Demonstone

Didn't help Patton.

What he said.

How do you feel about the deliberate out of bounds issue?

Who?

In list management news, North Melbourne is rumoured to be looking to use its Mid Season Draft selection on one of Nat Fyfe's lesser known twin brothers. Should North lose at Kardinia Park on Sunday as the vast majority of pundits are tipping, expect to hear a lot of media talk next week about Owen Fyfe and Norton Fyfe.

The old fella was the cause of all the trouble.

We won't have to worry about big Jonathon Patton - just announced his retirement from AFL.

Surprised this hasn't come up before today.

Or a fuchsia perhaps?

Because of the advent of colour TV in Australia in March 1975. From memory, we were seen to look too much like Carlton (not a desirable thing!). Teams also started wearing coloured shorts replacing the traditional black at home and white away.

Yes.

Didn't hear Jobe Watson the other night?

That bloke at selection four might be out of our reach, moneywise. How could we possibly afford the wages of Sinn? It might kill us.

That's just standardus operandus around here if have interpretated this site properly.

Pretty close there, bushy. Healy won the goalkicking with 77 in 1982, finishing just one in front of Mark Jackson, who remarkably kicked 76 goals in each of his two seasons with us.

I'm pretty sure that it was John Northey who led the push to revert back to the navy blue, saying that he thought it looked "stronger" and that the royal blue was an insipid look. Like others, I'm happy with the light blue as a clash jumper but will always love the dark blue above all.

Are we talking African swallows or European swallows here?

Over at Arden Street, Ben Cunnington has won his appeal against that dodgy suspension and will play this week. edit: Sorry, wrong thread. Could mods move this to Tribunal thread please?

Tom Browne reporting that Oscar will miss around three months with a bone stress issue in his lower back. Tough luck for the bloke, I hope he gets through it OK.

I guess that's the great unknown at this stage. They would have that prerogative. edit: Clarification sought - is Merrett a RFA or UFA?

He's a free agent. Essendon would get a compensation pick as determined by the AFL. No trading involved.

Not sure about that. Lots of posters on here have nominated him as trade bait but I'm not aware of any rumours of that actually happening. I'd rather keep him and also pick up Merrett as the free agent that he will become at year's end.

In the 1980s vs Collingwood we had Lyon opposed to Christian with the result the same as in Roman times.

I'm in favour of Option C: No bye the week before or during finals. Hate that dull week of no footy at all.

I can't for the life of me understand the calls for Majak Daw to be included for this match. He is very much a "break glass in case of emergency" type player that is well down the pecking order in this team and still not AFL match fit. If we see him in the senior side at all this year, it will only be because we have a plethora of injuries to our tall brigade.