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Why get so frazzled at one person's prognostication? At the end of the season, he'll either be right or wrong.

Maybe once. Hogan, Salem, Oliver, Petracca and Brayshaw are all pretty handy.

Predicting the future is a lot harder than just thinking the past will repeat itself.

Needs to go back to Casey to work on things.

I was underwhelmed by the whole thing. It just goes one way then the other. The game might be "fast" but it lacks any sort of tension, I wasn't sitting on the edge of my seat. I think this is mainly the result of the lack of any strong defensive pressure in the concept. The inherent lack of excitement was underlined by the perceived need on the part of organisers to play continual music and blabber endlessly over the PA. I just hate that intrusive rubbish. And Channel 7 should ditch the mid-game split-screen interviews that disrupt viewing of the play.

Schwab's might have been better without the trident and southern cross.

So the Adelaide B&F is the criterion for recruiting and paying a player? Gawn, Hogan and Brayshaw finished 22nd, 23rd and 26th respectiverly in ours. Yes, they were injured a lot, but if the B&F finish was the yardstick, we'd be getting in the pick 80s for the three of them.

The Age (Peter Ryan) predicts Melbourne to finish 1st. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/aflw-2018-preview-predictions-and-players-to-watch-for-season-two-20180126-h0otj4.html MELBOURNE Captain: Daisy Pearce Coach: Mick Stinear Ins and outs In: Bianca Jakobsson (Carlton), Ashleigh Guest (GWS), Eden Zanker, Maddy Guerin, Tegan Cunningham, Claudia Whitfort, Erin Hoare, Kate Hore, Anna Teague, Maddie Shevlin Out: Pepa Randall (GWS), Maddy Boyd (GWS), Deanna Berry (Western Bulldogs), Jess Anderson, Mia-Rae Clifford, Stephanie De Bortoli, Sarah Jolly, Elise Strachan Key player: Daisy Pearce Handled the attention with aplomb, but you sense the Demons' champion was dissatisfied at the results. A great stoppage player, she has elite disposal skills and a fierce competitiveness. Only a premiership would satisfy. How they went last year: 3rd The shock loss to the Lions derailed their season with the inexplicable defeat to the Giants ruling the Demons out of the grand final. Both losses came in the wet. The Demons are good but were not able to cope with the structures in place early in the season. The Demons controlled the ball in most games but did not score enough. Prediction for this year: 1st They should have their eyes on the premiership as they have a quality list with depth. Pearce and Karen Paxman are both stars while emerging talents Lily Mithen and Jasmine Grierson are dangerous. Veteran Melissa Hickey provides stability. The pieces are all there. It's a matter of the Demons putting them together.

Oh horrors of horrors. We're doomed for the season now. Losing in the last minute. The players don't seem to care. </sarcasm>

Get over the idea that OMac needs to go back to Casey to learn. He's my prediction for a breakout year, if there is such a thing.

Harrison Petty Harrison is a youngster we drafted at pick No.37 in the 2017 NAB AFL Draft. He comes from Wudinna on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. In his first few weeks at the club, he was building up in rehab, after he came to the club with a crack in his elbow. He rejoined the main group just before Christmas, where he had a few sessions. Overall, he’s doing a lot right so far.

If he leaves I'll be heartbroken.

Lever is just a shadow of his former self. Spargo is as white as a ghost.

An increase of a minute fraction of one hundredth of a per cent in CFCs increased the ozone hole over Antarctica. It only takes 2-3 parts per million of chlorine to disinfect a swimming pool. Some toxic substances at .001 per cent will kill you. Arguments about "small percentages" are spurious. ProDee, when 80% of Australians believe more needs to be done about climate change, the world's largest mining company (BHP) is threatening to leaving the Mineral Council because of lack of climate change policy, and other large companies like Wesfarmers are getting out of coal to avoid future stranded assets, do you feel like you're winning anything? Are the captains of industry deluded? I would imagine they're fairly clever. What are you doing spending all your time here gish galloping in a pointless forum seen by a handful of people? Shouldn't you be out proselytising to the world with your apparent "truth" that wil save the world wasting vast sums of money?

ProDee has a PhD in gish-galloping.

Given that my children follow Melbourne, my grandchildren follow Melbourne, and I converted my wife from an Essendon supporter, I can claim a few credits.

I've been supporting Melbourne since I was young in the 1950s. I've been through the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, and I still support Melbourne. Melbourne is for life, and I would never change my club or drop my support. Without support, the club is nothing. I'll leave the idea of "business", "buying", "product" and changing "suppliers" to things like phone contracts, power companies and banking. Not for my football club. If you've managed to stay with Melbourne for the last 11 years, why would you leave now that things are really starting to look up?

I love the way supporters are the club when it suits them, and "they" are the club when it doesn't. We are all the club. Get on board, pay your membership and be a supporter. We won't be going anywhere with fickleness like this.

So there's no such thing as wanting to be a better player? You just do what you "bring to the team" forever?

There aren't enough Muslims enrolled to make a 60-70% "No" vote in those western Sydney electorates. The "No" vote also had to come from other sources. There are plenty of other conservatively religious voters represented in that area to bump it up to that level. I'm celebrating yesterday's result and I couldn't care less who voted "No", because 62% voted "Yes".

The very highest "yes" voting seats were actually Labor- and Greens-held seats in inner Sydney and Melbourne. It was also great that there was a huge "yes" vote in many strongly-held Liberal seats e.g. Higgins. The highest "no" voting seats being in Sydney's West and Melbourne's Bruce and Calwell doesn't surprise me either. Their inhabitants tend to be (one or a combination of) lower-educated, working class, migrants (especially those of Asian descent), Catholics, Muslims and/or happy clappers of the type who featured in the "no" campaign ads. But let's not make this wonderful result a stupid left-right Liberal-Labor political argument. The vote was a resounding 62% and it's terrific, especially for all my gay and lesbian friends who all want to get married to their long-term partners.

Couldn't care either way. There's a lot of emotive twaddle here about the "game". Missing the bounce will end up like missing the drop kick, place kick, 19th and 20th men and "stacks on the mill" (you think today's game is "congested"?). As for female umpires and "strength", Eleni Glouftsis is better at bouncing the ball than most of the men. Maybe not as high, but much more consistent.

Daughter Indiana might be a better bet for the AFLW.

Signed on until 2021!

Every footballer who plays a longish career these days should be a "millionaire" at the end of it. Provided they've made some good investments with their income and not wasted it. You're a millionaire these days if you own a reasonable house.