kallangurdemon

i think it may have been an oblique reference to a sponsor for the back of jumper rather than the Bank of Japan

It was generally a good session and well received by the impressive crowd .I thought the stand out was Joel Smith .He clunked everything and looked the fittest I have seen him .His kicking was ok as well

Shouldn't be in Freo colours .An ill conceived and particularly poorly executed trade .However he is opposition and can no longer be a favourite .

A pretty good year at Aspley . Very popular at the club,3rd in the best and fairest and an interchange selection in NEAFL team of the year .However hasnt improved since leaving us and it would be a big leap of faith to put him on The Suns list .

the interesting and probably disappointing comment from josh was that Jesse was happy to stay if we couldn't broker a satisfactory trade .Doesn't seem that we were forced to take 6 and 23 because Jesse was insisting on a trade ,more just a statement of preference.A tragedy if this becomes the difference in winning or not winning this years flag .

Or the " Why did we ever do that trade For Jesse thread "!

All a bit late .No point asking these questions unless you need to somehow internally justify an unjustifiable trade .Perhaps there was some to date unreported attempts at lateral negotiations involving Brayshaw and others but as best as I can see we just took what Freo offered which was not nearly enough.

marvel at how we were able to get match winner jesse back on the list.

with respect that is not an answer to the question who won the trade We got Salem and Tyson, GWS got Kelly and clearly won the trade .I agree that if we had not made that trade and then drafted Billings over Kelly that would have been an even worse outcome .

In answer to the specific question of whether we won the Kelly trade, the answer is clearly no .Salem has been generally ok and a reasonable get at 9 .All in all Dom gave pretty good service especially earlier in his time with us . .But Kelly is an out and out champion ,So no win on that part of the draft .

He is an absolute cracker who has had an indescribably unlucky run.He will be be AA in 2019 but sadly not with us.

if it will make her feel better you can tell her that I also broke into tears and said no i dont want Jesse to leave ..But my dog is named Chunk and not Jesse

under our system a person is presumed innocent until he runs out of money

Thats a victory for optimism over reality.We were hooked gutted and filleted .Absolutely incensed that Bell is being referred to as a genius

riches ?.The riches were in the Shiel and Beams trades .

are you sure that they weren't part of the Jesse Hogan trade ? Wouldn't surprise .

your completely wrong.We had a once in a generation key forward and gave him a way for peanuts.If it makes you fell warm and fuzzy by saying that he will return then good luck to you .He has gone .End of story .

probably for Jesse the way this is sliding

Stay staunch .We said picks 5 and 6 and lets maintain that type of stance .Whatever we do dont let us again be out negotiated .We paid overs for Levers ,lets not get unders for Jesse .Tomorrow is the day. Mahoney dont let me down again..

Gee there are some major disappointments mentioned in these posts but Darren Cuthbertson is the one that really hurts. He was brought through the system after being zoned from Epping in a manner which suggested the Club saw him as a future star.He had a full season in the Twos and I recall him kicking 4 goals in a quarter in a final against Carlton reserves. He exploded on to the senior scene with 17 goals in 3 games including a b on g against Collingwood and a match winning 5 goals against Brisbane at the G.Then nothing;nothing at all. He had a short spell at Fitzroy and then returned to Epping.Robbie Walters kicked a couple of bags as a fast leading straight kicking full forward but his lack of size was always going to count against him .As an aside, he claimed at his sentence for larceny as a servant from the bank that his financial woes were caused by being delisted by Melbourne.So we get blamed for everything.The Cockatoo -Colins btothers were not disappointing because neither ever looked any good.A bit like the Rugolo brothers.The Cockies show how fortunate we are to have CAC and why Richard Griffiths is languishing with the QAFL