Demon Disciple

The only reason why Garland is still on our list is because of the extremely generous 3 year deal he signed. If he had been OOC for any of the past 2 years, he would have been de-listed. And it's not a whack Nasher. It just a simple observation (and an accurate one at that) that Garland is simply no longer good enough to maintain a place on our list. I know for a fact he's a good bloke and a great club man, but from a football point of view, he no longer is. Sorry if that offends you Nasher, but the simple truth is, if we are to improve as a football team, the dead wood needs to be cut away. Garland (prior to his unfortunate ACL) has been around that area for a few years now.

Well he is due!

Out: Garland; In: Lever - Our list looks better already

Painful, but let's visit the 2009 draft shall we. Pick 1 - T$ - bust (though compo did help us land Hogan) Pick 2 - Trenners - unfortunately a bust (was tracking well early days ) Pick 11 - Jordan Gysberts - Bust Pick 18 - Tapscott - Bust Pick 34 - Max Gawn - Yay we got one right! Pick 50 - Fitzpatrick - Bust One out of six. With 5 picks in the top 34 (4 in the first 18). This draft could've wielded the likes of Martin, Talia, Fyfe, Carlisle along with Gawn. A back-line set, an AA ruckman and 2 A-grade mids. Christ, BP really did screw the pooch on this one, FMD.

It just takes them a half of football to get it right.

Vickery gets way more of the ball than Tippet does (Ty doesn't get a lot, which shows how little Tippet gets). Tippet went from being one of the leading forwards in the game at Adelaide, to one of the worst at Sydney. I'd take Pedersen every day of the week over Tippet. At least Pedo plays with heart, intensity and has an influence on the game. Tippet has no influence on a game (neither good nor bad), that in itself is pretty damning.

We're gonna need to offer more than $500k per year to get him out of Adelaide. With the new CBA and salary cap increase, he'd be looking at $700k+ a year.

At the very least. Would be willing and happy to give up our 1st and 2nd round picks for him.

Slobbo proving how much of a clue he does not have. The bloke is a disgrace. If it were an Essendon player and they had a sneeze, he'd defend them to the bitter end. How that imbecile is the head footy writer in a major paper is still beyond me.

No Wise, cause those are the players' that are going to miss the cut at the end of the year!

Apart from Rory Thompson, Jordan Roughead and Jake Carlisle, there are no 200cm defenders. Talia is 197cm, Hurley is 193cm, Hooker is 197cm, Taylor is 195cm, Henderson is 196cm, Day is 197cm, May is 193cm, Davis is 197cm, Rance is 194cm, McGovern is 195cm. Of those i'd say that Talia, Hurley, May and McGovern play the more traditional role of FB (average height = 194.5cm) Carlisle isn't setting the world on fire, Roughead is perpetually injured and Thompson has also struggled to get on the park recently. It seems that anywhere between 193-197cm is a good height for a fullback and Lever is right in the middle at 195cm.

PM BBO, he'd be up for it!

Sorry SS, but i doubt there'd be 70,000 melbourne fans turning up to the game

Don't doubt you Wise, but what can the Hawks give? May is not a Free Agent, and they gave up their first rounder for this year in last year's trade period. That only leaves them with next year's first rounder. Sure they still have some decent players' but last year showed that none of these players' want to leave.

Salem naturally comes back in, maybe bring in Stretch as well for some extra run.

Hibberd T.McDonald Hunt Jetta May Frost A back-line like above has a lot of pace, flexibility and hardness. The positive thing is that we have 5/6 positions filled already. May might not be the player we are targeting, but it is clear that we lack another quality KPD.

North Melbourne has only lost the free kick count in 1 game for the whole year (19-20 against the Giants in round 2). They have been given an absolute gift by the umpires for the entire year.

May is a much better backman than OMAC. That is reason enough to try and bring him (or any KPD for that matter) into the team, so we can improve as a team. There are still way too many question marks about OMAC to consider him a part of our best 22. May would definitely be included in our best 22.

He's tough, doesn't panic, prefers to kick it out of defense, a good disposer of the ball, attacks the ball and wants the ball. Fast becoming the general of our back line (if he hasn't already).

Starting to find some consistent good form, which is encouraging.

Wouldn't mind having him in our back line. TMAC is not a forward, he should only be used as one as relief or last resort only. Plus it gives time for the likes of Frost and OMAC to further develop their game back at Casey. We need to try and bring in one of May, Thompson (pipe dream) or Lever. It would help settle our back line down. Leslie played alright for them too, so maybe another possibility?

Freekick count = 14 - 14 Funny what happens when that pr!ck Nicholls doesn't umpire our games.

Does anyone know if Trac got injured in the second half? Had 12 touches to half time, finished with 15.

7 kicks 28 handballs. I know he is in the guts, but he needs to even up that disposal count. If he does, he'd go to another level.

Move them to Tassie. Would rather they fold and the AFL form a new Tassie team, one that wasn't the remnants of the GC.