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yeah, read that with interest this morning.

not sure about the forward line, and in the paper she had dawes listed on the bench and at full forward.

i can see clark forward, gawn in the ruck, howe up on the wing, watts gone, blease gone, sylvia gone.

she also left off billy stretch and jake lovett, and as well we know, they're going to be the best father-son selections since baby judas and ol' man fletcher.

bring that on.

so that's three midfielders - two inside, one outside - from our 80s forefathers.

geelong had, what, a key forward, a key back, and a couple of mids?

how old are the ox's kids?

such a shame lyon's boys don't show this sort of talent!

dollars also called for gerard, not greg, to lead the panel that appoints the next coach.

spoke very well, but came across as completely delusional.

roos says he has no burning desire to coach.

didn't say he wasn't INTERESTED in coaching tho...

he is bona fide insane. a nightmare to deal with. sets up factions.

big no for mine.

awesome.

would love to build a father-son dynasty like the cats.

eade has said that yeah, he's interested.

they didn't even ask bomber.

details?

Any clues?

an egm would make sense. i guess the key is having an understanding of what has been presented to the afl.

as members we deserve to know what that is.

at the moment, has there been any detail of the plan released?

same goes for jeff.

words are fine, but do they have any substance?

all we've got at this point is him saying he 'wants the job' without any indication as to what he would intend to put in place.

governance is all i can recall.

and...?

initially i was on the whole 'he's doing this for himself' trip.

my 'thources' have, like caro's, indicated that there's no one who has gone to him as a solution to be the next president of the mfc. so i'm hesitant to believe him.

but i'm prepared to wait and see what his purported ticket is.

if it doesn't materialise by tuesday - late on monday on footy classified, perhaps? - as promised then i think i'll move back into this being all about jeff mode.

agreed with sweet puff.

we should absolutely be throwing big bikkies at daisy thomas as a free agent, at taylor adams to hold out for the psd rather than re-contracting with gws.

then if we are so poor that we finish stone motherless, it's got to be best available with pick #1, and best available with pick #2 (if we are granted a priority pick), and best available with pick #20, and so on and so forth.

i look back at the 09 draft where we had the opportunity to get luke ball in with pick #18 instead of luke tapscott, and just shake my head. i understand that he only wanted to go to collingwood but, quite frankly, tough. he'd be our captain now, i believe.

boyd is also reportedly adept at tap work.

he can play dual positions.

but in an ideal world we're going to go on an 11 game winning streak, sneak into the finals, and onto premiership glory, right? right!

Footscray will be hoping he slips down the pecking order.

aish should be a top three pick. it'll just depend upon where we finish as to whether or not we have first dibs at him.

he's a gun.

Campaign by other clubs has begun in earnest on today's radio broadcasts - every club person I've ears about us is arguing that we don't deserve one.

Gonna be interesting to see how this plays out.

Semantics.

Deserve, require, are deserving of - it all comes down to seven consecutive years of abject on-field failure.

The AFL Commission has made a rod for its own back by not codifying what 'earns' qualification status for a priority pick.

If seven consecutive years rooted in the bottom half of the ladder doesn't qualify for a pick, then what does? A Richmond-esque 10 years? If so we could be back begging in three years time!

Seven years of abject failure with a winning percentage of less than 23% would be, I would have thought, the very definition of a side that's deserving of a priority pick.

That bottom feeder Damien Barrett is very confident we will NOT get a priority pick.

i agree with up thread - if we don't get a priority pick now, no club ever should.

seven years of abject failure and a current winning game percentage lower than 23%.

Sad to say I tipped Dees for bottom three with about 4-6 wins. Even that looks like a stretch.

Tipped Cats for the premiership, but to play off against Eagles.

Tipped Crows to fall.

Its not bad recruiting - it is woeful development.

He has the sort of skills that every side would crave in a bloke of his size.

His lack of effort remains - lack of intensity at the ball and the man. When he goes to tackle he just sticks an arm out as a bloke runs part. Parkin on abc made particular note of it at one stage, effectively saying he won't be regarded well by coaches until he shows some effort and intensity at times and in situations like that.

My biggest complaint remains his sheer inability through desire to impact the contest.

He looks so very, very lazy.

We will know more once the div 1 sides start playing against one another.

At the moment it's near professionals up against amateurs.

white was traded for pick #2 of the 97 draft, which was on-traded to the tigers, who selected brad ottens.