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actually ....you can. If you dont have the liability of the overheads and have a better cash flow you indeed can.

+1

very much... its all relevant

good point...precedent set. like to see the 4th Estate deride that!! Even morally barren EFC couldnt object

No idea what other clubs would/will pay but its the bolded line above that concerns me most. I wonder how many Sylvia apologists would now be prepared to acknowledge we ought to have done all a favour and parted company long before we did. We are looking to BUILD a team that puts in 100% and has impact on the field. I just dont see JW fitting into our needs now. He's icing on someone else cake possibly

From AFL: Primary List Players delisted by a club are unrestricted free agents but a player who retires or delists himself is not eligible to be a free agent. dont think that would work for us then

RP...the problem I think is some still see picks as this player or that. As you rightly suggest they are nothing more than currency. Thats the nominated trading vehicle come EOS...picks. Whilst some perpetuate the myth that this bloke or that will be the "one" to turn us around they will be eternally disappointed. Just as Roos by himself cant to the impossible, it take a whole bevvy of assistants similarly minded to get a message across it will take a similar bevvy of new players to help instill a culture that can be built upon. Better picks get us MORE of such players...not individual super-heroes.

Just hypothetically , because I dont really think for a moment it would happen ( leaning towards realism here ) How would he rejoin the Dees ? What are the available paths to secure him ?

Watts 426 426 games til he twigs 426 months til he twigs 426 more seasons til he twigs take your pick really

I wish Mitch all the best as far as his health. Should he however ever play AFL and it NOT be at the Dees then id be asking some questions. The first of which would be when you paying us back.

good point. Dunn has bravado , was just ill-timed and directed earlier on in his career Watts has skill

it would

and 6 years in the system...Far from a nooby

Toumpas not considering a move

Caro for all her eccentricities has been around a footy club for ever. She has seen a club from the inside. Its become a very biased and blinkered one at times but none the less she has an idea. I dont think Emma is as well acquainted in that regard . Flanagan is the master at seeing it from inside.

Im obviously from the , we didnt pick the right one camp here , but as my old dad says(said) What is, is. Toump is a Demon and wants to remain one and help Kudos young man. Get well and super fit and get out there and do just that, please. Try and infect a few others with the can-do attitude while you at it, cheers

A curious position I thought for Emma. Not sure she really gets it to be honest. Problem with many a journo's scribblings, and I rate hers is that its an observation from outside a club. She may not fully comprehend the mechanisms by which a club works. Maybe she should stick to young talent observations. She suddenly out of her depth

very early Dunn-esque I thought Honestly..if Jackie tried that on me Id laugh

obviously not from Melbourne

Must admit the vote is just about where I thought it would be just nigh of 50/50 after 6 seasons he STILL hasnt got there, at this rate he might just get close to it by the time he retires...fmd

You seriously saying he needs someone to hold his hand ??

Jackson needs to arrange a meet with Gil...one on one and lay it out. Bypass that corrupt maggot Evans. So Gil want us to have a chance at being competitive..Yes or No

I like the way the club is playing the game ( other than the 22 or so every weekend ) Jackson does the diligent thing, Roos sows a seed of intrigue with his declarations. But it will come to naught as we've a snowflake's chance in hell of actually getting one. Im not sure why they even exist ( if in principle only ). They're dead. But its a political game and its good to see the club on the front foot , if only the 40 odd others knew what to do with theirs !!!

I cant for the life of me understand why some get so carried away with draft picks in so much as they are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. The name of the game is to better your list. Draft picks are currency and the actual draft something this side of lotto. By all means take kids when and where but the priority ought to be to get players ready to go...right now. Surround them with some youth but its folly to expect youth to get you too far of themselves and thats been out undoing of the last decade, trying to put the cart before the horse.

actually probably cant do it...closest i can rig it is to about 4% ahead of Saints