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6 minutes ago, Pates said:

Every time I see Jamara play I get reminded how screwed over we were by that. 

Except for the fact that had we drafted Mac Andrew, we would have missed out on JvR so I don't think we were screwed over at all. GC17 did us a favour taking him.

6. Jack Viney 

5. Christian Petracca 

4. Trent Rivers 

3. Clayton Oliver 

2. Alex Neal-Bullen 

1. Angus Brayshaw

1 hour ago, Kent said:

Perhaps we need some rules regarding duty of care when shaking hands

The AFL will demand a set Im sure

People have been known to have fingers broken in a firm handshake so the AFL owes players a duty of care to ban handshaking both before and after games because of the possibility that the practice could cause injury, albeit that the contact might not be high.

 

9 hours ago, Winners at last said:

Somewhat ironic that Ballard is playing an absolute blinder v WC.

Hopefully his nemesis does likewise tomorrow!! 

And if you listen very carefully, you can hear his neck merrily clicking away …

6 hours ago, Gawndy the Great said:

Was he playing off half back? Asking for a friend 😂.

Not at all. And by the by, I read that in the first half at least, Reid played in the middle.

10 hours ago, dee-tox said:

(Papley) played a couple of games at Casey. He could have been ours!

He could have been anybody’s actually.

He played with the Casey Scorpions and showed at the time, that he was a goal kicker.

IIRC our own recruiting people made the decision not to treat him as a priority for recruiting.

Welcome back Harmsey 

7 hours ago, Demonland said:

Podcast will be LIVE tomorrow night (Wednesday) @ 8:30pm

Apologies for the late podcast. Originally was going to be tonight (Tuesday) due to the long weekend but I traveling to Broome right into a Category 4 Cyclone. I've course corrected and am heading back to the East Coast but won't get back in time for tonight.

So Wednesday @ 8:30pm it will be. Better late and safe than never.

So not tonight Josephine?

If I be Hawk fan, I be on platform 4 Richmond Station now.

The way the Cats are going in the third quarter, they should be above the Dockers on the ladder by the end of the game.  

So we have one player in the Metro side tied to us as a father-son who will cost draft points if we select him early and another in the Country side who we can only draft if he is not picked inside the top 40. The worse they perform the better it is for us and the best thing to do is hide them away. We can't do that if they make these representative sides though, can we?

4 minutes ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Josh Corbett (Gold Coast Suns) goes to Fremantle for their future fourth round pick 

Sounds about right.

Calling today Snoozeday.

19 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Yeah, but these Kennedy’s are both alive so I’m … no Im, making an exception for them. 

An American punk rock band from the 1970s. What would they know about grammar?

 

6. Max Gawn 

5. Bayley Fritsch 

4. Jack Viney 

3. James Jordan 

2. Clayton Oliver 

1. Christian Salem

Toby Bedford is on track to achieve some sort of record this season. He’s been the sub for all 5 Melbourne games (activated once only in Round 1). This has enabled him to double up for each of Casey’s games this season so by the end of the day today he will have 9 games on the board. Five for Melbourne and 4 for Casey.

I think it has to be said that Jon Ralph’s little campaign last week against Ben Brown’s suspension (for being too light) was nasty and completely over the top. The player in question contributed to the incident by running straight at Brown whose clumsy attempt to fend him off deserved the 2 weeks (reduced to 1 with a guilty plea). That player was unhurt and played the game out without any signs of injury and we all know how much the MRP is influenced by the impact of the hit in determining the penalty. He wasn’t KOd and the penalty handed out was adequate - but not to this HS reporter. Time for them to give up their anti Melbourne vendetta.

Based on the market above, you would think that playing Coburg at home is going to be a shoe in with 16 AFL listed players available. 

6 Max

5 May

4 Trac

3 Fritta

 2 Clarrie

1 Kozzy

On 4/1/2022 at 3:14 PM, Nascent said:

A 2023 potential father/son for us in Kynan Brown (son of Nathan) is named as an emergency for Oakleigh Chargers this week. He'll hopefully get some games this year as a bottom ager and would be doing well to do so considering the quality of that team.

Kynan Brown is a bottom ager at Oakleigh born 13 January, 2005. He’s 180cm tall and could get his chances in the next semester when many APS players are called upon to play Saturday school football.

I found this article -A revamp for the Melbourne Academy 

These are the boys who would now be a year or two away from the draft (my highlights in red).

Rashad Abdul Khalek Noble Park

Caelan Addis Cora Lynn

Josip Albert Narre North

Riak Andrew Berwick

Dylan Armstrong Narre South

Kynan Auhl Pakenham

Ethan Bell Narre South

Tige Bergman Berwick

Jayden Blackman Berwick Springs

Corey Braden Berwick

Brody Campbell Tooradin Dalmore

Brody Chase Officer

Luke Cornish Berwick Springs

Christopher Cudmore Beaconsfield

Badr Dandash Noble Park

Kade Delarue Beaconsfield

Campbell Dupuy Endeavour Hills

Jett Edwards Cora Lynn

Thomas Falkingham Pakenham

Joe Fallah Endeavour Hills

Jackson Ferrier Berwick

Samuel Frangalas Berwick Springs

Bradley Frater Cranbourne

Fergus Goldberg Tooradin Dalmore

Toby Goswell Pakenham

 Jack Grist Beaconsfield

Jeran Gunaratnam Narre North

Brody Hill Berwick

Logan Hiscock Beaconsfield

Dejan Janjic Endeavour Hills

Tyler Kirkbride Tooradin Dalmore

Noah Lafrantz Berwick

Jordan Leveque Narre South

Dean Milivojevic Berwick Springs

Luke Morrell Beaconsfield

Murharem Muja Hampton Park

Ethan Paul Narre South

Daniel Pinter Berwick

Benjamin Pugsley Koo Wee Rup

Jamie Roberts Beaconsfield

Phillip Rodwell Berwick

Kane Rudy Pakenham

Andrew Samawi Beaconsfield

Brayden Saunders Berwick

Kobe Shipp Beaconsfield

Patrick SInnema Narre North

Curtis Stephens Beaconsfield

Kenneth Thong Hampton Park

Jack Wilson Narre South

Kobe Wilson Pakenham

Sam Woodward Berwick

 

1 hour ago, Hannibal Inc. said:

With regards to Knightmare, in his postmortem of our 2019 draft he rated Melbourne equal last with 5 other clubs and 12 clubs ahead.

He gave Melbourne a C.

"While Melbourne's trade looks on paper like value was acquired, their first two picks of ruckman Luke Jackson and small forward pressure specialist Kysaiah Pickett are arguably reaches. Jackson, a sub 200cm ruckman is athletic, plays with aggression and follows up well but was arguably not the best available player. Similarly, Pickett while the forward pressure he applies is of a best in draft standard and he has speed and is damaging with ball in hand, his low scoreboard impact and product makes him a difficult sell so early on."  Thankfully, he liked the Rivers pick.

Amazingly, we have 3 premiership players from that draft, who were all staples of the 22.

He was more encouraged by the team he supports, giving Collingwood an A.

''Jay Rantall represents strong value as a basketball convert with elite endurance who does his best work inside winning the contested ball, distributing by hand and moving through traffic. Oakleigh premiership captain Trent Bianco is a second selection who represents strong value as one of the best kicks in the draft and the most advanced outside player in the pool. Trey Ruscoe at 192cm with his versatility to play defence, midfield or forward, is a third solid selection with his skills, mobility, ball winning capabilities and the way he reads the ball in flight and takes marks.''

Fair dinkum unbelievable. Compare his comments about Luke Jackson with his comments in both power rankings and phantom draft over Mac Andrew.

Sorry, have I missed something?

Didn't the trade period finish last week?

19 hours ago, Demonland said:

as of October 5

Hence, why we're now trying to improve our draft position.

Good luck Tim Lamb!

 

I don't know what's happened to Demonlanders.

Has a premiership made us soft or something?

Surely the first response to this thread should be that we want Adelaide's first pick in the draft or no deal!