember thinking at the time that all our troubles were over. In fact, they were just starting.

Perhaps this might be the perfect opportunity to manage JvR for a couple of weeks so that he’s fresh for the difficult phase of the season from Round 11 to 13 when we faltered last season. He is after all young and would have been rested sooner or later.

6. Christian Petracca 

5. Max Gawn 

4. Clayton Oliver 

3. Angus Brayshaw 

2. Tom Sparrow 

1. Steven May