Nasher

Me too. In fact I read that and immediately started thinking about Baghdad Bob's handful of duds in the top 10 every year. As I have no way of judging these players I find myself believing anything that sounds remotely thoughtful.

Amazing that we're short of quality bowlers given our stocks of talent. What a disastrous run of injuries, almost unbelievable really. Alex Doolan pressing his claim for a place with a match winning century in the fourth innings against a strong NSW side. Also scored a 50 in the first innings, and his century was the only one scored in a match where no team managed to reach 300 in any of the four innings. I didn't see a ball of the game, but it sounds good in the context.

If he ends up playing in the back line I'll be bitterly disappointed.

He's strong enough to carry your expectations. Let them flow.

The door is still swinging from Laidley's departure from there, to join Mick at Carlton.

If that's really how it played out then I agree that it's a disgrace, but I'd be amazed if that's the case. More likely that the Watters interview was unauthorized by the club and he instead made himself look like a goose. Still, it's an amazing time to pull the rug out from under the coach. They're about to start preparing for the bloody season, now they're doing it without a senior coach. Unbelievable.

Don't know why, but I feel sorry for them. Haven't seen the wheels fall off a club this badly since... oh yeah, that's why. Empathy.

Except he has already passed.

Headline: Worst Team Gets Worst Time Slots For Games. When we're a good - no - watchable side again and we're still getting draws that are commercially tough, then we might have some grounds for complaint.

It's always good for a laugh when someone quotes a post, says "exactly", then goes on to say the direct opposite of the post they quoted.

Who has shot down "every mention" of discarded players? I only shot down this one.

Stuff reality. I prefer to dream. I'm prepared to accept the consequences if the two don't line up.

Bailey is busy scoring billions of runs with the Australian ODI squad. 156 of 114 balls last night if you don't mind.

Bailey is busy scoring billions of runs with the Australian ODI squad. 169 of 114 balls last night if you don't mind.

Wouldn't it be nice to start the season on the giving end of a smashing for once? I know, getting way ahead of myself, I'm just day dreaming.

To simplify my post greatly, I place draftees in to one of three possible categories: 1) A successful pick 2) A poor but justifiable pick 3) A poor and indefensible pick. I put Morton in category 2. By your rejection of the word "mistake", you seem to be putting him in category 1 and I think that's complete nonsense. For what it's worth Cook, Gysberts, Molan et al belong in category 3 and they're the ones you hang a recruiter for (not for the cat 2s).

Exactly!

Why does the fact that it uses hindsight make it any less valid? He turned out not to be any good, I can't see how that's not a mistake. Mistake, wrong, bad. Are you saying selecting Morton was correct, right, good? The evidence that was available in 2007 is the same evidence that is available now: the same bloke who's now on the heap for the second time. He didn't magically transform in to someone different after being drafted. I'm not suggesting that it was easy, or even possible, to predict that he wouldn't make it, hence the use of the word "forgiveable" in my first post. Everyone in the footy world thought he was good. But that doesn't mean we made the right call - I would have thought it was patently clear that we didn't. Everyone in the footy world got it wrong with Morton - but we were the only ones who made a call on it that mattered and we got it wrong. Although West Coast took Masten ahead, in spite of what was almost universal agreement in the footy world that Morton was a better player. Perhaps they should be excluded from "everyone".

That's just club website hyperbole. He's a dud.

I think that sums it up: a mistake that others could have made. It's debatable (and I'm not arguing one side or the other) that it's excusable given that most of the footy world agreed that he was worth the early pick, but surely it's beyond contention that it was a mistake.

He didn't run away from Lade. Watch the subsequent 20 seconds that have been removed and you'll realise that it was selective editing to deliberately paint the wrong picture.

I'm finding in a way that having a pick in the vicinity of 9 is in a way even more exciting than having a pick in the early couple. Reason being I know we should still getting an excellent player, but there are so many permutations of who could be available and who we could like that the mystery adds another element. Can't it be draft day already?

History will repeat at 57.

Jetta played 3 years under Bailey before his two years under Neeld. As to why I don't love him: he has no career-defining tricks. I know he has guts and lays a mean tackle, but doesn't get enough of the ball (has had less than 10 possessions in 13 of his 41 games), has little leg speed, isn't particularly dangerous with the ball, and is small. I feel for the guy because he has heart in spades and I've been waiting for 5 seasons for him to come on and prove me wrong, but...

Amazed at the amount of love for a guy who played zero games for the MFC. I'd have turfed Jetta or Nicholson first, but these are all such immaterial calls that I couldn't really care less which nearly good enough player went first. Feel sorry for Stark, and thoroughly agree with rpfc that the system fails this type of player.