Redleg

Maybe not, but you know who the Pies best defender is, yes that bloke of ours, who we also didn't try to keep. He is still going strong, while who we got in exchange is long gone.

I meant that, I said use last pick, when I should have said, just take a spot on the list.

Tigers were told the same on Pickett and Stack and probably Martin as well. We know how that has gone. It could be a bust, but so what if it is at little cost. Imagine if it worked. We would be seen as having a strong culture and that could influence other players to look at us instead of Hawthorn, Collingwood, Essendon etc.

He was a super talent and if you could get him on the track and back to near his best, for your last pick, it would be a great get.

He now has a wife/partner and a couple of kids. He has a surgeon saying they did something new and is now ready to go. He has acknowledged his past indiscretions and is saying he is a changed man who needs to provide for his family. He can be taken with our last pick and given an incentive based contract. We always whinge about only taking the whitebread players. It is worth a go, as the upside is a large return and the downside is minimal, as he would just be delisted.

Dunkley's brother took a few years to settle in and he is now a ball magnet. Give Kyle some time and a couple of pre seasons and we might have a handy player.

Correct and we considered very wrongly, in fact disastrously.

Think they are well ahead with us giving them Kelly for Salem and Tyson. Time for us to win one with them.

Didn't realize Billy was based on only 2 matches in 2018 Rusty, so that is a good point.

Interesting that the 2 players who improved performance the most this year could be gone, Billy and Frost.

I actually posted that we could get Tomlinson compo pick and keep our future pick, all for pick 3 and taking Tomlinson off their hands as a FA.

Put simply they want Green and another unnamed player. If we keep 3 and nominate Green, they get him and lose the other player. We are in the box seat here. Time to get tough and play hardball. If they are prepared to consider one of O'Halloran/Caldwell, then we don't need to give them our future 2nd rounder and IMO we could also get the Tomlinson compo pick in the deal. It sounds a lot and could be, but not when you look at what they potentially are getting, 2 stars. In other words they get their 2 boys, potential stars and we get 12, 18, one player and say 28. That is very fair.

More chance of me playing for the Dees next year.

Yes it is, but I was making the point that they both had deeper depth than us and could have players not playing in their senior side , that might be better than some of ours who were. In Tomlinson’s case he has continued to play in their senior side.

McIntosh played 21 games in 2018 and 16 this year, so at best, he has been pushed out only in the last quarter of this season. Also, remember Richmond's depth is much greater than ours.

That's not right. You have talent, or you don't, you don't learn it. It can be honed, so as to be used in the best way, but you can't teach talent. If you could, we would grab anyone and teach them how to be an AFL footballer.

How are the Mahjong finals going?

Many of us have banged on for the last few years about drafting pace and skill, but alas, it hasn’t happened and in today’s game style it continues to hamper us.

My mate Finlayson having a shocker, 0 possies.

Agree, but so is the Tiger dominance.

Mumford is a total liability in this game. All starting from him being thrashed.

Razor misses a blatant dropping the ball and Tigers goal on the siren.

Thank heavens for that!

Mahjong championships at Romsey, with BBO hosting in the Bruce McAvaney role.

And after a night at Moonee Valley Races as well.