The Lobster Effect

I feel like he's a whipping boy on this site but he generally plays his role ok. He's one of the best endurance runners in the team from memory...

Could we do a three way trade of polec-preuss-gws pick?

But wouldn't his on field value next year have been more valuable than the recent bad PR and 50k fine? Obviously not...

Obviously there were the recent off field issues, but in terms of on field maybe we thought he was never going to be able to get back to his best? I mean he did basically miss about 5 years of his career with his calf issues.

Harmes had a shocker. Only missed 4 games and didn't even make the top 20.

Essendon traded a future second round pick to gold coast in 2017 to get Saad. (not sure what the pick ended up being exactly) Has he improved much since then? If not, why should we pay much more than the Hawks second round pick we have since it'll probably end up being similar to what essendon originally used...

Is Sparrow over his injury? Wonder if he'll come in for someone like AVB or ANB.

I couldn't sleep properly the other night so was scrolling through demonland. Don't think my wife appreciated the demonland podcast accidentally blaring out at full volume at 2am!

How come Melbourne doesn't provide a write-up about each player? I know they're only scratch matches but still...

I'd love to be wrong but surely there's no chance the pies will drop tonight's game. I wonder if Dunn will hold his spot and take us on this weekend

For those Frost watchers...

For those banging on about the Spargo selection, he might have grown since round 1...

Can all the teams just stay in the hubs, for the rest of the season? Only 12 games to go (13 for us!) and they could squash that into say 10 weeks if they put on a few mid week games. Things could improve again in a few weeks but if they don't wants the AFL's backup plan!?

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