Tony Tea

No doubt the best available free agent will go to Hawthorn.

Alex Sexton?

The last few years Bruce has become too Bruce, but be careful what you wish for: the replacement look like being one of Darcy, BT or Brayshaw. (I don't mind Brayshaw.)

Opponents have been quick to get in Hibberd's face, and he lacks the pace to beat them into space.

Prepare ourselves... for the t-word?

Jack Billings, I think.

I have issues with the notion that we should not have taken an inside bull and should instead have taken an outside runner. It is much easier to teach an inside bull how to get and use the footy in the AFL than it is to teach an outside runner how to get an use the footy in the AFL when it's hot. I'm not against outside runners, and I agree we need link-up pace from half back to half forward. That's why we had a big go at Gaff. But if you are picking youngsters in the draft and there is no obvious gun runner available (in Sparrow's case, around pick 27), pick the bull.

I would be surprised if our footy department overrated our list going into 2019. Ditto Ratten. We need an assistant who knows Clarko Footy. Since Clarko himself has said that he likes to turn over his own assistants, let's have a lash at Yze.

Clarko plays a zone (which Adelaide's one-dimensional attack played straight into) but Clarko's key has always been knowing when to take the ball the other way for easy scores.

Dunny is a Demon at heart.

The zone defence will be alive and kicking when we try to find a way through it.

Certainly the best Demon midfielder I have seen. Covers territory at pace, gets to multiple contests, hits the contests at pace, leaves the contests at pace, finds the footy in traffic and in space, makes space out of no space, good kick, sublime hands, sublime handballer, knocks opponents over, good mark, I could go on, but youse get the drift. He's different to, say, Judd. He's more like a combination of Voss and Black.

(paraphrasing AND punning)

Multiple scoring options win big matches.

I reckon Bennett left in 93, which is the same year Neitz arrived, so they may have played the odd game together. Bennett would probably have played with Schwarz. Regarding finals against Geelong. I don't remember a final against the Cats between 1989 and 2005.

So how could we have kept him?

I don't remember Bennett, Schwarz and Neitz ever playing a final together, let alone against Geelong.

I reckon Hogan's days at Melbourne were numbered when it became apparent we played a better style of footy when he was missing. Not saying Hogan is no good, just that we seem to gel better all over the ground when he is out. After that it was a matter of the footy department deciding what style of players we most needed, and could trading Hogan get those players in.

Farewell, Jesse. I will miss you, but I will not miss your Hogan's Going Home saga.

Any chance the Dees will get pick 5, and then instead of giving it to the Suns, trade it up to a higher pick? Say, 1, 2, 3 or 4, similar to what we did with (I think) Oliver and Weid?

One party offers too low, the other counters too high. Bargaining 101. The next step is a narrowing of difference, not one side spitting the dummy.

Final offer? Straight out of the How to Haggle handbook.

I would have him, IF he cost nothing and is not clogging the list.

It is this year's "I would love to be a one-club player."

And there was the match against Carlton in 2014 when we were about to win and the commentator said "Pedersen to ice the game."