The Lobster Effect

Quarantine starts the moment you leave Vic. Read it on the age or abc news the other day.

Yeah since when did games get played at 12:35, it's not the reserves! There aren't the normal two Saturday night games being played at the same time so maybe it's to spread out the games more to please broadcasters since the AFLs more desperate atm. Hutchys been on about this for years - never have an overlap between games.

https://wwos.nine.com.au/afl/former-afl-star-brock-mclean-reveals-strip-club-sacking/e05ebadf-94cc-4123-985f-ecf60d682abd

Have you heard the indigenous version of grand old flag?

This sucks

Where there's smoke there's fire. I can't remember any recent surprises at the pointy end of the draft that contradicted the media's rumours about our picks. e.g it was rumoured we weren't keen on Mccartin and would go Petracca and Braysure. Same with Oliver over Parish. I think the last completely random high pick was Gysberts? Cook doesn't count as we were trying to get Lynch.

No one uses it anymore, it was going out of vogue and that was even before they introduced pre and mid season supplementary drafts, delisted free agency etc. Pick 1 or 2 is no longer a bonus (especially when melb doesn't take a ruthless approach to Martin)

Multicultural participants must either have been born overseas, or has one parent who was born overseas. Which is stupid because it means if you or one of your parents were born in England than you qualify. I would have thought you also need to have grown up speaking another language. So if you grew up in England (or India.. or Frankston... ) speaking Hindi than you should qualify but if your main language was English than bad luck.

The future 4th being the one ties to us that's bounced around like a hot potato. Was a pick 11 so just shows you can't get your hopes up too much with first round picks..

My first thought was no way (Bruce more valuable than Frost) but then I checked this year's B & F results - they both finished 9th!

Thinking of some other obscure victorian forwards... Hoskin-elliot Mason wood

Just bring in a rule that free agents can't go to top 4 clubs in the year they want to move.

Nice spotting! Bit of a giveaway I'd say. Maybe he can sell it to Daniher?

Average wage was 362k a year (2018 stats) so that figure will probably be about 400k next year. I think that's ok. He's worth just slightly more than the average player.

Because some zones are better than others. It's definitely not a level playing field. West Coast have 16 players, we have 1, so statistically they have 16 more chances to find a gem through this process.

Aussie wonnaemiri. If we can wait until next year (we can't) we have Deakyn Smith on our academy list for next year. Or Kobe Farmer but he's probably freo bound

Corey > Josh

B graders is generous.

Does anyone secretly want tomlinson to miss out on a flag so he comes to Melbourne with more of a burning desire to win one?

Greene in for Ian Hill. Whitfield in for Keefe. Would they risk coniglio coming in after a couple months off? Pretty hard to drop someone else for him too.

Hogan, May and KK have certainly kept the doctors busy

Yeah but if a journo like damo knew someone like petracca wanted out he would report it to get the glory rather than his cryptic comments on afl.com today.

Nope. It'd just be a verbal agreement at this stage. Contracts technically run until end of October I think.

Sell high, buy low. Apart from Petracca's being a core part of the club that I'd hate to see go, he also hasn't reached his peak so we wouldn't be getting full value for him. He's clearly on his way up, with his most consistent year to date.