John Dee

This leads to a philosophical issue; if you have pick 1 and pick 2, is the player you select with pick 1 the priority. or is it the player that you select with pick 2. The AFL would say that pick 1 is the priority pick, but, if you did not have the priority pick, you would select the same player with your first draft pick. In practical terms, the player you would not get if you didn't have the priority pick is the player at pick 2. Whatever, technically TJ was the priority pick; trading pick 2 to Freo got us Whitey and a fine for breaching the salary cap.

Chinese whispers ... Isn't the saying 'Jack the blind miner ...'

Memory fades ... We had pick 2 as well as pick 1; we used pick 1 on TJ and traded pick 2 to Freo for Whitey. Surely we had a priority pick?

The draft is fine; just get rid of priority picks. The only reason the debate about tanking exists is the 16 point limit above which you do not get a priority pick. Without that, this would be a non issue. I would advocate keeping the draft asis and scrapping the automatic priority pick. The commission could sit after the final round and allocate any priority picks they might deem nescessary.

That mark was also given Mark of the Week on The Winners by Wayne Wussell.

Interesting game this! I think that Freo will lie down to achieve two desirable results Wet Toast lose their prioirty pick and the Shockers remain on track for theirs.

What about that tap back over his head when the ball was about to go over the boundary line, towards Bennel?. It wasn't right on the mark and Bennel? fumbled it, but the way that it was done was brilliant; pure instinct!

The Wet Toast / Shockers game in a couple of weeks will be a struggle to lose for both of them!

That was under vastly different rules. These days you commit to going to the club that drafts you when you nominate.

Average in team that won by 111.

James Wall; in everything, links up well.

Yeah, I still struggle to compehend that a set of bagpipes are considered to be a musical instrument. Having said that, she does a pretty good job; the little red horns that she wears go well too.

I had nothing on for Sunday and got down there for the start of the seniors; it was cold, very, very cold. It was like Casey firsts were playing Casey seconds, literally; I assume that the early game was like Casey seconds playing Casey thirds. I don't think that we can take anything much out of the game at all. I don't see that Essendon can take anything out of it either; how you can judge a players performance playing in a team that gets flogged every week is beyond me. Peter Schwab has his problems; the performance of Bendigo is chief among them. Miller was ok; he was closely marked and if that was Hurley doing the marking, I can see why there are big wraps on him. Newton was ok, probably better than Miller, but his kicking is still extremely suspect. Dunn just did about whatever he wanted, wherever he wanted. Valenti was Valenti, Cheney was good, Mckenzie continues to impress, Bail was ok; disposal still a problem. The only thing of note is that I now know that Cheney's nick name is fetta, pretty obvious really.

If the Dockers finish last and we do not win any more that four matches, we get pick one and the dockers get pick two.

Tempis fugit! I was at that game and the build-up rivalled that of Jack Watts. Diamond Jim was underwhelming, but he was at the end of his career, not the start.

I hate the dump with a passion. I will not go to the Essendon game next year as they are complicit in that they have full-ticketed games; I will endure the other games there, as a General Admission ticket is available.

The only thing wrong with the draft as it currently stands is the priority pick. When all the talk of tanking comes around, what is everbody talking about?; four wins. What does four wins mean?; a priority pick. Without the priority pick, this would be a dead issue.

This week's Tiges v Wet Toast game is the one that will start the ball rolling. If WC win, they will know that they are 100 to 1 on to win the return match against Richmond. This effectively puts them over the 4 win mark. This will render tanking for them pretty much redundant as it will only give marginal improvement to their situation. If Richmond win, they will get to 3 wins as have WC. The Tiges are a funny side; they have enough decent senior players to beat a lot of teams and a win might well start the ball rolling, particularly if they can get Richo, Brown, Coghlan et al fit and firing. Add to that maybe Simmonds and Bowden playing for their careers. In short, the winner of the game probably moves out of tanking range. Note that the 4 win mark is the issue. This shows the real problem; it is not the draft per se, but the priority pick that causes tanking or perceptions thereof.

Yeah, I would imagine that Miller, who has played 10 games for MFC, is inelligible for Casey this week, so we can't read too much into his non selection. Equally Watts and Jamar played for MFC last week and are probably similarly inelligible. A definitive answer for somebody would be nice.

Blease's status should be known with a lot more certainty by now. I know it was a particularly bad break in that it was very close to the ankle joint, but you would have expected him to have resumed training by now. Not that I particularly want to see him up and going as a year off at this point of his young career when he is still at school is not such a bad thing; it is just that I think the club should actually tell us what is going on with him.

Agreed, but the moving zone is a staple of modern football and we must learn how to deploy it successfully.

Wet Toast can only afford to win one more.

The filth will take over Edwin Flack Field and rename it Bob Rose Oval; either that or a new oval in that vicinity. That will be their training oval.

It really depends on how you value things. The Casey complex is intriguing, the playing surdace on the main oval is full size and beautifully grassed. As Casey has access to re-cycled water, I doubt that any other club will have an oval to train on that is in better condition, particularly over the summer. The swimming complex is just down and across the road; there are running/biking tracks that run throughout the complex; check out the map of the place. The $2.1M upgrade is to the existing pavilion and will provide state of the art gym facilities and such. The bubble dome thing will provide state of the art gym facilities as well; the oval that will be used in the MCG precinct is Gosch's Paddock, which is also in pretty good nick. So, yes, it can be argued that Jimma's claim has some validity.

I have seen him play several times, the last being last Sunday. He has the goods - bigtime! BTW what is there in that article that gives anything but the impression that the author was also enamored with Jurrah?