Nasher

Believe me now Kit? :D

On a completely unrelated note, isn't Martin Cox the founder of Demonology?

I'm always fairly uncomfortable with playing the blame game when it comes to injuries, because it's impossible to know whether the cause is the fitness program, or just bodies that aren't up to the strain of professional footy. Truth be told I have absolutely no idea how to assess the performance of fitness staff from the outer, and I reckon the vast majority of supporters are in the same boat.

I completely agree.

No great surprises there really, though I thought Garland may have polled at least a vote.

I'd be loathe to put him in the forward line in any more than a pinch hitting role given how good he has been as a key defender this year. Find a position that works and leave him there.

I'm not normally one for hanging players -- I haven't done so for McLean/Sylvia/Carroll's indescretions in the past, but this is just getting ridiculous now. Give him the bullet immediately.

Nathan Carroll in trouble? What a surprise

Given that those three were all taken in different drafts that's a pretty crap comparison. Kepler Bradley vs Kane Tenace vs Brock McLean would be a better example. If it's so obvious, who would you have taken? Hint: there were toss all commentators -- both pro and amateur -- at the time of this draft that rated McLean ahead of Tenace.

The problem is that the teams who are real bastards at trade time end up having trouble doing deals later on down the track. I hear that Collingwood and Essendon are two clubs many clubs won't deal with at all. Other than that, I'm all for burning Freo on Warnock. And I wouldn't give up the #1 pick for any deal that is likely to come up.

He has zero worth on the trade market. He's on the list next year like it or not, so as far as I'm concerned, he should be given every opportunity to prove he's useful at the highest level, and if he fails he should be delisted. He'll either make it here or make it nowhere.

I can't speak for the other admins, but I for one have no idea who you are... but, uh, welcome back?

He often does those half time interviews and one of the things he says almost every week is "we overdid the handball". He's been speaking your language for longer than you think. I truly believe that he is delivering a message and that the players are listening, but our team is full of either raw players or those who are finding old habits very hard to break. This season has been an absolute shocker and I'm glad it's over, but I'm still optimistic for the future.

It probably wouldn't be too difficult to work out a weighting system based on the recent results, and write an app that updated them accordingly.

M_9 brought this to us last year, but we (read: I) never managed to get the promotions off the ground. It seems like a great concept.

It's correct. Convinced now? :D

Carroll will be here next year unless traded.

Cheers, I'm aware of it. I can't really fix it until later tonight at the absolute earliest. I've at least made the old forum URL work (demonland.ugbox.net), so if anyone has that bookmarked, at least that will work.

It's pretty crap that ours (and it's not just ours, it's other clubs as well) has to be white, yet Essendon are allowed to get away with just making their red sash bigger because it's in their constitution. Maybe we should update our constitution to stipulate that we must wear red and blue at all times.

I've had to move d'land to a new server, and the clock was set to the wrong time. I've fixed it now, but everything that was posted between last night and just now will have the wrong time stamp, sorry about that. And sorry guys but I don't think 7 hours in the future is _quite_ far enough to be able to tell us what happens next year.

Chris Connolly is still at the club.

I'd be very sad to see Green go, but ultimately I agree that if the price is right, we'd have to look at it. I wouldn't trade him for another player though. Definitely not for players like Carrazzo or Fisher. That would be a massive step backwards, not to mention a huge waste of a spot on our list, which at the moment are at a premium. If we're going to trade players in our best 5 then it should be for a very good draft pick and nothing else.

Hawthorn are very good at offloading their NQR KPP's while their value is at its peak. I can't help but feel if we picked this bloke up, we would end up sorely disappointed, based purely on the type of KPP's they've traded out in the past.

That's what we have a footy department for.

We laughed all the way to the draft after that trade. I was happy at the time, and am even happier now than I was then.