Nasher

It shouldn't be a hard thread to find, you're posting in it!

Nah. While I'm no fans of any of the following teams, I don't hold Hawthorn, Geelong, Sydney or indeed anyone else in the same contempt that I hold Essendon in, and I'll readily admit to being jealous of those other clubs.

Who ever said Neeld or McCartney were "too hard" other than a few flogs on a footy forum? "Too incompetent" would be more accurate.

Look you've already had the point beaten in to you, but crud post. You've been here for a year - Ash has been here for 10 (since pre IPB forum days) and has the respect of the admin and the old posters around here. A bit of debate coming from outside the bubble from time to time does us good and makes things interesting.

Great idea. You could call it a "zone". Then you could build a time machine and teleport out of 1978 back to 2014 where all teams have (almost) equal access to the players.

Hah. I couldn't give a stuff about Sydney but I'm just shaking my head at the absurdity of this response from the AFL. This situation is completely out of control; it is a mess entirely of the AFL's own making, and this is just blatantly unreasonable IMO. How are they supposed to trade at all if they can't bundle players in to deals?

How come?

Must come with baggage to have been that cheap (yes I know about the charges etc). That is bargain bin stuff. Can't go wrong with this IMO. He's clearly a talented player and has three solid seasons on the board, with only one really poor one in this year. Much to gain, little to lose. By the way, if anyone wants to pre-emptively pan him and/or the club for recruiting him in anticipation of it all going pear-shaped in 12 months time, speak now or forever hold your peace. There is a chance this may not work out, so I'd like the nay-sayers to put their hand up now rather than spitting a nana later.

You mean, we're not downgrading pick 3 like olisik said?

It's not rewarding us for being poor, it's helping us because we've been poor. Anyone who uses the "Franklin for 19" is just being silly. I and most other Melbourne supporters would take the flag and pick 19 any day. Hawthorn are welcome to finish near-last every year if they'd like a higher pick. As for your last line - I'd prefer you stayed and be the good contributor to the forum that you used to be.

Hogan?

Stop. Next fish pun gets the thread closed. It was funny for the first 5 pages, if I'm generous. Some of us come here for our dose of lies, innuendo and non-events you know!

You missed the joke. BB. Don't worry, you're not missing much.

I kept my head mostly in the MFC sand this year - why did he? Whatever it was didn't affect him for the previous three seasons, where he barely missed a game.

I like Blease for Garlett too. Both players are worthless to their current clubs but could revive their careers at a fresh environment. Has the the chance to be the ultimate nil-all draw trade though.

Yes, "hope we've done our due diligence" is something of a redundant comment. I always hope we've done our due diligence.

As to why we didn't go after him, I would think the "no free agents after trading a compo pick" rule would have played a big part. Given the sounds Roos has made about using early draft picks to their full currency on the trade table, I can't see him compromising pick 3 for any but the absolute best free agent. To put it on to perspective: pretend this Dangerfield thing was real for a second. Taking Malceski would have caused out compo pick to be downgraded, thereby strongly weakening our bargaining with Adelaide; taking Malceski might have cost us Dangerfield. You can apply the same logic to any real deal that might be cooking in the background.

His motive is cash, that's been apparent all along. And that is OK.

No, the competition thinks he is a second rounder, hence the second round pick bid.

It has been a long time. This thread was started about four Machsy aliases ago - by the original, no less.

It's a lot better than the old system where either club would get the player in the 40s without any of the other clubs having access to him.

Stoked. We get Stretch without compromising our position at the trade table. Excellent way to begin my favourite period of the year. Welcome Billy!

Saty's account has gone unused for nearly a month. Hope the old boy is alright.

I saw it, and have thoroughly failed to understand why it's got people in to such a spin.

I think he'll stay.