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There’s something awfully wrong here. It smells of a cover up. Collingwood extended his contract last year and he’s on massive coin thanks to a heavily backended contract. His pay put him at the top of the pile at the club and he’s been a fine servant over the years. The messaging from the club to its player group and supporters is confounding and the repercussions could be massive in the future.

6. Ed Langdon 5. Clayton Oliver 4. Steven May 3. Christian Petracca 2. Adam Tomlinson 1. Max Gawn

Except that we won’t be playing in the last week of September even if we make the finals because it’s the bye weekend.

Yet again, half of our side will be different. Also, the incentive to win is more than somewhat heightened compared to where we were at late last season.

As we move forward to the business end of the season, here’s some inspiration from Round 22, 1987 when the team had a famous victory to seal a place in the finals -

A very composed game from the youngster who is quietly having an excellent debut season. Is he in the mix for a Rising Star nomination?

Very hard to tank when you have a bye.

Haven’t heard much lately about what the leftover players are doing while the team’s playing. Is it all too hard with the compacted fixture?

No VFLW or Under 18s by the look.

Eleven in a row - something we can only dream of today.

I predict that there will be 11 different players in our 22 this week.

I suppose it’s a good time to bring this up.

Kevin, is this you?

6. Max Gawn 5. Jack Viney 4. Christian Petracca 3. Clayton Oliver 2. Steven May 1. Ed Langdon

Those were the days when we could go to Kardinia Park and win.

Could someone look to see if they can find Tom Scully in Blacktown? Wasn’t he last seen looking the place over?

It’s not just us who have long periods without scoring. Collingwood kicked 3 goals to nothing in the first five minutes and one more point to half time. Essendon are five goals straight. Demonland would be in meltdown if that was us.

Actually, the day ended well for us. The way things were going, I thought the AFL was going to force us to forfeit last Sunday’s game and lose a shyzenload worth of percentage.

If that’s the case then why not play the reduced squad from Essendon v Melbourne on Wednesday night this week and move the Round 4 games involving Essendon and Melbourne to Tuesday night next week.

With Aaron Nietschke‘s season ending injury before Xmas and some doubts on whether Harley Bennell can come up to the mark, are there any prospective players out there worth looking at for the SSP?

I was pretty much convinced about Young from the day I saw him playing for the Aussie squad v Casey on television early this year. Thought him on a par with Noah Anderson and not that far behind Rowell. On that basis, it’s pretty much a no brainer that we take him with pick three. Splitting the pick shouldn’t come into consideration unless something out of the square or absolutely spectacular is presented to us.

Does this mean that we would be more or less likely to split pick 3?

No. That won’t get it done.

WTF - on the Fox Footy Channel, Leigh Montagna just said Lachie Neale was worth 2 first round draft picks but a minute earlier, he said Jesse Hogan was worth one. Is he for real?

Gaff to stay with Eagles Thankful that we showed no interest whatsoever in Gaff ... erm ... er