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Wonder if the new format for practice games hurts the rookies, as most teams go in with pretty strong lineups and close to their best team, depending on injuries and not a lot of rookies get a look in. In previous years more rookies would be given a chance, with more games in the practice game period.

Who cares about Barnaby, we are discussing the more important Bayley.

No.

I saw the Bigger Bang that created the Big Bang.

I saw his dad kicking in his mother's womb and said that he would one day have a son who would play for Casey and then go on to be drafted by the Dees and ultimately play for them. PS. Don't try and beat that, as I also saw his grandfather in the womb and also saw his great grandfather before he went out with Bayley's great grandmother in fact and foresaw the whole chain of events.

Gee, I go away for a while and this place goes to rack and ruin. I was in the South Pacific on a cruise ship, trying to outrun a Cyclone, which we did successfully and to my dismay the place goes downhill, discussing smart rats with gold teeth. Anyway the standard will now lift with my return. PS. I want it acknowledged if Fritsch plays early, that I said it first and deserve a winter olympics gold medal for the effort.

Thanks.

We passed on Rory in the draft after telling him he wasn our radar.Apparently he wasn't pleased at the time. Dont see us going for him and we also have several of our own we need to keep. Lynch would be great but it won't happen. I think we will concentrate on keeping our better young players and add through the draft and maybe a smart trade like with Hibberd.

And the new panel member on the Footy Show is.....:

The banana smoothie of the Far East.

Sounds like a more talented Viney from that description.

You are a very intelligent and perceptive person, as your post shows. PS. The post about Robbie and more Hawthorn players being better was rubbish. He was brilliant on the footy field and modest and humble off it. A true champion and sadly missed.

Just !

Days to go Moonie. Yep.

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Well hopefully everyone had a happy new year and can now concentrate on 2018 and the coming footy season.

THis is still the most informative and intellectual thread on DL.

Is fosters lager still made? Haven't seen one in ages.

Rubbish. It is because the players found out that bananas were removed from the camp menu. PS. The Australian budget surplus owes full credit for it to the banana industry which has single handedly rescued the economy.

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Last call, any more interested for wednesdays draft/trade/list discussion over Japanese dinner?

The banana forgives.

Looks like mango, the heathen.

You sometimes get a feeling about a recruit and I just think that Bayley will be a good player for us. He has got to this point by virtue of hard work and he has undoubted talent. I just think he will make it. He will vie with the likes of Harmes, Hannan, Bugg, Melksham, JKH and Kent for a spot and he could end up the best of them.

Certainly unbandaged in the photo at training.