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I'd easily consider Cox. However, I think I'd be outbid by other clubs in a flash, given the moderate price I'd only be prepared to pay.

FB: Bartram, Warnock, Garland HB: Bruce, Frawley, Grimes C: Trengove, McKenzie, Davey HF: Green, Watts, Sylvia FF: Jurrah, Petterd, Wonaeamirri Fol: Jamar, Moloney, Scully Int: Bennell, James McDonald ©, Morton, Jones Emer: Bate, Bail, PJ (insurance for Jamar) I think Bennell, Bail and Wonaeamirri are virtually interchangeable (although slightly different roles), ditto Warnock and Rivers. I hope in a year (or two) we'll be able to take out Bruce and McDonald when they retire and put in any of Gysberts, Bail, Tapscott or Blease without any downside. Same with Fitzpatrick and/or Gawn for PJ.

Oh, for the want of a comma. I think the poster meant "it may be a case of making way for a senior player, like Maric did last week". If you think Moloney and Trengove are necessary inclusions, then you need to identify who they are going to replace. Other than for injuries, the only ones I can find are Bennell, Morton or Wona. The other questions are: Whether to play two ruckmen, or for Jamar to go solo. If they decide to drop Johnson, they could bring in both Moloney and Trengove and keep two of Bennell, Wona or Morton. Whether to replace Jurrah with Bate. X-factor vs strength, occasional magic vs hard lead-up forward. Those questions might be answered by how they analyse Richmond's talls and midfield running.

I doubt the judges of the Rising Star take into account SuperCoach or DreamTeam points.

Can't you program Demonland to automatically program a "Changes for Next Week against (Team)" thread a minute after the completion of any game?

One-on-one against small forwards or running midfielders, Bartram is doing a great job. Quicker than Cheney, better tank, reads the play better and just as tough at the ball, if not tougher. I haven't seen Cheney kick any better than Bartram.

Mackenzie - the hidden Barlow

I put the negative effect of the white strip in the same category as a pre-competition ritual, wearing your lucky jocks, or never being the one to break through the banner. Totally absurd.

The best thing David Schwarz ever did was to marry a good woman.

Persevere for another five rounds, then shut it down for renovations. Spend the whole summer re-sowing or re-laying the grass and get it done properly. No temporary patch-up jobs. No more ACDC concerts, no more rugby, no more cricket. The idea of selling or demolishing a 10-year-old stadium is ridiculous.

I'd be trying to lock up Watts for 3, Bail and Blease for 2.

Same number of syllables.

Beat Hannebery.

I'm not joking. My main objection was to your word "nothing". Now you've backed it up with "absolutely nothing". It's just plain wrong.

Coming from some distance away, I prefer the 1.10 Saturday (or Sunday) games. Then I can get home before it gets too late in the dead of winter.

I've seen comments like this ... "shown nothing" ... before about players. They fly in the face of reality and it's not what the coaching staff say. Maric's reports from Casey have been excellent for quite a few weeks now. If he plays well consistently at Casey, he deserves to be considered for a call-up.

Leigh Matthews gives examples in today's Hun of the sort of media-related stuff Akermanis did that put the Lions players off-side: "Matthews said Akermanis appeared not to have learned how his outside behaviour influenced his teammates since his time in Brisbane. "(In the) summer of 2001, he went on a speaking tour with Mark Jackson. He decided he had to come up with some jokes for his presentation. So he came up with the dumb jokes. So you have to have someone be the dumb bloke. So he used Justin Leppitsch .. (his) teammate! Pretty silly … you think you’d find someone outside your own nest ... that obviously gets back to Leppa and the players from that point on there were whole lots of bits and pieces along the way", he said. Akermanis got into further hot water with the Lions when he revealed prior to the 2003 Grand Final that teammate Nigel Lappin had broken ribs. "If we’d lost the 2003 Grand Final, Aker would never have played for the Lions again. That’s how savage the reaction would have been but we won it so you kind of move on". Akermanis now has 'form' at two clubs, and has been sacked mid-season twice. I wouldn't want him, even if he was 26 years old and great. There is nothing worse than a loose cannon antagonising the rest of the playing group.

I'm sure the Dogs have some material on Aker they could threaten with release. Depends on whether he thinks he's got any reputation left.

Methinks The Boss is just a big troll.

Actually, the Olympic rings, flame and associated logos are protected by specific legislation (Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987) prohibiting their use outside of the Olympic movement. This is beyond the normal Copyright Act or the Trademark Act that covers the MFC emblem. (Another protected emblem is the Red Cross, which is limited by the Geneva Conventions to which Australia is a signatory. You can't use a Red Cross logo without permission from the Australian Government, and it's actually a criminal offence to do so. If BigFooty continues to use the Red Cross emblem as a symbol for threads on injured players, they'll find themselves in trouble.)

Under the Trademark application: Owner/s: Australian Football League ACN 004155211 AFL House 140 Harbour Esplanade DOCKLANDS VIC 3008 AUSTRALIA Address for Service: MIDDLETONS Level 25 South Tower 525 Collins Street MELBOURNE VIC 3000 AUSTRALIA

The AFL is the organisation listed on the Trademark application. Copyright generally exists as soon as something original is created. You don't need to apply for it, just claim it. It generally belongs to the artist.

I'm surprised the club wouldn't know that as soon as they applied for registration as a trademark, the design was immediately publicly accessible via the registration website. It would have been found eventually and it was. There are also fair-use provisions in the Copyright Act allowing for criticism and review (S.41, S.103A), or for reporting news (S.42). Beyond that it's a matter of etiquette and trust between Demonland and the club.

Take out all the rookies and it doesn't look nearly as bad: Jordie Gysberts (back) - test Stef Martin (hip) - test James McDonald (hamstring) - test Brent Moloney (corked thigh) - test James Strauss (knee) - 1 week Jack Trengove (hip) - 1 week Jack Grimes (hamstring) - 3 weeks Ricky Petterd (shoulder) - season

If we are going to win a premership in 2013-2014, we need better leaders with more intensity and more very good players with the same. Grimes and Frawley are part of my "leaders" equation. The rest are part of my "very good players" equation (there are others). I wasn't taking about next week.