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pretty simple @beelzebub - tv rights deals around the world are shrinking this is the opportunity for us to get a home base before the big money of the last 15-20 years becomes a trickle rather than a flood

ultimately, getting this - or any other permanent 'home base' - in place by the start of the defining of the next broadcast rights deal is the test for the bartlett-pert regime if we don't have a dedicated home in planning stage by the end of 2021 season we are in big trouble

gaff or dalhaus for mine

Said that in this thread a couple of times He is consistently a 15-25, 4-6 mark, 1-3 goal a game player - not sure he’s ever going to be anything else When he’s at the upper end of that he looks outstanding, but even at the lower end he’s still contributing

the push to have a bye post-darwin continues: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/melbourne-want-a-break-after-darwin-games-20180705-p4zpoj.html

dunno if it was stretch - i was watching and then the vid disappeared as they removed it ch 7 won't be happy that they've gone early and broken the 6.25pm moratorium on team changes

carlisle punctured lung getting a massage (!!) and bruce a broken leg for the aints

they put the simon's selections video up early on youtube and then yanked it down garlett, spargo, frost and one other (can't remember who) for hannan, petty, weideman, and tyson

i'll take an ageing lewis and vince over wagner, anyday

seeing as we were all set to pick billings, while kelly would now be at the aints...i'll say no

north melbourne

the champion data dudes think we completely misuse him - they reckon he should basically be an 80% forward 50 player, as historically that's where he's shown to be the most damaging

it's funny, but if you look at our history of 'down years' over the last twenty years, we always seem to be at the bottom when the draft class is nowhere near as strong as our middling / good years they're raving about this year's draft class, and of course we've traded out of it 1997: arguably got this one right with pick 1 and pick 2 - trapper and jeff white (traded) 1999: banned from first round, our pick 4 gifted to freo cos they were wayne jackson's baby, same as gc17 and gw$ are gil's 2001: stuffed it up, picking molan 2003: chook mclean and 'one big pre-season away from superstardom' sylvia 2007: cale morton and jack grimes, sigh 2008: jack watts, double sigh 2009: $cully [later converted into hogan] and trengove 2010: pick 5 became pick 12 as we were shunted down the draft order via the introduction of gc17, stuffed it up by picking cook anyway 2011: same as above, except this time it was gw$, and we traded it for mitch clark 2012: pick 3 traded to ensure gw$ didn't nominate viney, wasted pick 4 on the toump 2013: 2 and 20 converted into tyson and 9 2014: 2 and 3 used on trac and gus 2015: oliver and weed 2016: used on above trade 2017 and 2018: used as leverage for lever at the time i thought it was a good deal, but clearly the pick 2 and 20 for tyson and pick 9 was a complete mistake given just how good kelly has become

Methinks those players being ‘moved on’ may be behind his decision

fwiw, jason taylor loved lewis taylor in his draft year - i believe that if salem had gone by pick 9, we were all set to take the diminutive lewis i...am not a fan

i don't think he's been the same since he hurt his knee against footscray he looks to lack the mobility of earlier in the year, trac looks like he's got op, and t mac couldn't run at all against the aints

he sure is i've got us winning two more for the year too, and finishing 10th pleasingly, i've got the pies sliding out of the 8 too

that's shattering

two more wins for the year - vs freo and gc17 - and finishing 11th

updates from the weekend - de goey signs a short-term two-year deal with pies, whose salary cap is bursting - murphy re-signs with carlton, so he won't be coming to us

OUT: Tyson, Hannan, ANB IN: Stretch, Spargo, Baker Would love to see Lewis given a rest but the only option to bring in for him is Vince, and there’s no point swapping one superannuation applicant for another...

Why would he come to us when North - a consistent finals team - are also in the chase?

6 Gawn 5 Harmes 4 Fritsch 3 Viney 2 Oliver 1 Hibberd

Just can’t see us winning We look absolutely spent Saints up by 50+ on uncontested possessions 42 point win to the Aints coming up

Sitting on the wing, early observations: - Ill-disciplined, given away 50m penalties for certain goals time and time again - Forward line dysfunctional when the ball coming in - Forward line not providing any defensive effort - Midfield too slow in transition - Backline under siege and under sized - Big ground exposes our lack of leg speed