The Great Pretender

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A Wilson article Rebecca Wilson: Egos of James Hird, Nathan Tinkler and Lance Armstrong causing chaos

Not sure if these guys even wore jockstraps. Kazakhstan is a very poor country you know. They might not be able to afford them.

It's a training session. Not breakfast.

I was listening on the way home to SEN and they had Brett Anderson on from Inside Football. He was asked to compare this year's draft to last year and he said that the top end talent is not as strong as last year but it goes much deeper which suggests we should be able to get a good player at #40. He was asked who he thought would go to St. Kilda at #1 and whether anything's changed - no, it's still down to three players Petracca, McCartin or (less likely) Brayshaw in that order. He also believes that they've made the decision but aren't saying - thinks the AFL has directed not to let this out to keep up the suspense. He also mentioned that Pat McKenna, the Australian Under 19 cricket captain who has nominated for the draft has a few clubs interested including Melbourne. Toby McLean, a small forward, who was best on ground in the TAC Cup U18 Grand Final for premiers Oakleigh Chargers after he was rejected earlier in the season, has firmed and is now expected to be picked in the 30s.

Do you blokes talk ever about footy here?

When does the full squad start training together?

Rather than take a slow moving relic of our distant past who displayed cultural traits that our coach has said in the past are unacceptable at a professional club, I would trust our recruiters to either draft a young midfielder or take one from the list of delisted free agents or in the pre season draft and punt on the small chance that at some time in the future he might be a Sam Mitchell or a Tom Rockliff who might be around for some time in the future and be a good citizen at our club. You build your club up with people of good character and Brock's last port of destination was Carlton. 'Nuff said.

Knowing our luck, we'll pass on him and he'll become the next Plugger Lockett.

The problem with having too much sympathy for those who have banned drugs in their system is that they do so at the expense of those who don't take the drugs.

"How important is the resurgence of Trengove?" Not really.

I think PJ's agenda was to help us snare a star player. An extra pick which we were quite obviously qualified for would possibly have helped us get Dangerfield across the line. The AFL and the other clubs didn't want us to have that opportunity and we will probably now miss out.

Is that all we have to look forward to for the next six months?

Make it 2, Toumpas and 21 for 10 and 29.

Nakia's father is a cousin of the father of Che, David and Cockatoo-Collins. The word is that but for a leg injury he carried this year, he might well have been a top 20 pick. Definitely worth a look because he has real X factor.

A quality young midfielder and the best KPP coming up through the system. What could go wrong?

Compared to the rest of the venues in the Frankston area, it's prestigious. Congratulations to Maxy!

Who do you think we'll get in 67 day's time?

I was told Zaharakis has a tattoo on a normally concealed part of his body. Tattooists usually use needles don't they?

If Petracca and Brayshaw are ready to go and are as good as they're cooked up to be then who's to say that in a year or two they won't be better than Mitchell and/or O'Rourke. I don't see there's a problem if clubs want to play hardball.

Any club that behaves unrealistically in this process runs the risk of being treated likewise by the other clubs. Such an attitude will backfire.

... err ... yes ... um ... we all know we drove MC out of the game and Neeld's fingerprints were all over LJ's machete ...

Could end up on the trade table.

About three or four Carlton players have either retired or been Bootsma'd out of the club.

Which cheats?