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Doesn't look like it: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/teams/sydney/kurt-tippetts-injury-settlement-will-allow-sydney-to-snare-a-quality-player-at-seasons-end/news-story/f9d9a94c8540b7746b6fc77b5abd85fe contracted to end of 2018 https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/kurt-tippett-retires-sydney-forward-retires-after-178-games/news-story/664ca58f73b8232f3bd3eb3fb027e8c3

Gaff is already too old for our profile. 2 years ago he may have fitted, but regardless the Eagles will throw plenty enough to keep him. The big money for Sloane will come from Sydney, with $900k spare from Tippets retirement. North already had enough to offer Dusty and Kelly bucket loads (but who would want to go there?). Collingwood are all wind....Pendelbury is already the highest paid AFL player, and Treloar will be earning a motzza by now. They won’t have enough left for a player like Lynch.

Friend of mine thinks with the addition of these discards, they are going to have one Hell of a SANFL side.

Good luck to JT with his new club. Port obviously think they are in the Premiership window, by recruiting all manner of discards from other clubs in exactly the same way North did a couple of years back. Trouble for North was that it got them up and going while those older talented bodies could stay on the field ( remember their 9 wins in a row in 2016), then completely fell apart at the business end of the season. Then all those older players became list cloggers at the same time as their original senior players retired. Result: down the bottom of the ladder in 2017 and likely to stay there for a long, long time. It's a calculated gamble. If it works great, but it is all or nothing.

No it's not because both clubs don't know what they have to offer yet until they start trading players for picks or picks for players. To give an simple example, if we trade Watts to Geelong for pick 20 then we would have something more to offer Adelaide than what we have today. The initial gambits are just that....initial

Adelaide seem to forget they got picks 9, 28 and Dean Gore in return for Patrick Dangerfield and pick 50. Lever for 10 and 27 seems about the same mark ( and Danger was and is probably a better player) The Cows will probably need the AFL to explain this to them in the simplest possible terms during the next 10 days.

Easy.....Gibbs to Adelaide, Lever to Melbourne....(now you fill in the gap) _________to Carlton.

No they can't. This is a civil matter and if he doesn't want to appear, then he won't.

Brilliant! Well done Ash

Well they didn't have any clout as it turns out: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/supplements-saga/essendon-supplements-saga-push-for-senate-inquiry-rejected-says-greg-hunt-20170303-guqeyl.html

Caro has come out this morning telling them to move on: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/afl-20170224-gukxno.html If that isn't a message from Head office, I don't know what is. But listening to the tape it became obvious that the fools at Essendon thought they had a deal with the AFL, and they probably did. Trouble was ASADA is the prosecuting and penalty authority. If this was their "leadership" then all....players, coaches, supporters and sponsors have been severely led astray. And this was the same leadership who got them into the situation in the first place.

...and I guess this means Jobe won't get his Brownlow back?

It is important to remember that this hearing has nothing to do with the Essendon players, TB4 or anything else that Dank was supplying. It is about trafficking. To quote from the Age today: While he was cleared of three charges relating to administering the banned drug thymosin beta 4, the AFL anti-doping tribunal, under chairman David Jones, found to its comfortable satisfaction that he had sought to "traffick in [TB4], by selling, giving, transporting, sending, delivering and/or distributing to a third party or parties, namely the Essendon Football Club" between January 2012 and September 2012.

Other readers are not interested in the petty point-scoring that is occurring between posters. Stick to the subject

My bet is that Jobe will hand the Brownlow back before next week. That way 1. the AFL commission doesn't have to make a decision 2. Jobe becomes a martyr to the Essendon fans 3. Since the commission didn't make a decision to take it away, then Cotchin and Mitchell can't get the medal. ( will there be phone calls to Essendon from headquarters in the coming days?)

Billy is yet another remarkable example of the work of the development staff now at the club. Like Wagner, Hunt and Oscar, they are not yet physically at the level required by AFL, but they are able to play as required. In previous years he would have been thrown into the seniors with hope for the best. Lots of upside still with Billy, and if he gets anywhere near the level of his old man then we will have another beauty!

Pity is that too many can't kick drop punts with any degree of skill despite all this training time......

Everyone gets the correlation between success and age wrong. Good players will still be playing at 27. Poor players won't be. So sides with lots of old players have lots of good players.ala Hawthorn, Geelong, North ( at the moment) That is not to say you can't have a good team of young players ( like ourselves, we hope), because it just means those good players will be around for a long time to come. What it does say is that if you have a team of young players year after year then you will not find success. In that case all you are doing is replacing poor players.

Large Polo on me fits perfectly. 181cm 76kg but broad shoulders. Quality good as well.

Speculation over for another 2 years..... http://www.afl.com.au/news/2016-02-10/port-young-gun-wines-signs-twoyear-contract-extension?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS+feed%3A+AFL+Latest+News

I don't know about Macrae, but the Bulldogs are simply NOT going to be able to hold all their young players. Tom Boyd is taking a huge slice of the pie today and into the future, after Peter Gordon signed him up, when the captain and coach were removed. So how do they keep Bontempelli, Macrae, Wallis, Wood, Liberatore, Stringer, Hrovat, Talia and Picken happy on the list and under the cap? Like we have seen at GWS over the past couple of years, when Scully hogged all the salary cap. There will be some good players who have to be released.

James Tomkins supporting both Hawthorn and Melbourne?

Looks like the guys over at Big Footy are planning a bit of a reception....... http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/j-day-at-the-g-round-13-v-gws-dees-board-meet-up.908378/

I'd be a worried passenger/pilot if the re-fueller had loaded the jet with Avgas. ( Designed for piston engines, jets run on avtur or JetA1)

Analysing the information provided, it shows that the MFC is now thinking strategically, instead of fighting to stay afloat in the short term. They have identified the problems with the Bentleigh club, particularly location and demographic base and ongoing profitability. Even with a capital injection it would not provide long-term return on investment. Relocation to a commercially viable location is the obvious answer, but in order to do that would require even short term borrowings....buy a site, sell Bentleigh club. I think it was the Beaumaris hotel which would have fitted this criteria recently, but how do you do it financially? On its own the Bentleigh club couldn't do that, so the MFC is the logical "banker of last resort". Transferring to Casey would not be an option per se, because poker machines have limits in each area. To keep the licences they stay in the zone for which they are allocated. Good to see that the club in all aspects is thinking about the future.....