mauriesy

It takes me 1½ hours to travel to the MCG from country Victoria by train. I like 1.10 starts as I don't get home too late. I play club competition golf on Saturdays, so I like Sundays for football. Each to his own I guess. Someone likes every time slot.

Werridee just likes making up teams.

Thankfully there's not 100% correlation with team performance or ladder position. Where's West Coast again? Or that team full of talent ... GWS? We beat three of the five teams above us.

Smart as this guy?

May is 26 and turns 27 in January (birthdate 10-01-1992).

It's fitting that someone named Neitschke has nothing. ??

Every player's description on the AFL draft tracker sounds like they ought to go pick 1.

I'd prefer to reserve my judgement on any player like Corey and give them a chance without making instant prognostications. A few years ago we might have said that about James Harmes and Neville Jetta.,

Make finals: Pass Make semi-final: Credit Make preliminary final: Distinction Make grand final: High Distinction Win grand final: Dux!

I thought it was because we were all going to disappear with the Y2K bug.

I don't know. You could say we filled urgent needs with many recent recruits (e.g. Oliver, Brayshaw, Petracca, VDB, Viney as hard-bodied midfielders, Weideman as a KPF, Spargo as a small pressure forward, Fritsch as a HBF/wing). How good they were was a bonus.

Well, Richmond didn't actually "trade" for Lynch, they just got him as a FA. Hardly a matter of skill.

I don't see how anyone can rate trading until 1 or 2 years down the track. Until then it's pure supposition.

I guess it's really hard to get over our long-lasting depression from a few years ago.

What makes you think they didn't? They left the Hogan trade until 3.00 on the last day!

I don't think trading players futures and livelihoods is like some poker hand that you leave concealed with a straight face. You do it in good faith to get the overall result you want. Jesse wanted to go home for strong personal reasons and we respected his needs and facilitated it. In return we got some advantageous picks that improved our side, and a good future trading reputation. I don't care whether they were "overs" or "unders", I only care that we will be a better team in 2019 and beyond, given Jesse's circumstances. It was also blindingly obvious what we needed to do to get May (i.e. a first round pick), given that other clubs were interested.

Those who think Oscar will just wander off back to Casey now that we've got May are sadly mistaken.

Nah, I think it wanted to go home.

And K2 hasn't been called Mt Godwin-Austen for years. In fact it was never, formally.

You get a good idea whether you've won in September 2019.

The word of someone who hasn't posted in year's work-colleague's brother. Sounds reliable.

It must have been in the five pages I skipped.

I go away from this thread for a few hours, and come back to the last page, which is about six pages further on from where I left off. The last page is the same as the last page I read six pages ago. Groundhog Day.

Anyone can make up "a source at the club", a "mate who spoke with the player", a "cousin of his manager" or whatever.

I didn't say I'd want to give away Hogan for nothing.