Redleg

Agree with you except for Petty, who I think is going to be a very good player in a couple of years. If you mean now, well I wouldn't lose Petty for Tomlinson now either, if that clarifies. I still think BTW, that OMac can improve and give us value.

Well I can give you some, stop the lawyer bashing or risk losing the manor.

That speaks more about you Daisy, than it does about lawyers, who give free advice regularly.

Can we get this weekend out of the way, so that we can concentrate on the important stuff, trading and drafting.

Agree. Most sides have 2-3 ruckman on the list. We have 2 and a developing 3rd. By the time Bradtke is ready, if he gets there, Max will be in his 30's. Tomlinson is not a ruckman, he is a swingman.

It seems many already know.

No you couldn't ( wouldn't ).

They are hard to get. Pies have won 2 flags in the last 60 years and 1 in the last 28. We of course have none in the last 55 years.

Chris Judd said on Footy Classified a few weeks ago that he thought GC would get about pick 10 as a PP. Everyone seems to think pick 2 is a given. I think Judd has heard this from someone he trusts. We will see,

Pies thought that, until they did.

I know there are some, I said not many do.

You could truly argue that the Greene fiasco truly galvanised the Giants.

Not many blokes leave after playing in a GF. Wonder if Giants will resign him now.

I would have laughed at the suggestion a few weeks ago, but now he has had a doctor operate and say he should be ok, a new partner and kids reason to forge an AFL career and what seems to be a major attitude change to life. He is low risk and high reward and is a free throw. He is exactly what we wouldn't do and look where we are. The Tigers win a flag and pick up Stack and Marlion Pickett, I think his name is, after taking a bloke we avoided, who is their best player.

Beat me to it.

This might be why you would consider it: "I've made some wrong decisions in my time and that's put me in some s--- positions but I've learned from those," Bennell said. "I just think I've still got a lot more in the tank. I've come this far and I'm not going to give up, just because of my latest injury. I'm not a person who will just chuck the towel in and give up. "I love training and I love football. Without football, who knows where I'll be? "Getting a third opportunity at the highest level would be life-changing for myself and my partner and my family – it would be the luckiest thing. It would mean a lot to me and my family."

Hope you are right.

You wonder how so called “football experts “ can’t see the quality in a player playing for them over several seasons.

Very important next season for Spargo. Another poor one will put his AFL career in jeopardy. Poor second seasons are not uncommon, but consecutive poor seasons, aren’t looked at favourably from average players, by List Management.

The real point is why did we not see what he could do and keep him. He left because we lowballed him. He didn't get bucketloads from the Pies. We showed him he wasn't wanted. We wanted Ben Kennedy, another master stroke.

I actually don't think it matters who is in the GF, as it is always a sellout and TV is there. With the Tigers or Cats, there would have been a Vic team anyway.

When you say we were " bankrolled", who isn't? We get much less than a lot of other clubs.

As with the MRO and Tribunal, an Independent, ex GC Suns official, will decide if they get pick 2 as a PP.

That keeps getting said, like when the last batch of Bartel, Stevie J, Enright, Scarlett, Mackie, Corey, Chapman etc left and yet they keep playing finals. They are a well managed club, like the Hawks and keep contending.

Why? If Ablett and Harry retire, that won't kill them and they have 8 guaranteed walk up start wins, at their own dung heap. An advantage that no other Vic team has. When Kelly goes they will get players or high picks. They have a potential forward star in Esava. Players seem to want to go there.