Freddy Fuschia

You need look no further back than Geelong’s loss to the Swans last night. They were far superior by every statistical measure but the Swans’ determination to win and their belief in themselves led them across the line. We need to be up from the beginning and not relent until the final siren.

Collingwood have the more talented players but the Suns are playing as if they want to win.

The real question is would you take Mitch Hannan back?

A very good assessment about the club’s football department’s underestimation of Howe’s ability and his value to the club as a draw card. I think we had issues about our salary cap because I recall something about Collingwood paying him more than the $400k we offered. Whatever, the case he’s definitely repaid them with his service but now, going on 31 years of age and with injuries behind him, he’s going to slow down.

Dees are equal fourth along with West Coast. A long way to go but our efforts are being recognised.

6. Max Gawn 5. Ed Langdon 4. Christian Salem 3. Clayton Oliver 2. Michael Hibberd 1. Tom McDonald

Meanwhile, Essendon has jumped in and signed 18 year old South Australian prospect Kaine Baldwin who is expected to be a gun once he gets over his injury woes.

He played for their Colts team not seniors.

Notice how shifty Richmond are when they list Derek Eggmolesse-Smith without using his full name. :)

Good to see that our footballers, like the tennis players, perform an "essential service" so the game goes ahead.

That's true but because of the big wraps about his ability as a junior and his character, I thought he would have been a good selection to bring in, not for immediate impact, but to be an understudy to Ben Brown for as long as it took - two years at Casey if necessary. Still, no club has picked him so there's probably something we don't know about him that's keeping clubs from taking the risk.

It’s reported in the article which WJ linked. The ins and outs etc are as quoted from the article. So potentially we have 5 picks in the draft and will possibly hold one back for later drafts.

Now that KK has retired and is off our books, Jay Lockhart gets uplifted to the Primary List and Aaron Nietschke can be automatically rookied, this is the scenario - • 34 players on the Primary List (max 38) • 3 on the Rookie A List (maximum 6) • 1 on the Rookie B List (max 2) We have some additional options in the drafts depending on how the picks fall.

Anyone have an update on him?

Radio talk. They sounded convinced it was St Kilda.

People are saying Higgins will nominate the Saints.

Silly boy - apparently is going to nominate St Kilda.

I've always maintained that if Nev and TMac could have played out just average seasons we would have finished top 6. That' just a win or two more than we got. My main problem would be to see Nev in the black and white.

6. Christian Salem 5. Mitch Brown 4. Christian Petracca 3. Bayley Fritsch 2. Max Gawn 1. Jayden Hunt

Bryce Gibbs, Matthew Kreuzer and Connor McKenna have all announced their retirements.

Melbourne doesn’t do 8 point games very well but it will have to if it wants to remain a contender. Simple as that.

Strange that nobody mentioned the fact that the Hawks dropped their #21.

Probably doesn’t make a difference but I reckon that once a player is deemed to be unable to play at all for the remainder of the year, the proper designation should be “season” and not “indefinite”.

Great news. The Dees playing deep into September again!

If Preussy kicks a couple, gets 11 touches and 13 hit outs (as 2nd ruck) as he did in his first game last year he will be well on his way to earning his spot.