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It would appear that he is the new Jack Trengrove.

Sorry, I misunderstood your meaning there, willmoy. Great minds agree that May should play, then!

Is he related to Brent Maloney?

"Only" May? He's our best defender and a star of the competition. Of course, he would need the medical all clear, but you wouldn't leave out one of your premier players if he was fit and available. Definite "in" for mine, replacing Petty.

You wouldn't find a spot for May if he's good to go?

I defiantly agree.

Sam Weideman, at various times, has been called Wiedeman, Weiderman and Weidemann. The gold medal however goes to the unfortunate and unnamed poster who spelled it as Wiedermann, thus getting it wrong three different ways in one go.

Onya Froggy! As you may have noticed, I'm on a mission from Gad.

Jordon

Spell Jordon's name properly. I may have possibly mentioned this once before.

I thought the AFL had already confirmed that banners would return this week.

Try to keep up, Clint!

Welcome aboard, JJ. Trust you enjoy your Demonland experience and look forward to your input. A word of warning, however. Some posters will jump down your throat for spelling JORDON incorrectly.

In a game that was meant to promote mental health, does anybody else reckon that our boys were really cruel and mean by leading the Hawthorn players and fans on for three quarters into thinking that they were some sort of a chance?

Zac Foot has some toe.

It's happened 14 times in AFL/VFL history, but not since Fitzroy in 1964. St Kilda did it three times in a row from 1897-99 and again in 1902. That would test your resilience as a supporter!

While we're still several hours away from the first bounce, I thought I'd share with you all this little story about Hawthorn ruckman Jonathon Ceglar, who has been omitted for today's game. Not many of you would know that I went to school with him and, while he was good at sport, he was no chop at any other aspect of life. In fact, I'd say that Jonathon is without a shadow of a doubt the dumbest kid I ever met growing up. He never learned the body mechanics required to climb down ladders/trees/etc because he fell off literally every time, mostly by choice. He once kept a bottle of apple juice in his schoolbag for five months thinking it would turn into alcohol. He skolled the lot and instantly threw up everywhere. The next year he tried it again but left it in the bag for even longer, thinking that THAT was the flaw in his plan. He’d turn up to school with all these cuts and scratches and say it was from playing with the cat that lives in his street. However, once he elaborated it became very apparent that he was describing a koala. When he got called out he threatened to fight everyone. Even after someone went to the library and got an encyclopedia and showed him a picture of a koala and said “Is this what the cat looks like” and he said "Yes" he still insisted that he was right and it was a cat. He wanted to bet us $50 that he was right, but the whole drama repeated when it turned out he didn’t know what $50 looked like. When we were in Year 8 we didn’t see him for the whole of Term 1. We assumed that he’d moved schools or died falling out of a tree or something, until we found out he’d just kept going to the Year 7 classrooms. And he was getting worse grades than the year before. He straight up didn’t know the difference between left and right (not like confusing them sometimes, just didn’t understand they were two different things) until I think Year 10, when we worked out that he was left handed and because he wrote with that hand he assumed that was his right/write hand. When we started going to parties, he kept insisting that the beer he was drinking out of a plastic bottle was better quality than glass or cans because “plastic is more technological.” He once gave out invitations to his party but instead of an address there was just a drawing of three houses with an arrow pointing to the one on the right. One day I saw him in a shoe store holding up the shoe (a left-footed Adidas trainer) that was on display and asking the shop assistant if he could get a discount if he bought the right one as well. It’s just as well this bloke is okay at footy because he is NO GOOD at anything else.

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.