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The first two need to go as they are not helping us improve, simple as that. I would rather try a couple of delisted players who might make it, or draft some more youngsters.

Still hope he can make it. He flies under the radar as he wasn't a high draft pick.

Its not that I selected a team, I just didn't want the Hawks to win. Enough is enough. It actually just sickens me the success they are having. Maybe if I barrack for them next week I can bring them unstuck.

We can't afford mistakes in drafting and trading and need a good run with injuries. We do however have a fairly good base of young players to launch our revival with.

Yeah, I only want the nails with heads on one end.

No ok, as I am needing it for right side of wall.

Have you got a left handed hammer I could borrow.

That is as funny as the joke about the Irishman digging half a hole.

I have started " whiting " out my recruiting blackboard.

No, he is going to the Saints.

What pick will he cost us?

Most likely is.

Apparently, Prestia is Italian for " Massive Play from Left Field."

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Who are we getting, I haven't a clue.

Paul Salmon.

Paul Salmon coming out of retirement.

It is clear that the good players leaving clubs, want to go to the top teams and who can blame them. They want to play finals. We have to get in the finals or close and show the AFL world we are on the rise. To do that we need to improve what we have, hope for a good injury run, which we haven't had in years and get some more talent in now that can play. Therefore despite the risks, we need a Bennell now. We should be chasing him hard. Howe appears to be wanted by GC and so the our foot is in the door. A player who can rack up 38 possies and kick 6 goals in a game won't be found in the draft ready to do that. We should back ourselves in to mentor him and get him moving forward with his footy and his life. If we don't another team will. We have a good batch of youngsters to develop and I would take only a few picks in the draft and go all out for players who could walk into our best 22 now. Bennell and even Melksham would make our best 22. That would be a good start. Add a couple more and we improve our chances of winning more games. It is a catch 22 situation, but in the end we will be judged by our our on field performance not our balance sheet.

Disagree, he was just plain poor. It was not the game plan that made him fumble, mis kick and mis handball, for the few times in a game he touched the footy.

And improve King, Hunt, White, O Mac, JKH and Harmes. And get Kent, Frost, Vandenberg and Tyson fit and playing. And get HL back to his Pies form.

I am awaiting Angry at Casey's " Get Michael Talia" thread.

Have we recruited anyone yet?

This is one area where the Interstate teams have a distinct advantage. Say WA players want to return home, there are only 2 teams available, but if Vic players want to return home, 10 clubs are available and this clearly disadvantages teams like us, that are low on the ladder.

You mean like drafting Watts instead of Nic Nat? or in our case drafting Toumpas instead of Ollie! PS. Just having some fun.

Well for a start we are building a young team with talent, second we beat the team he is going to at their home ground, third we are rumoured to have offered double the contract salary and last, the team he is going to, could very well be on the way down, with a number of non replaceable champion players retiring this year and next.

Didn't know that, but I still think there will be an extra somewhere. Knocking back $3.5m extra over 5 years, when all you have to do is travel 50 minutes down the highway to the G, is very strange.