george_on_the_outer

....came from GWS? Then SoS will definitely pick him.

I hope someone goes to Italy to check out this, Calcio storico which roughly translates as" historical football":

How small was the crowd for an opening game of football? Shows the game of AFL has come a long way in terms of attendances since then.

I want to know how in the hell this was approved by the AFL. If the player is delisted, he should be in the draft. That hasn't happened yet. Every other club should have had a chance to draft him. Or has the trade period now been extended to 365 days a year!

Darren or Craig?

...and they shut access to the place down for a couple of weeks at Grand Prix time. i.e just before the season starts.

Has Jeff Kennett joined us?

Look at the time stamp....

After 200+ pages, ain't this the truth about what is holding this process up. As Ouch has pointed out the CEO....the CEO!!! is doing the negotiations in the public domain......imagine PJ coming out during trade period saying we will or will not accept XYZ for a particular player! Bell is Football manager and now he is doing the negotiations after being there for 5 minutes! It's all well and good for everyone to surmise what will/will not be a good/suitable trade, but if you don't know who you are really trading with, it makes the job almost impossible. To top it off Freo has pick 6 at the moment. Their next pick is 80! There is no way they can improve their position for next year, so asking for their next years first rounder may be a piece of true inspiration.

WIth the change to the goal square next season, it will almost become necessary to have 2 talls( rucks) on either wing at kick ins. It will be a bonus if one of them can play forward as well. Once the ball goes down one side, the opposite will have to work hard to get back to provide an additional target, or go the other way and defend. Either way you will need 2 really mobile talls( rucks). One Max will not be enough to cover the whole ground and provide a target as well as actually ruck. The important thing is to get someone like Preuss, as he fulfills all the NEEDS for the next season, as well as a backup ruck role. Mumford, Roughead and Casboult don't have the tanks.

Special K

Don't give up yet. The existing seat holders have a limited time to renew if they are not on automatic rollover. There will always be people who don't renew, so get your name in.

Tally up now. Final number for 2018 was announced as 45,000. Perhaps we have to wait for the annual report to find out the exact number. Off to a good start though. The automatic renewals are up 4K on last year.

Don't care what they get as long as it isn't a high priority pick. The truth is even if either side got pick 1 in the draft, would that improve their on-field performance next year? As Gil and co have noted Carlton have 18 first round picks in their side already! One more will not get them off the bottom. To do so you have to trade to get multiple high picks over a couple of years...just like we did. That way you have a group of young skilled players coming through together. If Carlton want to do that, then put Cripps on the table, and start putting a team together with what he can attract.

Win a final now removed.....more to come!

Only a couple more on the list now....

Fixed up.......

...Finishing 9th always provided hope they could make it next year......

Yes we will. Why do you think Richmond played a home game there last night?

We are now 43,195 Saints now 42,605 Dogs now 43,300 North now 39,682

The important thing about all of the selections over these 5 years, is that the only ones NOT at the club are White, Hulett and Mitchie, with White still at Casey. Even with low picks, Jason is selecting reliable operators, rather than speculative guesses that his predecessor seemed to wallow in.

41,759 at the Dogs 42,159 at the Saints

The club's financial year finishes on 31 October. Which is only sensible to be able to report in line with the Season in which the club has operated. http://s.afl.com.au/staticfile/AFL Tenant/Melbourne/PDF/171123_2017MFCAnnualReport.pdf Taxation years finish on 30 June. The tax department doesn't care how you report, it only cares about what it is owed at 30 June. The 2 are not tied together, and neither is the point at which the club/AFL records membership.

8-900 gram of MDMA as well.....

Don't get too excited folks.....the Saints have more members than us at 40,323....and that was a week ago.